North American market futures were looking positive but European futures were pointing to a negative start at the time of writing.Economic bellwether copper closed up 0.45% on the London Metal Exchange yesterday.Mining equities gained in London yesterday, led by Glencore's (LSE: GLEN) rise of 3.81%.In Toronto, junior GoWest Gold (TSXV: GWA) had a good day out, gaining 80.77% as it reported reachin...Read More
The company drilled 2,357m in 16 diamond drill holes at the near-surface Tom North exploration target with highlights including 22.5m grading 6.13% zinc and 0.95% lead. The results confirmed the target has potential to be mined in an openpit, which the company believes will improve overall preliminary assessment (PEA) economics of the project."With these positive first drill assays now in, we look...Read More
The umbrella name will be adopted by the ASX-listed vehicle, which merged with Barminco last year, and will sit above its mining and investment business units such as Barminco, African Underground Mining Services, and its logistics and supply arms. The Ausdrill legacy will continue as its Australian surface drilling operations. Herpetologists and naturalists might recognise the new name...Read More
Millrock Resources Inc. (TSX-V: MRO) is a project generator company, focused on gold and copper in Alaska, USA, and Sonora, Mexico. We learned from Gregory Beischer, President and CEO of Millrock Resources, that their key projects currently are the large copper porphyry project, called Batamote, in Sonora, Mexico, and the Chisna project in Alaska. Of particular note is a new strategic acquisition...Read More
I am getting old. Perhaps I drank too much on vacation - those umbrella drinks at the tiki bar were brutal in hindsight. An honest Scotch is a better, more pure libation. Scotch will tell you right up front what it is about. There is no pussyfooting around like you'll find in pink drinks near the water.There is something about toes in the sand and girls in bikinis that makes the mind go soft. Perh...Read More
Gold Standard Ventures Corp. (NYSE AMERICAN: GSV, TSX: GSV) is an advanced stage gold exploration company focused on district scale discoveries on its Railroad-Pinion Project, located within the prolific Carlin Trend in Nevada. We learned from William Gehlen, manager of corporate development of Gold Standard Ventures Corp., that currently they are advancing three high-grade deposits, within the Ra...Read More
Wendy Bohrson has been named the head of the Geology and Geological Engineering Department at Colorado School of Mines.She joins Mines from Central Washington University, where she spent the past 20 years as a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, including a four-year stint as department chair. Bohrson holds a PhD in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BS i...Read More
Colorado School of Mines was ranked 23rd among public colleges in the United States and 20th in the West in the 2019 list of America's top universities by Forbes.The Forbes rankings are based on alumni salary, student satisfaction, student debt, on-time graduation rate and academic success, the last of which rewards schools for student PhD attainment, prestigious scholarships and fellowships. Forb...Read More
Plateau Energy Metals (TSXV: PLU) has lost its appeal to overturn a decision by the Instituto Geol??gico Minero y Metal??rgico (Ingemmet) to cancel 32 of its 149 concessions in Peru. Ingemmet is an agency under Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines.The 32 concessions represent 231 sq. km, or less than 25% of Plateau's 930 sq. km land package in Peru. Of the 32 concessions, one affects the Falchani l...Read More
This episode features the Yukon Territorial Panel at The Northern Miner's annual Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., earlier this year. The panel consisted of Yukon Premier Sandy Silver; Graham Downs, president and CEO of ATAC Resources; Brandon Macdonald, president and CEO of Fireweed Zinc; John McConnell, president and CEO, Victoria Gold; and Paul West-Sells, presiden...Read More
It's been a fun month for just about everyone in the finance world.Questions abound from friends and family while the stress just makes us want to nurse a drink in gloomy silence while the markets are closed.The most depressing for me was hearing from a friend who went to cash in his retirement account. Of course it was executed late and with the worst possible prices right at the bottom of the di...Read More
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"A severe depression like that of 1920-21 is outside the range of probability." The Harvard Economic Society, Nov. 16, 1929 "In an economy that is overleveraged to historic proportions, economic stimuli will not do the trick." Kenneth Eade, American attorney, environmental and political activist, author political and legal thrillers, from Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel; b....Read More
- Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTALast week we wrote that near-term risk in precious metals (Gold and GDX especially) was rising and a correction could begin soon. As Gold nearly reached major resistance at $1550/oz, the miners already began to correct. That negative divergence is an ominous signal for the sector in the short term.However, the good news is, at least at present, Gold remains very st...Read More
Avi GilburtSo, as the bulls pat themselves on the back for holding all the way down last year for a 20% draw down so that they can "enjoy" the rally we got in 2019, I hope they don't hurt their arms and shoulders from all their back-patting. But, they may be in for a dose of realism when they realize that the market has now been completely flat for the last twelve months.Allow me to show you a...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinGold monthly showing the breakout higher, weekly upside bias with 18 week MA nearing $1,400 with momentum up..Read More
Are rates on the Ten-Year Note finally bottoming? Quite possibly, according to technical indicators that we monitor closely. T-Notes touched a low last week of 1.47% after plummeting almost relentlessly from 3.49% last November. GDP was running at around 3% back then, and almost no one other than a few hardcore deflationists, your editor among them, saw rates on the Ten-Year falling below 2%....Read More
The talk of financial markets is about negative mortgage rates and its impact on global growth. Let's be straight, mortgage rates are linked to bond yields. Investors have the habit of factoring excess be it growth or recession. Assets prices these days are all about AI (artificial intelligence) powered momentum. Most of us make heavy losses when the investment we made starts reversing. Winners...Read More