The M&A battle among the world’s biggest gold diggers intensified this week, with Barrick bearing its teeth in a US$18 billion hostile bid for arch rival Newmnont. The move was immediately blasted as “desperate” and “bizarre” by Newmont’s CEO, Gary Goldberg. He suggested the “at market valuation” offer - actually a discount to recent sha...Read More
First Vanadium (TSX-V: FVAN) is one of the better known vanadium companies. Its CEO, Paul Cowley, can be seen in a number of video clips that I linked to at the bottom of the page. Despite being a blue chip name, First Vanadium's market cap is just US$19.5 M. This, for a company that claims to have the highest-grade primary vanadium project in North America, and a plan to fast-track its fl...Read More
With gold prices hitting a 1o-month high in February, the mega-merger between Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G)(NYSE:GG) and Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) seemed to be progressing smoothly.Peter Hug, the global trading director at Kitco Metals, highlighted how the “uncertainty of trade talks and fears that the U.S. equity market may be running out of steam is creating capital flows into a more protective...Read More
With share prices falling in some of the best mining stocks on the TSX index, capital gains investors have some bargains to choose from at the moment. But what kinds of growth rates in terms of annual earnings can would-be investors expect from discounted mining stocks such as these? With gold and silver potentially set to have a good 2019, value opportunities abound for traders looking for upside...Read More
Elon Musk a has long track record of being long on promises and short on deliveries - literally and figuratively. His motive, as has been self-professed repeatedly on Twitter, is to torment short-sellers by driving the stock higher with fraudulent tweets. But underlying Musk's garish bravado and overtly fraudulent financial reports is a business operation that, by all indications, is slowly...Read More
By various gauges ofvalue, the gold and gold mining sector is the most undervalued of all theinvestment sectors; that should change shortly. if we judge by the lack ofresearch coverage of gold companies we might conclude that there is littleinterest, but don't be fooled. Our analysis suggests that we are seeing one of the best opportunities ever...Read More
Oscar Gonzalez Rocha, CEO of Southern Copper Corp. Source: Southern Copper Corp.Southern Copper Corp. [SCCO-NYSE, Lima] is expected to soon receive a construction license for its long delayed US$1.4 billion Tia Maria copper project in Peru.Reuters news service is reporting that Peru is expected to grant the license ahead of the lapse of the project's environmental permit in August 2019.Companies i...Read More
South Star Mining's Santa Cruz graphite project in Bahia State, Brazil. Source South Star Mining Corp.South Star Mining Corp. [STS-TSXV; STSBF-OTCQB] said Friday March 1 that it has completed the first tranche of a previously announced $500,000 private placement that will be used to advance the company's flagship Santa Cruz graphite project in Brazil.South Star shares were active on the news, risi...Read More
Table 1: Composite of Reverse Circulation (“RC”) Drill Results at Portal 3060To view an enhanced version of Table 1, Click HereFigure 1: Map of Reverse Circulation ("RC") drill locations proximal to the 3060 Portal.Figure 2: Map of completed RC Drill Program (Phase 1 and Phase 2) on historic terraces.Results on the Phase 1 and Phase 2 targets of the historic terraces will be released i...Read More
Mexico faces a hurdle that's bigger than any wall Donald Trump could ever build...Our southern neighbors have a gas problem - a natural gas problem, to be exact.It's pretty simple: Mexico already consumes much more natural gas than the country can possibly produce. And it's gonna need much more of the fossil fuel over the next several decades.Anyone can see the dilemma. But while Mexico has the pr...Read More
The mineral development industry continues to rely on and support a varied network of suppliers. From early-stage exploration to decommissioning, suppliers are there every step of the way, providing the goods and services that keep the industry humming.DSI UndergroundLuxembourg-based DSI Underground has bought Fero Group, an Australian galvanizing services and mesh-making firm. DSI's Australian o...Read More
SANTIAGO, CHILE - From barely featuring on the global mining map at the start of this century, Ecuador has moved rapidly to become one of the most dynamic jurisdictions in South America, with two mines due to enter production later this year.The sector's flagship venture is Lundin Gold's (TSX: LUG; US-OTC: FTMNF) US$692-million Fruta del Norte high-grade gold mine development, whose history mirror...Read More
Emerging copper-gold developer SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LON: SOLG) is steadily progressing toward its ultimate goal: to develop a province of discoveries across the under-explored Ecuadorean section of the Andean Copper Belt.SolGold is continuing to drill its Alpala copper-gold project in northern Ecuador, where in late 2018 it doubled its resource and substantially upgraded inferred resources to the i...Read More
The year was 1975, and I was involved with initial exploration of the Ertsberg East skarn system (GBT, IOZ and DOZ copper deposits) for Freeport Exploration on the island of New Guinea. This was a helicopter-supported drill project, 2 km away from the yet-to-be-discovered Grasberg copper-gold deposit. I had a crew of about 20 locals, mostly building camps, drill sites and trails at elevations of a...Read More
Marathon Gold Corporation's (TSX: MOZ) Valentine Lake project is the largest gold resource in Atlantic Canada with four near-surface deposits called Marathon, Leprechaun, Victory and Sprite.The majority of the resources are found in the Marathon and Leprechaun deposits, which also have resources below the current open-pit shell. Gold mineralization has been traced down over 350 metres vertically a...Read More
Macquarie Capital has been engaged to explore, in conjunction with BGC management, a number of options for BGC Contracting including a possible sale, divestment of parts of the business and/orRead More
When it comes to warfare, missiles are like bullets...You can never have enough.That's been made especially clear over the past few years, as the U.S. military dropped so many munitions on targets in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria that we've begun to run out.The U.S. conducted more than 9,000 airstrikes and dropped more than 65,000 bombs on ISIS targets as part of Operation Inherent Resolve from mid...Read More
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