Albemarle and SQM can't settle water disputes, and a sale might draw them closer.Read full newsRead More
South Africa's Lonmin (LON:LMI), the struggling platinum producer in the process of being taken over by rival Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), said Monday it had raised $200 million through a metal-for-loan deal with a state-backed Chinese company.Under the deal, Lonmin will repay most of the loan by delivering platinum and palladium over a three year period to a subsidiary of Jiangxi Cop...Read More
South Africa's Lonmin (LON:LMI), the struggling platinum producer in the process of being taken over by rival Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL), said Monday it had raised $200 million through a metal-for-loan deal with a state-backed Chinese company.Under the deal, Lonmin will repay most of the loan by delivering platinum and palladium over a three year period to a subsidiary of Jiangxi Cop...Read More
Glencore chief executive officer Ivan Glasenberg is said to be planning to retire from the commodities trader and miner in three to five years, and has even begun training a small group of front runners to take over the post.Glasenberg (62), whose strategic brilliance has made Glencore's - and his own - prodigious fortune, is coaching three to four people to succeed him in the job, Bloomberg repo...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The INK CIN retreated again last week, though it endured a much smaller hit than the week prior (falling 8.6 points vs 42.6 points). This slower rate of descent may provide bulls some hope their ride down this slippery slope is near its end. The Index closed at 1167.08 and has declined ov...Read More
"@GoldMarketPulse CRB index ----------very close to turning TREND up on the long term charts.Moving averages will turn up at end of this month.Then we'll need monthly close over 205 - if that occurs,could be significantbounce & perhaps more.Worth watching."Read full newsRead More
"Goldtrends posted this chart the morning after the very top in the S&P.Looks good so far.Odds favor there's more to go. https://t.co/rIW6n87rOS"Read full newsRead More
Gold has rallied sharply to be trading at well over the psychologically important US$1,200 a mark, although it is still down by 7% for the year to date. Surprisingly for many investors, gold's poor cousin silver has failed to keep pace having lost 15% for the same period. This has caused the gold-to-silver ratio, which measures how much silver is required to buy one ounce of gold, to widen signif...Read More
I have been tremendously bullish on the outlook for intermediate gold miner Kirkland Lake (TSX:KL)(NYSE:KL) for over year. Over the last month, despite gold's latest gyrations, the miner has soared by over 21% to be up by a whopping 70% for the last year compared to the market marking gold down by 7%. While Kirkland Lake has made some substantial gains, there are signs of further upside ahead. No...Read More
The shock of past downward projections belies the true value of established gold miner Guyana Goldfields' Aurora gold mine, says Investor's Digest of Canada junior mining stock columnist Mike Kachanovsky. He calls Guyana a bargain stock and says a rebound in this sector is long overdue.There is a lot of commentary circulating in the precious metals sector about where the final bottom may be found...Read More
It's important to keep in mind that the mining stocks have been sold to levels well-below their intrinsic value - in the case of larger-cap producing miners. Or their "optionality" value - in the case of junior mining companies with projects that have a good chance eventually of converting their deposits into mines. "Optionality" value is based on the idea that junior exploration companies with pr...Read More
TORONTO - Canada's main stock index moved lower in late-morning trading as the key energy and materials sectors fell in the wake of lower commodity prices.The S&P/TSX composite index was down 73.53 points at 15,396.57.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 35.15 points at 25,409.19. The S&P 500 index was up 0.16 of a point at 2,767.94, while the Nasdaq composite was up 60.59 point...Read More
Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke joined Paul C. Johnson, president of Colorado School of Mines, to announce a long-term partnership between the university and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The partnership will bring more than 150 USGS scientists and their minerals research labs to the university's Golden, Colorado campus where government scientists and Mines faculty and studen...Read More
October 22, 2018 - Brixton Metals Corporation (TSXV: BBB) (the "Company" or "Brixton") is pleased to announce additional drill results from its wholly owned Hudson Bay project located in the Cobalt Camp, Ontario, Canada.Highlights from 11 drill holes Drill hole HB18-31 intersected one metre of 3,290 g/t silver, 0.29% nickel and 0.14% cobalt within 2.00m of 1,667.30 g/t silver, 0.15% nickel and 0.0...Read More
Creating and advancing a distinctive graduate student experience at Colorado School of Mines will be the focus of the 2018 awardee of the Ben L. Fryrear Endowed Chair for Innovation and Excellence.Geoff Brennecka, associate professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, is the third Mines faculty member to be named a Fryrear Chair since the chairship was endowed by Mines alumnus Ben Fryrear...Read More
Despite a strong U.S. dollar, the price of gold increased for the third consecutive week, finishing at US$1,226.50 per ounce, up 0.74%, while the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 1.85% to 171.63. By contrast, the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index was down 1.17% to 53.03 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index lost 3.06% to finish at 95.08. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed 0.36% higher, ending the tradi...Read More
Back on August 21, 2018, I wrote about the speculative fever that Novo Resources (TSX-V: NVO) had induced.The stock had attracted the attention of retail and institutional investors, and many believed that the company could very well be on the verge of the largest gold discovery in history.I opined that there were too many questions unanswered for me to justify speculating on a company with a mark...Read More
The above chart is a 20-year snapshot that covers the Gold to Silver price ratio. It measures the number of silver ounces are needed to purchase a single ounce of gold. This bellwether indicator has crossed into new territory and is currently fluctuating between 85 and 83, which is significantly higher than the normal range.Below is a 1-year chart for the Global X Silver Miners ETF, which tracks...Read More
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