Commodity prices hurt this mining company's top line, but that alone doesn't suggest the company failed to shine brightly last quarter.Read full newsRead More
Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) may be ready to start mining lithium from its project in Jadar, Serbia in four years, but no decision will be made until the end of 2020, when the company expects to have completed a study on the deposit.The asset, near the town of Loznica, in western Serbia, gives Rio Tinto an option to supply the world's electrification needs, chief executive Jean-Sebasti...Read More
Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) may be ready to start mining lithium from its project in Jadar, Serbia in four years, but no decision will be made until the end of 2020, when the company expects to have completed a study on the deposit.The asset, near the town of Loznica, in western Serbia, gives Rio Tinto an option to supply the world's electrification needs, chief executive Jean-Sebasti...Read More
"We are pleased to announce that @AngloPacificPLC CEO Julian Treger will be speaking on our Keynote Panel: From Alternative to Mainstream: How Royalties has Changed the Face of #MiningFinance #MJS #MJSelect https://t.co/1nO4xextaX"Read full newsRead More
White Metal Resources (TSXV: WHM) announced that it entered into two binding letters of intent to purchase a 95% interest in certain prospective copper properties in Namibia.In a press release, the miner said that the two LOIs refer to four Exclusive Prospecting Licences that cover historical copper-silver resources in the Kalahari Copper Belt and the Kaoko Belt, and prospective targets for furthe...Read More
Erin Ventures (TSXV: EV) announced this week that it is ready to continue drilling at its Piskanja property in Serbia to advance the fundamentals of the boron project towards feasibility.In a press release, the Victoria, British Columbia-based miner said that management just finished putting together the next work program, which will be completed in approximately a 60-day period, once commenced.Ph...Read More
The introduction of new, tougher standards together with recent case law, point to a harsher, less forgiving approach to enforcement and larger fines for regulatory non-compliance and failings in relation to environmental and social governance.European law firm Fieldfisher has observed a notable uptick in enquiries from mining clients on how to comply with increasingly strict standards on environm...Read More
Our latest Canadian Insider Insights newsletter explains how some insider trends are suggesting that global growth may be set to expand faster than the consensus thinks. Bamboo shoots anyone?Other topics include the latest INK Canadian Insider Index rebalancing highlights, and Bitcoin versus gold. Finally, our insider of the week has been on the job for less than a year, but his company stock has...Read More
South Africa's Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) has sold its 425-carat "Legacy of the Cullinan Diamond Mine" diamond to Belgium-based Stargems Group for $15 million.The exceptional D colour Type IIa gem was recovered in March from the company's iconic Cullinan mine, the same that yielded the Cullinan diamond - at 3,106 carats the largest rough diamond ever found and which today is part of the British C...Read More
Commodity prices hurt this mining company's top line, but that alone doesn't suggest the company failed to shine brightly last quarter.Read full newsRead More
Australia's corporate regulator is asking the Federal Court for approval to wind up Merlin Diamonds (ASX:MED), whose shares have been suspended from trading since October, after the watchdog kicked off a probe into a A$13 million-loan from the miner to a private company associated to the diamond producer's owner.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is also looking into whet...Read More
"$LOMA - Loma Negra Compa???-a Industrial Argentina Sociedad An??nima (LOMA) CEO Sergio Faifman on Q1 2019 Results - Earnings Call Transcript https://t.co/gfi4FCid1z"Read full newsRead More
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Predicting where a stock will be in 10 years is a difficult task. Doing so for a mining stock is even tougher.Still, there are several important clues that can help us predict the future more clearly.Take Barrick Gold Corp (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) for example. Over the last decade, shares have lost more than half of their value.After its multi-billion merger with Rangold and a new joint venture with N...Read More
Commodity prices are broadly down over the past month, and one has to wonder if it all isn't spelling trouble for certain leading Canadian metals and mining stocks.Negotiations between China and the United States hit another bump in the road with the U.S. announcing on Friday plans for additional tariffs on Chinese imports.But while the absolute dollar amount the new tariffs sounds onerous, they'r...Read More
When this year started, I’d argued that investors should keep gold in their portfolios. Central banks had seemingly capitulated on their rate-tightening paths in late 2018. This spurred a stock market run in the first quarter of 2019. The yellow metal managed to hold steady for much of the year before a dip in April.The deterioration in trade talks between the United States and China has rat...Read More
The price of gold soared over $13 Monday as flight-to-safety money flowed into the precious metals sector while the stock market went into a downward spiral. I see Monday's market action as a preview of what's in store going forward as price discovery once again engulfs the stock market and causes the most extreme stock bubble in U.S. history to deflate.Despite the fact that it seems to be taking...Read More
China yesterday announced plans to raise tariffs on about US$60 billion worth of US imports in retaliation to America's move last week to increase duties on about $200 billion worth of Chinese imports.The US then released a further list of about $300 billion worth of Chinese goods that could be hit with a 25% tariff, Bloomberg reported earlier.The tariff tit-for-tat has escalated after the pair fa...Read More
On Sunday I saw my mother. The rain was falling in waves from the sky and getting tossed back up from the truck tires on 695. A big blow rolling up the East Coast, some remnant of the disaster storms that flooded the Midwest, I supposed.The deluge had been going on for days, overflowing the gutters and rotting the soffits. Another chore I'd have to deal with at some point. Mother was today's duty....Read More