Japan's JX Nippon Mining & Metals, a mining and smelting unit of JXTG Holdings Inc, said on Monday that Seiichi Murayama, senior executive officer, will become its new president on June 26, replacing the current president Shigeru Oi.Under a long-term vision through 2040 announced on Monday, JX Nippon Mining aims to transform itself into a company focusing on advanced materials from a company cente...Read More
Soaring investment demand will create platinum shortages in 2019, while the palladium market will see a deficit for the eighth consecutive year due to robust demand from the auto sector, specialist materials firm Johnson Matthey said.In a report produced at the start of Platinum Week in London, Johnson Matthey forecast a 127,000-ounce platinum shortfall this year, after surpluses of 372,000 and 44...Read More
Want to participate in a short research study? Help shape the future of investing tools and you could win a $250 gift card! In December 2018, Highland Gold Mining Limited (LON:HGM) released its most recent earnings announceme...Read full newsRead More
SailingStone Capital, the second largest shareholder in Rio Tinto- controlled Turquoise Hill (TSE, NSYE: TRQ), is expected to vote against the re-election of the Canadian miner's board members this week, during the company's annual meeting.The San Francisco-based investor claims the four independent directors were handpicked by Rio and are not representing the interest of all investors.SailingSto...Read More
"We are thrilled to announce Tom Albanese as #MJSelect Chair! Tom will be sharing his expertise on the 'Reflections on the Market'Albanese is the former CEO of @VedantaLimited and @RioTinto and is currently the Director of #FrancoNevada and Chairman of @NevadaCopper #MJS"Read full newsRead More
Canada Cobalt Works (TSXV: CCW) announced that it added approximately 4,800 hectares to its Castle mine land package, which means that it more than doubled the total size of the site to some 7,800 hectares.In a press release, the British Columbia-based miner said that the additional contiguous ground is to the north and northeast and that, of the total, 4,200 hectares were acquired in a deal with...Read More
Alba Minerals (TSX-V:AA) announced that it entered into an agreement with Journey Exploration to acquire all of its issued and outstanding share capital.The logic behind the buyout is that Journey holds a 100% interest in five prospective vanadium and uranium properties in Colorado and Utah.Yellow Circle mine workings. Photo by Alba Minerals.According to Alba, the projects are in and adjacent to t...Read More
"Gold edged up as tensions rose when US President Donald Trump hiked tariffs on Chinese goods during trade talks between the two power countries. https://t.co/UYAoJMGnxz #Investing #Resource #Gold"Read full newsRead More
Want to participate in a short research study? Help shape the future of investing tools and you could win a $250 gift card! In December 2018, Highland Gold Mining Limited (LON:HGM) released its most recent earnings announceme...Read full newsRead More
Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX:BTO)(NYSE: BTG) will invest $50 million into expanding its 80%-owned Fekola mine in southwestern Mali, which would allow the operation to churn out 5 million ounces of gold over the new mine life of 12 years.Average annual gold output would increase to more than 550,000 ounces from 2020 - 2024, and to over 400,000 ounces during the remaining seven years.The p...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The INK Canadian Insider Index began with some weakness but held the 1101-1102 level three times during the week before rebounding on Friday to close at 1108.84, for a modest 1.1 point loss. MACD improved nearly 2 points to -2 while RSI gained 5.8 points or 19.7% to 35.24. RSI hit a low...Read More
When Equinox Gold (TSXV: EQX; US-OTC: EQXFF) was formed in December 2017 as a three-way merger of Trek Mining, Newcastle Gold and Anfield Gold, it launched with a development asset in Brazil, a couple of non-core assets elsewhere in South America and Mexico, a small gold deposit in British Columbia, and the Castle Mountain gold project in California.Today, the junior has one asset in production, a...Read More
Brian Paes-Braga is a Vancouver financier and entrepreneur, known for his notable work in founding and developing the lithium resource company, Lithium X. The company raised roughly $50 million and just two years after going public was sold to NextView New Energy Lion Hong Kong Limited for $265 million in March 2018.Today, Brian Paes-Braga serves as Principal, Head of Merchant Banking at SAF Group...Read More
Sandstorm Gold (TSX:SSL)(NYSE:SAND) isn’t your everyday mining company. In fact, it doesn’t own any mines at all.Instead, Sandstorm lends money to mining companies in exchange for future production. This model is called metals streaming.The metals streaming business gives Sandstorm direct upside to a mine’s success while protecting Sandstorm from major losses.For years, Sandstor...Read More
The junior recently reported samples taken by an arm's length company from potential bulk tonnage targets at the project yielded up to 1,278g/t silver-equivalent.Read More
I had to pay $0.05 for this plastic bag...Freakin' liberals, right?Well, I'm pretty sure this stupid plastic bag that the liberals forced me to buy has been the single best investment I've ever made in terms of percent gains.Let me tell you the story...A few weeks ago, I was down in Washington, D.C. While there I went to a grocery store to buy a snack and something to drink. Finishing up at the se...Read More
The following is a release by London-based consultancy Metals Focus upon the publication of "Platinum & Palladium Focus 2019," its flagship annual report on the platinum group metals (PGM) market, which features comprehensive historical supply and demand statistics for 2010-2018, and a detailed 2019 forecast. For more information and to purchase a copy, visit www.metalsfocus.com.Palladium is forec...Read More
Victoria Gold Corp. is well on its way to pouring its first bar of gold this September at the Eagle Gold Mine at Dublin Gulch, in Central Yukon.Located in the heart of the Yukon, about 85 kilometers north north-east of Mayo, the Eagle Gold Mine is expected to produce an average of approximately 200,000 ounces of gold per annum over a 10-year mine life at all-in sustaining costs of less than US$750...Read More
Is this the bottom in the gold space?Volatility seems to point to that being the case. The calm before the storm has broken and volatility is back... and it is not isolated.After months of negotiations, the U.S. and China have escalated the trade war and, though we are always just one tweet away from a major rally, there has now been an escalation in the trade war and there is also now the possibi...Read More
"Agriculture Weather Forecast Update: Much Warmer And Drier Pattern Favors Farmers In The Midwest/Plains Over The Next 2 Weeks https://t.co/Dx49ilWszT"Read full newsRead More