Defiance, ValOro advance on merger updateDefiance Silver Corp. [DEF-TSXV], and ValOro Resources Inc. [VRO-TSXV] said Friday December 28 that they expect to complete a previously announced merger on December 31, 2018. This will result in the creation of a diversified explorer with an advanced portfolio of Mexican silver and gold projects, the companies said.ValOro shares were active on the news,...Read More
A mineralized zone at the Cerro Caliche Project in Sonora sate, Mexico. Source: Sonoro Metals Corp.Sonoro Metals Corp. [SMO-TSXV, SMOFF-OTCQB] shares were active Friday December 28 after the company said it has terminated its option and joint venture agreement with Northern Empire Resources Corp. regarding the Hilltop gold project in Alaska. No expenditures were incurred by Sonoro on the Hilltop...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1274.90+$8.70Silver$15.23+$0.20XAU70.78+1.15%HUI161.27+0.91%GDM587.25+1.17%JSE Gold1367.40+7.81USD96.53-0.51Euro114.38+0.86Yen90.15+0.11Oil$44.61-$1.6110-Year2.777%+0.007T-Bond144.75UNCHDow23138.82+1.14%Nasdaq6579.49+0.38%S&P2488.83+0.86% The Metals: Gold gained $12.70 to $1278.90 in early afternoon New York trade before it edged back lower into the close, but it still...Read More
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"Gold-focused AXMIN saw its share price grow significantly this year. CFO David Weill explains what drove the company's momentum. https://t.co/lIVkS5YFpY #axmin #preciousmetals #gold #investing"Read full newsRead More
After a strong start to 2018, the value of the world's largest mining stocks began turning down well before summer as worries about a China-US trade war continued to mount.Even before the Trump-Xi tariff battles began, fears of a slowdown in China, consumer and producer of nearly half the world's metals and minerals, were gnawing at investors hoping for another year of strong gains for the industr...Read More
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Elon Musk took to Twitter on the day after Christmas to remind everyone how important driving an electric car is for the environment and to let them know that the Supercharger network will cover all of Europe, North America, Mexico, and China by the end of 2019.Read full newsRead More
The U.S.-China trade war that's ravaged most commodities failed to dent 2018's best-performing major metal. Many analysts don't see much standing in the way of further gains in 2019.Shortages of palladium sent prices of the commodity used in autocatalysts to a record this year, at times surging past gold to become the most precious of major metals. Citigroup Inc. sees no supply relief soon. Users...Read More
Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) ("Teck") announced this week that it has acquired 12,500,000 common shares of Sun Metals (TSX.V: SUNM) a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company.The shares were acquired for an aggregate purchase price of $3.5m, and were acquired privately on Dec. 20, 2018 pursuant to a donation arrangement. As a result, Teck holds approximately 13.8%...Read More
Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) ("Teck") announced this week that it has acquired 12,500,000 common shares of Sun Metals (TSX.V: SUNM) a Vancouver-based mineral exploration company.The shares were acquired for an aggregate purchase price of $3.5m, and were acquired privately on Dec. 20, 2018 pursuant to a donation arrangement. As a result, Teck holds approximately 13.8%...Read More
Russia's state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom has offered Chile's government technology it says can boost output of lithium, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries, according to lobbyist transparency filings reviewed by Reuters.In separate meetings in late November, lobbyists for the Uranium One Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Rosatom, told officials at two Chilean agencies they c...Read More
(This article first appeared May 2017)Nealite [Pb4Fe(AsO3)2Cl4 ?2H2O] From an ancient slag site in Greece, formed by slag meeting seawater. Credit RRUFF.For the first time, more than 200 mineral species have been identified that originated either principally or exclusively due to human activities - primarily as a result of mining.The study, led by Robert Hazen of the Carnegie Institution for Scie...Read More
In April 2014, Mary Barra sat on Capitol Hill listening to accounts of families who'd lost a member while driving in a General Motors Co. Chevrolet Cobalt that malfunctioned. Months earlier, she'd been handed the reins of the largest U.S. car company.Defects that the company had failed to disclose for more than a decade led to the recall of almost 3 million small vehicles. The crisis shattered tru...Read More
Earlier this year, Crown Mining (TSXV: CWM) bought 100% of the Moonlight-Superior property in northeastern California for $375,000 in cash and 2.75 million shares.The land package is best known for its Superior and Engels deposits, which produced over 161 million lb. copper as underground mining operations between 1915 and 1930.But the property, 200 km northeast of Sacramento and 145 km northwes...Read More
Earlier this year, Crown Mining (TSXV: CWM) bought 100% of the Moonlight-Superior property in northeastern California for $375,000 in cash and 2.75 million shares.The land package is best known for its Superior and Engels deposits, which produced over 161 million lb. copper as underground mining operations between 1915 and 1930.But the property, 200 km northeast of Sacramento and 145 km northwes...Read More
Continental Gold Inc.'s (TSX:CNL) latest sell-off is overdone, and the miner will soar once production commences at its Buritica project.Read full newsRead More
As we've been saying, the stock market will have great influence on Gold. It has been easy to see in recent months.The S&P 500 has cracked, losing both its 200-day and 400-day moving averages. Gold and gold stocks have benefitted and gained in recent months even with a stable to rising U.S. Dollar.The past 65 years of history shows us that in almost any context (but not all) the time between t...Read More
In early December, I'd discussed bullish signs for gold heading into 2019. One of those was the hint at a potential pause in rate hikes for the United States Federal Reserve next year as well as for the Bank of Canada. The U.S. Fed moved forward on a December rate hike, but this only exacerbated the global stock market sell-off that has slid into its worst period since the financial crisis.Global...Read More
The last few years since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has been a grueling experience for uranium miner Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO)(NYSE:CCJ). Weaker uranium prices and a poor outlook for nuclear power generation has weighed heavily on its performance. A recent uptick in the spot uranium price, which sees the radioactive metal up by 30% since the end of 2017, and an improving outlook have bo...Read More