Mining Stocks Articles

The Perfect Storm: Gold Stocks Rally in Down Market — Could This Be the Next Big Trade?

October 25, 2018 / Karen Thomas, CFA

While investing in gold stocks has pretty much been a losing proposition in the last five years and more, things are changing.The market is clearly more skittish, with major market indexes seeing big selling pressure.As I know you are well aware of, on October 9, the S&P/TSX Composite began a sell-off that spooked investors, leaving us wondering if this is the sell-off we have been waiting fo...Read More

Sun Metals up 47% on Stardust drill results

October 25, 2018 / Resource World

#4 Zone Manto: flat-lying sulphide mantos in carbonates. Source: Sun Metals Corp.Sun Metals Corp. [SUNM-TSXV] shares rallied Thursday after the company released impressive drill results from its Stardust project in northcentral British Columbia.The company announced that drilling into a new extension of the Canyon Creek Skarn zone at the Stardust project has returned the thickest and richest miner...Read More

B2Gold ups resource estimate for West Africa mine

October 25, 2018 / Resource World

B2Gold's Fekola gold mine in Mali, West Africa. Source: B2Gold Corp.B2Gold Corp. [BTO-TSX, BTG-NYSE] on Thursday announced a better-than-expected resource estimate for its Fekola mine in Mali, West Africa. The Vancouver company also released positive results from a mill expansion study at the Fekola mine.The increased mineral resource and the positive results, to date, from the Fekola mill expan...Read More

Dam sale boosts Q3 profit for Teck Resources, but lower commodity prices sting

October 25, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. reported a profit of $1.3 billion in its third quarter, boosted by the sale of the Waneta Dam.The miner says the profit amounted to $2.23 per share for the three months ended Sept. 30, compared with $584 million or $1.01 per share a year ago.Revenue totalled $3.2 billion, up from $3.1 billion.On an adjusted basis, Teck says it earned 81 cents per share for the quart...Read More

Barrick Gold in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on copper assets

October 25, 2018 / CanadianInvestor

TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. says it's in talks with partners in China and Saudi Arabia on potential deals involving its copper assets as it looks ahead to its acquisition of Randgold Resources and an increased focus on African gold mines.Company chairman John Thornton said on a conference call that its copper assets are of high interest to the partners who may want to build serious copper compa...Read More

Even in Bear Markets, There's Always a Way to Make Money

October 25, 2018 / Jeff Siegel

The market crashed again yesterday.This time with the Dow shedding more than 600 points and the Nasdaq more than 300 points.Make no mistake, it was a bloodbath.But while most investors were running to sell in an effort to avoid even bigger losses, I sent out the following email to members of my Green Chip Stocks community:That's right.Yesterday afternoon, we sold half of our position in a small ph...Read More

Sowers discusses future lunar settlement with Nature

Oct 25 2018 / News room

George Sowers, professor of practice in the space resources program at Colorado School of Mines, was recently interviewed by Nature about what it would take to build a sustainable base on the Moon.From the article:Researchers relish the idea of a base for conducting experiments on the Moon and as a way to trial technologies for heading to Mars. Private firms, however, are increasingly tempted by t...Read More

Liberty Gold expands mineralized footprint at Goldstrike

October 25, 2018 / Posted Trish Saywell

Shallow infill and step-out drilling 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah, suggests that oxide gold bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter pit potential g...Read More

Site visit: Nevada Copper rolling Pumpkin Hollow forward

October 25, 2018 / Frik Els

YERINGTON, NEVADA - For the townsfolk of Yerington, Nevada Copper's (TSX: NCU; US-OTC: NEVDF) plan to begin production next year at its Pumpkin Hollow copper mine has been 40 years in the making.The waste dumps left by Anaconda Mining Co. after it shut copper operations in 1978 still loom large over this town in Nevada's Mason Valley, not far from Lake Tahoe and the California state line.There hav...Read More