Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc has signed an agreement to allow extraction of lithium from its geothermal wells in California, a project that could offer U.S. carmakers and battery producers a secure supply of the metal, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.The venture has been in talks to supply Tesla Inc with lithium, a component for batteries to power electric cars, the newspaper rep...Read More
Last week we discussed the difference between a rally and bull market.Gold stocks have been in a rally.That rally is now over as gold stocks peaked at their 400-day moving averages days ago and sliced through their 200-day moving averages Friday.Take a look at the charts of any gold stock index (GDX, GDXJ, HUI) and it's clear they are in a downtrend.Go back two to three years. You'll see lower hig...Read More
Residents of the Combayo community, located in the Cajamarca department of northern Peru, announced a protest for February 6, 2019, against Minera Yanacocha, owned by Colorado's Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), Peru's Buenaventura, and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.According to local media, people are blaming the miner for polluting the Mashc??n river and its tributarie...Read More
Residents of the Combayo community, located in the Cajamarca department of northern Peru, announced a protest for February 6, 2019, against Minera Yanacocha, owned by Colorado's Newmont Mining Corporation (NYSE: NEM), Peru's Buenaventura, and the World Bank's International Finance Corporation.According to local media, people are blaming the miner for polluting the Mashc??n river and its tributarie...Read More
Chile's President Sebasti??n Pi??era announced this week the appointment of Robert Mayne-Nicholls as the new Vice President of the National Mining Company, known for its initials in Spanish Enami.Enami is the state-owned mining development corporation that supports small and medium-sized mines with technical and financial support and by buying and processing their mineral. Up until December 2018,...Read More
Chile's President Sebasti??n Pi??era announced this week the appointment of Robert Mayne-Nicholls as the new Vice President of the National Mining Company, known for its initials in Spanish Enami.Enami is the state-owned mining development corporation that supports small and medium-sized mines with technical and financial support and by buying and processing their mineral. Up until December 2018,...Read More
A team of researchers from Imperial College London developed a technique to print silver, gold and platinum onto natural fabrics.Up till now, metals were printed onto fabrics by coating them with plastic. The new approach, however, allows metal inks to cover entire fibres rather than simply coating the surface of the fabric.In a media brief, the researchers explained that to coat the fibres, they...Read More
Newmont Mining plans to acquire smaller rival Goldcorp for $10 billion in the biggest-ever acquisition in the gold sector.Read full newsRead More
"Paramount Gold Files Application for Conditional Use Permit for Its Proposed Grassy Mountain Gold Mine in Eastern Oregon https://t.co/uA9MzNOGrn"Read full newsRead More
Newmont Mining plans to acquire smaller rival Goldcorp for $10 billion in the biggest-ever acquisition in the gold sector.Read full newsRead More
"Weekly Big News Round-Up. What happened in the Resource sector in the past week? Find out here: https://t.co/PvizL6VEll #resource #mining #exploration #investing #INN"Read full newsRead More
"B2Gold (TSX:BTO,NYSEAMERICAN:BTG) had a record-setting 2018 as it boosted its production by 51 percent.https://t.co/5RSxurAHXx @B2GoldCorp #preciousmetals #mining #gold #investing #INN"Read full newsRead More
The company reported that its Mongolian operation has exceeded its copper guidance for 2018 by 2.6 percent at 159,100 tonnes.Read full newsRead More
In his latest Howe Street interview with Jim Goddard, INK Research CEO Ted Dixon sees the Energy sector as being key to the fortunes of both Canadian investors and politicians in 2019. Based on INK's indicators he also sees a period of consolidation ahead for Canadian stocks. Meanwhile, in the United States investors seem inclined to favour high-priced growth stocks again. We are seeing some of t...Read More
Newmont Mining plans to acquire smaller rival Goldcorp for $10 billion in the biggest-ever acquisition in the gold sector.Read full newsRead More
Editor’s note: This story was previously published in September 2018. It has since been republished and updated with new information.The potential to become wealthy often means investing in an enterprise when it is small and waiting for the entity to grow large. For this reason, many investors are willing to take chances on what they believe to be hot penny stocks. Investors in these stocks...Read More
Bayhorse Silver (TSXV: BHS; US-OTC: KXPLF) has tabled 23 new silver channel samples from its Bayhorse silver mine in Oregon. The company is trying to find the mine's higher grade zones; it will then designate the barren zones as support pillars in its mine design.The company sampled from two new raises and stopes built 15 metres apart. It took samples measuring 1 metre by 0.2 metre on 0.9 metre ce...Read More
Oyu Tolgoi is expected to produce 125,000 to 155,000 tonnes of copper and 180,000 to 220,000 ounces of gold in concentrates this year, Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) reports.Last year the Mongolian copper-gold mine produced 159,100 tonnes of copper, up 1.1% from 2017, and 285,000 ounces of gold, up 150% from 2017.The mine, 80 km north of Mongolia's border with China and roughly 550...Read More
With one bold pick to represent each of the four chosen industries of energy, banking, metals and mining, and tech, these undervalued companies are a solid place to start if you want to put together a first-time investment portfolio or if you want to stack some decently valued stocks in a pre-existing portfolio of assets, including a TFSA or retirement fund.The energy stockSelling at a 43% discoun...Read More
White Rock Minerals (ASX: WRM) is an Australian minerals exploration and development company, with projects located in central Alaska and New South Wales. The 100% owned zinc-silver-lead-gold Red Mountain VMS project in central Alaska has a maiden JORC 2012 Resource of 9Mt grading 13% ZnEq. The 100% owned Mt Carrington gold-silver project in New South Wales, Australia, has a JORC Resource of over...Read More