Several workers who went missing Monday at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. mine in South Africa have been found dead, bringing the number of people killed at the company's operations this year to more than a dozen.Read full newsRead More
Mohave County then became a destination for mineral exploration.Read full newsRead More
"Big financial media catching onto the nascent bull market in #nickel. The Wall Street Journal weighs in today with this overview @WSJ https://t.co/hulyUa8hog"Read full newsRead More
Small Crowds, Shrinking PremiumsThe prices of gold and silver rose five bucks and 37 cents respectively last week. Is this the blast off to da moon for the silver rocket of halcyon days, in other words 2010-2011? Various gold bars. Coin and bar premiums have been shrinking steadily (as have coin sales of the US Mint by the way), a sign that retail investors have lost interest in gold. There are e...Read More
Last week index score: 45.96This week: 35.42 Zinc One Resources (TSX-V: Z) reported the final drill results from the high-grade zinc discovery in the Mina Chica zone of its Bongar?? zinc project in north-central Peru.The Oreninc Index fell in the week ending June 8th, 2018 to 35.42 from 45.96 a week ago as financings decreased, and broker action stayed away.Gold spent the week flirting...Read More
This quarter has been a tough one for Labrador Iron Ore Royalty Corporation (TSX:LIF). Weaker iron ore prices coupled with a labour dispute, which had put Iron Ore Company of Canada's mining operations on hold, created considerable uncertainty over the company's outlook.Nonetheless, the latest news indicates that the dispute, which started on March 27, 2018, has come to an end and operations will...Read More
Following a historic slump that extended from the summer of 2014 into the beginning of 2016, commodity prices have been steadily on the rise over the past 12 months, with the Jeffries CRB index, one of the largest benchmarks for commodity prices, up 14% since last June 1.A lot of those gains have been led by higher energy prices, but to be fair, it has, for the most part, been a fairly broad recov...Read More
This has been a uniquely boring stretch for gold and silver - especially considering all the things going on in the world that ought to light a fire under precious metals. In just the past few weeks, the US started a global trade war, Italy elected a populist government, emerging markets descended into yet another crisis, and inflation has risen from the dead - all of which would be expected to sp...Read More
Pouring gold bars at Kinross Gold's Fort Knox Mine in Alaska. Source: Kinross Gold Corp.Kinross Gold Corp. [K-TSX; KGC-NYSE] said Tuesday June 12 it will proceed with the initial Gilmore expansion project at its Fort Knox Mine in Alaska.The initial Gilmore Project is expected to extend mining at Fort Knox by six years, until 2027, and leaching to 2030, at a low initial capital cost of approximatel...Read More
Drilling operations at SilverCrest's Las Chispas property in Sonora, Mexico. Source: SilverCrest Metals Inc.SilverCrest Metals Inc. [SIL-TSXV; SVCMF-OTCQX] on Tuesday June 12 released new drill results for the Granaditas Vein and the initial delineation of its high-grade footprint on the Las Chispas property in Sonora, Mexico.SilverCrest shares were active on the news, rising 8.65% or $0.23 to $2....Read More
VANCOUVER - Tahoe Resources Inc. named James Voorhees as the company's new president and chief executive.He replaces Ronald Clayton, who is retiring effective Friday.Voorhees has been a Tahoe director since its inception in 2010 and will remain a director following his appointment to the top job.Before joining Tahoe, Voorhees was chief operating officer at Glamis Gold Ltd. from 1999 to 2006.He als...Read More
American Manganese Inc. (TSX.V: AMY; OTC-US: AMYZF; FSE: 2AM) is a diversified specialty and critical metals company, focused on capitalizing on its patented intellectual property, through low cost production and recovery of electrolytic manganese products throughout the world, and recycling of spent electric vehicle lithium ion rechargeable batteries. We learned from Larry W. Reaugh, President an...Read More
June 12, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Diamond drill results at Cui?? Cui?? project in northern Brazil confirm resource estimates from a 2011 report.Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTC.MKTS) announced release of its 2018 NI 43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate for its Cui?? Cui?? project in Brazil on June 7. When comparing apples to apples, those results confirmed resource estimates produced in...Read More
June 12, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Two projects on a mining-friendly tropical island are moving forward, one in the final ramp-up to production and one at a very early stage.Thoughts of Fiji conjure up the tropics, beaches and sunshine, but the island nation is also noted for its mineral production. The Vatukoula mine, in operation for over 80 years, has produced more than seven million ou...Read More
June 12, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Technical analyst Jack Chan charts the latest moves in the gold and silver markets.Our proprietary cycle indicator is up.The gold sector is on a long-term buy signal. Long-term signals can last for months and years and are more suitable for investors holding for long term.The gold sector is on a short-term buy signal. Short-term signals can last for days...Read More
June 12, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Howard Klein of RK Equities and the "Lithium-ion Bull" newsletter expresses his thoughts on several different segments of the lithium market.Lithium equities these past two or three years have often been the land of the Deaf, Dumb and Blind: Most Institutional Investors, Certain Sell-side Analysts, and Mass Affluent Retail are playing bitcoin, cannabis an...Read More
June 12, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Acquisition adds a resource in a prolific Canadian gold district.GFG Resources Inc. (GFG:TSX.V; GFGSF:OTCQB) recently announced an agreement with Richmont Mines Inc. for the purchase and sale of a 100% interest in the Sewell Property for 390,930 GFG common shares. This property is contiguous to parts of the eastern boundary of the Pen Gold Project. GFG's...Read More
Colorado School of Mines is combining its strengths in nuclear engineering and additive manufacturing in a research project to determine how 3D-printed metals perform in a reactor.Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Associate Professor Jeffrey King, a core faculty member of Mines' Nuclear Science and Engineering Program, is the principal investigator on the $2.5 million project, funded through...Read More
FWIW ... the royalty stock Marin Katusa will be pumping tomorrow morning is likely to be Auxly Canabis formerly Canabis Wheaton.That is all.Read More
The other night, I spent some time talking with Jerry Bailey, a native Texan who was the head of Exxon's Arabian Gulf region for many years. We had dinner at the newly renovated Sagamore Pendry hotel in Baltimore.The renovators had done a great job of working with the old historic building, which you might remember as the police headquarters from the TV show Homicide. The prime rib was good, and t...Read More