May 3, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger discusses recent moves in gold and silver.For me, the greatest asset my dog Fido, a German Rottweiler and French Poodle mix, is his uncanny ability to sense when the gold and silver markets are going to turn. Whenever gold runs into its generally accepted waves of interventionalist price "management" (otherwise known...Read More
The prolific Golden Triangle mining district and surrounding area of northwestern British Columbia is ripe for new discoveries, says Goliath Resources Limited (TSXV:GOT) (FSE:B4IE) CEO Roger RosmusAngela Harmantas | May 3, 2018 | SmallCapPower: Canada's Golden Triangle is experiencing a mining renaissance thanks to Mother Nature and higher metal prices.The Golden Triangle, located in northwest Br...Read More
Wall Street is aghast at Elon Musk's dismissive attitude toward analysts' probing following a quarter of record (but less than expected) losses for Tesla, but the electric vehicle maker did provide some answers to questions that's been vexing the mining industry.Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a provider of price information and research on battery supply chains, parsed the numbers after Tesla gav...Read More
A smart home monitoring system designed to be noninvasive, cost-effective and cause no permanent damage to install was awarded first place in the College of Engineering and Computational Sciences' Spring Capstone Design Showcase on April 26. Team Smart Wire's system utilizes a suite of sensors to monitor the state of rooms - infrared motion sensors, light sensors and temperature sensors - inste...Read More
Eight of the thirteen gold miners trapped underground at Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) Masakhane mine in South Africa remain missing, the company said after a seismic event caused a fall of ground in an operating stope at one of the company's gold mines.Contact was made with six workers earlier on Thursday and two two were brought to surface safely, the firm said, but one of them reg...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has discovered yet another large diamond at its prolific Lulo mine in Angola - a 46-carat pink stone, the largest coloured gem-quality rock ever recovered there.The company said the gem-quality coloured diamond eclipsed both the 43-carat yellow gem found in January and the almost 39-carat pink dug up in September last year."The frequent recovery of large and...Read More
South African gold producers signed Thursday a class action settlement with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis while working for them.The 5 billion rand-settlement (about $400 million at today's exchange rate), reached following three years of negotiations, puts an end to the country's largest and most expensive class acti...Read More
Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY) announced today that gold production exceeded its plan for the first quarter of 2018.In a media statement, management detailed that gold equivalent ounce production from Yamana mines for the first quarter was 211,246, including 199,555 ounces of gold and 899,261 ounces of silver. Total attributable gold production was 248,088 ounces of gold, including attributable p...Read More
The arms race has started: deep fakes versus tech that exposes them. The only problem is that the technology that will supposedly tell us what is real and what is not… was created by DARPA.DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the government agency responsible for the developing things like killer robots, artificial intelligence, swarms of tiny drones, and even experiments wit...Read More
The arms race has started: deep fakes versus tech that exposes them. The only problem is that the technology that will supposedly tell us what is real and what is not… was created by DARPA.DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) is the government agency responsible for the developing things like killer robots, artificial intelligence, swarms of tiny drones, and even experiments wit...Read More
The Atacama Desert has drawn a lot of investment attention in recent years with the Lithium Triangle's domination of the global lithium market.Read full newsRead More
GREAT PANTHER SILVER LIMITED (TSX:GPR) (NYSE American:GPL) ('Great Panther'; or the 'Company') today reported financial results for the Company's three months ended March 31, 2018.Read full newsRead More
In this interview, Peter Hug, Director of Kitco's Precious Metals Division, shares regarding his approach to trading and investing in precious metals. Peter...Read full newsRead More
Cache Exploration (TSXV:CAY) is pleased to report that the TSX Venture Exchange has approved the Company's purchase of a 100%-interest in the Deep Lake Project located near Saint John, New Brunswick in consideration of the issuance of 800,000 common shares of Cache to Horizon Cobalt Corporation.Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1304.50-$0.60Silver$16.37+$0.20XAU81.92+0.61%HUI180.59+0.78%GDM624.96+0.28%JSE Gold1154.73+50.13USD92.81+0.34Euro119.41-0.53Yen91.20-0.03Oil$67.81+$0.5610-Year2.976%+0.007T-Bond143.0625-0.09375Dow23924.98-0.72%Nasdaq7100.90-0.42%S&P2635.67-0.72% The Metals: Gold gained $6.50 to $1311.60 in Asia before it dropped back to $1304.10 in midmorning New York trade and then jum...Read More
Gold fell to a six-week low as the dollar strengthened ahead of a Fed policy meeting, causing the yellow metal to break through key support levels.Read full newsRead More
Bitcoin (BTC) has shrugged off yesterday's negative results to claw back above the US$9K mark. Bitcoin began April at US$6,816, but started May at $9,067 - a rise of US$2,251 - making it the best month of 2018 for any crypto. Bitcoin is currently up on the day at US$9,113.70, a bump of ...Read full newsRead More
Yamana Gold (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY) announced today that gold production exceeded its plan for the first quarter of 2018.In a media statement, management detailed that gold equivalent ounce production from Yamana mines for the first quarter was 211,246, including 199,555 ounces of gold and 899,261 ounces of silver. Total attributable gold production was 248,088 ounces of gold, including attributable p...Read More
FTSE 100 gains 23 pointsUK Construction PMI beats expectationsHousebuilding shares stay weakPound lifts off a 4 month lowThe FTSE 100 rose for the fifth session in a row on Wednesday, helped by a recovery in metal prices.The FTSE 100, chock-full as it is with mining companies, rose 23 to close at 7,543.Steel giant Evraz plc (LON:EVR), up 5.2%, led the advance, followed closely by mining titans Ang...Read More
Morning Market Breakdown, May 2: As the TSX attempted to find gains on Wednesday morning, both the Dow Jones and S&P 500 struggled in the red.Read full newsRead More