Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly firmer on the morning of Wednesday March 23, with April nickel prices on SHFE registering an almost 2% gain.* Will Russia pushback against sanctions by curbing oil exports?* LME nickel prices found their price level on Tuesday.* The sell-off in bonds is seeing a rotation in other asset classes.* UK consu...Read More
The relationship between gold and copper reflects economic and political sentiment.Read More
Most recently, the 3.8 million tonne per year plant had been scheduled to start in April and Ivanhoe said the early hot commissioning is four months ahead of the original development schedule. It doubles the size of the mine's concentrator plant. Ivanhoe's co-chair Robert Friedland said the commissioning is a big step towards establishing Kamoa-Kakula as one of the two largest copper mining c...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 20 points in pre-opening trade. General Mills advanced $1.19 to $63.87 after reporting higher than consensus first quarter earnings. The company also raised guidance. Adobe dropped $10.45 to $456.00 despite reporting higher than consensus fiscal first quarter revenues and earnings. The company also lowered guidance fo...Read More
We have lent a grave ear to the war coverage these past three weeks. And we have concluded Mr. Putin's unfolding crimes are atrocious.All civilized men condemn them. And let the record reflect: We are with the civilized - even if we are not necessarily among the civilized.Yet this war coverage has likewise left us confused... and puzzled. But why? Who can be confused or puzzled?Here you have Vladi...Read More
A Russian anti-war protester - bearing a message in two languages - recently streaked across a Moscow newsroom:This woman in question had evidently labored for the very same "news" organization. The United States media instantly shrieked with glee...What a heroic soul, they gushed. She has defied Mr. Putin before the world's watching eyes. Solzhenitsyn himself had nothing on her.In a pre-recorded...Read More
As widely expected, the Fed raised its target rate today, its first rate hike since December 2018. As you may recall, that hike crashed the stock market in what became known as the Christmas Eve Massacre.Today's hike was only 25 basis points, not the 50-point hike some were predicting prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In a sense, Putin took the pressure off Jay Powell to make a bolder move...Read More
What we're seeing now is the very definition of volatility. The market's in a highly unstable state right now. These violent swings show the inadequacy of the standard models that the Fed and other mainstream analysts use.The Fed assumes so many things about markets that are simply false, like that markets are always efficient, for example. They're not. Under volatile conditions like these they ga...Read More
Today is March 15 - the ides of the month."Beware the ides of March," the soothsayer warned Julius Caesar... presciently. Should investors likewise beware the ides of March?Today and tomorrow the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee - so-called - huddles at Washington.These are the questions presently hanging in the air:Will Mr. Powell and his mates finally push the federal funds rate up from z...Read More
B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) has increased global resources at its Anaconda project in southwest Mali more than fourfold - from 770,000 oz. of contained gold to 3.4 million ounces. Located about 20 km away from the company's Fekola mine, which produced 567,795 oz. gold in 2021, the Anaconda area includes the Menankoto permit and the Bantako North permit. The project's updated resource est...Read More
Stellantis N.V. (NYSE: STLA) and LG Energy Solution will invest over $5 billion to build a large battery plant in Windsor, Ont., with an expected annual production capacity of over 45 gigawatt hours to produce lithium-ion battery cells. Construction of the plant, which is expected to create 2,500 jobs, will begin later this year and the facility will be operational by 2025, Canada's ministry of...Read More
Like opposing characters in a literary plot, gold and copper highlight aspects of the other's attributes and values. Writers frequently use opposing characters to build drama or create conflict, classically as foils and antagonists. The latter is a character who is in direct opposition, and whose actions hinder the protagonist. A foil is a character who accentuates the qualities of the protagon...Read More
Following receipt of all regulatory approvals, Capstone Mining (TSX: CS) has successfully completed its previously announced business combination with Mantos Copper, creating a new Americas-focused copper producer named Capstone Copper Corp.The merger agreement stipulates that each Capstone common share be exchanged for one share of Capstone Copper. Following completion, Capstone shareholders wou...Read More
Vale (NYSE: VALE) has struck a multi-year agreement to supply Swedish lithium-ion battery manufacturer Northvolt AB with low-carbon nickel from its Long Harbour refinery in Newfoundland. Details regarding volume and pricing were not released, but the multinational base metals miner said that the agreement had been two years in the making and would serve as a "launchpad for further cooperation."...Read More
Dear Outsider,Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 is one of the most recognizable pieces of classical music.You know the tune...Dah-dah-dah-dum. Dah-dah-dah-dum!As the tune was written between 1804 and 1808, Beethoven's hearing had already started to deteriorate.Living in Vienna and searching for a remedy to his ailment, the composer wrote this to a childhood friend who had then become a doctor...For the l...Read More
Some 2.8 million of the shares were acquired as a result of Barrick exercising warrants on March 23. Skeena received about $30.Read More
Geodrill hopes that a strong gold price and new contracts will see the good results continue through 2022. The Q4 net income stood at US$2.8 million, or $0.06 per share, which saw 2021 net income rise 88% year-on-year to $14.1 million, or $0.31 per share. The West Africa-based company's revenue hit $26.7 million in Q4, having risen by 8% year-on-year.For 2021, the company's revenue was $...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Skeena Resources Ltd. [SKE-TSXV, SKREF-OTCQX, RXFB-FRA] said it has received approximately $30.4 million from the exercise of 2.8 million warrants held by Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, GOLD-NYSE].The warrants were originally issued to Barrick with an exercise price of $10.80 in October, 2020, in connection with Skeena's acquisition of a 100% interest of the Eskay Cre...Read More
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is not exactly going as planned. Putin certainly did not expect the Ukrainians to slap around the invading Russian troops so easily.And busted-up morale, busted-up equipment, and busted-up egos are really putting a dent in the Russian dictator's ambitions to swallow an entire nation without the fear of choking. Putin's foreign minister also told reporters that the Kr...Read More
We spoke with Ross McElroy, Chairman and Sherman Dahl, CEO of SKRR Exploration Inc. (TSXV: SKRR; OTC Pink: SKKRF; FSE: B04Q). SKRR is a Canadian-based, precious metal explorer, with properties in Saskatchewan - one of the world's highest ranked mining jurisdictions. The primary focus is on the, significantly under-explored, Trans-Hudson Corridor, in Saskatchewan, in search of world class precious...Read More