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
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 19 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures are responding to a tentative agreement by the U.S. Congress that will avoid a government shutdown by the end of the week.Gilead (GILD $67.62) is expected to open lower after its drug trial on chronic liver disease failed to reach expectations. Molson Coors (TAP $66.36) is...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices were mixed on Tuesday February 12, with those in eastern China flat but those in the north of the country up, while export prices increased sharply on the same day. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,830-3,880 yuan ($565-572) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Beijing): 3,820-3,860 yuan per tonne, up 20-30 yuan per tonneTraders in eastern China kept...Read More
Tshipi will issue more than $80 million in dividends in the second half of its financial year thanks to high manganese ore prices that have enabled the South African manganese miner to generate significantly higher cashflow than expected.For the second half of 2019, it declared a dividend of 1.1 billion rand ($80.2 million), its owner - Jupiter Mines - announced. The latest declaration will take&n...Read More
High-carbon and low-carbon ferro-chrome prices into Europe and the United States edged up over the past week, while Lunar New Year holidays across Asia kept markets in the region quiet. Charge chrome and ore prices into China stable Chinese domestic ferro-chrome price assessment rolled over Japanese and South Korean ferro-chrome prices unchangedAlloy prices into US and Europe tick up Prices for c...Read More
Recruiters from more than 230 companies, government agencies and graduate schools descended on the Colorado School of Mines campus Feb. 12 to speak with current students and recent graduates about job opportunities, internships and more. Here were some of the faces among the crowd at Spring Career Day flexing their networking muscle and perfecting those elevator pitches: Ana GarciaSophomore majo...Read More
Shape memory alloys are well known for their remarkable properties -superelasticity, shape memory and actuation allow them to be crumpled up and then spring back to a "remembered" original shape.But the advanced material remains drastically underutilized in commercial applications, uses that could include morphing the shape of airplane structures to make flight more efficient or deploying communi...Read More
The view from space of the nighttime lights on Earth is one of the most iconic images of humanity's presence.But more than just a pretty picture, these and other nocturnal radiant emissions are increasingly being used for scientific and public policy applications.The Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines is establishing a new research group dedicated to the development of d...Read More
The TSX/S&P Venture Composite Index slipped 1.7% to end the trading week at 611.94.Shares of Max Resource rose 111% to 38 ?. The company recently expanded the zone through surface work at its 1,757 sq. km Choco precious metals project, 100 km southwest of Medellin, Colombia. The company found a gold-bearing conglomerate (called "Outcrop 2") 7.5 km south of known mineralization.The company has dug...Read More
Canada's benchmark index rose 1% to end the trading week at 15,663.33. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 0.65% to 71.90, and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 1.3% to 192.46. The gold price fell 0.2% to US$1,314.Shares of RNC Minerals rose 20% to 72 ?. The company recently announced results from 46 underground holes totalling more than 5,700 metres drilled at its Beta Hunt mine in Australia. T...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted a marginal 0.17% gain to 25,106.33, while the S&P 500 Index ended 0.05% higher at 2,707.88. Despite a rising dollar, spot gold held above the US$1,300 per oz. mark, finishing at US$1,314 per oz., down 0.24%, or US$3.10 per oz. from the previous week.The unfolding tailings dam disaster at Vale's Feijao iron ore mine in southeastern Brazil kept pressure on the...Read More
Roxgold (TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) is purchasing from Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) a large and carefully assembled land package in Cote d'Ivoire that includes the Seguela gold project and its near-surface Antenna deposit.The portfolio of eleven exploration permits included in the deal covers 3,298 sq. km across the Birimian greenstone belt and hosts multiple exploration targets within 15 km of the A...Read More
A group of international non-governmental organizations on Tuesday demanded that Brazilian miner Vale SA be excluded from the United Nations' corporate responsibility pact, after a mining dam burst that killed an estimated 300 people.A letter signed by more than 15 NGOs said that Vale failed to take proper safety measures at a tailings dam at its Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine in Minas Gerais sta...Read More
Central banks are buying gold at a rate not seen since the end of World War II as geopolitical concerns see a shift in appreciation for the asset.Read full newsRead More
Shree Kargutkar, portfolio manager at Sprott Asset Management, joins BNN Bloomberg to talk about M&A in the gold sector, and weigh in on the Barrick-Randgold and Newmont-Goldcorp deals.Read full newsRead More
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"Pierre Gratton, president and CEO of the Mining Association of Canada, discusses why he believes Bill C-69 could actually help the Canadian mining sector https://t.co/GwCVnfPI7G"Read full newsRead More
Aura Minerals Inc. (ORA.TO) announces that it has resumed limited mining operations at its San Andres gold mine in Honduras.Rodrigo Barbosa, the Company's President & CEO commented, "We have been working very closely with local and national authorities to cease the illegal occupation of our privateRead full newsRead More
Beneath a plot of land in southeastern Siberia lie vast stores of gold, according to Russia's biggest gold producer, Polyus PJSC, and tapping them could provide the Russian central bank with a huge and nearly sanction-proof backstop for its currency.Read full newsRead More
Beneath a plot of land in southeastern Siberia lie vast stores of gold, according to Russia's biggest gold producer, Polyus PJSC, and tapping them could provide the Russian central bank with a huge and nearly sanction-proof backstop for its currency.Read full newsRead More
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