The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1,447.7 points or 4.9% during the Oct. 17-21 trading week to 31,082.56, and the S&P 500 closed 169.7 points or 4.7%% higher at 3,752.75.This week's top mining-focused value gainer was Mosaic Co., which added US$6.24 to close at US$53.10 per share. The crop nutrient producer and distributor's share price has been on a positive trajectory over the past two wee...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index edged up 11.95 points or 2.1% over the Oct. 17-21 trading session to end at 593.04. Sigma Lithium was the week's top gainer by value, rising $7.58 to $48.42 per share. While the emerging lithium miner did not release any recent news, it is benefiting from lithium prices that continue to rally on tight supplies. Sigma is nearing the end of construction of the fi...Read More
Markets were higher over the week as investors searched for a bottom to recent falls, anticipating that central banks won't continue interest rate hikes for too much longer now that inflation is beginning to tick lower, in the United States and Canada at least. Gold retreated slightly.The S&P/TSX Composite Index gained 534.6 points or 2.9% to 18,860.95. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index increased 4....Read More
Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; LSE: PUR) is placing its flagship PureGold mine in Red Lake, Ont., on care and maintenance, as the mine has yet to achieve the consistent cash flow needed to alleviate the company's financial problems.Currently, Pure Gold has a cash balance of around $2 million and a net working capital deficit of about $13 million, excluding amounts owing under the company's debt obli...Read More
Barrick Gold's (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) president and chief executive Mark Bristow announced on Saturday that the company plans to expand its East African footprint using the North Mara and Bulyanhulu gold mines in Tanzania as a foundation for this endeavour.Back in September 2019, Barrick inherited what Bristow called these "moribund mines" when it re-acquired Acacia Mining. After some rebuilding w...Read More
Looking down into the deep ravine in the centre of New Pacific Metals' (TSX: NUAG) Silver Sand project in central Bolivia, one does not have to be a geologist to spot its potential. Up and down its steep sides, the landscape is pockmarked by adits and tunnels dug by miners almost five hundred years ago.The miners may have left after the discovery in 1545 of Cerro Rico, Bolivia's legendary mountain...Read More
For over four decades, CR Mining has been an industry-leading manufacturer and supplier of mining equipment. From their start as innovators in the dragline bucket space, the company has leveraged that expertise to produce a suite of ground engaging tools, or GET, used in a range of machines, including excavators, wheel loaders, and rope shovels.Now, CR Digital, the company's technology arm, is on...Read More
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Monday to hold Ortega accountable for continued attacks on human rights and democracy as well as his continued security cooperation with Russia.Read More
Speaking at the FT Mining Summit Vale chief executive Eduardo Bartolomeo said the aim would be to grow the base metals unit as big as Vale is today, an ambitious goal considering nickel generated 9.Read More
The Fed will raise interest rates 0.75% at the end of its next FOMC policy meeting on Nov. 2.That's not an official announcement, but it might as well be because it came from the Fed's unofficial official source. If that sounds confusing, please allow us to explain…The Fed never announces its rate policy decisions in advance. These are announced in the form of a press release and statement d...Read More
AI has been a hot topic these last few months ever since Elon Musk revealed his Tesla Optimus bot that he says will usher in a "fundamental transformation of civilization as we know it."Musk believes that at the foundation of every economy is labor, so if AI is able to replace or help bolster the labor market, it could create a boon for the economy like we've never seen before.In a press conferenc...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Fugitive Indian diamond merchant Jatin Mehta has gone to court in Britain to challenge the freezing of his assets.He is accused of defrauding15 lenders out of more than $1bn lent to his companies Winsome Diamonds and Jewellery Ltd and Forever Precious Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd in 2013 and of then laundering the money to fund his lab grown diamond business. He denies all accusati...Read More
(IDEX Online) - This scale of devastation from a tailings dam burst at an old diamond mine in South Africa can be seen in this image from space.It shows the five-mile plume of grey sludge that killed at least two people and hundreds of animals, wrecked 350 homes and damaged infrastructure and farmland at Jagersfontein, in the Free State province.The picture was taken by NASA's Landsat 9 satel...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Raiders smashed their way into a New York jewelry store with a sledgehammer, then fled with over $500,000 of merchandise.Surveillance video released by NYPD (New York Police Department) shows three hooded intruders bursting into Cellini, in Midtown, Manhattan, in the early hours of last Saturday (15 October).They smashed display cases, grabbing jewelry and high-end watches."A full...Read More
PolarX executive chairman Mark Bojanjac runs through the highlights of the US-focused explorer's new scoping study on the Zackly and Caribou Dome deposits in Alaska, plus the further metallurgical and resource expansion potential.Read More
Welcome to the New Age, where authority has no authority and does not deserve to act with any authority, but will act as if it does, anyway, and then lie to you about it.Nowhere is this quandary more vivid than in the racketeering operation formerly known as medicine.Our authorities have disgraced themselves behind a new theology of degenerate "science" that veers back into superstition. Proof tha...Read More
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CEO Phil Day said Q4 will se the company progress to a processing rate of 5000tpcm, equating to an annualised production of about 20,000oz Au.Read More
Chalice Mining, the relatively small Australian company which discovered the Julimar orebody, a world-class nickel deposit which is also rich in copper and platinum group metals, is locatedRead More
"The lower gold-silver price and general macro uncertainty has at least delayed the acquisition cycle we had expected in 2022," said RBC Capital's Michael Siperco.Read More