A little more than nine months following its initial public offering (IPO), U.S.-focused junior Bradda Head Lithium (AIM: BHL, US-OTCQB: BHLIF) shares continue to fly high following the 65% resource growth at its Basin East lithium project in Arizona.With rising lithium prices, Bradda Head shares trading in London have tripled in value and continues to trade at a relatively high level on heightene...Read More

A few weeks ago I wrote about the Fed and interest rates.My thesis was that the Fed wouldn't undermine the economic recovery it's sowed over the past two years by overcorrecting for inflation.But some of the rhetoric I've seen these past few weeks has me second-guessing that position.To wit, here's recent quote from Fed Chair Jerome Powell:The labor market is very strong, and inflation is much too...Read More

I'm now looking again at the polls of Biden's popularity. They are shocking, even devastating.We are looking at nearly a 12-point split between approval and disapproval. I'm assuming that the reality is much worse, given that everyone knows what one is supposed to tell the pollsters. They are not looking for disapproval. They are looking for compliance. That so many are willing just to say what th...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Forum Energy Metals Corp. [FMC-TSXV; FDCFF-OTCQB; F3E-FSE] reported drill results at its 100%-owned Love Lake nickel-copper-palladium project in northeastern Saskatchewan. The Love Lake layered mafic complex is located approximately 100 kilometre east of Cameco's Key lake uranium mill along Highway 905 to the Rabbit Lake/ McClean Lake uranium mills. Forum completed...Read More

Kinross in a statement today said it had budgeted around US$60 million for this year to start field work at its newly acquired Great Bear project, which fittingly is in an Ontario municipality calledRead More

Toronto-listed Wallbridge Mining has identified additional gold mineralization within the area of its Fenelon resource in Quebec and has expanded its Area 51 zone.Read More

Washington last month acted decisively with the EU to offer it alternative supplies of US and other non-Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) to help wean Europe off Russian gas imports.Read More

West Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDWorld Copper has economics to back Escalones resource in ChileSPONSOREDworld copper ltd.Marvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining Raleigh Finlayson, the newly minted Genesis Minerals chief executive, broke from deeply engrained industr...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The CEO of Meylor Global, the Ukraine-based factory that produces the world's largest lab grown diamonds, has told how her staff have fled for their lives, or taken up arms against the Russian invaders.Yuliya Kusher (pictured) described the men who had been making diamonds until a few weeks ago, and who are now defending their country, as "jewels".The factory in Kyiv re-opened...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The most expensive piece of jewelry in the history of Tiffany & Co, a diamond necklace valued at up to $30m, made its debut appearance when Beyonce wore it for an Oscars after-party.It's a a modern take on the jeweler's iconic 1939 World's Fair Necklace, and it features a total of 578 diamonds, with a total weight of 180 carats set in platinum.At is center is an...Read More

(IDEX Online) -  Total sales of US watches and jewelry were over $115bn in 2021, the highest figure, by far, for at least a decade. It's an increase of just over 50 per cent on 2020, according to the Department of Commerce.  Suppliers and retailers tell us stay-at-home consumers went on a spending spree last year. Travel restrictions halted their vacation plans so the...Read More

Canada's 2022 Budget has proposed to provide a total of up to $3.8 billion over eight years to develop electric vehicle components such as batteries and permanent magnets and ensure that the country becomes a "vital part" of the global critical minerals industry. The budget allocates up to $1.5 billion for the development of critical minerals supply chains, with "a focus on priority deposits."...Read More

The mining industry is playing by the wrong rules, and has been for decades. Many of us are scientists, and believe truth is discovered by establishing all of the facts. However, as Oscar Wilde told us, the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Reality is easily distorted by incomplete data and misunderstood information, and what is real doesn't matter as much as people's perceptions, accurate or...Read More

Several analysts have adjusted higher their metal price assumptions for 2022 as the February Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, wreaking havoc on global metals and mineral supply chains.Moody's Investors Service released a report on Apr. 6 flagging spiking prices for commodities Russia is a crucial producer of. These include aluminum, zinc, nickel, copper, gold and metallurgical and thermal coa...Read More

Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) is aiming to report an initial inferred resource for its recently acquired Great Bear (Dixie) project in Red Lake, Ont., by the end of the year. The gold miner, which paid $1.8 billion in cash and shares for Great Bear in a deal that closed in late February, plans to start a prefeasibility study on the project in 2023. With 10 drill rigs at work at Dixie, Kinros...Read More

With the addition of a first resource for the Larkin Zone at its Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia, Karora Resources (TSX: KRR; US-OTC: KRRGF) has increased its measured and indicated gold resources, net of depletions, by 8% and its inferred resources by 43%. The Larkin Zone holds 1.4 million tonnes grading 2.6 grams gold per tonne for 119,000 oz. gold in the measured and indicated category....Read More

Colombia plans to hold two bidding rounds - one for gold and one for coal exploration contracts - before the end of June, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the country's mining sector.Speaking at the ELAMI mining conference held this week, the president of the national mining association ANM, Juan Miguel Dur??n, said the first round of bids will be launched this month and will focus on coa...Read More

According to a recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll, most Americans are giving Biden far more credit than they should.About 40% are giving him far more credit than they should for prices at the pump, in particular.The simple fact of the matter is that Biden's administration has less control than it wants. And far less control than Americans think it has.A historic o...Read More

Our fathomless disfaith in experts is validated yet again...The United States Department of Labor issued December's unemployment figures this morning.A Dow Jones survey of economic wiseacres soothsaid that December would register 422,000 fresh jobs. How many fresh jobs did December register?199,000 - under half the projected figure.Here Mr. Nick Bunker, economic research director with Indeed, wrin...Read More

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