There’s nothing more heartbreaking than a missed opportunity.About five years ago, I had a conversation with Jake, a good friend of mine who was also a hedge fund manager.Jake was telling me his biggest regret when it came to investing.“If only I had realized how strong the market was in 2012,” he told me with shame in his eyes. “I missed out on one of the best investment p...Read More
The focus of the anti-Trump forces has shifted. Trump was not removed from office as his opponents had hoped. And the long-awaited Mueller report on "collusion" by Trump with Russia has turned out to be an anticlimax showing no collusion. In fact, Trump is on track to complete a mainly successful first term.Instead, the "resistance," aided by the deep state and the media, have turned their attenti...Read More
Trump has already exerted more influence over one institution than any other president in over 100 years - the Federal Reserve.That's because Trump has had more control over Fed personnel than any president since the Fed was founded in 1913. As I've written before, Trump now "owns" the Fed.When Trump was sworn in, he inherited two vacant seats on the seven-person board of governors of the Federal...Read More
The following Fastmarkets UK non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices changed on Wednesday April 24:Aluminium scrapCommercial cast: ?780-810 per tonne from ?780-820Commercial turnings: ?560-600 per tonne from ?565-605Group...Read More
ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) announced this week that it has signed a binding option agreement with Orano Canada to earn up to a 51% participating interest in the Close Lake uranium project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan, Canada.In a media statement, ALX said the execution of the agreement confirms a five-year deal according to which the company has to fund explorat...Read More
A common feature of mining industry gatherings over the past couple of years is a general bullishness on copper's future, with talk quickly turning to demand for copper being increasingly driven by the rapid adoption rates of copper-heavy electric vehicles (EVs) in Europe, the U.S. and China.For instance, at the 28th BMO Metals & Mining Conference in Florida in February, attendees voted in an info...Read More
First Vanadium (TSXV: FVAN; US-OTC: FVANF) has extended its Carlin vanadium deposit in Nevada by 300 metres to the south with newly acquired historical data. The strike length of the deposit now totals more than 2.1 kilometres.Two historical holes and trenches completed by the property's previous owner, Union Carbide, in 1968 intersected vanadium outside the current resource.The holes cut 0.91% va...Read More
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BHP, Barrick Gold, Teck Resources and Antofagasta are a few of the major mining companies that, together with equipment suppliers and universities, have helped develop global guidelines on automation.The document, published this week by Canada-based Global Mining Guidelines Group (GMG), outlines a framework for miners to follow when considering adding autonomous equipment to their operations. It a...Read More
Chile-focused copper miner Antofagasta posted a 22.6 percent jump in first-quarter copper production and maintained its full-year output outlook, despite the possibility that China may ease stimulus measures which could hurt prices.Antofagasta said on Wednesday production in the quarter was bolstered by better quality ore and higher output, mainly at its Centinela mine, and kept its annual output...Read More
Another lithium-ion battery has exploded, this time at an energy-storage complex in the U.S.At least 21 fires had already occurred at battery projects in South Korea, according to BloombergNEF. But this latest one, erupting on Friday at a facility owned by a Pinnacle West Capital Corp. utility in Surprise, Arizona, marked the first time it has happened in America since batteries took off globally....Read More
Anglo American's De Beers is stepping up efforts to remove conflict diamonds from the market by expanding a pilot program in Sierra Leone, which is set to help trace the route of precious stones dug up by small miners in the country.The world's largest rough diamond producer by value said Wednesday the decision to scale up its GemFair trial was made to give more artisanal and small-scale miners (A...Read More
Even in an industry known to be high-risk, the sudden evaporation of more than a million ounces of gold raised eyebrowsRead full newsRead More
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