Only one senior Nutrien Ltd. executive lives in Saskatchewan, but the potash company could still be getting heavily subsidized for maintaining head office jobs in the province.Despite being the only province with a potash industry, Saskatchewan subsidizes head-office jobs for potash companies. Deductions on potash profit taxes are offered at a rate of $25,000 per head, per year. For "new" corporat...Read More
After declining by more than 20 percent from the October peak, oil prices are showing some signs that they have now bottomed out.WTI hit a low point at $56 per barrel on Wednesday and Brent hit a low just below $65 per barrel. Both crude benchmarks regained some ground at the end of the week, despite the huge increase in U.S. crude oil inventories. In fact, rising prices in the face of the 10-mill...Read More
Africa-focused Perseus Mining (ASX,TSX:PRU) said Tuesday that drill results from the Esuajah Gap deposit at its Edikan gold mine in Ghana show the asset contains "significant" mineralized granite bodes well for a productive life extension.While Edikan currently has only six years of resources left, the company believes the mine life could be extended by tapping into the Esuajah Gap discovery.Based...Read More
RIYADH - Saudi Arabia's King Salman will inaugurate on Thursday the Waad Al-Shamaal project, a 440-square-km city for mining industries in the country's northern region, Al Arabiya TV said, quoting energy minister Khalid al-Falih.The project will cost 85 billion riyals ($22.7 billion) and create 10,000 jobs, Falih said. It is part of an industrial scheme aimed at opening up Saudi's north to develo...Read More
Sibanye Gold Ltd., which received a strike notice from South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, said it won't increase its current wage offer that was signed off on by other labor groups last week."AMCU has decided to go on strike," the union said Sunday on its Twitter feed. Sibanye will be given 48 hours to come back with a better offer, it said. The company said Monday i...Read More
World's largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP) (LON:BLT) said Monday it had settled its long-running tax battle with Australia's tax authorities concerning its marketing operations in Singapore.As part of the settlement reached with the Australian Tax Office (ATO), BHP is paying about A$529 million ($386.43 million) in additional taxes on income for 2003 to 2018, it said in the statement.The mining gi...Read More
Superior Gold (TSXV: SGI; US-OTC: SUPGF) has announced results for 9,700 metres drilled across 51 holes aimed at expanding the reserves and resources at the Indian zone on its 100% owned Plutonic gold mine in Western Australia.The company currently has three diamond drills operating underground at the project. It has focused two on grade control and infill drilling and the third on resource and r...Read More
Vancouver-based Tasca Resources (TSX.V:TAC) expanded its New Princeton Gold discovery area in British Columbia to 14,650 hectares by completing a staking program of 10,637 hectares surrounding the project.In a media statement, the company said the expansion made sense following a recent gold discovery from the bedrock trenching.Tasca explained that 51 bedrock samples and five float samples were ta...Read More
With the second round of bids to secure a piece of Teck Resources Ltd.'s $4.7 billion copper expansion expected in the coming weeks, victory may come down to more than price.Teck, which owns 90 percent of Quebrada Blanca in northern Chile, would like to sell a 30 to 40 percent stake to an outside investor. With the copper market widely forecast to go into deficit as soon as this year and the numbe...Read More
92 Resources (TSXV: NTY; US-OTC: RGDCF) recently acquired the 37 sq. km Silver Sands vanadium project in Pine Pass, eastern British Columbia, by paying $15,000 in staking costs. The vendor retains a 2% net smelter returns royalty on the property. Vanadium's spot price has risen more than 550% since September 2016, and is nearing its highest point since 2005.Silver Sands lies just east of Ethos G...Read More
YUKON - Vancouver-based Golden Predator Mining reports that it has discovered an important new style of disseminated gold mineralization in the Sprogge area of its 3 Aces project. This is a potentially large gold bearing intrusive system not previous known at 3 Aces.A total of 27 shallow diamond drill holes tested six zones within a 1.4 by 1.0 km at Sprogge, and will be followed up next year. The...Read More
It is very difficult to pick exact bottoms but there are many tools we can use to help us pinpoint potential bottoms.You don't hear technical analysts talk about fundamentals but we do for a reason. Major shifts in the primary trend are supported by fundamental shifts, though they can be very hard to spot until after the fact.Because of our extensive study of history, we are convinced that preciou...Read More
The gold sector has been under pressure for seven years, but contrarian investors are looking at recent developments in the industry and thinking it might be time to start kicking the tires on some of the beaten-up stocks.Let's take a look at Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX) to see if it deserves to be on your buy list for 2019.ConsolidationHigh-quality gold deposits are becoming harder to find, a...Read More
Mr. Walter Coles reportsSKEENA INTERSECTS 14.57 G/T AUEQ OVER 31.50 METRES AT ESKAY CREEKSkeena Resources Ltd. has released additional gold-silver drill results for seven holes from the recently completed phase 1 surface drilling program at the Eskay Creek project located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. The multifaceted phase 1 program was performed in the historically drill-defined 21...Read More
Mr. Jeff Sundar reportsGENESIS WELCOMES NEW ADVISORS AND ANNOUNCES STRATEGIC PRIVATE PLACEMENTGenesis Metals Corp. has appointed Dr. Robert Carpenter, Dr. Andrew J. Ramcharan and Garrett Ainsworth as advisers to the company. It has also arranged a strategic private placement financing."We are proud and excited to have these exceptional gentlemen join the Genesis team as strategic advisers. We beli...Read More
QUEBEC - They don't call it "Windfall" Lake for nothing. The latest windfall from the property was made by Osisko Mining of Toronto. Drilling returned 83.9 g/t gold over 5.3 metres - an almost unheard of length for such a high grade.And that's not all. The same hole, OSK-W-18-1731 in the Lynx zone, also returned 89.3 g/t gold over 2.4 metres.Other holes were almost as promising: OSK-W-18-1728-W1 r...Read More
The TSX Venture Exchange has accepted for filing documentation with respect to a non-brokered private placement announced Nov. 20, 2018.Number of shares: 7,315,000 shares Purchase price: five cents per share Warrants: 7,315,000 share purchase warrants to purchase 7,315,000 sharesWarrant initial exercise price: 10 centsWarrant term to expiry: one year Number of placees: 24 placees Insid...Read More
IDM Mining (TSXV: IDM; US-OTC: IDMMF) has added a third underground drill at its Red Mountain underground gold-silver project, east of Stewart, British Columbia. The company has increased its drill program by 5,400 metres; it will now drill 13,000 metres across 54 holes.With its 2018 drilling, the company is testing various zones at Red Mountain including the northern and western extensions of the...Read More
The whole "robots taking your job" is a serious concern.Yes, most of what you'll see about it is overblown clickbait, but it's a real thing and it is getting real for more and more people all the time.Stories about it almost always have the air of the typical labor vs. owner trope, of careless capitalists using up and tossing out the people who created productivity and profits for them.Well that m...Read More
Publisher's Note: We're fortunate enough to have access to the legendary Mr. James Dines and his renowned research. Mr. Dines is "The Original Pot Bug" and took a bold stance early on, leading to massive gains for the readers of The Dines Letter.Now that the Canadian legalization process is complete and several more states legalized recreational (Michigan) and medical use (Utah and Missouri),...Read More