Mr. David Wolfin reportsAVINO ANNOUNCES FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCENTRATES PREPAYMENT AGREEMENT WITH SAMSUNG C&TAvino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.'s concentrates prepayment agreement with Samsung C&T U.K. Ltd., originally announced on July 9, 2015, as amended, has been further extended for repayment of the balance of the principal amount of $6,666,670 (U.S.) to Samsung over a two-year perio...Read More
Satellite image taken 1991 (left) and 2018 (January) show SQM and Albemarle solar evaporation ponds in Atacama, Chile. Source: Landsat 8 via United States Geological SurveyDiminishing fears of a flood of new supply from South America halts lithium price slide, but industry is shifting rapidly to hard rock miningOne of the most read articles on MINING.com in 2018 is headlined: This is the only char...Read More
2018 was a great year for tech stocks... until it wasn't.The Nasdaq 100 was up nearly 20% for the year. Now it is down 5%.The big-name stocks all climbed, then spectacularly imploded.Facebook share prices were dumped overnight in July and shares are down about 25% for the year.Apple is basically back to where it started the year. Same with Google.Amazon is still up over 30%, but that's a far cry f...Read More
Canadian savers are constantly searching for reliable stocks to add to their RRSP portfolios.For much of 2018, the market appeared expensive, but the recent correction is finally giving buy-and-hold investors an opportunity to pick up some top names on the TSX Index at attractive prices.Let's take a look at Suncor (TSX:SU) (NYSE:SU) and Nutrien (TSX:NTR) (NYSE:NTR) to see if one deserves to be on...Read More
Excelsior Mining (TSX: MIN) (OTCQX: EXMGF) has closed a $75 million project financing package with Triple Flag Mining Finance Bermuda for $65 million copper metal stream and $10 million private placement of common shares of Excelsior.With the financing, Excelsior will start construction activities at the Arizona Gunnison copper project before the end of the year, the company announced in a press r...Read More
Mr. Steve Fray reportsGOLDMONEY INC. INVESTEE MENE RAISES EQUITY & GOLD-SECURED NOTE FINANCINGGoldmoney Inc. investee company Mene Inc. has entered into agreements to raise $30-million in equity and gold-secured note financing from Canaccord Genuity Corp. and a private institutional investor, with potential for additional gross financings of over $100-million including potential warrant exerci...Read More
This year has been a very difficult time for silver investors and miners. The white metal has fallen by over 16% since the start of 2018 to be trading at around US$14.60 per ounce, and there are signs that a recovery is a long way off.Nonetheless, this shouldn't deter investors from acquiring primary silver miner Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAAS)(NASDAQ:PAAS). Recent developments indicate that...Read More
Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX, NYSE:KL; ASX:KLA) announced that its Fosterville Mine is expected to break its own record quarterly production in the fourth quarter of 2018. Full-year production is now forecasted at 330,000 ounces. Previously reported guidance was established at 300,000-310,000 ounces.In a press release, Kirkland Lake Gold said Fosterville's strong Q4 2018 performance reflects higher tha...Read More
Despite its best efforts, the "most likely scenario" is that mining operations will cease in Flin Flon, Manitoba in 2021, an internal memo to employees at Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) reads.While the company has been successful over the last few years in extending the life of its 777 mine from 2019 to 2021, the memo noted, its efforts to find new sources of ore from 777, "did not turn out...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ENERGY CORP. L53-DD1 OIL DISCOVERY- 779 BOPDPan Orient Energy Corp.'s L53-DD1 exploration well is on a 90-day production test and currently producing at a steady state of between 778 and 784 barrels per day of 23.6 degree API oil with a BS&W (basic sediment and water) of 0.4 per centfrom the DD sand through 5.2 metres of perforations between the depths of 1,...Read More
Brazil's President-elect and former army captain, Jair Bolsonaro, has named a Navy admiral as his Mining and Energy Minister. This appointment marks the eighth member of the armed forces to Bolsonaro's government and the 20th Minister appointed so far.Bento Costa Lima Leite de Albuquerque Junior (60), the current head of Brazilian Navy's nuclear and technology development program, was born in...Read More
Mr. Jean Martineau reportsDYNACOR DECLARES SECOND QUARTERLY DIVIDEND PAYMENTDynacor Gold Mines Inc. will pay a quarterly dividend payment of one cent per common share on Jan. 3, 2019, to shareholders of record as of the close of business on Dec. 19, 2018. The payment represents the second quarterly dividend payment made to shareholders following the corporation's first ever dividend payment in Oct...Read More
Mr. Anthony Makuch reportsKIRKLAND LAKE GOLD INCREASES FOSTERVILLE MINE'S 2018 PRODUCTION OUTLOOK TO OVER 330,000 OUNCESKirkland Lake Gold Ltd.'s Fosterville mine is on track for record quarterly production in the fourth quarter of 2018, with full-year 2018 production now expected to exceed 330,000 ounces versus current guidance of 300,000 to 310,000 ounces. Fosterville's strong fourth quarter 201...Read More
Discussions around trade are expected to dominate the G-20 summit, with the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping likely to take center stage.Most experts are not expecting a major breakthrough in the ongoing U.S.-China tariff fight."At most, there might be an agreement for the president to withhold further tariffs ... in exchange for discussions over t...Read More
Mr. David Wolfin reportsAVINO ANNOUNCES FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCENTRATES PREPAYMENT AGREEMENT WITH SAMSUNG C&TAvino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.'s concentrates prepayment agreement with Samsung C&T U.K. Ltd., originally announced on July 9, 2015, as amended, has been further extended for repayment of the balance of the principal amount of $6,666,670 (U.S.) to Samsung over a two-year perio...Read More
At this point, the Fed should pause on interest rate increases, says Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.Hiking rates too forcefully before necessary could risk causing a recession in the U.S. economy, Kashkari argues. Kashkari believes rates are "close to neutral," a level hotly debated ever since Fed chief Jerome Powell's controversial comments last month.Matthew J. Belvedere| @Matt_Belveder...Read More
I continue to receive questions regarding the direction of the market, to which I can only reply "I don't know." I certainly have thoughts about the factors affecting metals markets, but am not under the illusion that I KNOW where the market is headed.What I do know is that my money is best invested, in tranches, in the best companies in the sector. The best companies are led by the best managemen...Read More
Mr. Steve Fray reportsGOLDMONEY INC. INVESTEE MENE RAISES EQUITY & GOLD-SECURED NOTE FINANCINGGoldmoney Inc. investee company Mene Inc. has entered into agreements to raise $30-million in equity and gold-secured note financing from Canaccord Genuity Corp. and a private institutional investor, with potential for additional gross financings of over $100-million including potential warrant exerci...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ENERGY CORP. L53-DD1 OIL DISCOVERY- 779 BOPDPan Orient Energy Corp.'s L53-DD1 exploration well is on a 90-day production test and currently producing at a steady state of between 778 and 784 barrels per day of 23.6 degree API oil with a BS&W (basic sediment and water) of 0.4 per centfrom the DD sand through 5.2 metres of perforations between the depths of 1,...Read More
November 30, 2018GOLD:Short Term Update:What a day! This is incredible! We called it with our wave counts, and now it's really happening as the Fed may have just blinked!Within wave .iii. we are now working on our first impulsive sequence, as shown on our "Daily Gold Chart".Within that first impulsive sequence we believe that we are working on a subdividing wave $iii$. Within wave $iii$, wav...Read More