Vancouver-based Pretium Resources has received the amended permits allowing it to expand production to 3,800 t/d at its Brucejack gold mine 65 km north of Stewart. The permits were issued by the B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources and the B.C. Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy.Annual mill throughput will grow to 1.4 million tonnes from 990,000 tonnes, or 3,80...Read More
Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) will cease trading on both the London Stock Exchange and NASDAQ at the end of the year, as its planned merger with Canada's Barrick Gold Corp (TSE, NYSE:ABX) has been approved by the Royal Court of Jersey, Channel Islands.The $18.3 billion-deal creates "New Barrick," the world's top gold miner by value and output, with a dominant positi...Read More
If we want to know where Gold is going we should follow Gold. Right?How about following gold stocks? At times, they lead Gold.What about the U.S. Dollar? Wrong!In 2019, one market more than any other will impact Gold.That is the stock market.History argues (within the current context) that when the Federal Reserve ends its rate hikes, Gold's downtrend will be over and when the Fed cuts rates, the...Read More
Identifying early market trends is an excellent way to secure high returns and beat the index over the long-term. That said, in today's world, demand for physical cash is diminishing with the rise of secure, high-tech payment solutions. As the global payment industry is shifting from traditional methods to innovative digital technologies, companies operating within this sector provide an appealing...Read More
Gold has firmed in recent days as fears of a global economic slowdown mount. This now sees the yellow metal trading at over US$1,246 per ounce, and there are signs that it could surge higher in coming weeks. That is a boon for gold miners, which have had to weather weaker prices since the start of 2018. One small-cap miner that stands out is McEwen Mining (TSX:MUX)(NYSE:MUX), where legendary ind...Read More
An epidemic is killing thousands of coal miners, and regulators could have stopped it, according to a joint National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS Frontline investigation.'Black lung' has been plaguing coal miners for generations across Appalachian states, and in Virginia, NPR tracked the plights of former coal miners suffering from the disease.The multiyear investigation found that the former coal...Read More
BRITISH COLUMBIA - Toronto-based Seabridge Gold has promising induced potential and drilling results from its 100% owned Iskut gold property 110 km northwest of Stewart. All indications point toward a large copper-gold porphyry system.The results indicate a robust hydrothermal breccia containing abundant clasts of chalcopyrite-pyrite-magnetite in veined intrusive rocks and stock works positioned o...Read More
AUSTRALIA - BHP Group has commissioned the new ramp at its Olympic Dam iron ore-copper-gold mine, and it doubles the haulage capacity for its trucks. The Kalta decline is key to reaching the Southern mine area where BHP is mining high grade copper resources.BHP spent A$250 million to develop the Southern mine area, and another $40 million on the ramp. The first ore from the area was produced in mi...Read More
Industrial metals came under renewed pressure on Tuesday after a defiant speech from China's president Xi Jinping diminished hopes of an early settlement in the top commodity importer's intensifying trade dispute with the US.President Jinping used the occasion of the 40-year anniversary of the start of China's "Reform and Opening Up" to congratulate the stewardship of the communist party and reaf...Read More
SASKATCHEWAN - Fifteen kilometres from the rapidly advancing Wheeler River project, Vancouver's Skyharbour Resources is finding high grades at the Moore uranium project.Drill hole ML18-14 intersected high grade uranium mineralization within the Main Maverick zone consisting of 3.11% uranium oxide over 1.8 metres within an interval of 15.2 metres containing 0.56% uranium oxide. This is one of the b...Read More
The chance of recession in the next 12 months rose to 23 percent in the CNBC Fed Survey.Twelve percent of respondents think the Fed, after hiking in December, would next move to reduce the Fed Funds rate and do so by October.Fifty-two percent said they now approve of the president's handling of the economy, down 14 points from the prior survey in which his approval had hit an all-time high.The CNB...Read More
If we want to know where Gold is going we should follow Gold. Right?How about following gold stocks? At times, they lead Gold.What about the U.S. Dollar? Wrong!In 2019, one market more than any other will impact Gold.That is the stock market.History argues (within the current context) that when the Federal Reserve ends its rate hikes, Gold's downtrend will be over and when the Fed cuts rates, the...Read More
Base metals on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower at the close of trading on Tuesday December 18, with continued strength in the US dollar index limiting price action, while lead futures gained more than 2% against a backdrop of multi-year lows in LME inventory.Depreciating over 2.5% this afternoon, copper futures closed below $6,000 per tonne for the first time since October 31, while to...Read More
Glencore's Katanga Mining Ltd will pay the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) around $22.5 million as part of a settlement over the copper-cobalt producer's historical disclosures.The payments are C$1.5 million ($1.2 million) in costs along with a voluntary payment of C$28.5 million.The company, which operates the Kamoto Copper Company in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has also agreed to...Read More
A friend asked me today what I thought Powell should do. I said, "the system is screwed. It ultimately doesn't matter what anyone does. The money printing, credit creation and artificially low interest rates over the last 10 years has fueled the most egregious misallocation of capital in history of the universe.Eventually the Fed/Central Banks will print trillions more - 10x more than the la...Read More
Wang Chi-wei, a former vice president of Jiangxi Copper, has been officially arrested on corruption charges, the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's Republic of China said in a statement on Tuesday December 18.The arrest is based on an investigation carried out by the city of Nanchang's Supervisory Commission since October. Jiangxi Copper's 900,000 tpy Guixi smelter, the largest in Chin...Read More
Marc Elliott, mining analyst at Investec Securities, told Mining Journal there was a greater spread of companies "across the mid-cap range" on the TSX and ASX, "whereas in London w...Read More
Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM"), is pleased to announce that, subject to regulatory approval, it has retained Questrade, INC., ("Questrade"), to provide market making services to the Company in compliance with the policies and guidelines of the TSX Venture Exchange and other applicable legislations.Questrade will trade shares of good na...Read More
Chinese exporters continued to aggressively slash offer prices in response to sparse buying interest amid weak domestic demand, while European ferro-vanadium prices followed the move down. Chinese exporters cut offering prices amid weak domestic demand European FeV market plummets after taking its cue from the weakening Chinese market European V2O5 flat amid illiquidity, further downward pressure...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1249.30+$3.00Silver$14.64-$0.03XAU70.61+2.05%HUI160.34+2.31%GDM583.74+2.24%JSE Gold1328.43+26.18USD97.06-0.08Euro113.64+0.17Yen89.18+0.64Oil$46.24-$3.6410-Year2.823%-0.035T-Bond144.4375+0.65625Dow23675.64+0.35%Nasdaq6783.91+0.45%S&P2546.16+0.01% The Metals: Gold erased early Asian gains and dipped to $1245.10 at about 2AM EST before it rallied up to $1250.30 in London a...Read More