RAPAPORT... With the US imposing sanctions on Alrosa and other Russian entities, there is rising concern about the impact on the diamond market, considering the vast rough supplies from the country. The following is a resource center to help the trade gain clarity on the crisis and its effects on the industry.May 31: How the War Has Shaken Up Diamond Supply (Joshua Freedman)May 27: Alros...Read More

Strategic investor Vision Blue Resources, which was founded by former Xstrata head Sir Mick Davis, made the nomination based on its approximate 27% holding in Cornish Metals.Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesCopper Fox is brim-full of potentialSPONSOREDcopper fox metalsOrford eyes massive nickel sulphides at West RaglanSPONSOREDorford miningThe S&P/TSX Battery Metals Index will track Canadian-listed companies engaged in the production or exploration of metals used in battery manufacturing...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 43 points in pre-opening trade.Amazon added $1.79 to $124.14 following a 20 for 1 stock split effective today. Spotify added $5.22 to $117.45 after Raymond James upgraded the stock from Market Perform to Outperform.Ryder System added $0.64 to $82.24 after Stifel Nicolaus raised its target price from $80 to $90. Eq...Read More

Spread the loveThe American view during the 70s was more concerned about gold rather than the value of the dollar against world currencies. Most Americans never traveled to Europe so their impression of currencies was the Canadian dollar which was about par with the dollar that Americans would encounter when visiting Niagra Falls. I remember as a kid the family would drive up there and we would cr...Read More

The brisk, sweeping changes Industry 4.0 brings to the financial landscape are forcing miners to rethink how they operate while regulators closely watch and prepare to implement new rules to curb fraud and criminal activity, says industry doyen Maureen Jensen.The former CEO of the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) told The Northern Miner's recent Global Mining Symposium that the scale of change...Read More

Backed by its recent actions in the critical minerals space, the Quebec government laid out a strong case for why mineral exploration and mining development in the francophone province is a good idea during The Northern Miner's recent Q2 Global Mining Symposium.A panel of three government representatives, headlined by Nathalie Camden, Associate Deputy Minister of Mines, Energy and Natural Resource...Read More

Shares of Lion One Metals (TSXV: LIO; US-OTC: LOMLF) reached their highest level in a year as the company reported its longest high-grade gold intercept at depth beneath the current resource at its Tuvatu alkaline gold project in Fiji. Hole TUG-141, which targeted the project's 500 zone, yielded a grade of 20.86 grams gold per tonne over 75.9 metres starting from 443.4 metres, including 43.62 gra...Read More

Westhaven Gold (TSXV: WHN) continues to obtain high-grade results from ongoing drilling at its 100% owned Shovelnose gold project, with elevated gold and silver encountered in different areas of mineralization at the FMN zone. Shovelnose is located within the Spences Bridge gold belt (SBGB), which borders the Coquihalla Highway 30 km south of Merritt, B.C.Westhaven's current drilling campaign is...Read More

Stuhini Exploration (TSXV: STU) is exploring and developing base and precious metal projects in Western Canada, where it controls over 809 sq. km of prospective mineral tenures. The Canadian junior's focus is on advancing its flagship Ruby Creek property in the heart of the Atlin Gold camp in northwestern B.C., the largest active placer camp in Canada, approximately 15 km east of Atlin. Within t...Read More

Since taking office a year ago, President Guillermo Lasso has placed his chips firmly on mining to bring the investment and jobs needed to revitalize Ecuador's economy. Under an action plan launched in August 2021, the government set out a wide-ranging to-do list to get the sector moving, from speeding up permitting and reopening the claims system to convincing a sometimes-skeptical public of th...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 313.26 points or 0.95% to 32,899.70 and the S&P 500 fell 49.7 points or 1.20% over the week to 4,108.54. Shares of First Majestic Silver rose 5.5% to US$8.85 as the company reported drill results from its exploration program at the Jerritt Canyon gold mine in Elko County, Nevada. Highlights from the drill results included 29.7 metres grading 8.39 grams g...Read More

Over the May 30 to June 3 trading period, the S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 42.15 points or 0.2% to 20,790.73. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index edged up 1.03 points or 0.9% to 113.91 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index rose 0.91 points 0.5% to 197.96. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 4.18 points or 1.4% to 298.86 and spot gold ended the week down 0.2%, or US$3.79 per oz. lower, at US$1,851.17...Read More

Element 29 Resources (TSXV: ECU; US-OTC: EMTRF) is a Canadian explorer focused on advancing its 100%-owned Flor de Cobre and Elida copper properties in Peru.The projects are located in one of the world's premier copper-producing jurisdictions with the second-lowest costs for copper production globally and the lowest cost of exploration in South America.Flor de Cobre and Elida "are two high-qualit...Read More

Canada's Toronto Stock Exchange will launch on Tuesday a battery metals index to support the critical minerals sector and offer insights into the energy transition.The S&P/TSX Battery Metals Index will track Canadian-listed companies engaged in the production and exploration of metals used in the making of batteries that power electric cars or are used in renewable energy, including copper, nickel...Read More

Mineral exploration is at the front end of the mining industry, and the discovery of new orebodies is vital to meeting the increasing demands of a growing world population.However, finding new orebodies, particularly ones sufficiently enriched to become working mines, is hugely challenging.Even after a discovery has been made, "defining the size, grade, and continuity of the mineralization, and th...Read More

It has been 14 years since the first round of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve started.An amount of time that, in bond and stock markets, might as well be several lifetimes.In that time, the Fed has doubled down on this balance sheet trick again and again.It has dramatically broadened the scope and time frame involved. It has used its privileged status as a bank, but not a normal bank, t...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Bell Copper Corp. [BCU-TSXV; BCUFF-OTCQB] received complete assay results from drill hole BS-3 at its 100%-owned Big Sandy Project. Big Sandy is a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum target located in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 km south of the optioned Perseverance Project.Highlights include inclined drillhole BS-3 that cut 200 metres grading 0...Read More

The government numbers from April put the inflation rate at 8.5%. That's a big number and you'd have to go back to the late 1970s to find a similar jump in prices.I was a bit young to fully understand the Jimmy Carter era, but I do remember our neighbors putting in a personal underground gasoline tank, and my father blowing his top if we left a room with the lights on.I can imagine that the county...Read More

Wall St. For Main St., Released on 6/7/22During this 30+ minute interview Jason asks Marc about further Fed hikes breaking more asset classes, if the bear market is over, a long term bull market in commodities and how to play a severe food and energy crisis for years to come. Marc also talks about countries and sectors now despite enormous central bank inflation the last 2-3 years and where he sti...Read More