Shares of Nighthawk Gold (TSX: NHK) soared 21% to 44 ? in mid-morning trading following news of drill results at the junior's Colomac project in the Northwest Territories. The company has a C$76.5 million market capitalization.The first assay results from its 2019 drill program returned 56 metres of 13.49 grams gold per tonne, including 31 metres of 22.12 grams gold from 238 metres downhole in C19...Read More
Bonterra Resources, based in Val d'Or, Quebec, has released a new resource estimate for its three projects - Gladiator, Barry and Moroy - in the Urban Barry camp about 200 km northeast of Val d'Or.For all the deposits, the indicated resource is 3.2 million tonnes averaging 6.33 g/t gold and containing 643,000 oz. of gold. The inferred resource is 6.2 million tonnes averaging 7.04 g/t and containin...Read More
Toronto-based Alamos Gold has received the amended permit for expansion of the Island Gold mine to 1,200 t/d from the provincial Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks. The mine is located about 83 km northeast of Wawa, Ontario, Canada.Alamos said the permit was received ahead of schedule. Underground mining rates are to reach 1,200 t/d in 2020, and the company is seeking ways to reac...Read More
Montreal-based Sirios Resources is enjoying bonanza gold grades from drilling at its Cheechoo property in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region.Vein 112 yielded the highest grade in hole CH19-240: 25.5 g/t gold over 6.8 metres, including 187.0 g/t over 0.8 metre. Hole CH19-245 returned 18.9 g/t over 1.0 metres.Again hole CH19-245 in the Jordi zone returned 106.0 g/t gold over 1.3 metre. When CH19-240...Read More
Osisko Mining Inc. (OSK:TSX) has announced the discovery of a new gold-bearing zone at its Windfall Lake project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt of James Bay, Qu?(C)bec. The new zone is about 350 metres north of the main zone.Four of the nine holes drilled at the new discovery contained visible gold. Notable drill results include 393 g/t gold over 2.2 metres, 31 g/t gold over 6.1 metres and...Read More
Morocco's leading mining firm Managem said on Tuesday it had retrieved the gold cargo that was seized by Sudanese authorities earlier this month.Sudanese Rapid Support Forces seized 241 kg of gold from a plane that landed in Khartoum on May 8 in an investigation into possible smuggling.The cargo is part of a regular deliveries and the company has completed all the administrative formalities in acc...Read More
Tanzania will no longer allow Acacia Mining Plc to manage its mines in the country and will only work with the company's parent, Barrick Gold Corp., to resolve the two-year impasse that has stymied operations, a government spokesman said."We will no longer work with Acacia," Hassan Abbasi said Tuesday by phone. "Under no circumstances can Acacia be a party to the agreements, or have any role in th...Read More
Shareholders of both precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) and struggling rival Lonmin (LON:LMI) approved on Tuesday the planned merger of the companies, effectively creating the world's largest platinum producer and the second-biggest palladium miner.Sibanye-Stillwater said that 87% of its shareholders backed the all-share offer, which it revised down in April, valuing t...Read More
Canada's Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD), the world's second largest producer of the precious metal, said it was considering a $1 billion expansion of its Pueblo Viejo mine in the Dominican Republic in a 60-40 joint venture with Newmont Goldcorp (NYSE: NEM)(TSX: NGT).Having recommitted Barrick to its Latin American portfolio earlier this year, president and CEO Mark Bristow said the company...Read More
Revenues at Ukrainian steelmaker Metinvest were down in January-March 2019 mainly due to lower sales prices in the metallurgical sector, the company said on Friday May 24.In the first quarter of 2019, Metinvest's consolidated revenues decreased by 5% year-on-year to $2.86 billion, primarily due to the sales prices of steel products and pig iron being on a global downtrend, and to lower resale volu...Read More
The UK's Insolvency Service has made contact "with more than 80 potential trade purchasers" interested in buying troubled UK long steel producer British Steel, it said on Tuesday May 28.Sixty of the potential bidders have been sent non-disclosure agreements, with official expressions of interest due by early June, the UK's Official Receiver, part of the UK's Insolvency Service, said.British Steel...Read More
China Communications Construction Co (CCCC) plans to build a steel rolling mill by 2023 in Marab??, a city in the Brazilian northern state of Par??, through its local subsidiary Concremat, the company said on Thursday May 23.Iron ore producer Vale will be involved as well, ensuring collateral for the project funding, the miner stated. The unit will need around 1.5 billion Reais ($371 million) in c...Read More
Manganese ore prices have been sliding for seven consecutive weeks and fell to 18-month lows over the past week amid buyer caution in China. 37% and 44% ore hit lowest levels since late 2017Alloy prices flatline across Asia and EuropeFurther price cuts predicted in ores and alloysUS alloy markets dormant Manganese ore prices continued their seven-week slide on Friday May 24 amid increasingly caut...Read More
By: PlungerIn this report we will look at the state of the stock market and update the condition of a potential bottom in the gold space.Sell in May and Go AwayYou have all heard this Wall Street ditty before and it is now upon us at this moment. Despite this old market rule being an established truism, few actually use it to make money. Instead the daily market action draws investors back i...Read More
Gold will break free from $1270-$1298 range and form a new range anytime soon. Silver needs to trade over $1419 to be in long term bullish zone. Crude oil needs to trade over $57.00 to rise to $63.00 this week. Apprehensions that an all out global trade war will reduce demand for crude oil has resulted in the fall. Crude oil is just a speculative play. Supply pressures from Venezuela, Iran and L...Read More
Trump said the U.S. is "not ready" for a deal with ChinaAll three stock market indexes ended the day lower, erasing early gains amid re-emerging concerns about a lengthy U.S.-China trade spat. Despite recently speculating that the trade war could come to a swift conclusion, President Donald Trump over the weekend said the U.S. is "not ready" to make a trade deal, and hinted at even more tariff hik...Read More
Export prices for hot-rolled coil (HRC) and cold-rolled coil (CRC) from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) went up in the week ended Tuesday May 28 on improved market sentiment.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for CIS-origin exports of HRC was $470-490 per tonne fob Black Sea on May 28. This was up by $10 per tonne week on week."Despite talk about low demand in Turkey, the domestic a...Read More
Soliton's tattoo removal device got the FDA green lightBlue chip Visa (V) is outperforming on the Dow today, while investors continue to digest President Donald Trump's trade comments. Three other stocks making moves this afternoon are Texas-based Soliton Inc (NASDAQ:SOLY), commodity name United States Steel Corporation (NYSE:X), and streaming concern Roku Inc (NASDAQ:ROKU). Below, we will dive in...Read More
UBER and ZNGA are also seeing unusual options trading todayAs we highlighted in our Midday Market Check newsletter, semiconductor stock Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD) is surging today, last seen up 12.1% at $29.63, as investors react bullishly to the company's new line of Ryzen CPUs. Call volume is running in the 96th annual percentile thanks to heavy attention for the weekly 5/31 serie...Read More
The best part? It's risk-free. In an explosive report a former Lehman Brothers executive reveals one of Wall Street's most closely guarded investing secrets.The secret?A proven system for turning small sums of cash into vast windfalls of profits-without risking a penny in the stock market.Essentially, this system uses the latest advances in computer science and financial technology to give inve...Read More