Vancouver-based Blue Sky Uranium Corp. has announced positive results from the preliminary economic assessment of its Ivana uranium-vanadium deposit. The deposit is part of the company's Amarillo Grande project in the Rio Negro Province.The PEA calls for an open pit mine that will produce both uranium and vanadium for 13 years. The pre-production capex will be $128.1 million including $28.3 milli...Read More

Exyn Technologies and Dundee Precious Metals (TSX:DPM) announced this week that they have joined forces to automate the latter's underground gold mining operations.The first step to achieving such a goal was that Exyn's Autonomy Aerial Robots or A3Rs were made commercially available, a development that took place in the past days.According to the tech company, A3Rs comprise a fully autonomous aeri...Read More

Global oil and gas companies are increasingly facing an uphill battle as global warming policies are taking their toll. Most analysts and market watchers are focusing on peak oil demand scenarios, but the reality could be much darker. International oil companies (IOCs) are likely to face a Black Swan scenario, which could end up being a boon for state-owned oil companies (NOCs).Increased sharehold...Read More

Toronto-based Mountain Province Diamonds has begun the winter exploration program at its 100% owned Kennady North project. The property is adjacent to the Gahcho Kue diamond mine, a joint venture of De Beers Canada (51%) and Mountain Province (49%).The winter program at Kennady North will focus on drilling several combined indicator and geophysical targets located west and southwest of the Hearne...Read More

Mining giant Rio Tinto's (ASX, LON:RIO) relentless search for a major copper deposit may have finally paid off as it announced it had made a promising find at its Winu prospect in Western Australia."It is early days and we have more work to do, but the initial results from drilling are pretty encouraging," Chief Executive Jean-S?(C)bastien Jacques said on Wednesday, after Rio posted its highest an...Read More

South Africa's state-owned power utility refused to renegotiate a coal deal with a mine owned by Glencore Plc's local unit and tried to penalize it for supplying sub-standard fuel, resulting in the operation being placed in bankruptcy protection and being sold, a former head of the business said."It was a stonewall negotiation. It wasn't a discussion, it was a position."The Optimum coal mine suppl...Read More

* Emergency teams looking for 37 buried by disaster* Spades, ropes used to search muddy hillside for survivors* At least 4 killed, 19 rescued - disaster agency and media* Illegal mine situated in North Sulawesi province* Such mines banned by Jakarta, are prone to mishapsIndonesian authorities on Wednesday ramped up efforts to find 37 people feared buried by the collapse of an illegal gold mine on...Read More

QMC Quantum Minerals (TSXV: QMC; US-OTC: QMCQF) has visually identified spodumene in the first diamond holes it has drilled into its Irgon lithium project in the Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare-element pegmatite field in southeast Manitoba.The company is currently amid phase one of a two phase drill program at Irgon, designed to confirm and expand the project's historical resource that Lithium Corpor...Read More

Queensland Rail had stowed a train carrying copper, lead and zinc concentrate from Glencore's operations in the Australian state on 31 January as a precautionary measure.That was not sufficient to protect the 80-wagon Mount Isa train after historic rainfall of as much as 1.16 meters by February 7 near Townsville, where Glencore's copper refinery servicing its Mount Isa Mines is located.According t...Read More

Mining three satellite deposits that outcrop within one to three kilometres of the Madsen mill at its Madsen project in Red Lake, Ontario, would add roughly $51 million in after-tax net present value to the Madsen project, Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) reports.A preliminary economic assessment released today of the three satellite deposits-Fork, Russet South and Wedge-was based on their combined re...Read More

TerraX Minerals (TSXV: TXR) announced that the Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board in Yellowknife, Canada, issued a Land Use Permit that approves the company's exploration plan on all the land holdings of its Yellowknife City Gold property.The new permit, effective until January 2024 and extendible to 2026, replaces two previous ones that covered a smaller area. It also provides for water usage...Read More

Back in 2013 I recall having a bearish view on the stock market due to extremely bullish sentiment readings. The market completely ignored that, made a major breakout through 13 year resistance and continued running for years.Lesson learned.Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold along with its net speculative positi...Read More

Silver has rallied significantly since hitting a multi-year low in late 2018 to be trading at over US$15.60. This — along with some analysts claiming that the white metal could rise to as high as US$17 an ounce during 2019 — has sparked considerable interest in silver miners. One that surged substantially because of these and other positive developments is First Majestic Silver (TSX:FR...Read More

Stocks that are trading at or around 52-week highs present investors with a special choice.If they are already shareholders, do they lighten up a bit on their position and take some profits, or do they do nothing?If they do not own the stock, then they have to decide if they've missed the boat or if there is big upside still.In this article, I will discuss two stocks that are trading at or around...Read More

Economic news and data points have been anything but clear in the last few months, with the U.S. Fed chair signaling that we should expect rising rates back in 2018 to a more cautious and hawkish tone these days. This has sent the markets on a volatile ride between fear and exuberance.Throughout this, gold stocks have held up nicely. And I still think they are a good place to be in this environmen...Read More

Jaxon Mining of Vancouver has discovered high grade antimony-silver mineralization on its flagship Red Springs (Hazelton) property in the northwest region of the province.Assays from the 2018 surface sampling and geological mapping program contained up to 5% antimony, 302 g/t silver, 2.94% zinc and 1.70% lead. These samples came from an area of more than 500 metres long and 200 metres wide.Jaxon i...Read More

The EV (electric vehicle) boom is coming, but are you invested? Below you will find two of the best Canadian stocks (and two American ones for comparison) to give domestic investors both an indirect and a direct route to EV exposure. Let's take their market fundamentals for a test drive and decide which stocks should be parked in a portfolio and which should be left on the forecourt.Lithium Americ...Read More

Feb 28, 2019 Guest(s): Lon Shaver Vice President, Silvercorp Metals Silvercorp Metals, one of the largest primary silver producers in China, has found a successful strategy in mining for lead, silver, and zinc concentrates, which would then be shipped to a domestic smelter for processing. On demand for silver, most of the consumption is still from industry, said Lon Shaver, vice president of Sil...Read More

Vancouver-based ATAC Resources has laid out the first phase of its 2019 exploration program at the Rau project. Rau is located at the western end of the company's Rackla property 55 km northeast of Keno City.Exploration will follow-up on high grade gold, copper and silver results from last year with ground geophysical surveys, prospecting, mapping, soil sampling, and drilling at priority targets."...Read More

Gold mining companies have broadly outperformed stock markets since the beginning of the fourth quarter last year, as the price of gold bullion has now climbed above the $1,300 per ounce threshold.Shares of companies like Goldcorp, Barrick, Yamana, and the perhaps even lesser-known Kirkland Lake Gold have helped to lead the way, with shares in each of those gold producers posting gains at least in...Read More