With share prices falling in some of the best mining stocks on the TSX index, capital gains investors have some bargains to choose from at the moment. But what kinds of growth rates in terms of annual earnings can would-be investors expect from discounted mining stocks such as these? With gold and silver potentially set to have a good 2019, value opportunities abound for traders looking for upside...Read More

Mar 01, 2019 Guest(s): Christian Milau CEO & Director, Equinox Gold While many gold investors would be happy to see a euphoric rally in gold similar to the 2011 scenario, Christian Milau, CEO of Equinox Gold, would prefer to see a steady rise in gold prices. "A gradual increase is nice. If [gold] goes up significantly overnight, say $100, everyone wakes up and goes gold's alive again and is exci...Read More

Sherritt International's (TSX: S) stock was up Friday, after announcing the company had reached three billion pounds of finished nickel production since operations began at its refinery in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta.The Fort Saskatchewan refinery was constructed in 1954 and initially processed feed from Sherritt's Lynn Lake mine in Manitoba. Today, the Fort Saskatchewan refinery processes mixed su...Read More

Canada's Portofino Resources (TSXV: POR) (FSE: POT) executed an amended agreement this week with a private Argentine concession to acquire a 100% interest in the Yergo lithium project in the northwestern Catamarca province.The red dots indicate Portofino's lithium projects in Argentina.In a press release, Portofino said the 2,932-hectare project encompasses a full salar and is located approximatel...Read More

Canada's ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) signed a non-binding letter of intent this week with Orano Canada, a subsidiary of France's Orano Group.The letter refers to the possible acquisition by ALX of a 51% participating interest in the Close Lake uranium project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan. This is the same province that hosts the Hook-Carter project, where the Van...Read More

Mar 01, 2019 Guest(s): John Doody The current gold bull market began in August, 2018, and all signs point to even higher prices, said John Doody, founder and editor in chief of the Gold Stock Analyst. "I don't see the storm clouds on the horizon. The thing that could kill gold is the Fed, and even though the Fed was raising interest rates at the end of 2018, gold was still up and it finished hi...Read More

European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they'll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear energy thought to be worth trillions of dollars.The goal is to place a lander on the lunar surface to mine and process regolith for water, oxygen, metals and an isotope called helium-3, which may prove useful for fueling future...Read More

Boss Resources Limited (ASX:BOE) has completed the first phase of an optimisation test work program, which forms part of the company's restart strategy for the Honeymoon Uranium Project in South Australia.Results from the test work will be included in a definitive feasibility study examining the Honeymoon restart, which is due for completion in the third quarter of 2019.These results highlight&nbs...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average traded closed higher on Friday ending a three-day losing streak.Tesla (TSLA) launched its long-delayed $35,000 Model 3 but shares fell 7.8% after CEO Elon Musk said the company probably won't be profitable in the first quarter.Ebay Inc. (EBAY)  will launch a strategic review of its business,...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed at the close of trading on Friday March 1, with a continued trend of record-low inventories failing to spur persistent price rallies amid broad strength in the US dollar index. Both copper and nickel futures remain well supported, while volumes were moderate over the afternoon, with copper leading the complex at 19,890 lots changing hands...Read More

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Think gold will be a good inflation hedge in coming months? Think again. Consider: If gold GCJ9, -1.64% were a good inflation hedge, its inflation-adjusted price would be constant. Yet, while U.S. inflation (as judged by the Consumer Price Index) has declined in each month since last October, gold has risen nearly 12%. In the process, the gold-to-CPI ratio has risen markedly, from below 4.8 to ne...Read More

(Reuters) - Venezuela's most successful financial operations in recent years have not taken place on Wall Street, but in primitive gold-mining camps in the nation's southern reaches.With the country's economy in meltdown, an estimated 300,000 fortune hunters have descended on this mineral-rich jungle area to earn a living pulling gold- flecked earth from makeshift mines.Their picks and shovels are...Read More

Miners in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are starting to look at blockchain as a way to provide supply chain traceability in compliance with customer and regulatory requirements, according to the chief operating officer of Cobalt Blockchain (COBC).Lance Hooper said the Canadian resource company, which has an exploration and development business including assets in the DRC, is extending its...Read More

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Elon Musk a has long track record of being long on promises and short on deliveries - literally and figuratively. His motive, as has been self-professed repeatedly on Twitter, is to torment short-sellers by driving the stock higher with fraudulent tweets. But underlying Musk's garish bravado and overtly fraudulent financial reports is a business operation that, by all indications, is slowly...Read More

Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ending Friday March 1. China The domestic ferro-chrome spot price rose to 6,850-7,100 yuan per tonne from 6,750-6,950 yuan per tonne a week before after domestic suppliers lifted their prices following Tsingshan's announcement that it had raised its tender price by 100 yuan per tonne on February 25. The news broa...Read More

By various gauges ofvalue, the gold and gold mining sector is the most undervalued of all theinvestment sectors; that should change shortly. if we judge by the lack ofresearch coverage of gold companies we might conclude that there is littleinterest, but don't be fooled. Our analysis suggests that we are seeing one of the best opportunities ever...Read More

Adam HamiltonArchivesMar 01, 2019 The gold miners' stocks have been climbing higher on balance, enjoying a solid upleg that is gathering steam. That's fueling improving sentiment, driving more interest in this small contrarian sector. This gold-stock upleg is likely to grow in coming months, partially because of very-favorable spring seasonals. The gold stocks' second-strongest seasonal rally of t...Read More

Spot copper concentrates treatment and refining charges (TCs/RCs) firmed in the latter half of February after Chinese smelters returned to the market for March and April cargoes. Fastmarkets calculated the copper concentrates TC/RC index at $74.3 per tonne/ 7.43 cents per lb as of February 28, up marginally from $74.20 per tonne/ 7.42 cents per lb for the first two weeks of February. TCs...Read More