Equinox Gold has boosted resources at its Aurizona gold mine in northeastern California and reserves and resources at its Mesquite gold mine in California. Since the end of 2017 the company has increased its reserves 470% to 5.5 million oz. gold.The company updated Aurizona's resource with 13,635 metres of infill and step out drilling on the western end of the Piaba deposit completed since July 20...Read More

Wolfden Resources' (CVE: WLF) stock was up nearly 6% on Tuesday, after Kinross Gold (TSE: K) acquired 12.5 million shares at $0.20 a share -a $2.5 million investment - for a 9.7% stake in the junior exploration company.The two companies will form of a committee to explore Wolfden's 100%-owned Pickett Mountain volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) deposit in northeastern Maine.Wolfden describes Picke...Read More

Montreal-based Beauce Gold Fields (CVE: BGF) has told investors that it is presently conducting a high resolution mobile electromagnetic (TDEM) survey using a new Russian technology. The survey is examining the Rang St-Gustave Road in St-Simon-les-Mines, located in the Beauce region of southern Quebec.The new technology measures electrical chargeability (induced polarization) and electrical conduc...Read More

Endeavour Mining Corp. of London has poured its first dor?(C) bar from its Ity carbon-in-leach project four months earlier than planned and well under its $412 million budget. The bar contains about 1,800 oz. of gold.The CIL plant is already running at its 4 million t/y capacity following the quick ramp up. Commercial production will probably be declared early in Q2 2019.Endeavour has launched an...Read More

High-grade manganese ore producers returned to the market with higher offer prices in the week ended Friday March 15, while low grade prices held steady; In Europe, alloy prices rose on the news of load shedding in South Africa and the resultant pressure on production. 44% manganese ore price rose after producers raise offers.37% prices stable in balanced market.Indian silico-manganese prices ris...Read More

Wednesday's Federal Reserve Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting is expected to confirm market expectations that the Federal Reserve will remain on hold for the rest of the year. This decision could have significant implications on the gold market, according to analysts at the World Gold Council (WGC).Monetary policy dictates gold priceHistorically, monetary policy has been a key catalyst for cha...Read More

Some important pieces of the US economic reports, including the latest nonfarm payrolls, have disappointed recently. May indicators (including the leading ones) have hit a soft patch it seems. Will that push the Fed to downgrade its dot-plot or fine-tune the monetary policy mix anyhow? Can gold jump in reaction to the Wednesday's FOMC policy meeting?February payrolls disappointU.S. nonfarm payroll...Read More

The expectation for higher tender prices for ferro-chrome in April supported the prices for ore in China and for alloy in Japan and South Korea, Fastmarkets heard on Monday March 18. UG2 and Turkish lumpy ore prices riseDomestic alloy price climbs in ChinaAlloy prices in Europe, Japan, South Korea increaseImported alloy prices stable in US, China. Prices for chrome ore imported into China and in C...Read More

The company continues to optimize the chemical and leaching conditions for its recovery process. EnviroLeach Technologies Inc.'s (ETI:CSE; EVLLF:OTCQB) proprietary formula can extract palladium out of a multi-metal source and reduce it to an aqueous solution, it announced in a March 18, 2019 news release.Specifically, on initial testing, the company's product recovered 90% of contained palladium...Read More

One of last year's best-performing hedge funds says the "trade of the century" is to buy gold and sell stocks as risk assets are due for another meltdown.It's only a matter of time until the bearish bet pays off big, according to Crescat Capital LLC. While the Denver-based firm has only about $50 million under management, it has a history of outperforming the S&P 500 Index - with its Global Macro...Read More

Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold provides an update on a company with a past-producing gold mine in California. Rise Gold was the subject of a piece by me back in early 2017. Anyone interested in the company should read the piece. The purchase by the company of the Idaho-Maryland gold mine for $2 million was an extraordinary deal for Rise.Rise just released the most interesting results. Remember, this is...Read More

A BMO Capital Markets report discussed this gold company's 2019 production guidance and the potential impact of greater capacity. In a March 13 research note, analyst Andrew Mikitchook reported that BMO Capital Markets increased its target price on Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd. (WDO:TSX) to CA$6 per share from CA$4.75 on news of a potential throughput increase at its Eagle mine. The Outperform-rated st...Read More

Knox Henderson explains why he believes Terraco Gold, with two big catalysts coming and a royalty in a large Nevada gold deposit, should be trading at three times its current share price...at the very least. The beauty of running a private equity (PE) firm is the "private" component. So, in late 2015 when a subsidiary of PE firm Waterton acquires the 5.1-million-ounce Spring Valley gold deposit...Read More

Matt Gili, CEO of Nevada Copper, talks with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable about his company's progress toward beginning copper production by the end of the year. Pumpkin HollowMaurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Matt Gili, president, CEO and director of Nevada Copper Corp. (NCU:TSX), which is on target to U.S. copper production by Q4 2019. Nevada Copper has a number of succ...Read More

The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Venezuela's Minerven state gold mining company which it says illicitly props up the regime of President Nicolas Maduro.Minerven, whose full name is Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, and its president, Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata, are now designated under the Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, the Treasury Department said. The com...Read More

* Sentiment reading rises far more than expected * Possible Brexit delay, progress on U.S.-Sino trade talkshelp * But ZEW still sees weak German growth in H1 * Germany narrowly avoided recession in late 2018 (Adds background)BERLIN, March 19 (Reuters) - The mood among German investorsimproved by much more than expected in March, a survey by theZEW research institute showed on Tuesday, as a potenti...Read More

Ecuador has tethered its economic fortunes to a burgeoning mining industry. Now it just needs to get bureaucrats and community leaders on board.Local opposition and red tape are hindering plans to become a mining superpower that can rival other South American nations. Less than two years ago the government hoped mining would become 4 percent of Ecuador's gross domestic product by the end of Presid...Read More

One of the first things to become apparent as I began reading about the deadly crash of Ethiopian Airlines' Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane on March 10th, was the fact that nobody seemed to trust U.S. authorities.Continue...Read More

Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON: ANTO) expects the anticipated global copper deficit to hit between 100,000 and 300,000 tonnes this year as consumption growth remains positive, but production increases are minimal.Releasing the company's annual results, chief executive Iv??n Arriagada also revealed that the first phase of a planned expansion at its flagship Los Pelambres copper mine had been a...Read More

A report published by Deloitte Access Economics reveals that Australian mining companies paid A$30.6 billion in company tax and royalties in 2017-18 - the equivalent of all Federal Government spending on Australian schools, universities and vocational training.According to the report, the dollar amount paid in company taxes over the past couple of years surpasses that of 2011-12, which was the pea...Read More