Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Japan Gold (TSX-V: JG) have kicked off geophysical-gravity surveys in the Asian country's Hokusatsu Region, as part of a joint effort to uncover the nation's gold mining potential.Under a venture formed in February, known as Barrick Alliance, the companies have completed bulk leach extractable gold (BLEG) and rock chip sampling over eight of the 14 targets l...Read More

ScoZinc Mining (TSXV: SZM) has released the results of a preliminary feasibility study (PFS) on its wholly owned and permitted Scotia mine project, 62 km northeast of Halifax. The study outlines a 2,700-tonne-per-day open-pit operation, producing zinc and lead concentrates over a 14-year mine life.The proposed operation would produce an average of 35 million lb. zinc and 15 million lb. lead over f...Read More

Imperial Mining Group is developing a potential new and reliable source of scandium that could disrupt current markets and expand the industrial uptake of this remarkable metalScandium is classed as a transition metal and rare earth element (REE) and readily alloys with aluminium to produce an alloy that is as strong as steel and titanium but weighs around one-third of steel and is about 40% light...Read More

GoviEx Uranium (TSX-V: GXU) says it will appeal Zambia's decision to terminate its Chirundu mining license.The company acquired the permit in 2017 from African Energy Resources, and it includes the Njame and Gwabe deposits. Both assets, GoviEx said, were subsequently included in the preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for the company's Mutanga uranium project.Due to the smaller scale and higher...Read More

Battle North Gold (TSX: BNAU; US-OTC: BNAUF), previously Rubicon Minerals, has released an updated resource estimate for its flagship Bateman gold project, formerly known as Phoenix, which grows the measured and indicated tonnes by 18% with no major changes in grade.The latest estimate features 4.6 million tonnes in the measured and indicated category, grading 6.63 grams gold per tonne, for a tota...Read More

MINING.COM's ranking of the world's 50 largest mining companies based on market value shows an industry clawing back most of the Covid-19 related losses by the end of the second quarter.The top 50 most valuable mining companies added $249.5 billion in market capitalization over the three months to end June, thanks to surging gold and silver prices, iron ore prices in triple digits, and a late reco...Read More

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A rapid-fire succession of setbacks for big energy pipelines in the United States this week has revealed an uncomfortable truth for the oil and gas industry: environmental activists and landowners opposed to projects have become good at blocking them in court.Read full newsRead More

U.S. electricity consumption will collapse by a record 4.3% in 2020 due to business closures for coronavirus-linked lockdowns, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO).Read full newsRead More

Global supply of fuel oil, used by ships and power plants, is expected to grow in the third quarter, depressing the marine fuel market as shipping demand remains weak, analysts and trade sources said.Read full newsRead More

First Mining is beginning to make waves on international equity marketsRead full newsRead More

History repeats itself with staggering similarity. The Crises of the 3rd Century and today have much in common. All empires have the seeds of their own destruction within them. So if we look back a...Read full newsRead More

Senior Technical Analyst Jim Wyckoff prepares investors with an overview of how the markets opened and closed. What moved metal prices? How do the technicals look? By looking at important developmentsRead full newsRead More

Exclusive to Kitco News, technical analyst Gary Wagner provides a daily recap of what happened in the gold market, highlighting important events that captured investors' attention during the U.S. trading session. Wagner's commentary features a mix of fundamental news and technical analysis, noting important support and resistance levels.Read full newsRead More

Back in the early spring, investors were reeling from one of the fastest retreats into bear market territory in modern history. At the time, I’d suggested that Canadians should look to stock up on precious metals stocks. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to economic devastation worldwide, prompting many investors to run to safe havens.However, the bullish conditions for gold and silver were appa...Read More

Treaty Creek project. (Image courtesy of Tudor Gold).Tudor Gold has reported its best intercept yet from drilling at its Treaty Creek project in B.C.'s Golden Triangle - a 973-metre interval grading 0.85 g/t gold-equivalent (or 0.775 g/t gold, 3 g/t silver and 0.02% copper).The intercept, starting at 34.5 metres depth in hole GS-20-57, included a shorter 217.5-metre section grading 1.4 g/t gold-...Read More

Stock image. Royal Helium (TSXV: RHC) closed on Thursday its oversubscribed private placement first announced in June. Royal raised proceeds of C$1 million through the issuance of 20,000,000 units at a price of $0.05 per unit.Each unit consists of one common share in the capital of the company and one common share purchase warrant. Each warrant entitles the holder to acquire one common share at a...Read More

I'll be the first to admit when I'm wrong. (Sometimes the second, if you ask my wife...)But, I must say that I've been very wrong about Donald Trump and cannabis.When he ran for the presidency, I thought it would be a boon for marijuana stocks. I naively assumed that the Donald only cared about the green: money. I thought that he was politically agnostic when it came to making billions of dollars....Read More