Japanese powerhouse Mitsubishi Materials Corporation (MMC) has acquired a 30% stake in Mantos Copper's Mantoverde mine and associated projects in Chile for US$263 million.MMC has been seeking to participate in high-quality copper projects to secure concentrate for its copper smelters, as demand for the industrial metal is expected to soar in the coming years because of its use in electric vehicles...Read More
Since B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE: BTG) launched BeMetals (TSXV: BMET) two years ago as a base-metals-focused junior, the company has picked up a development-stage zinc-silver project in southwestern Idaho called South Mountain.Originally floated in early 2018 on the early-stage Pangeni copper project in Zambia, BeMetals wanted to add more advanced-stage base metal projects to its portfolio and in earl...Read More
Banro (TSX: BAA) will put its Namoya gold mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) up for sale at a significant discount after repeated attacks from armed rebels forced it to halt operations once again in September.The Toronto-based miner, present in eastern DRC since the 1990s, said the decision to offload Namoya was based on the lack of government support to keep its staff and assets safe....Read More
The copper price continued to recover on Thursday as investors bet on a quick bounce in economic activity in China once the viral outbreak is brought under control.After bottoming on Monday below US$2.50 per lb., the lowest since May 2017, copper rebounded by more than 5% to trade as high as US$2.62 per lb. (US$5,780 a tonne) in New York on Thursday.In a note, Capital Economics says the gains may...Read More
Canada's government should fund initiatives like a proposed C$1.6 billion (...Read full newsRead More
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Price-killing gold sales by the Bank of England 20 years ago have created an opportunity for the redevelopment of the Misima gold mine in Papua New GuineaRead full newsRead More
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb.07, 2020(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Rubicon Organics Inc. (CSE:ROMJ) (OTCQX:ROMJF) ("Rubicon Organics" or the "Company") is...Read full newsRead More
Hi there, Fools. I’m back to highlight three stocks under $10. While low-priced stocks carry plenty of risks, they can be a source of ideas when looking forsmall, obscure, and underfollowed companies;dirt-cheap bargains; orintriguing turnaround situations.If you have big dreams of turning an average $27K TFSA into $1,000,000 in 20 years, you’ll need explosive returns to do it. So, if y...Read More
Earlier this week, I sent you an interview with Revival Gold (TSX-V: RVG)(OTC: RVLGF) CEO Hugh Agro.The interview was about a resource update that would soon take the company to nearly three million ounces of gold in the safe mining jurisdiction of Idaho. As it happens, that resource update came out later that day. Here's what shares have done since:They've gone up more than 35% in three days to...Read More
Gold has been on a tear, adding over $300 per ounce over the last eight months, or nearly 22%. It's now sitting at levels it hasn't seen in nearly seven years.The question is, how much further can we expect it to run?We have seen spikes from the recent Iran drama, and a bit from the coronavirus scare as well. Headlines will always drive short increases, but fundamentals will carry the long-term tr...Read More
The aluminium billet premium in Germany has risen for the first time in more than a year, with participants starting to see more bullish sentiment for the second quarter of 2020.Higher P1020 premiums, a slightly less bearish macroeconomic outlook in Europe and higher consumer demand helped boost the premium."The demand is good. There are consumers that didn't buy a single tonne in the last quarter...Read More
Robert WutscherThe Unseasoned EconomistPosted Feb 9, 2020Why the rich get richer and the poor poorer and on the nature of moneyTo question the validity of maintaining consumer prices is like questioning the fact that the Earth is the center of the Universe at a time when this was also believed to be true.Central Bankers believe stable consumer price inflation to be the center of gravity around whi...Read More
In 1964, Bob Dylan wrote "The Times They Are a-Changin'" as a political protest song. And (in my totally unbiased opinion) it remains as one of the greatest songs of all time.Although Dylan meant the song to address the political changes of his time, the lyrics can also be easily applied to consider the technological changes of ours. Like politics, technology very often forces us to adapt or be le...Read More
This week on INK Ultra Money Free we released two video report summaries featuring stocks which take an alternative approach to making money from energy. In Making money in the oil patch darkness INK looks at recent insider buying at Alimentation Couche-Tard (ATD.B).The bright side of oil's slideWhen we highlighted the stock in our February 4th report, it had just pulled back from an all-time hig...Read More
INK Research has updated the INK Canadian Insider Index methodology to change the rebalancing frequency from semi-annual to quarterly. The change is being made to in order to measure insider reactions to changes in economic and geo-political events more quickly.In a sense, the election of Donald Trump marked a turning point for markets. While the global financial crisis may well have been the eve...Read More
The new numbers and potential for further growth are discussed in an Echelon Wealth Partners report. In a Feb. 3 research note, Echelon Wealth Partners analyst Gabriel Gonzalez reported that Revival Gold Inc.'s (RVG:TSX.V) updated mineral resource estimate for Beartrack-Arnett Creek hit its target of 3 million ounces of gold (3 Moz), up from 2 Moz, and further upside remains."We believe that Revi...Read More
Outokumpu chief executive officer and president Roeland Baan will step down in May, the Finnish stainless steelmaker said on Friday February 7.He will continue in his role as the company's ceo until May 15, 2020. His successor has not yet been named by the company.Baan joined Outokumpu in January 2016....Read More
Market participants in the Philippines do not expect the domestic long steel market to face shortages, despite the country's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) suspending six steelmakers' Philippine Standard (PS) licenses.Products from the six mills failed to meet the requirements listed in the Philippine National Standard (PNS) 49, Series of 2002, during a test the DTI's Bureau of Philippine...Read More