In less than a year, pot stocks went from the "Belle of the Ball" to a "Pig with Lipstick".That is to say that it's been a rough go for us cannabis investors. Last year was a forest fire. But, it was crucial to recalibrate a runaway industry. I believe the best is yet to come...If you've been paying attention, you've seen this play out in real-time.Speaking of pigs and troughs, let's take a look a...Read More

Kilgore gold project Credit: Otis Gold Producer Excellon Resources (TSE: EXN) has announced plans to acquire developer Otis Gold in an all-share deal worth an estimated $32.3 million, based on recent closing stock prices.Excellon's main producing asset is the high-grade underground silver-lead-zinc mine in Mexico whereas Otis holds the Kilgore gold project in Idaho. Based on a share exchange...Read More

Metso Vertimill (Credit: Metso) Gold and silver producer PT Agincourt Resources (PTAR) has selected Metso's energy efficient grinding technology for its Martabe open pit mine on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The Metso Vertimill VTM-4500 stirred mill is the largest of its kind to be installed in the country."PTAR worked with Orway Minerals on the circuit concept and with Ausenco on the pro...Read More

Premier Gold Mines' Mercedes mine in Mexico, its silver stream is currently held by Orion Credit: Premier Gold Mines Newly launched royalty company Nomad has entered into purchase agreements worth $268 million with Orion Resource Partners and $65 million with Yamana Gold (TSE: YRI) to acquire portfolios of royalty, stream and gold loan assets."Together with our partners, Orion and Yamana,...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday February 24 that are worth another look.Chinese rebar remained the most competitively priced of imports of the long steel product in Singapore over the past week, edging out Turkish products.The discount for copper scrap imported into China has fallen in February on a lower commodity price and a negative arbitrage, with the impact o...Read More

A black swan event is one that is an unforeseeable surprise of large magnitude and consequences. Already, the coronavirus disease outbreak qualifies as a black swan event, asserts Patrick Heller, editor, Liberty's Outlook, a monthly newsletter published by Liberty Coin Service.The term "black swan" traces its lineage all the way back to 2nd Roman poet Juvenal. It became popular in financial circle...Read More

The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange fell by more than 2% at the close of trading on Monday February 24, with downward moves taking it to its its lowest close since July 2016, while broad risk-off sentiment across the base-metals complex saw copper lose 1.2% of its outright price.Zinc's underlying price on the LME closed at $2,046 per tonne on Monday afternoon, falling from an i...Read More

The discount for copper scrap imported into China has fallen in February on a lower commodity price and a negative arbitrage, with the impact of virus-led delivery delays on the overseas scrap price being minimal in the Chinese market.Fastmarkets assessed the monthly discount of No 2 94-96% copper scrap, birch or cliff, at 31-34 cents per lb cif China on February 24, down from 33-37 cents per lb i...Read More

The following article was published in 2015 on this site.....note that the cycle performed as a cycle had forecast (and we hoped). It certainly was deadly accurate wasn't it? That cycle never said just to "load up" and "watch the gold stocks rocket up" to everyone's benefit and fortune. Rather it was a sign to carefully accumulate metals stocks that were well researched and to "dollar cost average...Read More

The price of UG2 chrome ore dropped in the week to Friday February 21 due to lower bids from alloy smelters after China's major stainless steel mills kept their February tender prices flat month on month. China's Tsingshan Group and Taiyuan Iron and Steel (Tisco) held their ferro-chrome tender prices for February delivery unchanged from January. The latest tender prices came as a shock to the mark...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") announced today its board of directors has elected Thomas J. Linden to the board, replacing Markus Westerholz effective immediately. Mr. Westerholz continues in his role as Chief Technology Officer for Venzee.For more than two decades, Mr. Linden held senior posts at Deloitte & Touche LLP, a "Big Four" accountin...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost more than 1,000 points as it closed down 3.6% yesterday while the S&P 500 fell 3.35%.The FTSE100 lost a similar amount in London, down 3.34%, the S&P/TSX Composite Index lost 1.6% and Australia's S&P/ASX200 fell 2.3%."For the moment, we are not witnessing the uncontained global spread of this coronavirus, and we are not witnessing large-scale sever...Read More

The iron ore price (62% Fe CFR China) stood at US$86.42 on Monday morning, up 10.3% from its low of US$78.33 on February 3.RBC said steel inventories were now 42% higher than they had been historically at this time of year."With blast furnaces unable to effectively curtail production, and with what appears to be a slower restart to economic activity than we perhaps thought a couple of weeks ago, t...Read More

Hinda Gharbi and Jennifer Nason will join the board from March 1, while Ngaire Woods CBE will join on September 1.Gharbi, who has dual Australian-Tunisian nationality, is executive vice president of reservoir and infrastructure at Schlumberger.Adelaide-born Nason is a global chair at JP Morgan, based in New York.Dual New Zealand and British citizen Woods, a professor of global economic governance...Read More

By: Gary SavageGeneral market updates on today's big down-move. This video update includes: $ES, $AAPL, $COMPRead More

"Explosive growth of shadow banking was about the invisible hand having a party, a non-regulated drinking party, with rating agencies handing out fake IDs." Paul McCulley, economist, bond investor, PIMCO; coined "shadow banking" in 2007, The New York Times 4/6/2010; b. 1957 "If you are ready to give up everything else to study the whole history of the market as carefully as a medical student st...Read More

Clive MaundIf you are wondering why gold is starting to accelerate away to the upside, you need look no farther than the following amazing chart forwarded to me by reader Larry Fike, which Larry has kindly given me permission to reproduce in this update...Click on chart to popup a larger, clearer version.Chart courtesy of Larry FikeThe chart speaks for itself and requires little additional comme...Read More

Now that we are hearing stories about the viral threat of superspreaders, of deepening economic paralysis around the world, and how it could take 18 months to produce a vaccine, investors' show of bravado in recent weeks seems to have melted away. Shares got hit across-the-board on Thursday and Friday, and if investors know what's good for them they'll pound the bejeezus out of them this week. A...Read More

Gold April reached a high of $1684.10 early morning (at New Zealand open). Silver march reached at high of $1879.50. Copper march fell to a low of $256.50. Crude oil fell to a low of $51.66. Early morning high (just after New Zealand open) can be fake or just stop loss hitting price moves. No doubt the trend for gold and silver is bullish. BUT still they have to break and trade over early mornin...Read More

Key data from the pricing session in Europe and Asia for the week ended Friday February 21. Europe Key driversPrices for silicon grades 4-4-1 and 5-5-3 jumped again in Europe due to a lack of prompt shipments exacerbating already tight supply.The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak has caused disruptions to the flow of material from China.A number of European buyers reported difficulty...Read More