Rockfire Resources (LSE: ROCK) chief executive David Price has hailed a set of " extremely positive " results from its drilling in north Queensland, Austra...Read full newsRead More

"Salt Lake Potash (#SO4) bounces after signing binding term-sheet with Mitsui & Co. for the sale of premium water soluble Sulphate of Potash from its Lake Way Project in Wiluna, Western Australiahttps://t.co/LW3ebRxBfR"Read full newsRead More

Tracking insider activity is viewed by many as a means to measure management confidence in the company. According to David LePoidevin, senior vice-president and portfolio manager at Canaccord Genuity, “insider activity is maybe one of the best indicators of buying and selling.”The premise is quite simple. When insiders are buying the stock it is viewed as a bullish sign. On the flip si...Read More

David Pathe, CEO, Sherritt International. Image from Sherritt. Sherritt International (TSX:S) announced Wednesday a proposed transaction designed to improve capital structure and reduce the beleaguered Canadian nickel miner's debt by half.The transaction would give investors a 50% haircut and would reduce Sherritt's total outstanding principal debt obligations by about C$414 million (about $3...Read More

Publisher's Note: Gold soared past the $1,600-per-ounce mark this week and has shown no signs of letting up as it approaches $1,650.With this kind of dramatic bull market, we turn to "the original goldbug", Mr. James Dines, and an excerpt from his newsletter, The Dines Letter, for guidance on gold for this year.Call it like you see it,Nick Hodge"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is...Read More

Gold Rush excavator (Credit: Volvo) To celebrate 10 years of Discovery's Gold Rush television show, Volvo designed a special edition EC200E excavator, which was sold at Ritchie Bros.' premier global auction in Orlando, to an online buyer from Belgium for $290,000. All proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity and Building Homes for Heroes. The special edition excavator has a paint job - al...Read More

For the past year, I've been extolling the benefits of facial recognition technology.Simply put, it's coming whether you like it or not...And really, you should like it.I know there are concerns, and they're valid.No one wants to live in a dystopian society where every individual is tracked and followed.But that's not what this is.What we're talking about is a technology that when deployed properl...Read More

Naranjillo project. Credit: Plata Latina Mexican silver major Fresnillo has exercised its option to purchase the Naranjillo property from Vancouver's Plata Latina Minerals (TSXV: PLA). Naranjillo is a grassroots epithermal silver discovery located in the Mexican Silver Belt, approximately 35 km southeast of the Guanajuato mining district. Plata Latina also controls three other exploration ready p...Read More

Digitalization team (Credit: Epiroc) Vale (NYSE: VALE) has selected Mobilaris Engineering and Epiroc as partners to advance digitalization at its Canadian mines.The announcement is part of the company's digital transformation program within the mining area with the digitalization partnership aimed at enabling situational awareness for its workforce, equipment and consumables to ultimately inc...Read More

Dry vibrating magnetic filter (Credit: Eriez) Eriez, a company specializing in separation technologies, has published a white paper on the its high-intensity dry vibrating magnetic filter (DVMF), which removes very fine iron-bearing contaminants from hard-to-flow powders to produce higher-quality end products.The paper, developed specifically for hard rock mining industry professionals, describes...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday February 26 that are worth another look.China's steel industry has faced difficulties in production and sales since the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which has led to some 78,000 infections and close to 2,700 deaths in the country so far.Metal and ferro-alloy...Read More

Chinese nickel premiums increased in the week to Tuesday February 25, along with one in the United States, but European premiums remained flat, near a perceived bottom, sources told Fastmarkets.China's nickel premiums rise on falling arbitrage loss between Shanghai and London exchanges The floor lifts slightly for US nickel briquette premiums European nickel premiums stay low, reflecting...Read More

Global tin premiums were steady in the week to Tuesday February 25, despite poor demand and with rising stock volatility turning the focus on delivery incentives amid a large inflow into LME warehouses in Los Angeles. European market questions LA inflows US sentiment improves Asia demand in question Fresh inflows puzzle European tin market; premiums steadyIn Europe, Fastmarkets assessed the tin 99...Read More

The global tally has reached 81,109, with 412 new cases confirmed yesterday in China and 459 elsewhere including in four new countries - Algeria, Austria, Croatia and Switzerland.Key markets were mixed around the globe, with London's FTSE 100 managing a 0.35% gain to climb off the previous day's one-year low.The S&P 500 closed lower but the Nasdaq gained.Futures were similarly mixed.Gold had d...Read More

Seasoned metal-market watchers probably find it hard to believe that the upward run in palladium can continue because past periods of high prices have always ended with a fall as major users switchRead More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday February 26 that are worth another look.China's steel industry has faced difficulties in production and sales since the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday due to the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, which has led to some 78,000 infections and close to 2,700 deaths in the country so far.Metal and ferro-alloy...Read More

Group revenue rose 5.3% to A$1 billion. Underlying EBITDA was up 10.6% to $222 million and underlying EBIT rose 7.7% to $111 million. Underlying net profit after tax dropped 7% to $60.Read More

Clive MaundThe market crash called for on the site on the 15th, right before it started, is now going full bore, and in this update we are going to consider the short-term outlook, especially insofar as it impacts upon our Tech sector puts, and also the grim longer-term outlook.A full-on "in your face" catalyst for the crash has arrived in the form of the Covid-19 or coronavirus, which has alre...Read More

Steve St. Angelo, SRSrocco Report The Global Financial System is now under severe stress. While there have been many factors leading to up to this point, the situation that is unfolding in China and abroad seems to be speeding up the process. Yesterday, the market got a small WHIFF or WOKE up a TAD in regards to a global contagion and soon to be the rapid contraction of the JIT - Just In Ti...Read More

By: Gary SavageWe don't have the signs of an ultimate bubble top. What kind of behavior would show this? A mini bubble? Gold is anticipating inflation in the years ahead. Gold mining stocks $GDX technical update / baby bull high:http://blog.smartmoneytrackerpremium.com/Read More