Daniel Major, CEO of GoviEx, talks to Mining Journal about the company's progress at its uranium projects in Niger, Zambia and Mali.Read More
Mark Selby, chairman and CEO of Canada Nickel Company, talks to Mining Journal about the junior miner's Crawford nickel-cobalt sulphide discovery and what investors can expect to see in the coming months.Read More
Video Series: Mining Journal speaks with Dr Michelle Michot Foss SPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesSouthern Silver excited by high-grade prospects at Cerro Las Manitas SPONSOREDsouthern silver exploration corp.Rex Minerals nearing investment decision on Hillside copper-gold projectSPONSOREDrex mineralsAvino Silver & Gold looks to triple production by adding assetsSPONSOR...Read More
"After the approval in the Senate Mining Commission, some additional issues have arisen, which do not alter what was legislated by the Commission with the executive available to evaluate them in thisRead More
Kukielski said the Peruvian electorate is quite balanced, which makes it difficult for any party to ram its agenda through, and that successive presidents have understood the value mining representsRead More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 34 points at 8:35 AM EDTIndex futures dropped sharply in overnight trade on concerns that Deutsche Bank was experiencing financial distress. Deutsche Bank dropped $1.20 to $8.14 in overnight trade.Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the February Durable Goods Order report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consen...Read More
The standard Keynesian policy solution to economic inefficiency is that government takes active measures via a (supposedly) wise and knowledgeable central bank, one filled with people who hold Ph.D.s in economics from top-notch universities.Because they know stuff.These central bankers act in tandem with fiscal policy emanating from a (supposedly) all-seeing, all-knowing government, one filled wit...Read More
"Old soldiers never die," said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his long-ago farewell address of April 1951. "They just fade away," he added with a note of deep sadness.I sure wish we could say that about Keynesian economists.That is, about economists who follow the doctrines and dogmas of John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), a British economist whose main works were published in the 1920s and '30s and whose...Read More
Canadian Mining Journal Editor-in-Chief Tamer Elbokl spoke with economist, founder of the publication Critical Metals for a Sustainable World, and former vice-president with Scotiabank, Patricia Mohr at PDAC 2023 in Toronto in March. Mohr discussed Canada's critical minerals potential, including in nickel, copper and rare earths - from mining to refining - as well as rising demand for minerals fro...Read More
The Northern Miner caught up with the world's biggest mining technical consulting group SRK Consulting at PDAC in Toronto in March 2023. Tamer Elbokl, Editor-in-Chief of TNM sister publication Canadian Mining Journal discussed the latest trends in mine closure and reclamation with SRK's principal corporate consultant Jeff Parshley, who specializes in closure planning and closure cost estimation. W...Read More
Western Copper and Gold (TSX: WRN; NYSE-AM: WRN) announced Friday a strategic equity investment by Japan's Mitsubishi Materials to advance the company's Casino copper-gold project in Yukon towards development.Mitsubishi has agreed to acquire about 5% of Western's outstanding shares at $2.63 per share. The exact number of shares to be issued (and by extension, total proceeds received) will depend o...Read More
Politicians everywhere have a tendency to make decisions based on short-term outcomes that might become catastrophic in the long term. There are few better examples of this than legislation in London 250 years ago. In one of the U.K.'s worst ever political decisions (and we've had a few), Parliament voted on Apr. 27, 1773, to help the financially troubled East India Co. (EIC) by allowing it to...Read More
Shares in coloured gems miner Gemfields (LSE: GEM; JSE: GML) climbed more than 5% on Friday after it posted record revenue for 2022, exceeding the US$300-million mark for the first time.The Africa-focused emeralds and rubies miner said last year revenue hit US$341 million, a 32% increase from the almost US$258 million recorded in 2021."The coloured gemstone market has seen strong demand after the...Read More
Bolivia's government is calling its lithium-producing neighbours to forge ahead with the idea of setting a Latin America-wide policy on the exploitation of the coveted battery metal.The idea, part of a broader initiative involving Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Chile to form an OPEC-like cartel, seeks to collectively boost the bargaining power of these countries, President Luis Are said in a spee...Read More
A new report by market analyst Wood Mackenzie argues that steel, aluminum, and copper stand to benefit most from an uptick in China's gross domestic product growth this year.WoodMac suggests that if China's economy grows at the expected base case of 5.5% in 2023, the recovery will remain domestically contained with minimal global impact.However, due to the industry-intensive nature of the high-cas...Read More
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PacWest Bancorp released an important liquidity update on Wednesday. The market unfairly dismissed it and sent shares of PACW lower by 17%.Read full newsRead More
The recent SVB bank failure is going to have more ramifications on the economy and investment scene than some realize. Click here to read more.Read full newsRead More
Cedar Fair, L.P. witnessed a greatly improved operational performance in terms of attendance and revenues in 2022. Click here for my take on FUN stock prospects.Read full newsRead More
CyberArk is a leading identity and access security solutions company, specializing in protecting organizations from cyberattacks. Click here to read my analysis.Read full newsRead More