Four drill rigs at Roxgold's TSX: ROXG; US-OTC: ROGFF) Sequela gold project in Cote d'Ivoire continue to return high-grade results at both Ancien and Antenna North, the company reports.Assay highlights from Ancien, which lies within 6 km of the project's Antenna deposit, came from drill hole SGRD732, which returned 14 metres grading 13.3 grams gold per tonne from 71 metres, including 4 metres of 2...Read More

First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC) is moving directly into an expansion scenario for its permitted cobalt refinery in Ontario after conducting a detailed engineering study on the facility.The company said on July 22 that the plan could save millions of dollars by lowering operating costs through pilot plant work at third-party facilities. Financing discussions for the project are now entering the next phase...Read More

Tesla boss Elon Musk is asking miners to produce more nickel, a key ingredient in the batteries that power his company's electric cars, and has offered a "giant contract for a long period of time" to any firm able to extract it in an efficient, environmentally sustainable manner.Musk noted on a second-quarter earnings call that the high price of batteries continues to be one of the main hurdles fo...Read More

(Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk has a plea for mining companies: "Please mine more nickel.""Tesla will give you a giant contract for a long period of time if you mine nickel efficiently and in an environmentally sensitive way," said Musk, chief executive officer of the electric-carmaker, during a second-quarterRead full newsRead More

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Congestion at China's east coast oil ports that is adding to costs for shippers and importers is likely to run well into August, with crude shipments set to hit another record high this month, according to analysts and Refinitiv data.Read full newsRead More

North Dakota's oil production fell four times faster than the national average between January and May, according to new data. New Mexico's production also plummeted in May.Read full newsRead More

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You’re a veteran investor with years of experience. You’ve seen prime ministers and presidents come and go. You’ve seen recessions and rallies. Your portfolio had been ticking along nicely, balanced across a spread of Canada’s strongest industries and top blue-chip businesses. But then along came 2020. Suddenly, the world was turned on its head. How do you manage that portf...Read More

Canadian broader markets have soared almost 45% after hitting record lows in March. Interestingly, this rally post-COVID-19 crash was not all-inclusive. Some TSX stocks are still trading below their fair values and offer decent upside potential. So, if you are sitting on some cash, consider these three TSX stocks trading at a notable discount.goeasygoeasy (TSX:GSY) is a $750 million consumer lendi...Read More

Jul 24, 2020 It's been a historic week for gold and silver prices. Gold rallied close to nine-year highs, approaching its all-time high of $1,920 an ounce. Silver has also been firing an all cylinders, breaching $23 an ounce this week as it traded near six and a half year highs.Kitco's senior analyst Jim Wyckoff believes that gold's record high is now finally within reach and more gains are likely...Read More

We needed a hero and we got one. Image of Captain Copper, superhero created to teach kids about the metal, courtesy of Chile state miner Codelco The gold price is approaching all-time highs above $1,900 an ounce. Investors are showering gold ETFs with money, which, if ever redeemed for physical bullion, would suck up the output of all the world's gold mines for more than a year.The copper pric...Read More

Gold is within spitting distance of all-time highs, about $100 per ounce shy of $1,920 and change.With the strong rise over the past year, especially after the coronavirus lockdowns kicked in, some investors may be feeling a bit hesitant.Don't be. Don't just listen to me though. Some of the biggest names in the market are lining up behind a surge that will leave the all-time high far behind.From t...Read More

To say we live in a time that will be taught in future history classes is an understatement. Not just because of the pandemic, but because America seems to be a country without a clear path ahead of it. It's a time marked by a divided and dysfunctional federal government. It's a time marked by a shrinking influence on the world stage. It's a time marked by slow but certain change in social norm...Read More

Drill rig at Keno silver project. Credit: Metallic. Metallic Minerals has started up two drills at its wholly owned, 166-sq.-km Keno Silver project in the Yukon Territory's Keno Hill silver district.In the first phase of the program, a reverse circulation rig will test multi-kilometre anomalies discovered last year at the East Keno area. In the second phase, a diamond drill will be used to step...Read More

Camp at the Bornite project, one of the two most advanced of Upper Kobuk Mineral Projects. (Image courtesy of Trilogy Metals) The US Bureau of Land Management has approved the development of the northern route to provide access to the Ambler mining district in northwest Alaska.According to South32 and Trilogy Metals (TSX, NYSE: TMQ), partners in Ambler Metals, the Record of Decision (RoD) appr...Read More

Core samples from Monarch Gold's McKenzie Break gold project in Quebec. Photo Credit: Monarch Gold. Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) has reported high-grade drill results from the central part of its wholly-owned McKenzie Break gold project, 35 km north of Val-d'Or, Quebec.Highlights from the drill program include drill hole 20-255, which intersected 14 metres grading 13.95 grams gold per tonne starting...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower at the close of trading on Friday July 24, with a continued uptrend in the numbers of Covid-19 cases in the US prompting broad risk-off sentiment across the country's trading hours.Disappointing US manufacturing data added further headwinds.Copper's outright price on the LME was the biggest loser on the day, declining by...Read More