Given the market volatility from the spread of COVID-19, the outlook for precious metals remains uncertain. Nevertheless, gold exploration and mine development remain important drivers of mining activity. Here are eight companies with exposure to gold and precious metals.Bear Creek MiningBear Creek Mining's Corani silver-lead-zinc project in southern Peru. Credit: Bear Creek Mining.Bear Creek Mini...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 17.30% (4,011.64 points) to 19,173.98 and the S&P 500 dropped 14.98%(4,061.1 points) to 2,304.92 during the Mar. 16-20 trading week. Spot gold fell US$31.10 per oz. to finish at US$1,498.80 per oz., a 2.03% decrease.Sandstorm Gold rose US64 ? to US$4.52. The company announced that it has withdrawn its 2020 guidance due to the COVID-19 pandemic. "Although Sands...Read More

The S&P/TSX Composite Index plunged 13.59% (1,864.5 points) to finish the March 16-20 trading week at 11,851.80. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index fell 3.42% to 57.12, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index dropped 16.56% to 57.98. Spot gold finished at US$1,498.80 per oz., a US$31.10 per oz. drop or 2.03%. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index rose 5.53% to 213.38.Kirkland Lake Gold climbed $4.81 to...Read More

The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index plummeted 8.84% (34.58 points) to finish the week at 356.54. Spot gold finished the week at US$1,498.80 per oz., down US$31.10 per oz., or 2.03%.Shares of Skeena Resources rose 14 ? to 75 ?. The company recently announced a $20 million financing. The non-brokered private placement consisted of 17.14 million flow-through shares at a price of $1.55 per share. The...Read More

The developers at mobile video game publisher Scopely know that content is king. By licensing big-box franchises like "The Walking Dead," "Star Trek," and "Scrabble," and adapting them into free-to-play mobile games, the company has created a cash cow. The Culver City-based private company, founded inRead full newsRead More

"The potential for high-grade gold discoveries is attracting resource exploration companies to Ontario's famed Red Lake mining district. https://t.co/LZzZFUB1y1 @NewrangeNRG #gold #exploration #mining #RedLake"Read full newsRead More

The gold price surged on Monday after the US Federal Reserve promised to pump "unlimited" amounts of money into the financial system, boosting the metal's status as a store of wealth and an inflation hedge.On the Comex market in New York, gold for delivery in April, the most active contract, closed just off its day high at $1,567.60, up $83.00 an ounce, or 5.6% compared to Friday's close. Monday w...Read More

Image from BHP. Hatch, Anglo American, BHP, and Fortescue have formed a Green Hydrogen consortium as part of a move to evaluate using green hydrogen to decarbonize their operations.The consortium will aim to eliminate obstacles around the adoption of green hydrogen technologies and encourage their innovative application.Its goal is to identify green hydrogen development opportunities for the...Read More

Winter drilling at Colomac, NWT. Image from Nighthawk Gold. With the release of ten outstanding holes from the 2019 exploration program at its Indin Lake property in the Northwest Territories in Canada, Nighthawk Gold has expanded the under-explored central portion of the Colomac Main sill at depth. The holes targeted zones 2.5 and 2.0 at the 899-sq.-km project.Highlights include 36.1 metres of...Read More

We're going big. That was the message from the Federal Reserve and the Federal government this week. "This is war," they said. So they unleashed the BAZOOKAS.The Fed's Jerome Powell strutted to the mic on Sunday as fear gripped the world. The economy came into this on sound footing, he lied, repeatedly, as he cut rates to zero. And that was after he unveiled $1.5 TRILLION in new repo and QE oper...Read More

Sandvik Rhino 100 The arrival of the Rhino 100 mobile raise borer has proved a game changer for Perth-based underground contractor Raising Australia, part of the Byrnecut Group.Since introducing its first Rhino in 2017, Raining has been able to slash slot-raise production times, improve productivity for its customers, and increase revenue, the company said. Traditional raise boring machines used...Read More

Kakula mine, the first of at least three copper mines planned at Kamoa-Kakula in DRC. (Image courtesy of Ivanhoe Mines.) The Democratic Republic of Congo has imposed a 48-hour lockdown in Haut-Katanga, a key copper-cobalt-producing province after two people tested positive for the coronavirus on a flight from the national capital Kinshasa to Lubumbashi, the provincial capital. The measure, effe...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 23 that are worth another look.ArcelorMittal is idling two blast furnaces, in Indiana and Canada, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and its impact on end markets.South Africa will enter a 21-day nationwide lockdown from midnight on Thursday March 26 and ordered the country's metals and mining operations to...Read More

Metals, mining and alloy producers have been scenario-planning in response to the novel coronavirus. The South African government appears to have just removed all but one option.President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the country's mineral resources industry to shut underground mines and furnaces from Thursday March 26, unless they can be operated remotely. The shutdown will last for three weeks an...Read More

The London Metal Exchange three-month nickel price continued its downturn up to the close of trading on Monday March 23, falling over 3.5% and dipping below nearby support levels, while tin futures failed to hold on to Friday's gains. Nickel's underlying price on the LME closed at $10,880 per tonne on Monday afternoon, its lowest closing price since December 2018, while turnover was high at more t...Read More

Jack ChanPosted Mar 23, 2020The word “crisis” in Chinese is danger/opportunity.Ancient Chinese wisdom has taught us that when there is danger, there is opportunity. 1987.2000.2008.Now.Current market condition has wreaked havoc in all sectors, stocks, ETFs, currencies, and bonds. And the carnage may not be over as past major corrections in 2000 and again in 2008 were at 50 to 60%, and t...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday March 23 that are worth another look.ArcelorMittal is idling two blast furnaces, in Indiana and Canada, due to the spread of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and its impact on end markets.South Africa will enter a 21-day nationwide lockdown from midnight on Thursday March 26 and ordered the country's metals and mining operations to...Read More

Fastmarkets will continue to provide the price data, news and analytics you rely on in these turbulent times.Dear Colleagues,First and foremost, we hope that you, your family, your friends and your colleagues are keeping well in these uncertain times. Covid-19 has disrupted our economy, our normal work patterns and, for many, our lives. Before I speak to the status of our business continuity...Read More

Metals, mining and alloy producers have been scenario-planning in response to the novel coronavirus. The South African government appears to have just removed all but one option.President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered the country's mineral resources industry to shut underground mines and furnaces from Thursday March 26, unless they can be operated remotely. The shutdown will last for three weeks an...Read More

Freeport-McMoRan said Monday as part of its response to Covid-19, its board had resolved to suspend the quarterly cash dividend of US5c per share previously planned for May 1.Read More