Platinum surged to 6-month highs last week on concerns over a supply deficit, meanwhile gold prices fell more than 1% to the lowest level since January, heading for the biggest weekly decline in more than 1-year as the dollar strengthend and global stocks advanced. Oil prices came under pressure last week, down 2% on Friday after weak U.S. manufacturing data overshadowed OPEC-l...Read More

Global silver reserves and silver production are increasing.Peru, Mexico and China are still the largest silver producers.Peru, Poland and Australia have the largest silver reserves.Increased silver by-product from base metal mining is filling in for the decrease in primary silver production.Each year, the U.S. Geological Survey publishes a report on world mine production and reserves. The USGS ha...Read More

"The Investing News Network will go live at PDAC on Sunday at 3:30 p.m. EST with Lobo Tiggre @duediligenceguy followed by Jeffrey Christian @CPMGroupLLC at 3:45 p.m. EST. Click https://t.co/6mEoGtsIYU to learn how to tune in! #PDAC2019 #INNatPDAC #interview"Read full newsRead More

"We are at #PDAC2019 with live interviews and much, much more! Come say hi to the @INN_Gold team at stage 2 on the 700 level! #INNatPDAC"Read full newsRead More

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Despite gold's decline the past two weeks, the metal remains firmly above its 20-month moving average.The metal continues to trade in a large base for the past several years, and the key for the bulls is taking out $1,365/oz once and for all.Bullish sentiment has retreated on this pullback, and is now back to more subdued levels near 50% bulls.Just two weeks ago we had nearly every gold bug di...Read More

A free tool can help traders bank big during the upcoming earnings season. Too many investors let their portfolios slip during the busy holiday season, but this is a huge mistake... especially with the market moving events just around the corner!With the crazy market action investors have been seeing lately, right now is the time to prepare to bank big wins.It's important for investors to positio...Read More

In his March 1st interview with Jim Goddard, Bob Hoye from ChartsandMarkets.com tackles the question whether there is a PDAC curse on the share prices of mining stocks. The idea being that mining stocks often run up and peak going into the large convention of mining prospectors, promoters and investors that traditionally takes place in the first week of March in Toronto every year. This year it...Read More

Marijuana companies have mesmerized retail investors, depriving the mining sector of the risk capital that's typically been its "lifeblood." But two mega-deals and a dramatic hostile battle in the gold space may finally give moribund mining stocks a shot in the arm.That's the basic position of TD Securities mining investment bankers, who say current market conditions and historical precedents make...Read More

Marijuana companies have mesmerized retail investors, depriving the mining sector of the risk capital that's typically been its "lifeblood." But two mega-deals and a dramatic hostile battle in the gold space may finally give moribund mining stocks a shot in the arm.That's the basic position of TD Securities mining investment bankers, who say current market conditions and historical precedents make...Read More

United Co. Rusal Plc, Russia's largest aluminum producer, suspended operations at its bauxite-mining unit in Guyana over a pay conflict with employees in the South American nation.Workers at Bauxite Company of Guyana Ltd. "declined to work and demanded a pay increase, even though their salaries had been adjusted for forecast inflation at the end of last year," Rusal said Sunday in emailed comments...Read More

BGC exploring options for the sale of its national contract mining business BGC ContractingRead full newsRead More

Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, is expected to generate $13.9 billion in revenue in 2019 while operating costs would be of $9.9 billion. This is according to the budget approved by the Finance Ministry's Budget Directorate.Local newspaper La Tercera reported that following a mandatory annual review of all state-owned companies, the Directorate estimated that Codelco's earnings...Read More

Chile's Codelco, the world's No. 1 copper producer, is expected to generate $13.9 billion in revenue in 2019 while operating costs would be of $9.9 billion. This is according to the budget approved by the Finance Ministry's Budget Directorate.Local newspaper La Tercera reported that following a mandatory annual review of all state-owned companies, the Directorate estimated that Codelco's earnings...Read More

Apparently, the answer to the question in the headline has been widely explored by scientists.What was recently discovered, though, was that a boost of vitamin C can turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires."There's no novelty per se in using vitamin C to make gold nanostructures because there are many previous examples," said chemist Eugene Zubarev from Rice University in Texas. "But the...Read More

Apparently, the answer to the question in the headline has been widely explored by scientists.What was recently discovered, though, was that a boost of vitamin C can turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires."There's no novelty per se in using vitamin C to make gold nanostructures because there are many previous examples," said chemist Eugene Zubarev from Rice University in Texas. "But the...Read More

Apparently, the answer to the question in the headline has been widely explored by scientists.What was recently discovered, though, was that a boost of vitamin C can turn small gold nanorods into fine gold nanowires."There's no novelty per se in using vitamin C to make gold nanostructures because there are many previous examples," said chemist Eugene Zubarev from Rice University in Texas. "But the...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More

For the second year in a row, mineral and coal exploration expenditure in British Columbia increased in 2018.This is according to the British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey carried out by the provincial Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, the Association for Mineral Exploration and Ernst & Young.After collecting insights from nearly 300 exploration projects across BC,...Read More