Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 27, 2018When I was a kid my baseball heroes wereMickey Mantle and Roger Maris. At the age of fourteen, I was eighty pounds soaking wet so the only thing I played well was the radio. I used to have to run around in the shower to get wet. Year after year Maris and Mantle would go back and forth each trying to hit more home runs than the other. Eventually I learned that hitte...Read More

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Metal Bulletin rounds up some of the key news and price moves across the global metal markets this week. Base metalsGeoffrey Gao will become chief executive officer of Australian-Chinese miner MMG from this August.Minera Escondida has ended early talks with its unionized workers aimed at agreeing a new labor deal, the Chilean copper producer said.Anglo American recorded a 13% year-on-year decline...Read More

Moneta Porcupine (ME.TO) has released the assay results of an additional 8 holes that were drilled at the South West deposit, which is a part of the Golden Highway project in Ontario. Some of the holes of the current drill program are aimed at extending the total strike length and the depth extension of the mineralized vein structures.The recent assay results have now confirmed the existence of fi...Read More

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The Detour Lake Mine in northern Ontario. Source: Detour Gold Corp.Detour Gold Corp. [DGC-TSX] shares took a big drop Friday April 27 as investors reacted to guidance revisions announced in the company's 2018 first quarter results.The shares plunged 28.7% or $4.14 to $10.26 in late morning trading Friday. The volume of 6.65 million shares made Detour Gold the most actively trading stock on the TSX...Read More

Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL) has been improving revenues over the last three quarters, now at a rate of $2M/monthSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL, $0.80) announced on April 26, 2018, that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted government approval to manufacture commercial cannabidiols (CBD) extracted from hemp stra...Read More

Metal Bulletin reported in May 2017 that movements in the spread between 37% fob and 44% cif manganese ore indices might provide clues about direction in subsequent weeks.At the time, Metal Bulletin had observed that a narrowing of the spread between the prices for the two grades of manganese ore was often followed by a rise in prices and that a widening of the spread often preceded a pr...Read More

Mining activities on the western wall of Pit 3 at the Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton, BC. Source: Copper Mountain Mining Corp.Copper Mountain Mining Corp. [CMMC-TSX; CPPMF-OTC] on Friday April 27 said President and CEO James O'Rourke will be retiring on June 1, 2018. Gil Clausen, currently President and CEO of Brio Gold Inc. [BRIO-TSX], will be his successor in the President and CEO role. Cla...Read More

Berkwood Resources Ltd. (TSXV:BKR), a graphite junior, climbed after announcing that it has intersected what it called "significant intersections" of visual graphiteSean Mason | April 27, 2018 | SmallCapPowerSignificant intersections of visual graphite sent shares of a graphite junior sharply higher Friday. Here's some small stocks making big moves on Friday, April 27, 2018 (as of 4 pm EST):Ber...Read More

SASKATOON - Uranium miner Cameco Corp. reported a profit in its latest quarter compared with a loss a year ago as it was helped by a restructuring of its Kazakh joint venture and higher uranium prices and sales.The Saskatoon-based company says it earned $55 million, or 14 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 31 compared with a loss of $14 million, or five cents per share a year ago.Revenu...Read More

Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSXV:OGI) swung to a profit in its second quarter 2018 on record net salesSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Organigram Holdings Inc. (TSXV:OGI), a producer of medical marijuana, posted healthy growth for Q2 2018. The Company's net sales for the three months ended February 28, 2018 were $3.69 million (from 237,650 grams of dried flower and 552,250 ml of oil sold), versus neg...Read More

Get ready for a big price hike at the pump this summer. One that could shatter records... and your checking account.The price of oil is on the rise, nearing a three-year high. And if OPEC gets its way, the price of crude will reach $100 per barrel soon.Oil prices are now over $68 a barrel - that's up 30% in the past six months alone. And after breezing over the $66 level earlier this month, they l...Read More

An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More

The Canada-listed marijuana stocks on our list have experienced strong recent returns, defying the sluggish sector performance so far this yearSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Most Canadian marijuana stocks have been weak YTD. The Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences index has declined 11% M/M and 24% YTD, and has underperformed the TSX-V, which declined 4% and 10% over the same periods. However, some...Read More

Natcore Technology Inc. (TSXV:NXT) is focused on developing next-generation solar cell technologies that could revolutionize the production of solar cellsSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Natcore Technology Inc. (TSXV:NXT) is a development-stage R&D company focused on developing two next-generation solar cell technologies, namely 'Foil Cell technology' and 'Black Silicon'. Natcore's flagship 'Fo...Read More

Metal Bulletin rounds up some of the key news and price moves across the global metal markets this week. Base metalsGeoffrey Gao will become chief executive officer of Australian-Chinese miner MMG from this August.Minera Escondida has ended early talks with its unionized workers aimed at agreeing a new labor deal, the Chilean copper producer said.Anglo American recorded a 13% year-on-year decline...Read More

Busy, busy, busy. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and it’s easy to make excuses for why we aren’t getting anything done. Our jobs demand a lot is us, there’s traffic to fight, and the distractions of TV and Facebook are just a click away. But you have to act in order to move forward. You have to break out the mental bondage of feeling overwhelmed and helpless. To help jumpstar...Read More

The light iron scrap market in the UK was steady for a third week on Friday April 27, with business sufficiently active to support current prices, Metal Bulletin has heard.But lower export prices to major overseas buyers of European scrap such as Turkey may undermine the UK market in the near future.Metal Bulletin's weekly price assessment for UK grade-5C ferrous scrap on an inter-merchant basis w...Read More

Relative Performance of Gold Stocks The quarterly meeting of the Incrementum Fund's Advisory Board took place earlier this month (April 12), and as usual, a special guest was invited to participate. This time we were joined by well-known fund manager John Hathaway (Toqueville Gold Fund). It was a very wide-ranging discussion of the financial markets and the economy, and we hope you will agree with...Read More