Mr. Mark Utting reportsKIRKLAND LAKE GOLD REPORTS RECORD ANNUAL AND QUARTERLY PRODUCTIONKirkland Lake Gold Ltd. has provided record annual and quarterly production for the full year and fourth quarter of 2017, respectively. Comparative information for the full year and fourth quarter of 2016 includes results for the Fosterville, Cosmo and Stawell mines prior to the merger between Kirkland Lake Gol...Read More
The final stretch of 2017 started with a bang for our Weekend Trader options recommendation services, as traders closed out three winners in three days. First, our Dollar Tree (DLTR) call option was closed out at a 102% gain on Nov. 29, less than two months after it was initially recommended. Then, on Nov. 30, a Kroger (KR) call option hit its target for a 104% return in a little over two weeks, w...Read More
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The search for directioncontinues in gold as the metal stays in a range between $1,305 and $1,328. Theprecious metal is still preparing to make a big move, and the inability tobreak out over $1,330 on a weekly chart suggests that prices will be headedlower before they go higher. This consolidation patterncan last for an extended period of time and although a big move is coming, it'snot imminent. C...Read More
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is diversifying its foreign exchange reserves in order to safeguard their value, the country’s currency regulator said on Thursday, while dismissing a media report the government is halting or reducing its purchases of U.S. debt.Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday that Chinese officials reviewing the country’s vast foreign exchange holdings had recommended sl...Read More
Summary of 2017 in the gold market from the perspective of its fundamentals.Main drivers of the gold prices.Investment conclusions for 2018.So another year has passed. How quickly it happened! But we hope that you did not get bored, and instead took time to learn more about the fascinating gold market. At first glance, 2017 seems to have been a dull period for the yellow metal, as it was traded wi...Read More
--Rio Tinto has dropped out of the bidding for a stake in Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile, one of the world's top lithium producers, as it pursues other ways to capitalize on the electric-car boom, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed sources. --Rio decided not to proceed with an offer for Nutrien Ltd.'s 32% stake in Santiago-based SQM--worth about $5 billion at current market prices--after conduc...Read More
Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is said to have ditched plans to own a stake in Chile's Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world's largest lithium producer, due to a mix of tricky politics and the fact that such miner is currently the target of several claims.Chilean authorities accuse SQM of underpaying royalties, environmental violations and illicit political financing, which have ma...Read More
Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is said to have ditched plans to own a stake in Chile's Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world's largest lithium producer, due to a mix of tricky politics and the fact that such miner is currently the target of several claims.Chilean authorities accuse SQM of underpaying royalties, environmental violations and illicit political financing, which have ma...Read More
Mr. Peeyush Varshney reportsCANADA ZINC METALS ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF INITIAL EARN-IN ON THE PIE OPTION PROPERTIESTeck Resources Ltd. and Korea Zinc Co. Ltd. have delivered to Canada Zinc Metals Corp. an exercise notice regarding the optionees' first option on the Pie, Yuen and Cirque East properties. Background The Pie, Yuen and Cirque East properties are the subject of an option agreement conc...Read More
Mr. Peeyush Varshney reportsCANADA ZINC METALS ANNOUNCES COMPLETION OF INITIAL EARN-IN ON THE PIE OPTION PROPERTIESTeck Resources Ltd. and Korea Zinc Co. Ltd. have delivered to Canada Zinc Metals Corp. an exercise notice regarding the optionees' first option on the Pie, Yuen and Cirque East properties. Background The Pie, Yuen and Cirque East properties are the subject of an option agreement conc...Read More
Mr. MichaelAllen reports5.30 METRES OF 16.52 G/T GOLD DRILLED AT NORTHERN EMPIRE'S STERLING MINENorthern Empire Resources Corp. has released results of three diamond drill holes recently completed at the Sterling mine, located within Northern Empire's 125-square-kilometre Sterling gold project in Nye county, Nevada.Michael G. Allen, president, chief executive officer and director, stated: "We cont...Read More
Mr. MichaelAllen reports5.30 METRES OF 16.52 G/T GOLD DRILLED AT NORTHERN EMPIRE'S STERLING MINENorthern Empire Resources Corp. has released results of three diamond drill holes recently completed at the Sterling mine, located within Northern Empire's 125-square-kilometre Sterling gold project in Nye county, Nevada.Michael G. Allen, president, chief executive officer and director, stated: "We cont...Read More
Botswana's Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) posted a 4 percent jump in sales to $567 million in 2017, the highest annual sales since its formation in 2013, the company said on Thursday.The state-owned company sold 3.41 carats of diamonds in 2017, managing director Marcus ter Haar told Reuters, adding that the year was characterised by healthy demand and prices in the first half, weakening from July...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Electric vehicles could hold the key to BHP Billiton Ltd. finally finding a buyer for its unwanted nickel operations.The world's top miner is accelerating plans to transform Nickel West in Western Australia into a linchpin of the global supply chain for electric vehicle batteries. The switch in focus promises to woo new suitors after an aborted 2014 attempt to sell the business, a su...Read More
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Russian miner Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), the world's top diamond producer by output, saw 2017 sales fall to $4.3 billion, from $4.5 billion in the previous year, as the average price of its rough rocks declined.Alrosa's vice president Yury Okoemov said that despite the dip last year was a good one for the company with demand being fairly stable, and market activity in line with the seasonality and the fi...Read More
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