Group Ten Metals reported that it has satisfied all earn-in agreements and now owns 100% of the Stillwater West project in Montana. In a news release, Canadian mineral exploration company Group Ten Metals Inc. (PGE:TSX.V; PGEZF:OTCQB; 5D32:FSE) announced that "it has satisfied all earn-in requirements set out in the agreement announced June 27, 2017 (the "Stillwater Agreement") and now has 100% o...Read More

Fund manager Adrian Day assesses recent developments at two junior gold companies, as well as provides a brief update on the gold market. Midland Exploration Inc. (MD:TSX.V, 0.86) has optioned its Casault property to neighboring company Wallbridge Mining Co. Ltd. (WM:TSX), which made a discovery on its property last year. We view this as potentially quite positive, both because Wallbridge is wel...Read More

What do snapping turtles and long-time investors have in common? Sector expert Michael Ballanger explains.The Weekly Missive, which usually arrives over the weekend (sometimes on Friday, sometimes on Sunday) was delayed this weekend for one reason: I had to change it.I started out last week with an idea that was leaning in the direction of full-on capitulation in the sense that this latest, three-...Read More

Wepreviously wrote that while it was tempting to bet on crude oil’s prices due totheir weakness, it was not a good idea from the risk to reward point of view,as black gold didn’t invalidate the breakout above the early-March high. And itwas definitely a good idea not to enter a short position then either – crudeoil moved higher since that time. Atthe moment of writing these words...Read More

Dave Kranzler, Investement Research Dynamic's Mining Stock JournalWhere's the "V?" - Obviously the Fed has injected monetary cocaine into the stock market to make it appear as if stocks are "discounting a "V" economic recovery. But a "V" on Main Street is nowhere to be found (graphic is from Crescat Capital -the comment bubble is my edit):The chart above plots the NY Fed's weekly index of e...Read More

In a sign that the Federal Reserve is growing increasingly desperate to jump-start the economy, the Fed's Secondary Market Credit Facility has begun purchasing individual corporate bonds. The Secondary Market Credit Facility was created by Congress as part of a coronavirus stimulus bill to purchase as much as 750 billion dollars of corporate credit. Until last week, the Secondary Market Credit F...Read More

Keith Weiner, Monetary MetalsWe are reading now about possible regulations for air travel. In brief: passengers might be forced to spend hours at the airport. Authorities will perform medical checks, including possibly needles to draw blood, no lounges, no food or drink on board the plane, masks required at all times, and even denied the use of a bathroom except by special permission.We would wa...Read More

Factors affecting metals markets 1. There will be position squaring and rebuilding before the Federal Reserve chairman's testimony before the US senate on 30th June. Powell will testify on coronavirus response. 2. Quarter end position squaring and rebuilding is still going on. 3. Trader's dilemma is to choose between economic progress or second wave of coronavirus. This has res...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold's taking over to a new record high for several years!Read More

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | Email | Stitcher | RSSInvestors are about to overwhelm the silver market, and they'll learn there's not really all that much silver in the world. Why, and what happens next? Steve St. Angelo of SRSrocco Report interviewed by Half Dollar of Silver DoctorsInvestment in physical silver is about to overwhelm the markets, and i...Read More

They're trying to keep silver's price in check as demand for physical is intensifying...by Harvey Organ of Harvey Organ BlogJUNE 22//GOLD UP $14.00 TO $1741.00//SILVER UP 15 CENTS TO $17.79/COMEX GOLD TONNAGE STANDING; 164 TONNES/HUGE PAPER DEPOSIT OF GOLD INTO GLD OF 23.09 TONNES///JEFF BERMAN REMOVED AS ATTORNEY GENERAL OF NY// TOM LUONGO ON THE GERMAN AFFAIR: A MUST READ//CORONAVIRUS REPORTS FR...Read More

RAPAPORT... Adolescence is hard enough without having to deal with Covid-19 on top of everything. This year, teenagers are missing out on coming-of-age moments like proms, graduations and sports seasons. Slightly older ones are missing career opportunities, from dream internships to first jobs.Quarantined young consumers are looking for new ways to celebrate life milestones and hang out with frien...Read More

RAPAPORT... US polished-diamond imports dropped heavily in April to their lowest level since Rapaport records began, as the coronavirus shut global markets. Rough trading was close to zero during the month, according to data from the Commerce Department. US Trade Data for April 2020Read More

RAPAPORT... Tse Sui Luen (TSL) has reported a loss for the full fiscal year, as it faced challenges from the US-China trade dispute, protests and the coronavirus pandemic.The net loss totaled HKD 89.8 million ($11.6 million) for the 12 months ending March 31, compared with a profit of HKD 54.2 million ($7 million) the previous year, the Hong Kong-based jewelry retailer said Tuesday. Revenue slid 2...Read More

RAPAPORT... India's diamond shipments plummeted in May, according to data from the country's Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), continuing the decline resulting from the coronavirus crisis.Rough imports and polished exports were essentially zero in April, Rapaport calculations showed, as cargo routes stopped and global demand nosedived. Trading picked up in May as the India...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The British jewelry retailer Beaverbrooks reported a 30 per cent surge in sales on the first day of post-lockdown trade.Customers flocked to the family firm's 59 newly-opened high street stores in a retail frenzy after three months of restrictions were lifted on 15 June.The average spend on watches and jewelry items was up by almost a quarter (23 per cent) year-on-year.And tot...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Zimbabwe's ambitious plans to treble diamond production to 11m carats a year are under threat from COVID-19, says a human rights watchdog.The country has pinned its hope on exploiting rich reserves to revive an economy crippled by triple-digit inflation and high unemployment. But it has amassed a glut of unsellable diamonds, according to the Harare-based NGO Centre for Na...Read More

(IDEX Online) - British miner BlueRock Diamonds says revenue almost trebled in 2019 at its Kareevlei mine, in the Kimberley region of South Africa.It was up 190 per cent from $1.75m in 2018 to $5.1m in the year ended 31 December 2019, according to final results issued yesterday.BlueRock sold 12,675 carats during 2019, up 124 per cent from 5,657 carats in 2018 and the average price per carat r...Read More

Rupert Resources on a Roll at IkkariSPONSOREDCardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesThe major's affiliate Rio Tinto Exploration Canada (RTEC) will use RAB drills to test copper showings, structural, geophysical, geochemical...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesA slump in economic activity in the wake of COVID-19 saw copper demand collapse, with prices plunging to a four-year low of $2.10/lb mid-March.However, BofA analysts said a spike in M1 and M2 money supply metrics indicated a recovery was on the way, with copper prices set to rise as a result.Artemis all set thanks to unique approac...Read More