On August 19, the S&P500 Index reached a record high — erasing all the losses that it saw earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. The U.S. stock market benchmark surpassed its previous all-time high of 3393.52 by a very narrow margin on Wednesday as it posted an intraday high of 3399.54.At 11 AM ET on Friday, the index was hovering at 3388 — not far away from its record high....Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesAug 21, 2020We are in the correction thata few people accurately predicted. My gut tells me it will go into September but since the DSI predicted the top, I think the DSI will call the bottom. We have not had an all time high in either gold or silver but we did have something investors can trade. I’d like to point out something important to investors. Liquidity is a gian...Read More
The 30c units have half-warrants attached entitling the holder to buy an additional 70c share within two years.Aldebaran, spun out of Regulus Resources in 2018, says its two biggest shareholders, Route One Investment Company (49.48%) and Sibanye Stillwater (19.9%) have indicated they will take up their pro-rata share of the placement.Aldebaran is working on a new mineral resource estimate for its...Read More
The company reported a net loss after tax of US$182.7 million, including a loss of $158 million attributable to equity holders, due to COVID-19, lower commodity prices and sales volumes."The recent recovery, while welcome, does have a degree of uncertainty to it," MMG CEO Geoffrey Gao said on a conference call.Revenue fell 14% to $1.19 billion, while net cash generated from operations rose 26% to...Read More
Mastermyne CEO Tony Caruso said the company started FY21 well positioned with a record order book and a strong pipeline of projects."Like last year we will focus on our operating discipline while investing in growth of our business through whole-of-mine projects and expansion into other commodities," he said."With this order book, pipeline and growth strategy we are set up for another excellent ye...Read More
Independent financial analyst Matt Badiali presents the investment case for copper. Copper will be the next metal to break out in 2020, and it's all about demand.The price of copper just broke through $3.00 per pound. The red metal's price rose 45% so far in 2020. But that is still well below its 2011 high of $4.50 per pound. That could change in the second half of this year. The reason for coppe...Read More
The zone's significance, the updated resource highlights and Troilus Gold's next steps are discussed in a Haywood report. In a July 29 research note, Haywood analyst Pierre Vaillancourt reported that the Southwest zone at Troilus Gold Corp.'s (TLG:TSX; CHXMF:OTCQB) Troilus property in Quebec "makes the difference" in the updated resource estimate and, potentially, the project.He also noted that H...Read More
Generation Mining achieves this result during phase 1 of its current metallurgical testing program. In a news release, Generation Mining Ltd. (GENM:TSX; GENMF:OTCQB; 9GN.F) announced at its Marathon Palladium project in northwestern Ontario it "successfully completed bench-scale metallurgical test work, resulting in a favorable and significant increase to projected Platinum Group Metals (PGM) and...Read More
A Fibonacci .618 retracement is a common reversal point in the markets Fibonacci numbers follow a sequence that begins with 0 and 1, and each subsequent number is the sum of the previous two (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5,8, 13, 21, 34, and so on).After the first several numbers in the sequence, the ratio of any number to the next higher is approximately .618 to 1; its ratio to the next lower number is approx...Read More
The story of how an inner city liquor store grew its business serves as an example of what sector expert Michael Ballanger calls " a compelling revelation of 'academics versus practicality.'"In watching the travesty of disinformation, misinformation and moral hazard formation ongoing in the global financial markets, I am immediately reminded of a case study from my university days of whi...Read More
Warren Buffett did whathe said he’d never do, and that is buy gold - not the physical metal, nor anETF, but a gold mining stock. Buffett and/or his holding company's managers choseABX, as it is known in Toronto, or GOLD, on the New York exchange. Thesurprising trade is highly symbolic given Buffett’s previous ferventlyanti-gold public statements. Last Friday the Oracle ofOmaha&rsq...Read More
Right now, we may be nearing another buying opportunity...Patrick Kim interviewed on Palisade RadioTom welcomes Patrick Karim back to the show to discuss his latest charts that focus on silver and gold. Patrick is a proprietary capital manager and chart trader.Patrick discusses various historic technical patterns and how they may repeat in his coming bull market. He expects $2300 gold within a cou...Read More
88 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyLithium no quiet place for AVZSPONSOREDavz mineralsScoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Element 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 25The company reported a net loss after tax of US$182.7 million, including a loss of $158 million attributable to equity holders, due...Read More
Markets were for the most part upbeat this morning, Friday August 21, with all of the base metals on the London Metal Exchange firmer, as were most Asian-Pacific equities, although they are firmer within consolidation patterns.But after the accelerated gains at the start of the week, with the S&P 500 regaining all the losses suffered from the coronavirus hit and with the base metals now on average...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 17 points in pre-opening trade.The Canadian Dollar was virtually unchanged at US 75.62 cents following release of Canada's June Retail Sales report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase of 24.5% versus a gain of 18.7% in May. Actual was an increase of 23.7%. Excluding auto sales, consensus was an increase of 15.0%...Read More
A year ago, Glencore (LSE: GLEN) announced it was halting operations at its Mutanda copper-cobalt mine in the Congo, breathing life into a market that was trading at levels 70% below its peak hit 18 months previously.Given that Mutanda is the world's largest cobalt mine and responsible for a fifth of global output in a market of only 135,000 tonnes per year, market reaction was muted. Congo domina...Read More
Iamgold (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) has delayed the sale of its Sadiola gold mine in Mali, a joint venture with South Africa's AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE:AU), as the country reels from a coup, the second in less than ten years.The Toronto-based miner and its partner reached a US$105 million deal in December to sell their 82% combined stake (41% each) in the gold project to Australia's Allied Gold.The trans...Read More
AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) will have to keep trading shares in South Africa to conclude the sale of its last remaining assets in the country to rival Harmony Gold (NYSE: HMY), a government official said today.The company, which announced the sale of its remaining asset in its home country earlier this year for US$300 million, must also keep its headquarters in Johannesburg, the source from the D...Read More
Ontario's long-standing mining legacy, availability of geological data and established track record with mineral explorers, developers and producers, position it as a world-class destination for the industry. Below, we provide an overview of eight companies with assets in the province. Argonaut GoldAn aerial view of Argonaut Gold's Magino gold propery in Ontario, located 14 km southeast of Dubreu...Read More
David Daoud, vice president of exploration and geology at newly listed Sun Peak Metals (TSXV: PEAK), was part of the exploration teams that discovered the Bisha and Asmara gold deposits in Eritrea when he worked for Nevsun Resources and its sister company, Sunridge Gold, in the early 2000s.Now he believes there is an opportunity to repeat those two home-runs across the border in Ethiopia at the Sh...Read More