Indian steelmakers have exported huge volumes of steel during the Covid-19 crisis, and sales closed by major producer Jindal Steel & Power (JSPL) have been at the very heart of this trend. In an exclusive interview, VR Sharma, JSPL's managing director, tells Fastmarkets how this feat was made possible and his expectations for the coming months.JSPL switched its attentions toward exporting steel at...Read More

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Markets rose yesterday on promising vaccine news and Jerome Powell interview.Printing money doesn't solve economic problems, it compounds them.Powell admits there is no limit to the amount of inflation the Fed will create.Gold stocks make new highs for the year.Another big jump for the price of silver.Best way for some to buy gold right now is with silver.Government borrowing half of the money it...Read More

They’re vastly different on the face of it — two areas of the TSX that traditionally appeal to very different investment types. But today we will be exploring whether 2020 is the year for buying into both gold and cannabis. How well do these two investment themes complement each other? Are there better names to buy and hold than others? And what is it about these industries that makes...Read More

| Photo: DR Travel Photo and Video/Shutterstock Mining operations in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and parts of Canada are slowing ramping back up in May after countries, in compliance with government-mandated covid-19 containment measures, halted operations worldwide in March. The fallout of the coronavirus outbreak has forced global miners to cut their 2020 capital expenditure by about $6.4 b...Read More

Mineral tailings mud after dam rupture in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Adobe Stock) A Minas Gerais state court in Brazil has revoked a decree from Brumadinho municipality that suspended Vale's operating license after health agents said that the company's onsite activities have "not respected the rules of social isolation."Brumadinho's mayor Avimar de Melo Barcelos had also ordered the suspe...Read More

Cactus Breccia Pipes (Image from Alderan) Rio Tinto's (NYSE: RIO ASX: RIO) subsidiary Kennecott has kicked off an initial four-hole 2,000m drill program at Alderan Resources' Frisco copper/gold/silver project in Utah. Kennecott will spend an initial $6 million on exploration at the project area to gain a 55% interest in the project, it said. Rio Tinto's subsidiary will earn 70% of the project by...Read More

Crow Butte operation in northeast Nebraska. Image courtesy of Cameco. US domestic production of uranium concentrate plunged 89% to 174,000 pounds of U3O8 (triuranium octoxide) last year, according to the latest annual report published by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This also represents a steep decline compared to the 4.89 million pounds the US produced five years earlier.The p...Read More

Image from archives. A coalition of non-profit organizations is pushing for an international moratorium on deep-sea mining following a fresh report that warns of potential irreversible damage to Pacific island states including Kiribati, the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu."Accumulated scientific evidence indicates that the impacts of nodule mining in the Pacific Ocean woul...Read More

The latter includes expansion of its services division. The placement, priced at $2.Read More

In the weeks after the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse in January, 2019, the ore price rocketed up to a peak of $124/t as safety inspectors ordered mine closures, from which the Brazilian industryRead More

Sometimes you just can't wrap your head around how things have gotten to the point that they have.Don't worry, I'm not talking about COVID-19. With the media blasting that crisis to you from every angle, it's far too easy to lose sight of other things right now.So today, we're delving into something that may have even more dire consequences for the U.S. if certain catalysts fall.For the last few w...Read More

By Dave KranzlerThe chart above speaks for itself. You could not find a more bullish chart set-up in the stock market. Note that the HUI/Dow ration bottomed out in late 2019 at the same level where it bottomed in late 2000. Most investors in this sector were not around for the beginning of the precious metals bull market in late 2000. But you can see the big move that started in 2008 - for which...Read More

By Keith Weiner Suppose you wanted to run an enterprise the right way (we know, we know, this is pretty far-out fiction, but bear with us). And, your enterprise has a $1 million dollar piece of equipment that wears out after 10 years. You must set aside $100,000 a year, so that you have $1 million at the end of 10 years when the equipment needs replacing. There's a word, now archaic, to describ...Read More

Craig Hemke, TF MetalsBack in March and April, a chasm opened between the dollar price of spot gold (XAU) and the front month COMEX futures contract. So-called experts reassured us that this was simply due to "logistics" and "gold being in the wrong place". Was this true, or might it have been just another set of apologies from the usual shills?We first wrote about this issue on April 7, and it...Read More

Back in March, we saw some crazy developments in the paper versus physical gold market, so much so, that New York and London went into scramble mode, and now, we're seeing the same crazy developments in silver! What are we to make of the widening spreads? Craig Hemke joins Silver Doctors Wednesday for a discussion on that, and a whole lot more.Some of the topics in today's discussion include:It lo...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinSilver has spent 5 days above its Bollinger band on the daily chart. I give it at 1% chance..Read More

According to Rick Rule, yes we are in a precious metals bull market. That means that there are huge fortunes to be made buying select gold and silver mining stocks. But you have to be extremely careful. According to Rick, there are some 1500 publicly traded zombie miners. These companies don't exist to return profits to their shareholders, but are more interested in lining management's pockets. Wi...Read More

Today Michael S. "Mickey" Fulps joins us on RTD to share his thoughts the monetary response to the economic shutdown. During this interview Mickey shares his thoughts on how the emergency measures dilutes the value in currency but the dollar will out last other nations on the race to zero.Michael S. "Mickey" Fulp is a Certified Professional Geologist with over 29 years experience as an exploration...Read More

This is an episode of The Pomp Podcast with host Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano and guest, Dave Collum, a Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is a popular staple of FinTwit and writes one of the best annual summaries at the end of each year.In this conversation, Dave discusses the COVID-19 crisis, the economic crisis, the role of the Federal Reserve, the 2020 Presidential race, his Jeffrey...Read More