Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday June 26 that are worth another look.The price for flat-rolled steel imported into South American main destinations has edged downward week on week, with Chinese offers remaining steady, while material from other origins was presented at lower prices.The closure of the Chuquicamata copper smelter in Chile could last up to two weeks,...Read More
When investors as a whole start to discount the profound risk brought forth by the socio-economic disaster that is the COVID-19 pandemic, that is when you should be thinking about taking a bit of profit off the table before Mr. Market has a chance to catch everybody by surprise with a second market crash.As we witnessed in the latter part of February, discounting highly uncertain and ominous exoge...Read More
Work at the C??te project done in 2011. (Image provided by former owner Trelawney Mining and Exploration.) Iamgold's 70%-owned C??t?(C) gold project in northern Ontario has received a key federal permitting approval, taking it one step closer to a construction decision.The approval, under the Fisheries Act, is related to impacts on fish habitats and tailings management for the site, located 20 k...Read More
Outotec HIGmill. Credit: Outotec Safety is one of the biggest challenges in the mining industry, especially during construction and equipment installation. At the same time there is pressure to speed up return on investment and minimize plant footprints. The Outotec HIGmill Plant (HMP) is a stand-alone, modular solution for fine grinding that addresses these conflicting requirements.The HMP consi...Read More
Figure: Midnight during the summer solstice, view from camp on Alces Lake, northern Saskatchewan. Image from Appia. Appia Energy (CSE: API) announced Monday that Phase I exploration activities have begun on the company's high-grade rare earth element Alces Lake property in northern Saskatchewan.Appia's 100% owned deposit, according to the company, hosts some of the highest rare earth elements (R...Read More
The Yukon territory, Canada. Image from White Gold. White Gold (TSXV: WGO) announced on Monday that it has started drilling on its Titan Project as well as initiated ground surveys on other high priority targets in Canada's Yukon territory.The 2020 exploration program is backed by partners Agnico Eagle and Kinross Gold and it has been designed to further test existing targets and recent new disco...Read More
Prikro project in the Prikro and Koun-Fao Departments in eastern Ivory Coast (Credit: Altus) Altus Strategies (TSXV: ALTS) has signed a nonbinding agreement with Stellar Africa Gold (TSXV: SPX) for the sale of its Prikro and Zenoula gold projects in C??te d'Ivoire.Altus will receive an initial payment of 2.5-million Stellar shares, with a market value of about C$87,500, and 2.5-million share purc...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesJun 29, 2020I expect to get very boring over the next few months. While I have been warning for years of a massive financial collapse coming to the world few people actually get it. We are in a depression. There is $250 trillion worth of debt in the world that will never be paid. It is going to grow far worse than it is today. What the Fed and Central Banks around the world ha...Read More
The company said 30 million units would be offered on a bought-deal basis, while "a large shareholder" had indicated an intention to acquire 41 million units on the same terms.It said the net proceeds would be used to fund the remaining capex at its San Albino gold project in Nicaragua, for exploration, working capital and general corporate purposes.Funds raised under the bought-deal offering woul...Read More
Clarke, who managed the large technical team that took the Woodsmith Mine into construction following several years of studies, will take up the new role on July 1.Read More
The Minerals Council South Africa said the industry currently screened about 272,000 employees every time they reported for work and had conducted 15,994 tests, at June 25.By Friday, the number of mining employees who had tested positive for COVID-19 was 1,950 and the death toll had risen to seven.The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, which successfully fought for mandatory COVID-...Read More
By: Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Voima GoldFor thousands of years gold is the ultimate store of value. Currently, gold is undervalued as there are massive bubbles in asset markets and central banks continue to print money, which supports these bubbles. This is an unsustainable situation; and when the bubbles burst the gold price will rise.Gold is the ultimate store of value, as it's the only globally accep...Read More
Strengths? The best performing precious metal for the week was gold, up 1.57 percent. Gold is heading toward $1,800 an ounce driven by fear that the resurgence in virus cases will impede the global economic recovery. Gold for August delivery rose to $1,796.10 on the Comex on Monday - the highest level since 2012. The yellow metal saw a third straight weekly gain, which is its longest...Read More
V-shape mania appears to be tapering off. Years from now, market historians will come to regard the spectacular rally since late March as a case study in mass psychosis. The explosive resurgence of bulls is not only unsupported by economic reality, it flouts common sense in ways that only extraordinary popular delusions can. There is the implicit notion, for one, that just a handful of supposedl...Read More
We will start this update by looking at gold's price measured against various important currencies. These long-term charts quickly make clear that gold is in a major bullmarket, which is another way of saying that these currencies are losing purchasing power.Gold in Australian dollars...Gold in Canadian dollars...Gold in Japanese Yen...Gold in Swiss Francs...So we should clearly not allow oursel...Read More
The PM stocks have moved nicely over the past 2 weeks. Many gold investors wanting in on the next big move have been left on the sidelines under invested. It's my view that this has occurred because everyone and his brother has had one eye on the often published gold and silver seasonality chart. This chart is a composite of 40 years of action and shows gold weak until late July and silver...Read More
By: Ira EpsteinCovid waves spooking markets. Gold's monthly, weekly, daily chart, pushing the upper Bollinger bands and the longer the market stays over it, the stronger the bull market is:Read More