Porgera gold mine. (Image courtesy of Barrick Gold.) Zijin Mining, China's no.1 gold producer and second largest copper miner, has revised down its gold production guidance for 2020 after Papua New Guinea (PNG) refused to extend the mining lease for the Porgera mine it operates with Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX) (NYSE: GOLD). Zijin had forecast gold productionfor the year of 44 tonnes, rising to 42-47...Read More
(Image courtesy of the Minerals Council of Australia). The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has given interim authorization to the Minerals Council of Australia, the Australian Aluminium Council and state resources bodies to jointly source safety equipment and spare parts for the operation of machinery and mining equipment.According to the Minerals Council, the decision implies that...Read More
Electric car. (Image by stux, Pixabay). Nano One Materials (TSX-V: NNO) announced that its high-performance lithium-ion battery cathode materials, which are produced at a low cost using proprietary technology, tested positively in solid-state batteries for electric vehicles.The largest single challenge for those working on solid-state batteries is being able to design a stable and commercially vi...Read More
Bob Moriarty ArchivesApr 27, 2020Every crisis needs a good name to be memorable. The events of September 11th, 2001 were a natural to be 911. But what do we call our current crisis to really reflect reality and be memorable at the same moment?It began as the Corona Virus. But should that be Corona Virus with a space or better put as Coronavirus? There seemed to be no consensus so the media and pub...Read More
The company previously set full-year mining services EBITDA guidance at $280-300 million.Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Silvercorp Metals Inc. says it has struck a deal to buy Guyana Goldfields Inc. in a cash-and-shares transaction worth about $105 million.The two Canadian miners say the transaction will create a diversified company by combining Silvercorp's two underground silver mining operations in China with Guyana Goldfields' Aurora gold mining operation in Guyana.Guyana Goldf...Read More
With most of the country still under lockdown and COVID-19 still dominating all news, is it an appropriate time to expand the government's power to spy on its citizens?One federal judge in Maryland believes so.On Friday, U.S. District Judge Richard Bennett cleared a pilot program that would surveil Baltimore City residents using spy cameras attached to airplanes.Under the six-month pilot program u...Read More
TECHNICAL SCOOPCharts and commentary by David ChapmanChief Strategist, Enriched Investing Inc.Phone: 416-523-5454 Email: david@davidchapman.comdchapman@enrichedinvesting.comTwitter: @Davcha12April 27, 2020 The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future...Read More
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, April 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Gold Resource Corporation (NYSE American: GORO) (the "Company") declares its monthly instituted dividend of one-third of a cent per common share for April 2020 payable on May 26, 2020 to shareholders of record as of May 11, 2020. Gold Resource Corporation is a gold and silver producer, developer and explorer with oper...Read More
Physical gold continued to catch a bid last week, trading above $1,760 an ounce, on a host of head-spinning economic news, from millions more Americans filing jobless claims to record money-printing to negative oil prices. The national average price for a gallon of gasoline fell further to $1.78 on Friday, down more than $1 a gallon from a year ago. But the lowest price in the country may belong...Read More
Strengths? The best performing metal this week was gold, up 2.78 percent. ETFs added 36,334 troy ounces of gold to their holdings on Thursday, bringing this year's net purchases to 12.2 million ounces, according to Bloomberg data. That marks the 24th straight day of increases for ETFs backed by the yellow metal. Newmont, the world's largest gold company, increased its quarterly d...Read More
No one anticipated negative crude oil even in the wildest of the dreams. A whooping negative -$40.32 was historic. The coming generations will have a chapter in their MBA course as to why crude oil prices reached -$40.32. The trading lesson is simple, when price move as per fundamentals, never trade against it. Silver has not risen as it is an industrial metal. Investment demand for silver lags...Read More
Nexus Gold announced the agreement for its newly acquired asset. In a news release, Nexus Gold Corp. (NXS:TSX.V; NXXGF:OTCQB) announced it entered an agreement to option its Dorset gold project in Newfoundland to Leocor Ventures for $2.75 million in cash and expenditures.Per the definitive agreement, Leocor, a Vancouver-based minerals explorer, will be able to acquire up to a 100% interest in Nex...Read More
Pretium Resources reported that it filed an updated technical report for its Brucejack Mine and stated that it will announce Q1/20 earnings on April 30, 2020. Pretium's Brucejack MineIn a news release, Vancouver-based intermediate gold producer Pretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) announced that it has submitted an updated Mineral Reserve and Mineral Resource and Life of Mine Plan for the B...Read More
The Critical Investor discusses recent developments at the company that is exploring the Goliath Gold Project in Ontario. Treasury MetalsLike most projects around the world, Treasury Metals Inc. (TML:TSX; TSRMF:OTCBB) is temporarily slowing down and shutting down drilling at its Goliath Gold project in Ontario, caused by the omnipresent COVID-19 pandemic, but as it has been completing over half o...Read More
Though sector expert Michael Ballanger's focus is on the precious metals, given current market conditions he sees potential in oil as well. Before I get started on my weekly commentary, I want to thank you all for the waterfall of responses to A Boomer's Plea posted last weekend, in what I must confess was my most impassioned missive of a multi-decade writing career. Speaking out as a member of...Read More
There are as many ways to play the PM sector as there are investors. Some will only buy the big cap PM stocks for safety. Others will only buy the mid cap producers. Some will only buy a mix of big caps and mid cap producers. And then there are the PM stock investors that will only play the juniors. Each has its own advantage depending on your risk tolerance. Some of you are wondering why is Rambu...Read More
Chris Vermeulen, CEO & Founder of Technical Traders Ltd., joins Tom Bodrovics at Palisade Radio to discuss the markets and Chris says, “This is the time to really be paying attention to the markets… It could be a bloodbath.”Chris is seeing uncertainty that could bring equities lower as money is flowing into safe havens. The charts are showing that markets are approaching a m...Read More
Gold stocks are the crazy ride in the markets. The swing are so great it does not matter if you miss a bullish the break out as another deep pull back allows you to enter with ease. The good news is the (!XAU) PHLX Gold/Silver Index (in the chart below) is very friendly to price cycles. These cycles can be used for timing markets, it also makes it clear if you fight the price cycle you may be in l...Read More