Cove gold property in Nevada. Credit: Premier Gold Mines. Premier Gold Mines (TSE: PG) has announced an overnight marketed offering of C$38 million, increased from approximately C$33 million previously. The offering, co-led by CIBC Capital Markets and Sprott Capital Partners, will involve the issue of 25.3 million shares at C$1.50 each with the option to issue an additional 3.8 million shares for...Read More

Aerial view, Turnagain project site. Image from Giga Metals. Giga Metals (TSX: GIGA) announced that, based on ongoing metallurgical testwork, it has obtained significantly improved nickel and cobalt recoveries for samples from the Turnagain deposit in northern British Columbia.Recent tests have shown that separating fast-floating nickel minerals from slower-floating material allows this latter po...Read More

Deadly virus outbreak hammers orange metal. Credit: Health Policy Watch China's battery storage production capacity could reduce by as much as 10% to 237 gigawatt-hour (GWh) in 2020 compared to the pre-coronavirus 2020 forecast, research firm Wood Mackenzie said in a note on Wednesday. Based on operational and announced capacity, this represents more than 26 GWh of production for 2020. More ca...Read More

Brucejack gold mine. Credit: Pretium Resources. Pretium Resources (NYSE, TSX: PGV) reported its 2019 results and production outlook for 2020 on Wednesday, revealing that it expects to produce 325,000 to 365,000 oz. gold a year while it mines the Valley of the Kings zone, a significant drop from the 525,000 oz. long-term output rate forecast last year. Pretium said the change in the production out...Read More

An outcrop at Monarch Gold's Fayolle gold property, 35 km northeast of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. Credit: Monarch Gold. Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) reported on Wednesday total assets of just over C$76 million ($57 million) for the second quarter ended December 31, 2019.The Canadian company said that it undertook several strategic initiatives since the end of 2019 to develop major projects in the mining...Read More

Share this articleTORONTO - The formation of the Nevada Gold Mines joint venture last year, along with strong performances from Latin American, Asia Pacific and Africa/Middle East operations, helped Barrick Gold Corp. beat analyst expectations in the fourth quarter.The Toronto-based miner reported Wednesday gold production of 5.465 million ounces in 2019, at the top end of its guidance range, w...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER, GREAT ATLANTIC RESOURCES CORP. [TSXV.GR] is pleased to announce it has received analytical results for the fourth drill hole (GP19-140) completed during the 2019 Phase 1 diamond drilling program at its Golden Promise Gold Property, located within the central Newfoundland gold belt. The drilling program was conducted at the Jaclyn Main Zone. GP19-140 intersected a near...Read More

Share this articleTORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. raised its dividend as it reported a fourth-quarter profit of nearly US$1.39 billion.The gold miner, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, says it will now pay a quarterly dividend of seven cents per share, up from a nickel per share.The increased payment to shareholders came as Barrick earned 78 cents per share in the quarter ended Dec. 31 compar...Read More

So you can't make any money in oil and gas anymore?When Jim Cramer said that, I imagine that quite a few investors nodded their heads in agreement.Those people were also the same ones who waited until oil topped $100 before they got their feet wet.They were also the first to buy shares of Tesla at $968.99 apiece.Let's see how that trade works out for them. But we can see why he took the most beari...Read More

Gold will outperform the S&P 500 Index in 2020. That's one of several projections made by CLSA in its just-released "Global Surprises 2020" report.The Hong Kong investment firm has an impressive track record when it comes to making market predictions last year it had a 70 percent hit rate so it may be prudent to take this one seriously.CLSA's head of research Shaun Cochran: "If investors are con...Read More

David HaggithThere is, at least, one highly recognized economist who agrees with me that a recession started forming in the summer of 2019 and is still emerging, in spite of the Fed's strongest efforts to stop it David Rosenberg:We recall all too well the euphoria that followed the early 2001 and late 2007 Fed rate cuts and curve-steepening shifts, that then switched to malaise as the recess...Read More

Craig Hemke, TF MetalsAs you know, we've been following the palladium story for over two years now. It is very important to understand that this is NOT a speculative, COMEX story. Instead, this is a physical supply story that emanates from London. To that end, today let's review the COMEX data to see how The Banks are responding in this futures-only market.Let's begin with the chart below. This...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinGold has a lower highs and lower lows over the short-term. Choppy action. We are at the 18-dma, the battleground..Read More

Global manufacturers are waiting till end February to decide on their outsourcing strategy. If there is supply disruptions from China from March onwards then they will look to India and other Asian nations for their supplies. US economic numbers are not affecting gold price. Trend of all metals and energies on or after 18th February will be the key. China will fully reopen by then. There will be...Read More

With this deal, Ely Gold Royalties will own six properties and royalties there. Vancouver-based Ely Gold Royalties Inc. (ELY:TSX.V; ELYGF:OTCQB) announced in a news release that its subsidiary, Nevada Select Royalty, agreed to purchase, from a private seller, eight unpatented mining claims at McEwen Mining's Gold Bar mine in Nevada."This transaction gives us two additional properties in the Nevad...Read More

Pretium Resources also provides guidance for 2020 costs, cash flow and debt reduction. Pretium's Brucejack MineIn a news release, Pretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) announced that in 2019 it exceeded the upper end of its gold production guidance, the lower end of its all-in sustaining cost (AISC) guidance and its debt reduction goal. During full-year 2019, the Canadian miner produced 354,...Read More

Bob Moriarty of 321gold discusses the name change and prospects for Canadian Palladium Resources. I first wrote about a company named 21C last May. The company has a pair of "green energy" projects, palladium in Canada and cobalt/copper in Europe. And easily had the worse name of any company I ever knew. I hated the name 21C. What exactly did that mean?Well, no thanks to me, the company changed t...Read More

Ron Struthers of Struthers' Resource Stock Report shares his thoughts on gold and the coronavirus, and profiles Rockridge Resources, a company with an advanced-stage copper project and a high-grade gold prospect, both in Canada. Gold is about to soar in price because of a worldwide misinformation campaign. So far the effects from the coronavirus are being mostly ignored by the markets. There seem...Read More

Althoughits decline was not yet significant, the USD Index finally declined yesterday.Given the recent breakout above the November 2019 highs, this move lower mightleave one with mixed feelings. TheUSDX in the Short RunOnone hand, the USD Index just closed above the November high for the thirdconsecutive trading day, which confirms the breakout, and is a bullish factor.Onthe other hand, the USD In...Read More

As the thirdmost-consumed metal on earth, behind iron and aluminum, copper is all aroundus. Found naturally in the earth’s crust, copper was among the first metalsused by early humans, dating back to the 8th century, BC.  Three thousandyears later homo sapiens figured out how to smelt copper from its ore, and toalloy it with tin to create bronze. Bronze was useful for tools and weapons,...Read More