Credit: Blast Movement Technologies Hexagon has announced the acquisition of Blast Movement Technologies (BMT) from RCF Jolimont Mining Innovation. BMT supplies a unique blast movement measurement technology to the global mining industry. BMT's technology enables accurate delineation of ore boundaries after blasting in open pit mining. This enables miners to recover more ore, increasing efficienc...Read More

Bernstein analysed long-term price to earnings (Shiller P/E) for the mining industry, finding valuations are at 100-year lows.Read More

Under terms of the agreement effective from January 2021-2027, Teck will increase contracted shipping capacity from the Price Rupert terminal from three million tonnes per annum to 6Mtpa, with anRead More

BMT had been owned by RCF Jolimont Mining Innovation, which bought the company from its founders in 2015.The BMT technology allows the accurate delineation of ore boundaries after blasting in opencut mines, helping miners reduce waste and only target the material they need. It involves putting orange softball-sized sensors into the blast holes. After the blast those sensors are tracked to fin...Read More

Today is Wednesday, January 8, 2020, and this is your daily gold market update. Let's look at the latest price of gold, value of the dollar, gold/silver ratio, Commitment of Traders data, and exchange-traded fund (ETF) prices to get a sense of how the yellow metal is faring today.Gold PriceThe price of one troy ounce of gold in U.S. dollars today is $1,560.30. It's down -0.89% from yesterday and u...Read More

Today is Wednesday, January 8, 2020, and this is your daily oil stocks roundup. Today we're looking at the valuations of Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN), Enbridge (NYSE: ENB), and ONEOK (NYSE: OKE).Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN)Devon Energy Corporation (NYSE: DVN) is a $9.748 billion company today with a one-year return of 4.5%. Let's look at its price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio, its enter...Read More

For the first time since 2013, the price of gold rallied overnight, hitting $1,600 an ounce after it was reported that more than a dozen Iranian missiles were fired at a U.S. military base overnight in Iraq.Safe-haven buyers wisely began purchasing gold last week following the assassination of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, which is assumed to have prompted last night's attack. Since then,...Read More

- Gary ChristensonBreaking news: The impeachment circus continues, the trade deal is both off and on, tweets and Iran news move the market, S&P 500 Index hit new highs (thanks to central bank liquidity), and more of the same nonsense will unfortunately create more of the same.WHAT HAPPENS TO PRICES NEXT DECADE IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS?What we know, think we know and speculation:WHAT WE KNOW THAT HAS...Read More

- Dave KranzlerUnequivocally, the "repo" operations by the Fed is "QE." Well, let's just call it what it is because "QE" was coined in place of "money printing." The socially correct posture to assume on Wall Street and in DC at the Fed is to label the current bout of money printing "repo operations." In fact, based on all of the underlying data I scour daily, let's just cut to the chase a...Read More

Craig Hemke, TF MetalsThe year 2019 unfolded just about as we predicted in our annual look-ahead post entitled "2010+9". And that's nice. But it's all for naught if we fail to correctly forecast where we go from here. With that in mind, here's a first look at what to expect in 2020.These annual forecasts are risky business. Get it wrong and you create a paper trail for trolls to poach for years...Read More

By Ira EpsteinIn terms of Bullishness, 18 day moving average crosses over 100 day moving average, gold entering 4th day of over Bollinger bands, another bullish sign of gold market..Read More

Comex February futures rose to $1613.30 as I prepare this report. Big jump of over $30 (from yesterday's close) on Iran's retaliation. American and European reaction will be closely watched. Whether the reaction by Iran will turn into a full fledged war or it is just a one off move remains to be seen. Traders and all alike will prefer to be long in gold than short. Yesterday USA session price mo...Read More

The study suggests a low-cost mining operation at the Ontario property is possible. Generation Mining Ltd. (GENM:CSE; GENMF:OTCQB) announced in a news release the results of a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its 51%-owned Marathon palladium-copper project in northern Ontario."The PEA provides a compelling base case assessment for the development of the Marathon palladium mineral resource...Read More

Bill Powers of Mining Stock Education sits down with Kevin Drover, CEO of Aurcana, to talk about the company's production plans for its high-grade project in Colorado.Aurcana Corporation (AUN:TSX.V; AUNFF:OTCQX) has 100% ownership of the world's highest-grade silver mine (P&P): the Revenue-Virginius mine in Ouray, Colorado, USA. This fully permitted mine will also be one of the lowest-cost silver...Read More

In this interview with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable, Exploration Insights' Brent Cook discusses the value of site visits to determining the potential of a prospect, and offers insights into various metals markets. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for conversation is Brent Cook. He's the founder of the highly regarded Exploration Insights. Mr. Cook, you're one of the most trusted, highly re...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund discusses the effects of geopolitics on the price of gold. In this update I am not going to repeat the points made in the last fairly comprehensive update, instead we are going to focus on the importance of the resistance level just above where the price is now, and impact of the killing of the Iranian general and its potential implications for the gold price. On the...Read More

Let’s put the geopolitical gyrations in oil into aproper perspective by taking a look at the monthly chart. The overall situationhasn’t changed much as crude oil is still trading inside the blue consolidationbelow three very important resistances (the red and orange bearishgaps and the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement), which form the key resistance zonefor the coming week(s). Additionally,...Read More

Santa Claus rally in Gold and Silver Crowns a very good yearIt was a very good year for precious metals.  Gold posted a nearly 19% gain and silver rose over 17%.  As you can see in the chart below, the move higher began in early summer defying the annual summer doldrums, hit an impasse during autumn, then ended the year with a surprise Santa Claus rally that took it over the $1520 mark....Read More

- Gary ChristensonBreaking news: The impeachment circus continues, the trade deal is both off and on, tweets and Iran news move the market, S&P 500 Index hit new highs (thanks to central bank liquidity), and more of the same nonsense will unfortunately create more of the same.WHAT HAPPENS TO PRICES NEXT DECADE IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS?What we know, think we know and speculation:WHAT WE KNOW THAT HAS...Read More

- Dave KranzlerUnequivocally, the "repo" operations by the Fed is "QE." Well, let's just call it what it is because "QE" was coined in place of "money printing." The socially correct posture to assume on Wall Street and in DC at the Fed is to label the current bout of money printing "repo operations." In fact, based on all of the underlying data I scour daily, let's just cut to the chase a...Read More