The company's Q1/19 numbers and the impact of its latest acquisition are discussed in a ROTH Capital Partners note. In a May 16 research note, analyst Jake Sekelsky reported that ROTH Capital Partners raised its target price on Great Panther Mining Ltd. (GPR:TSX; GPL:NYSE.American) to US$2.25 per share from US$1.80 (versus about US$0.70 today) after incorporating the Tucano mine acquisition and a...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts gold and explains why he believes gold will turn higher later in the summer. Gold and silver dropping back again late last week had investors in the precious metals sector feeling despondent, especially as their fears were magnified by at least one analyst calling for gold to drop to the low $900s or even lower, which is normal when prices sink, but our charts...Read More

“Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is a heterodox macroeconomic framework that says monetarily sovereign countries like the U.S., U.K., Japan and Canada are not operationally constrained by revenues when it comes to federal government spending. In other words, such governments do not need taxes or borrowing for spending since they can print as much as they need and are the monopoly issuers of the...Read More

Gold and silver dropping back again late last week had investors in the Precious Metals sector feeling despondent, especially as their fears were magnified by at least one analyst calling for gold to drop to the low $900's or even lower, which is normal when prices sink, but our charts are instead suggesting that gold and silver are close to completing giant bottoming patterns that started to fo...Read More

May 17th, 2019(S14-E696)Featured GuestsGerald Celente& Louis NavellierPlease Listen HereInterview RecapTrends Research Institute's Gerald Celente returns with a new daily video podcast Trends Vision 2020.US equities indexes recorded new records last month on the heels of fresh monetary stimulus.Policymakers will likely revamp US shares ahead of a forecasted market swoon sometime near the 2020...Read More

By: Doug CaseyThe Chinese came from nothing; only 40 years ago, they had nothing but a billion impoverished peasants. No money. No technology. No power. Today, they're on par with the United States. But, if this trend continues - which it will - their economy will be triple the size of the US economy in 20 years.Not just a trade war, but a shooting war with the Chinese seems inevitable. Because...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinFull out (trade) warfare with China. Monthly gold chart - stuck in sideways action for years:Read More

By: Avi GilburtAs I watched and traded the market action over the last several weeks, I witnessed something quite amazing. Yet, this was not the first time I have seen this.Each time the market was set up for a smaller change of directional move, a news event or a "tweet" seemed to have come out at almost the exact time we need to see the market change direction.While many saw the news as affect...Read More

So how does Game of Thrones end? Never having watched the show, I couldn't care less. But thirty million fans evidently do. We haven't seen America this worked up about so trivial a concern since Kristin Shephard shot J.R. Ewing nearly 40 years ago in a landmark episode of Dallas. TV was free back then, and so the audience worldwide was more than ten times that of Game of Thrones. Could th...Read More

RAPAPORT... Frederick Goldman has opened a lab-grown manufacturing center inMexico as part of its new jewelry supply business.  Jewelry SolutionsGroup manufactures custom diamond jewelry and engagement rings, delivered to customer within a week. The venture is comprised of two units, an existing facility for natural-diamond jewelry, and a separate site for lab-grown pieces, both in Mexic...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has discovered asynthetic layer that improved the weight and color of a natural diamond, and haswarned that the phenomenon may be happening more often. The cushion modified brilliant, 0.64-carat stone containedabout 0.10 carats of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond, the GIA estimatedin a lab note last week. The lab-grown layer was greyish...Read More

RAPAPORT... Sarine Technologies posted a loss in the first quarter ascredit problems in the Indian manufacturing sector led to softened demand forits equipment. The diamond-technology company reported a net loss of $1.4million, versus a profit of $3.1 million for the same period last year, thecompany said last week. The company's customers in India, its largest market,struggled to obtain cred...Read More

RAPAPORT... Two jewelry veterans have debuted a group that aims toincrease awareness of, and demand for, lab-grown diamonds in the US. The Lab Grown Diamond Council (LGDC) will introduce newinitiatives for the synthetics market, including research services, socialmedia and education about sustainability. Chris Casey, the former publisher of National Jeweler,will serve as the group's president, an...Read More

Russia's major diamond mining firms including Alrosa have urged India to amend consumer laws on synthetic diamonds so that there is clarity on the quantity of synthetic diamonds entering the country and how they are being used, Indiass Economic Times: reported. Industry executives said that around 5 million carats of synthetic diamonds are produced globally, and the volume is increasing, cau...Read More

The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) held its first - virtual - annual general meeting (AGM) this week, appointing a series of new board members. The event was broadcasted to all RJC member companies globally from Chatham House in London on Tuesday 14 May 2019. During the meeting, RJC Chair David Bouffard announced a series of appointments to the RJC board of directors and its standards, assura...Read More

The Zimbabwean news website Bulawayo24 reported that National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire had heard that the Chinese authorities has refused to honor a $5 billion loan that was requested by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. He noted that China argued it had only pledged to honor the loan agreements made during the tenure of former President Robert Mugabe, adding that that China is s...Read More

Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsSpeaking at the Latin America Down Under conference in Perth, the Canadian company's director of projects, Zenon Wozniak said the massive project had moved into the operations phase last quarter withRead More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipHot Chili secures copper 'super hub' SPONSOREDhot chili limitedVimy ready for move to higher uranium groundSPONSOREDvimy resourcesHole FSDH028 hit 547.5m at 0.4% copper, 0.78g/t gold and 8g/t silver from 16m.The final 20m averaged 0.67% copper, 0.74g/t gold and 43.5g/t...Read More

One million dollars has long been the benchmark for how much retirees need to have saved for a comfortable retirement. However, it appears a cool million doesn't go too far these days. A new report by GoBankingRates, looked at how long a nest egg of $1 million would last in the U.S. The study compared average expenses for people age 65 and older, including groceries, housing, utilities, transporta...Read More

BETANZOS, BOLIVIA - Vancouver-based junior New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) could be on the verge of a major silver discovery in south-central Bolivia, after clinching a pioneering deal with Bolivian authorities.For 500 years, since the discovery of the giant Cerro Rico silver deposit at Potosi, Bolivia has tantalized visitors with its mineral wealth. But the country's unstable polit...Read More