Drilling for uranium in the Nigerian desert. Source: GoviEx Uranium Inc.GoviEx Uranium Inc. [GXU-TSX; GVXXF-OTCQB] said Monday April 8 that it has reached a framework deal with the government of Niger, Africa to jointly develop the company's flagship Madaouela uranium project."This is the culmination of more than 12 years of relentless work and millions of man hours by GoviEx management and our Ni...Read More

Trevali’s wholly-owned Caribou Mine and Mill Complex consists of a developed underground mine with significant resources of zinc-lead-silver-copper-gold, a fully permitted 3,000-tonne-per-day processing mill, flotation recovery plant, metallurgical and geochemical laboratories, and a tailings treatment facility, all located approximately 50-km west of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.Trevali...Read More

If you're a Tesla (NASAQ: TSLA) bear, you've been having a good year, so far.Between battles with the SEC and lower-than-expected delivery numbers, Elon Musk and Tesla have recently been the target for extreme criticism - mostly launched by those who have been excessively critical of the company since it first went public at $19.00 a share.But I'm not here to bury Tesla.Plenty of others are doing...Read More

President Trump denounced wind energy last week at the National Republican Congressional Committee fundraiser in Washington, D.C."If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75% in value. And they say the noise causes cancer, you tell me that one, OK?" the President said, imitating the whirring sound made by wind turbines.The comment has, of course,...Read More

"We are on the precipice of the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world. And that makes perfect sense because, first of all, we have the largest elderly population in the history of the world.Just focusing on the United States: our elderly are woefully unprepared to retire. And in the decades to come we will witness millions of elderly American's, Baby Boomers and others, slipping i...Read More

Mohamed El-Erian is the Chief Economic Adviser of Allianz, a multinational financial services company. He is the former CEO and co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, a global investment firm and one of the world's largest bond funds in the world. Dr. El-Erian also served as a member of the faculty of Harvard Business School. Before joining PIMCO, Dr. El-Erian was a managing director at Salomon Smi...Read More

Barclay Leib (@btl0823) founder and principal of Sand Spring Advisors, LLC, comes by the office to discuss asset allocation, forensic accounting and Wall Street history.1:44 Rules for selecting fund managers5:40 Where does "edge" come from?8:18 Fun and games in fund returns12:17 The famous Hunt brothers trade18:30 Unfavorable prices? Regulate them awayJames "Jim" Grant is an American writer and pu...Read More

The treatment "has broad implications for multiple types of cancer...This method could also increase the success of other immunotherapies such as checkpoint blockade."Continue...Read More

"The Kingdom has been trading its oil in dollars for decades which has served well the objectives of its financial and monetary policies." Continue...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund charts gold and discusses the factors he believes point to an iminent rally. I was in receipt of the following erudite communication about Commercial gold short positions yesterday from a friend in Toronto. . ."Re: HOLY SHISA BATMAN: THE COMMERCIALS COVERED OVER 70 000 Gold Short Contracts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Can you say WOW!!!!!!!!!!". . .and while I myself wo...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund looks at the silver charts and discusses the metal's upside potential. There were several developments last week that taken together suggest that the short-term bearish scenario set out in the Gold and Silver Interim update about a week ago is not going to materialize and instead that the original grander scenario described in the last full Silver Market update is go...Read More

In conversation with Maurice Jackson of Proven & Probable, the executive chairman for this Canada-based company provides updates on operations and acquisition of permits for its flagship project. Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Dan Weir, the executive chairman for DNI Metals Inc. (DNI:CSE; DMNKF:OTC), which is establishing itself to become one of the world's leading graphite pro...Read More

Europe’s 2nd biggest gold mine could beabout to make early investors rich.This story beginsover 2,000 years ago when the Romans dug up $16.8 billion in gold in Romania...Using hammers and buckets. And now a little company with big ambitionsis coming back to the same site to unearth the rest. Using modern technology, they’re hoping to exploit an estimated$13.3 billion find. Smart invest...Read More

By: IRA EPSTEIN Is Gold Building a Base or a Top?Read More

By: IRA EPSTEIN Is Gold Building a Base or a Top?Read More

Trump wants interest rate cuts this year. His strategy is simple: Weaken the US dollar ? A weaker US dollar will help US exports and also reduce import ? Higher employment will be there if interest rate cuts are there and the US dollar also weakens. The ultimate goal of all these moves is to get a re-nomination next year and also win next year presidential elections. The fallout of a weaker US d...Read More

I recently spoke with Maximilian Sali, who along with Brad Telfer founded Barrian Mining Corp. Interesting to note is that Max comes from a long lineage of successful investors, his father was a founder and a director of Qtrade Securities, a large Canadian discount brokerage that had a major stake purchased by Desjardins and his uncle was a top producing broker in Vancouver who ran Dundee Securi...Read More

The GDXJ/GDX (Junior/Senior Miners) Ratio can create meaningful reversal patterns and send important signals to the mining sector, at key inflection points. Did the ratio send an important signal to miners last week? Possible!The GDXJ/GDX ratio has traded sideways for the past couple of years inside (1). The ratio has sent very few important messages to the bull or bear case since early 2017, whil...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers sightholders are bracing for lower rough supplyfor the rest of 2019 as the miner reduces its production and fulfills itscommitments to support local manufacturing in Africa.The company expects production to drop as its Victor minein Canada closes and the Venetia operation in South Africa shifts from open-pitto underground mining. It has predicted output of 31 million to 33 mil...Read More

RAPAPORT... Firestone Diamonds has unearthed a 72-carat rough yellowstone from its Liqhobong mine in Lesotho, along with two other largegem-quality diamonds. The miner also found a white stone weighing 22 carats and an11-carat, fancy-light-pink diamond, it said Monday. "It was a good weekend for us, recovering the 72-caratdiamond as well as the two smaller, high-quality stones from within the nor...Read More