Canada's Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) has agreed to acquire a copper-gold operation in Brazil from fellow miner Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY), (TSE: YRI) in a $1 billion-deal as it looks to beef up its base metals portfolio.The Chapada mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goi??s, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of copper and 100,000 ounces of gold this year.The...Read More

American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) is seeing the payoff of its efforts to develop a technology capable of recycling cathode material and generating products for lithium-ion batteries that are as close to the final form as possible.This week, the Surrey, British Columbia-based company announced that independent lab Kemetco ran a series of tests and the results showed that AMY's pilot plant was able to...Read More

We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of examples of share prices declining precipitously after insiders have sold shares. So before you buy or s...Read full newsRead More

Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More

Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More

* Gold may revisit April 4 low of $1,280.59 -analyst * Silver hits 3-1/2-month lows * Asian shares near nine-month high (Updates prices)By Sethuraman N RApril 15 (Reuters) - Gold prices fell on Monday to a morethan one-week low as progress in U.S.-China trade talks liftedrisk sentiment, taking the sheen off safe-haven bullion even asthe dollar weakened.Spot gold dipped 0.5 percent to $1,283.65 per...Read More

* Focus on credit and liquidity in China * Zinc stocks at historical low (Updates with closing prices)By Pratima DesaiLONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Copper prices steadied onMonday, reinforced by a lower dollar and healthy economicnumbers from China ahead of a barrage of growth data later thisweek from the top consumer.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange endedlittle changed at $6,480 a ton...Read More

REVIEW AND PREVIEW Basel III Capital Adequacy Ratio Minimum Requirement. ... As of 2017, under Basel III, a bank's tier 1 and tier 2 capital must be at least 8% of its risk-weighted assets. The minimum capital adequacy ratio (including the capital conservation buffer) is 10.5%. https://www.investopedia.com/ March 24, 2019. World stock markets performed unevenly last week, but certainly within...Read More

* FTSE 100 ends flat; FTSE 250 up 0.5 pct * Miners, oil stocks biggest drags * IWG jumps on sale of Japan business, CS rating hike * Indivior surges on hopes of a lower U.S. fine(Adds company news items, updates to closing prices)By Muvija MApril 15 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 was at a loss fordirection on Monday as a dip in miners and oil majors offsetgains in bank stocks, while office group I...Read More

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), the world's second largest miner, will invest a further $302 million to advance its Resolution copper project, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as part of its drive to increase its exposure to the red metal, used in everything from electric vehicles to batteries.The extra financing brings the total injected by Rio, which owns a 55% interest in the project, and its Resolution...Read More

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Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The Index had a fairly quiet week but drifted 2.5 points higher by week's end to close at 1149.39.MACD remained fairly firm and dipped 1.68 points to 57.90. MACD rose 1.49 to 2.35 and now is clearly on a MACD buy signal.Support is now at 1139 and 1121 (its lower Bollinger band). Overhead...Read More

* First greenfield aluminium mill in U.S. for 37 years * Rusal looks to invest $200 million in the mill * To supply 2.0 mln T of low-carbon aluminium over 10 years (Releads, adds detail throughout)By Polina DevittMOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Rusal is making itsfirst investment in the United States since Washington liftedsanctions against the Russian aluminium giant, teaming up withU.S. manufacture...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Norra Metals Corp. (TSX-V:NORA) (the "Company" or "Norra") is pleased to announce that it has submitted four recently completed, NI 43-101 technical reports on its newly acquired Scandinavian properties to the TSX.V and has now filed those reports on SEDAR.The four Scandinavian projects; Bastutr??sk in Sweden, and the three Norwegian properties; Bleikvassli, Mer??ker and Sagvoll...Read More

MAS Gold (TSXV: MAS) has completed a 3,500-metre drill program in Saskatchewan, targeting the Point gold prospect on its Preview Lake property and the North Lake gold prospect on its North Lake property. Point sits 60 km northeast of La Ronge, Sask., and North Lake is 5 km northeast of Point."It has been in a bit of a slowdown for a number of years, because our joint-venture partner went through r...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday April 12 that are worth another look.Sentiment was unusually bearish at this year's Cesco week in Santiago, Chile, with copper market participants increasingly concerned that sluggish demand in China will limit the upside potential of the red metal price. Steel market participants in the United Kingdom and Europe renewe...Read More

Billet prices in the major global markets continued to soften over the week ended Friday April 12 due to the lack of demand and the continuing falls in the price of scrap, notably in Turkey.The exception to this was the Chinese market, where active demand from re-rolling mills resulted in reduced billet inventories, pushing prices upward.The spot inventory was 577,000 tonnes on Thursday in Tangsha...Read More

April 12th, 2019(S14-E691)Featured GuestsMartin Armstrong & Dr. Douglas VogtPlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say GoldSeek Radio sent you!).The head of The Diehold Foundation, Dr. Douglas Vogt makes his show debut in Part I of the discussion.The Diehold message could be the most important message of the...Read More

By: PlungerHaving trouble making sense of the market? Do you feel like you are living in some sort of a parallel universe where almost everything happening in the market seems to be the opposite of what you have learned should happen? You are not alone so let's try to make some sense of it. This weekend I will present two possible outcomes for the stock market and the rational behind them....Read More

Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Central banks get away with the flaming hypocrisy illustrated below because mainstream news organizations don't dare to put a critical question to them.Here, if David Lawder and Leika Kihara of Reuters were serious journalists, and their editor, Paul Simao, had the wit for his job, someone from Reuters would have asked the managing director of the International Monet...Read More