Great Atlantic Resources (TSXV.GR) announced that, in the spring of 2018, it will start drilling at its Porcupine base metal - precious metal - rare earth element project located in the eastern Canadian province of New Brunswick. The site is approximately 50 kilometres west of the city of Miramichi and occupies a land package of 2,830 hectares.Following the approval of a diamond drilling permit fo...Read More
Kutcho project1. IntroductionVery rarely I come across a junior that simply seems to tick almost all boxes, and it looks like new sponsor Kutcho Copper Corp. (KC:TSX.V) is doing just that. From project profitability to management, from financials to geology, from location to metal prices, it comes across as a genuine display of quality and excellence. CEO Vince Sorace certainly made the most of...Read More
The world's leading gold-stock ETF is nearing a major upside breakout from key technical levels. GDX is getting closer to challenging and powering above $25. That would accelerate the sentiment shift in this deeply-undervalued sector back to bullish, enticing investors to return. Good operating results from the major gold miners in their upcoming Q4'17 earnings season could prove the catalys...Read More
Jeff Desjardins on January 18, 2018If for some reason, you still think that the commodity markets are predictable, today's chart provides a nice piece of humble pie.The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns, which comes to us annually from our friends at U.S. Global Investors, shows the returns of commodities over each year of the past decade.As you may have guessed, commodities are a volatile ass...Read More
Wood Mackenzie sees copper demand increasing significatively over global supply in the next decade and, together with it, miners' need for reliable sources of water."As constant and high demand for copper leads to resources running out, copper grades will progressively diminish. As a result, water demand will increase because it will be necessary to process more material to obtain the same amount...Read More
Chile's environmental authority - SMA - has ordered the definitive closure of Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) already halted Pascua-Lama project, but lowered the fine for violations to 7 billion pesos ($11.5 million) from the previous $16 million it had charged the company."Given the nature and the size of the breaches that the company committed, there is the conviction that total and definitive...Read More
Rio Tinto-controlled Turquoise Hill (TSX, NYSE:TRQ) has declared force majeure at its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia, following protests by Chinese coal haulers that have interrupted shipments near the border.In a note released Wednesday night, the Vancouver-based miner said that earlier this month protestors used a large number of vehicles to block the main access road...Read More
Boreal Metals (TSX-V: BMX / Frankfurt: 03E) is a base & precious metals explorer in Scandinavia that is making a major push into the key green energy tech metal Cobalt ("Co"). The management team & Board have a remarkable amount of experience for a company with a market cap of $17 M plus ~$3 M in cash. [~52 M shares outstanding]In addition to 4 projects with exploration poten...Read More
Palisade Research January 18, 2018 Category: Research Hello Subscriber, While I’m writing you this, gold is on its way to $1,400. . .That makes gold up 8% since this time last month. No wonder many of the largest asset managers in the world are piling into the yellow metal. . .They are positioning themselves for gold’s new bull-market. But more importantly - are you setting yourself up...Read More
SANTIAGO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Output at BHP Billiton PLC's Escondida mine in Chile, the largest copper mine in the world, fell 7.8 percent in 2017 compared to the prior year due to a prolonged strike, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.The decline to 903,000 tonnes came despite the start of operations at a new wing.BHP said production in the second half of the year grew 29 percent to 583,...Read More
OSLO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Some of Europe's richest deposits of valuable materials are in the trash, ranging from gold in smartphones to cobalt in electric car batteries, according to a survey of urban mining published on Wednesday.Scrap vehicles, batteries, computers, fridges and other electronic and electrical waste total about 18 million tonnes a year and contain materials worth billions of dolla...Read More
SANTIAGO, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Chile's state copper commission, Cochilco, on Wednesday raised its estimated 2018 average price for the metal to $3.06 per pound from its previous forecast of $2.95 per pound, pointing to the potential for global supply disruptions in the coming year.Cochilco Vice President Sergio Hernandez cited a "perception of vulnerability" that he attributed to the large number of...Read More
Investing in high quality companies can bring you gains in any segment of the market cycle. But, when you're buying a high quality company at the bottom of a commodity cycle, the result can be truly spectacular.When I bought the best junior gold companies in 2014 and 2015, near the bottom of the last bear cycle, it turned out to be a fantastic contrarian decision, giving me incredible gains in 201...Read More
Shares in Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX)(TSX:ABX) retreated slightly in after hours trade on Tuesday after the company announced full year production that came in at the lower end of production guidance.Barrick, the world's top producer of gold, is up 5% since the start of the year in line with a stronger gold price which set fresh 4-month highs around $1,340 an ounce on Tuesday. The Toronto-...Read More
After a robust rally, metals prices are starting to pull back.Copper, aluminum, zinc, lead and nickel retreated on Tuesday as investors focused on the rebounding dollar and evidence of ample supply in the physical market. Palladium and other precious metals also retreated, with spot silver falling as much as 3.2 percent."We've had a significant rally across base metals, and it's hard to justify a...Read More
Shares in Rio Tinto-controlled Turquoise Hill (TSX, NYSE:TRQ) were hit Tuesday after the miner revealed its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in Mongolia has been handed a $155 million tax bill.The Vancouver-based company said the amount relates to an audit on taxes imposed and paid by the mine operator between 2013 and 2015.Amount relates to an audit on taxes imposed and paid by the...Read More
Following the 2016 launching of the Collective Action Initiative for the Metals Technology Industry, the program announced today that it has added Techint Group's Tenova S.p.A. as a new member.Tenova is a mechanical engineering company for the steel and non-ferrous metals processing industry headquartered in Castellanza, Italy. The other three members of the initiative, Danieli & C Officine Meccan...Read More
Dutch journalist Bram Ebus has just published an entire website dedicated to Venezuela's Mining Arc, a mega project that is at the centre of a national controversy given the devastation to both the natural environment and local communities that it is causing, as well as the innumerable allegations of rampant corruption surrounding it.Ebus spent three months investigating the many different aspects...Read More
Jan 16 (Reuters) - Global miner Rio Tinto, on Tuesday reported a 1 percent rise in iron ore shipments for 2017 to 330.1 million tonnes, meeting its guidance.The world's no. 2 miner of iron ore, a raw material in steelmaking, also stuck to a target of 330-340 million tonnes for this year, but cautioned the guidance was subject to weather constraints and partly reflected rail maintenance required in...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Copper jumped by the most in two months and zinc hit a fresh decade-high as base metals rallied on a potent combination of a softer dollar, dwindling inventories and continued robust outlook for demand. Palladium rallied to a new record as all precious metals climbed.Copper surged as much as 2.1 percent, the most since Nov. 13, to $7,262 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange. Al...Read More