I opened my portfolio this morning already wincing, knowing an ugly number would materialize.Oof. It's a red day for those of us with beefy allocations to gold and silver miners. Game of Thrones style.Precious metal miners are correcting sharply. The SILJ junior silver miner ETF is down about 8.5% as of 12:40 PM. The GDX gold miner ETF is down about 7.8%. These are my preferred benchmarks for the...Read More
I remember getting my offer letter from Lehman Brothers in early 1997, a full 11 years before they went bankrupt, I hasten to add. For a whopping $34,000, I was theirs, green as a Granny Smith apple. My job was in a division called Global Corporate Equity Derivatives, and I was going to help the traders keep their trading books reconciled with the general ledger. It was my first, and last, account...Read More
During a conference call with investors last week, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon made a memorable response to a question from Wells Fargo analyst Mike Mayo about the collapse of a subprime auto lender called Tricolor that cost the bank $170 million. Tricolor went bankrupt due to allegations of fraud, including double-pledging of collateral, which led lenders to halt financing."Mike, you should assume t...Read More
A fascinating experiment is taking place.A startup named Nof1 gave 6 top AI models $10,000 each.They gave models access to a crypto exchange, a data feed, and let each model build its own trading and risk management strategy. The "Alpha Arena" competition started Oct 17th and the first "season" will conclude Nov 3rd.The AIs can use up to 40x leverage. With that much juice, a 2.5% move in the wrong...Read More
I was in Minnesota last week, in the storied "Iron Range" north of Duluth. In fact, I was out in the field on Friday, looking at Precambrian rocks, and missed the white-knuckle excitement of the market selloff for gold, silver, other metals, miners and more. It's amazing what happens when I leave town, eh?Good morning from northern Minnesota. BWK photo.I spent all day Saturday traveling home and m...Read More
"What do you expect when you sue the president?" Hearing that comment, some people may guess the comment was made by someone addressing one of President Trump's political opponents who has been targeted for federal prosecution.That quote, though, is much older. It is from an IRS agent addressing officials of a conservative organization that was being audited during Bill Clinton's presidency. This...Read More
Well, we finally got the mini-crash we've been expecting in precious metals and miners.On Tuesday gold plunged 5.7%, its biggest daily fall since 2013. Silver fell a whopping 8%, slipping back under the key $50 level.Miners fell harder, with the GDX gold miner ETF stumbling from $84 to $73 over the past week. The SILJ silver miner ETF fell from around $26 to $23 over the same period.But it's impor...Read More
Traditionally, the defining moment in a man's life arrives when he looks in his shaving glass and finds his father staring back at him; but there is a day so much more terrible we rarely speak of it – when he catches himself in a full-length mirror and sees his mother...Don Paterson, The Book of ShadowsI was living in London when I picked up Paterson's book of aphorisms. I remember laughing...Read More
The modern world began with a hole in the ground.Around 7,000 years ago, a few clever humans figured out how to work copper into crude, but useful tools and jewelry.Innovation really picked up 5,000 years ago with the beginning of the Bronze Age. Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin, and it's far stronger than either element alone.Bronze was used to make superior weapons, armor, and tools. It was...Read More
We're obviously living in tumultuous times. If investors sense they're on a financial roller coaster, they're right.Recently, I scanned my market tickers and saw that everything was up. Stocks, bonds, gold, silver, the dollar, cryptos and commodities were all advancing. Of course, that didn't last. The next day cryptos crashed and stocks were down sharply. Even gold suffered its worst day in a dec...Read More
During the dotcom boom, fiber optic cabling was a scorching-hot sector.This is the wiring the internet runs on. The arteries and veins of the data world.Corning (NYSE: GLW) was the darling of fiber optics in the 1990s and into 2000. This classic American company had been a leader in specialized glass and ceramic materials for more than a century.Starting in the 1960s, they invested heavily in the...Read More
Sun Summit Minerals Corp. (SMN:TSX.V; SMREF:OTCQB) drill results have energized exploration across British Columbia's Toodoggone District, uncovering high-grade gold and new copper targets. With 78 meters grading 3.72 g/t gold, the company's discovery marks a major step toward defining a new porphyry system in one of Canada's most active mining regions. Sun Summit Minerals Corp. (SMN:TSX.V; SMREF...Read More
Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTCMKTS) announces results from a recently completed diamond drill hole at the Pau de Merena (PDM) within the Cui Cui district in Brazil. Find out why experts like the stock, and why gold could still climb further. Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTCMKTS) announced results in a release on October 22 from a recently completed diamond drill hole at the Pau de M...Read More
Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTCMKTS) has secured a US$45 million gold loan to fully fund the construction of the Phase 1 Heap Leach project at Cui Cui, noted Paradigm Capital Analyst Don Blyth in an updated research report on October 22. Cabral Gold Inc. (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OTCMKTS) recently announced that it has secured a US$45 million gold loan to fully fund the construction of the Phase 1...Read More
Newsletter writer Stewart Thomson addresses the question:How should investors play GDXJ and CDNX resource stocks as gold gyrates around the $4000 mark? How best to sum up a very wild week for gold, silver, and the miners?Well, perhaps the wisest move is not to sum it up at all!The bottom line: contrary opinion investing isn't just about placing trades. It's also about dialing down the excitement...Read More
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) resumes production at its Madsen Gold Mine in Red Lake, Ontario, according to an updated research note by Craig Stanley of Raymond James. Read the story to see how he rates the stock. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) has resumed production at its Madsen Gold Mine in Red Lake, Ontario, according to an...Read More
John Newell of John Newell & Associates explains why he thinks McEwen Mining Inc. (MUX:TSX; MUX:NYSE) is a long-term Buy. This short article is an update to an article on McEwen Mining Inc. (MUX:TSX; MUX:NYSE) that I wrote in early July 2025, which can be found here. I wrote it when it looked like the company had turned the corner both fundamentally and technically and was beginning to fire on al...Read More
Raymond James Analyst Craig Stanley looks at an update by West Red Lake Gold Mines on the ramp-up operations at its Madsen Gold Mine in Ontario. Find out how he rates the stock. West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. (WRLG:TSX.V; WRLGF:OTCQB; FRA:UJO) has provided an update on the ramp-up operations at its Madsen Gold Mine in Red Lake, Ontario, noted Raymond James Analyst Craig Stanley in an updated resea...Read More
Silver X Mining Corp. (AGX:TSX.V; AGXPF:OTC) shares its strategic plans for the upcoming months and initiates a 40,000-meter diamond drilling campaign, the largest in the company's history. Find out why analysts like this explorer. Silver X Mining Corp. (AGX:TSX.V; AGXPF:OTC) shared its strategic plans for the upcoming months and announced the initiation of a 40,000-meter diamond drilling campaig...Read More
Emerita Resources Corp. (EMO:TSX.V; EMOTF:OTCQB; LLJA:FSE) should see about CA$700 to CA$1,200 million added to its current market cap if the legal dispute is resolved in its favor, noted a Clarus Securities report. Emerita Resources Corp. (EMO:TSX.V; EMOTF:OTCQB; LLJA:FSE) likely will prevail in the legal case over the Aznalcollar project in Spain, purported Clarus Securities Analyst Varun Arora...Read More