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I love the spectacle Opening Day brings.Baseball fans are never more excited than they are at this time of year. After all, every team is in first place on Opening Day. From Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles to Citi Field in Queens, you can feel the electricity in the air in early April. Truth be told, there are few things I enjoy more than taking in a baseball game with friends and family on a warm...Read More
The Dominican Republic has completed a review of the location for a new tailings storage facility for Barrick Gold's (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) US$1.4 billion Pueblo Viejo gold mine expansion project that will extend production at the Tier One asset beyond 2040.The world's second-largest gold producer had warned last year that production at the mine would have to end in 2030 without a new mining waste...Read More
Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals has completed the acquisition of Noront Resources almost a year after placing its initial offer to buy the company and edging out the world's largest miner, BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP), in a takeover battle that lasted for months. Wyloo Metals acquired all of Noront's common shares that it did not already own on Apr. 7, following a sh...Read More
A little more than nine months following its initial public offering (IPO), U.S.-focused junior Bradda Head Lithium (AIM: BHL, US-OTCQB: BHLIF) shares continue to fly high following the 65% resource growth at its Basin East lithium project in Arizona.With rising lithium prices, Bradda Head shares trading in London have tripled in value and continues to trade at a relatively high level on heightene...Read More
Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM; LSE: PUR) has been named in a civil claim in the British Columbia Supreme Court for allegedly failing to disclose information relating to its operations at its underground mine in Red Lake, Ont. The company said in a statement on Apr. 7 that it had learned of the civil claim and described the complaint as "unfounded and without merit." Pure Gold says it intends to...Read More
The Chilean government of President Gabriel Boric is suing mines operated by giants BHP (ASX: BHP), Albemarle (NYSE: ALB) and Antofagasta (LON: ANTO) over alleged environmental damage caused in the northern Salar de Atacama salt flats, the world's driest place on earth.The State Defense Council's (CDE) legal action singles out BHP's Escondida, the world's largest copper mine, Antofagasta and Bar...Read More
Alrosa (MCX: ALRS), the world's top diamond producer by output, has been hit by fresh sanctions imposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).The OFAC announced late on Thursday it had placed Alrosa on the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, which effectively kicks a sanctioned company out of the U.S. banking system and bans its trade with Americ...Read More
A little more than nine months following its initial public offering (IPO), U.S.-focused junior Bradda Head Lithium (AIM: BHL, US-OTCQB: BHLIF) shares continue to fly high following the 65% resource growth at its Basin East lithium project in Arizona.With rising lithium prices, Bradda Head shares trading in London have tripled in value and continues to trade at a relatively high level on heightene...Read More
A few weeks ago I wrote about the Fed and interest rates.My thesis was that the Fed wouldn't undermine the economic recovery it's sowed over the past two years by overcorrecting for inflation.But some of the rhetoric I've seen these past few weeks has me second-guessing that position.To wit, here's recent quote from Fed Chair Jerome Powell:The labor market is very strong, and inflation is much too...Read More
Resource fund manager Warren Irwin shares his insights regarding investing in commodities during these uncertain times.Read More
Echelon Capital Markets' Michael Mueller says "E3 is positioning itself to be a top-tier North American provider of lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM)."Demand for battery-quality lithium should substantially increase before the second half of this decade.Although Alberta is far better-known for the oil its ground contains or the wheat that grows upon it, Calgary-based analyst Michael Mueller is m...Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Forum Energy Metals Corp. [FMC-TSXV; FDCFF-OTCQB; F3E-FSE] reported drill results at its 100%-owned Love Lake nickel-copper-palladium project in northeastern Saskatchewan. The Love Lake layered mafic complex is located approximately 100 kilometre east of Cameco's Key lake uranium mill along Highway 905 to the Rabbit Lake/ McClean Lake uranium mills. Forum completed...Read More
A single tweet from Elon Musk can move mountains.We saw proof of this after we learned that the world's richest man had taken a significant position in Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) and announced he would not be a passive investor.The stock shot up more than 30% following that news. Make no mistake: If history is our guide, Musk's position in Twitter now, which includes a board seat, will lead to huge ben...Read More
Canada's 2022 Budget has proposed to provide a total of up to $3.8 billion over eight years to develop electric vehicle components such as batteries and permanent magnets and ensure that the country becomes a "vital part" of the global critical minerals industry. The budget allocates up to $1.5 billion for the development of critical minerals supply chains, with "a focus on priority deposits."...Read More
The mining industry is playing by the wrong rules, and has been for decades. Many of us are scientists, and believe truth is discovered by establishing all of the facts. However, as Oscar Wilde told us, the truth is rarely pure and never simple. Reality is easily distorted by incomplete data and misunderstood information, and what is real doesn't matter as much as people's perceptions, accurate or...Read More
Several analysts have adjusted higher their metal price assumptions for 2022 as the February Russian invasion of Ukraine drags on, wreaking havoc on global metals and mineral supply chains.Moody's Investors Service released a report on Apr. 6 flagging spiking prices for commodities Russia is a crucial producer of. These include aluminum, zinc, nickel, copper, gold and metallurgical and thermal coa...Read More
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) is aiming to report an initial inferred resource for its recently acquired Great Bear (Dixie) project in Red Lake, Ont., by the end of the year. The gold miner, which paid $1.8 billion in cash and shares for Great Bear in a deal that closed in late February, plans to start a prefeasibility study on the project in 2023. With 10 drill rigs at work at Dixie, Kinros...Read More
With the addition of a first resource for the Larkin Zone at its Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia, Karora Resources (TSX: KRR; US-OTC: KRRGF) has increased its measured and indicated gold resources, net of depletions, by 8% and its inferred resources by 43%. The Larkin Zone holds 1.4 million tonnes grading 2.6 grams gold per tonne for 119,000 oz. gold in the measured and indicated category....Read More
Colombia plans to hold two bidding rounds - one for gold and one for coal exploration contracts - before the end of June, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen the country's mining sector.Speaking at the ELAMI mining conference held this week, the president of the national mining association ANM, Juan Miguel Dur??n, said the first round of bids will be launched this month and will focus on coa...Read More