Editor’s note: This story was previously published in January 2019. It has since been updates and republished.The potential to become wealthy often means investing in an enterprise when it is small and waiting for the entity to grow large. For this reason, many investors are willing to take chances on what they believe to be hot penny stocks. Investors in these stocks often lose everything &...Read More
Canada's Maverix Metals (TSX-V: MMX) entered into a life of mine purchase and sale agreement this week for silver produced from the El Mochito mine, owned and operated by Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND) in Honduras.El Mochito's production guidance for 2019 is between 850,000 and 1,200,000 ounces of contained silver in concentrateIn a press release, Maverix said it will make an advance payment of $...Read More
Canada's Maverix Metals (TSX-V: MMX) entered into a life of mine purchase and sale agreement this week for silver produced from the El Mochito mine, owned and operated by Ascendant Resources (TSX: ASND) in Honduras.El Mochito's production guidance for 2019 is between 850,000 and 1,200,000 ounces of contained silver in concentrateIn a press release, Maverix said it will make an advance payment of $...Read More
American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) announced this week that it will participate in a U.S. Department of Energy project to advance the economic recovery of lithium-ion battery materials from electric vehicles and other consumer goods.In a press release, the British Columbia-based firm said the project is titled "Lithium-Ion Battery Disassembly, Remanufacturing, and Lithium & Cobalt Recovery Project" a...Read More
American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) announced this week that it will participate in a U.S. Department of Energy project to advance the economic recovery of lithium-ion battery materials from electric vehicles and other consumer goods.In a press release, the British Columbia-based firm said the project is titled "Lithium-Ion Battery Disassembly, Remanufacturing, and Lithium & Cobalt Recovery Project" a...Read More
"Is Highland Gold Mining Limited (LON:HGM) Struggling With Its 10.0% Return On Capital Employed? https://t.co/9f8rfiX7mX"Read full newsRead More
Shares in Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) jumped more than 8% on Friday after the miner announced it had dug up a 425.1 carat, D-colour, Type II gem quality diamond at its iconic Cullinan mine in South Africa.The discovery comes less than a month after Petra found a 100.83 carat gem-quality white diamond at the same mine, source of the world's biggest-ever diamond, which was unearthed in 1905.Earlier in...Read More
"Another royalty added today on silver from the @AscendantResEl Mochitomine. Looks like a win/win deal hopefully for both companies.https://t.co/kHm8p1w1Jq"Read full newsRead More
"Another royalty added today on silver from the @AscendantResEl Mochitomine. Looks like a win/win deal hopefully for both companies.https://t.co/kHm8p1w1Jq"Read full newsRead More
Federal mine safety officials have cited an Idaho-based company for inadequate safety controls at a gold mine it operates in northeast Nevada where a worker was killed in an underground collapse in October.Read full newsRead More
Now Sibanye will wind down Driefontein's operations within 10 years, with plans to cut thousands of jobs as it shuts unprofitable shafts.South Africa's gold industry employs just over 100,000 people, less than a fifth of the number that used to drive the apartheid economy.With most of the nation'Read full newsRead More
The amount of gold in proven and probable reserves at Guyana Goldfields' (TSX: GUY) Aurora mine in Guyana has been lowered 1.69 million oz., compared with estimates a year ago, based on "a new and more appropriate mine model," the company says.Total proven and probable reserves in open-pit and underground categories at the end of 2018 stand at 2.27 million oz. gold (in 26.95 million tonnes grading...Read More
Nickel stocks were supported by positive commodities news this week as a report found that stock exchanges are not generating enough support for junior miners and their crucial role in exploration. Canadian explorer FPX Nickel Corp (FPX.V), which is developing the large-scale Decar Nickel District in British Columbia, tweeted a chart from Morgan Stanley’s latest commodity therm...Read More
Lithium stocks were hot a year ago, now they're not. Brine projects in Argentina commanded rapt attention, now no one cares. Clay-hosted Lithium projects were non-starters 2-3 years ago, now they're in the "maybe" column. Clay-hosted Lithium projects are "unconventional," meaning untested, and therefore difficult or impossible to fund. However, "unconventional" need not mean difficult to move for...Read More
Gold has been quietly regaining its lustre. In the midst of market volatility, investors turn to gold as a hedge against a recession. Having some sort of exposure to the precious metal is an important part of any diversification strategy.It’s no secret that the majors have struggled. Gold prices hit a peak in 2011 and then quickly crashed. Unfortunately, many of the majors were unprepared ha...Read More
Investing in mining stocks can be tricky. So much can go wrong.Emboldened by management’s rosy expectations, investors are often disappointed by eventual project delays, cost overruns, and political disruption. It’s no wonder that so many mining stocks have gone nowhere for decades at a time.With valuations in the billions of dollars, Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX:YRI)(NYSE:AUY) and Goldcorp...Read More
Shanta, which will keep 51% ownership and operate the project, decided to raise equity via an IPO after receiving encouraging feedback from recent investor roadshows in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.It has already submitted the IPO prospectus to the DSE and Tanzanian Capital Markets and Securities Authority, with completion expected to take between six and 12 months.The funds will be used to finance...Read More
Stornoway Diamond's Renard diamond mine in Quebec. Source: Stornoway Diamond Corp.Stornoway Diamond Corp. [SWY-TSX; SWYDF-OTC] is facing a liquidity shortfall this year unless diamond prices recover from current levels.It is a scenario which could have negative implications for Stornoway's share price, which was down 34.4% or $0.055 to 10.5 cents on Friday March 29 in heavy trading volume of 10....Read More
As a commodities trader focused on energy and metals, I'm often asked in casual conversation, "What's the world's most expensive metal?"Unfortunately, there really isn't a clear answer.Thing is, the price of metals is coordinated by the market. And market changes, such as supply issues of any given metal, can drastically change prices. So the world's most expensive metal today might not be tomorro...Read More
In January, Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) reported a 22-metre intercept of 13.05% copper at a 2% cut-off in a shallow, flat-lying discovery sitting within 190 metres of surface at Kamoa North, an exploration area on the company's Kamoa-Kakula mining licence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).The drill hole - 1450 - is 18 km north of the Kamoa-Kakula project's planned initial m...Read More