Rescuers are desperately digging with their bare hands and farm tools to try to free people calling for help from beneath the rubble of a collapsed Indonesian mineRead full newsRead More
Back in 2013 I recall having a bearish view on the stock market due to extremely bullish sentiment readings. The market completely ignored that, made a major breakout through 13 year resistance and continued running for years.Lesson learned.Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold along with its net speculative positi...Read More
Silver has rallied significantly since hitting a multi-year low in late 2018 to be trading at over US$15.60. This — along with some analysts claiming that the white metal could rise to as high as US$17 an ounce during 2019 — has sparked considerable interest in silver miners. One that surged substantially because of these and other positive developments is First Majestic Silver (TSX:FR...Read More
Stocks that are trading at or around 52-week highs present investors with a special choice.If they are already shareholders, do they lighten up a bit on their position and take some profits, or do they do nothing?If they do not own the stock, then they have to decide if they've missed the boat or if there is big upside still.In this article, I will discuss two stocks that are trading at or around...Read More
Economic news and data points have been anything but clear in the last few months, with the U.S. Fed chair signaling that we should expect rising rates back in 2018 to a more cautious and hawkish tone these days. This has sent the markets on a volatile ride between fear and exuberance.Throughout this, gold stocks have held up nicely. And I still think they are a good place to be in this environmen...Read More
The EV (electric vehicle) boom is coming, but are you invested? Below you will find two of the best Canadian stocks (and two American ones for comparison) to give domestic investors both an indirect and a direct route to EV exposure. Let's take their market fundamentals for a test drive and decide which stocks should be parked in a portfolio and which should be left on the forecourt.Lithium Americ...Read More
Gold mining companies have broadly outperformed stock markets since the beginning of the fourth quarter last year, as the price of gold bullion has now climbed above the $1,300 per ounce threshold.Shares of companies like Goldcorp, Barrick, Yamana, and the perhaps even lesser-known Kirkland Lake Gold have helped to lead the way, with shares in each of those gold producers posting gains at least in...Read More
Rio yesterday announced a record US$13.5 billion in returns to shareholders in its 2018 results, and finally confirmed its much-speculated Winu copper find in Western Australia's north.Among the acquisitive gold majors, Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) closed lower again in New York yesterday, down 2.66%.The company is in the sights of big game player Mark Bristow's Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX), which lost a...Read More
Skeena Eskay Creek. Source: Skeena Resources LimitedSkeena Resources Limited [TSX.V: SKE, OTCQX: SKREF] ("Skeena" or the "Company") is pleased to announce an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE), for the Eskay Creek Project ("Eskay Creek"), which has been reviewed and validated by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc ("SRK"). The updated 2019 MRE has a larger component of pit constrained resources tha...Read More
Visible gold in a surface sample from the Machiche area of Cabral Gold's Cuiu Cuiu Project, northern Brazil. Source: Cabral Gold Inc.Cabral Gold Inc. [CBR-TSXV; CBGZF-OTC] said Thursday February 28 that it has discovered a new high-grade gold system at its 100%-owned Cuiu Cuiu Project, in Para State, northern Brazil.Cabral shares rallied strongly on the news, rising 24.4% or $0.055 to 28 cents. Th...Read More
Exploring the Tinka Resources Ayawilca zinc and tin project in Peru. Source: Tinka Resources Ltd.Tinka Resources Ltd. [TK-TSXV, Lima; TKRFF-OTC; TLD-FSE] said Thursday February 28 that it is set to launch a 10,000-metre drill program at its 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc and tin deposits in Peru. Drilling is expected to start in April, 2019.The move comes after Tinka recently announced an updated minera...Read More
Drilling operations at the Victory Metals Iron Point Vanadium Project near Winnemucca, Nevada. Source: Victory Metals Inc.Victory Metals Inc. [VMX-TSXV] said Thursday February 28 that it is pleased with results of a maiden drilling program at its Iron Point Vanadium Project near Winnemucca, Nevada.The company has released assays from the first eight reverse circulation holes that are the initial p...Read More
We decided to share a joint on our way to a meeting with a group of some very wealthy investors.It was me, a lawyer friend of mine, and a representative from a cannabis company that's gearing up for a huge windfall once the state of New York legalizes the recreational use of cannabis.On our walk, we passed by a number of police officers who didn't even bat an eye. But this doesn't mean all of law...Read More
Colorado School of Mines is teaming up with the Colorado Department of Education to offer free computer science workshops for elementary school teachers across the state this year and the partnership was the subject of a recent story in The Colorado Sun.Tracy Camp, professor and head of the Computer Science Department, developed the curriculum for the workshops, which includes hands-on training i...Read More
Gold and silver remain the preferred targets for North American mineral explorers, with thousands of campaigns ongoing across the globe. Here is a look at eight such companies.ALAMOS GOLDAlamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) is a Toronto-headquartered intermediate gold producer with four operating mines in North America: the Young-Davidson and Island Gold underground mines in northern Ontario; and the...Read More
In January 2018 Talmora Diamond Inc. (CSE: TAI) President and CEO Raymond Davies went to a diamond conference at Padua University in Italy, which is a must-attend event for global diamond seekers.During a presentation based on a recent academic paper on the origins of the world's largest diamonds - 500 carats or larger, such as the Cullinan and Millennium Star - Davies learned that the minute incl...Read More
What role (if any) does leadership play in safety performance? Turns out, a significant role, but first let's define what we mean by safety performance and leadership as it relates to this topic.Organizations serious about safety show their commitment in a variety of ways. Most use a variation of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) six-factor framework, consisting of: manage...Read More
Having outlined 38.4 million inferred tonnes running 4.58% zinc and 1.85% lead in a pit-constrained resource, one might think Osisko Metals Inc. (TSXV:OM) President and CEO Jeff Hussey is satisfied with his company's progress toward reviving the 100%-owned past-producing Pine Point zinc mine, east of Hay River, in the Northwest Territories.You might think that. But then you wouldn't know Jeff Huss...Read More
"BlueStone Resources : Drilling Continues to Deliver High Grade Intercepts: 3.2 meters of 18.5 g/t Au and 1 meter of 38.5 g/t Au -- #bluestoneresources #bsr #cerroblanco #exploration #goldcorp #mining #mita --Read the News Release here: https://t.co/CJjYipykkt"Read full newsRead More
By: Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTABack in 2013 I recall having a bearish view on the stock market due to extremely bullish sentiment readings. The market completely ignored that, made a major breakout through 13 year resistance and continued running for years.Lesson learned.Turning to Gold, we find something similar during major breakouts in 2005, 2007 and 2009. In the chart below we plot Gold alon...Read More