Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls. Now...Read More
January 8, 2019 It's time for the queen of assets to rest and consolidate. Nothing goes up in a straight line, and that's certainly true for gold!Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this daily gold chart.A pullback to about $1250 would be a healthy 50% retracement of the $100 rally from $1200 to $1300.Gold begins 2019 with some very positive news in play. Please click here now. After a...Read More
Silver's latest rally, which sees the metal up by over 12% from 2018 lows to be trading at US$15.65 per ounce, has sparked considerable speculation that 2019 is the year that the precious metal will shine. This has breathed life into primary silver miners like First Majestic Silver (TSX:FR)(NYSE:AG), which has gained a remarkable 17% over the last month. That - along with an improving outlook for...Read More
Last year was a tough one for silver miners. Silver opened the year at over US$17 an ounce, but by November 2018 it had plunged to under US$14 per ounce, and there were signs that the white metal was caught in a protracted slump. While the overall outlook for silver remains stagnant for 2019 with higher gold prices the only positive catalyst for the precious metal, it shouldn't deter investors fro...Read More
The stock market has gone "Roman Candle" since Fed Chairman, Jerome Powell, gave a speech that was interpreted as a precursor to the Fed softening its stance on monetary policy. Not that intermittent quarter-point Fed Funds rate nudges higher or a barely negligible decline in the Fed's balance sheet should be considered "tight" money policy.Credible measures of price inflation, like the John Wil...Read More
"Talks with China are going very well!" US president Donald Trump tweeted earlier. Commodities were mixed, with copper closing lower on the London Metal Exchange and palladium hitting a fresh high.It was worth US$1,321 an ounce on the spot market earlier - above gold's value of $1,281.50/oz.Among the majors, Freeport-McMoRan closed up 1.8% in New York and Rio Tinto (LSE: RIO) gained 0.8% in London...Read More
The Zgounder silver mine in Morocco. Source: Maya Gold & Silver Inc.Maya Gold & Silver Inc. [MYA-TSX; MYAGF-OTC] achieved a key milestone Wednesday January 9 with the announcement that its flagship Zgounder silver mine in Morocco has reached the commercial production stage. Maya is a Morocco-focused company with a portfolio that also includes the Boumadine polymetallic deposit, located in...Read More
GT Gold's exploration camp on the Tatogga property in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Source: GT Gold Corp.GT Gold Corp. [GTT-TSXV, GTGDF-OTC] shares were active Wednesday January 9 after the company said the final and deepest hole of its Saddle North porphyry drill program (hole TTD109) returned the strongest intercepts reported so far. The Saddle North discovery is l...Read More
Brine sampling in Q3 2018 at the Smackover lithium project in Arkansas. Source: Standard Lithium Ltd.Standard Lithium Ltd. [SLL-TSX; STLHF-OTC-Nasdaq-Int. Designation; S5L-FSE] said Wednesday January 9 that it has produced its first quantity of battery quality (over 99.56% purity) lithium carbonate.The battery quality lithium carbonate was produced at the company's prototype lithium carbonate crys...Read More
Throughout all of the political bickering these days - and it has reached quite the crescendo after the recent midterm elections - we can't help but feel the despair of frustration.Looking with an objective eye toward Capitol Hill, nobody can deny the divisiveness that has grinded our government to a screeching halt.That's just the natural course of things when you have extremes on both sides ramm...Read More
Colorado School of Mines has named Richard C. Holz its next provost. Holz is currently dean of the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences at Marquette University and will join Mines in June 2019.As provost, Holz will serve as Mines' chief academic officer, responsible for leading the faculty and staff to achieve the vision for the university's academic programs. He will work closely with President...Read More
Weed stocks have had a great start to the year so far.After the short attack on Aphria last month, many of the quality names were sharply sold off.I attribute that to a few things...One, people were deadout scared that the short report about Aphria was correct and their favorite stock - Canopy, Tilray, whatever - could also be a scam.Two, some of these stocks were up hundreds or thousands of perce...Read More
I didn't watch Trump's speech on Tuesday.Nor did I watch the response from the Democrats.To be honest, I was having a great night and didn't want to ruin it by listening to a bunch of lies and misinformation that has become somewhat obligatory for partisan slaves and knuckle-dragging bureaucrats.So instead, I took five milligrams of my favorite chocolate edible and spent the rest of the evening pl...Read More
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White Gold Corp. (TSXV:WGO,OTC - Nasdaq Intl:WHGOF,FRA:29W) CEO David D'Onofrio was recently featured in an interview with MotherlodeTV.Read full newsRead More
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Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (the "Company") (TSXV:DAU, FF: QXR2, OTC: DAUGF) announces that it has received consent from the exchange to extend closing of its non-brokered private placement to January 25, 2019.Read full newsRead More
Pierre Lassonde, chairman of Franco-Nevada, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss why he believes 2019 will be a favorable year for gold. He also discusses his concerns about mining activity slowly moving away from Canada.Read full newsRead More
Pierre Lassonde, chairman of Franco-Nevada, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss why he believes 2019 will be a favorable year for gold. He also discusses his concerns about mining activity slowly moving away from Canada.Read full newsRead More
At least 40 people died and another 10 were injured in a gold mine collapse Sunday in northern Afghanistan, authorities said.Read full newsRead More