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Myanmar in big raising for Bawdwin

21 May 2019 / Staff reporter

The raising, which will be conducted in two parts, has an issue price of A6.5c per share, a 7.1% discount to yesterday's close. A single-tranche placement will raise up to $20.Read More

Debt Is Good

May 21, 2019 / Christian DeHaemer

Many years ago, at a posh resort on the left side of Costa Rica, I golfed among the monkeys and alligators with a man who told me the secret to success. This man was in his mid-30s, good looking, wore a shiny Rolex, and dressed in the expensive golf fashion of the time."Christian," he said, as he whipped his driver in big practice swings in the tee box, "the secret to success is debt.""All of thos...Read More

The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 139: Indigenous People as 'Resource Rulers' in Canada ft Bill Gallagher - part 2

May 21, 2019 / Posted John Cumming

This episode wraps up our two-part conversation with strategist, lawyer and author Bill Gallagher on the topic of Canada's Indigenous People and their land rights, and how that affects resource development in the country.Bill GallagherBased in Waterloo, Ont., Bill is the author of two popular books on the topic: the recently published "Resource Reckoning: a Strategist's Guide from A to Z" and the...Read More

White Rock Minerals Ltd (ASX: WRM); Zinc, Silver, Gold and Lead -3.7M Ozs of Gold Equivalent in Australia and USA; Interview with Matthew Gill, Managing Director & CEO

21/5/2019 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, USA

White Rock Minerals Ltd (ASX: WRM) owns 100% of, the globally significant, Red Mountain polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) exploration project, in an established VMS district of central Alaska, where there is significant potential to discover several new large zinc-silver-lead-gold-copper deposits. This project has a recent maiden JORC 2012 Resource of 9Mt grading 13% ZnEq. We learne...Read More

Pot Still Depends On The People

May 21, 2019 / Adam English

2019 was supposed to be another breakout year.The marijuana sector has grown by leaps and bounds after election years - both presidential and midterm - since its earliest days.And following the wave of new Democrats moving into state houses, a wave of new legalization was universally expected.The big three were New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Population and potential business-wise, these would...Read More

Gold Market Update - Precious Metals sector investors feeling despondent

20 May, 2019 / Clive Maund

Gold and silver dropping back again late last week had investors in the Precious Metals sector feeling despondent, especially as their fears were magnified by at least one analyst calling for gold to drop to the low $900's or even lower, which is normal when prices sink, but our charts are instead suggesting that gold and silver are close to completing giant bottoming patterns that started to fo...Read More

GoldSeek Radio Nugget: Gerald Celente & Louis Navellier

20 May, 2019 / Chris Waltzek, GoldSeek Radio

May 17th, 2019(S14-E696)Featured GuestsGerald Celente& Louis NavellierPlease Listen HereInterview RecapTrends Research Institute's Gerald Celente returns with a new daily video podcast Trends Vision 2020.US equities indexes recorded new records last month on the heels of fresh monetary stimulus.Policymakers will likely revamp US shares ahead of a forecasted market swoon sometime near the 2020...Read More

Are You Being Tossed Around By The China News?

20 May, 2019 / Avi Gilburt

By: Avi GilburtAs I watched and traded the market action over the last several weeks, I witnessed something quite amazing. Yet, this was not the first time I have seen this.Each time the market was set up for a smaller change of directional move, a news event or a "tweet" seemed to have come out at almost the exact time we need to see the market change direction.While many saw the news as affect...Read More

Far Bigger Concerns Than Game of Thrones

20 May, 2019 / Rick Ackerman, Rick's Picks

So how does Game of Thrones end? Never having watched the show, I couldn't care less. But thirty million fans evidently do. We haven't seen America this worked up about so trivial a concern since Kristin Shephard shot J.R. Ewing nearly 40 years ago in a landmark episode of Dallas. TV was free back then, and so the audience worldwide was more than ten times that of Game of Thrones. Could th...Read More

5 Top Weekly TSXV Stocks: Q1 Results Boost Cub Energy. Here are the other top gaining junior miners on the TSXV las...

Mon May 20 19:15:06 2019 / Staff reporter

"5 Top Weekly TSXV Stocks: Q1 Results Boost Cub Energy. Here are the other top gaining junior miners on the TSXV last week: https://t.co/myMjR07BLQ #TSXV #mining #stocks #investing"Read full newsRead More

5 Top Weekly TSX Stocks: Water Rights Float General Moly's Boat. See who were the other top gainers in the resource...

Mon May 20 16:48:02 2019 / Staff reporter

"5 Top Weekly TSX Stocks: Water Rights Float General Moly's Boat. See who were the other top gainers in the resources community on the Toronto Stock Exchange from last week at https://t.co/cBTZIC0jH2 #TSX #stocks #investing"Read full newsRead More

Victory Metals' big vanadium find

May. 20, 2019, 3:37 PM / Amanda Stutt

Vancouver-based Victory Metals (TSX-V:VMX) has big ambitions for its flagship Nevada vanadium project, Iron Point, based on a recent expansion to 5,382 hectares, drill results, and a $3.6 million private placement.Vanadium, used in the steel industry as a strengthening agent, and listed as a strategic metal, is in the midst of a bull market, due to Chinese steel demand and the advent of Vanadium R...Read More

Confusing signals cloud London nickel market - opinion

May. 20, 2019, 1:19 PM / Reuters

The London Metal Exchange (LME) nickel market was last week gripped by the most acute tightness in a decade.Time-spreads flexed into backwardation as a long-running downtrend in exchange stocks squeezed short position holders.Falling inventory and tighter spreads are normally strong bull signals in a commodity market.And in nickel's case they seem to tally nicely with the International Nickel Stud...Read More

Norsk Hydro given nod to restore output at Alunorte alumina plant

May. 20, 2019, 12:57 PM / Reuters

Norwegian metals maker Norsk Hydro has been given the go ahead by a Brazilian federal court to resume full output from the company's Alunorte alumina refinery, it said on Monday.The plant, a key supplier to the aluminium industry, currently operates at half of its capacity after a spill in February 2018 that prompted regulators and courts to restrict output.A restart of Alunorte will bring a signi...Read More

SolGold in talks to finance long-life Ecuador copper project

May. 20, 2019, 12:30 PM / Reuters

SolGold is in talks with financiers keen to invest in its Ecuadorian copper-gold prospects and mining major BHP could increase its stake in the company, SolGold's chief executive said on Monday.In a preliminary economic assessment of the Alpala copper-silver-gold deposit in northern Ecuador released earlier, London-listed SolGold said annual copper output should be 207,000 tonnes for the first 25...Read More

Will 2019 see the continued surge in base #metal interest? Head of Commodity Research at @LGIM , Nick Stansbury wi...

Mon May 20 10:24:02 2019 / LGIM

"Will 2019 see the continued surge in base #metal interest? Head of Commodity Research at @LGIM , Nick Stansbury will take to the stage at Mining Journal Select this June to discuss the rise in interest for #commodities such as #copper. #MJS #MJSelect"Read full newsRead More

Tanzania fines Acacia Mining $2.4m over alleged pollution

May. 20, 2019, 9:44 AM / Reuters

Tanzania's mining minister said on Monday Acacia Mining had been fined 5.6 billion Tanzanian shillings ($2.4 million) for alleged pollution at its North Mara mine.Acacia, majority-owned by Barrick Gold, is embroiled in a long-running tax dispute with Tanzania.It was forced to cut output by a third after the government banned the export of mineral concentrates from its two other mines, Bulyanhulu a...Read More

Nothing seems to matter in copper markets, except the trade war

May. 20, 2019, 9:17 AM / Bloomberg News

Here's a sign of how all-dominating the trade war has become in metals markets: Copper is slumping toward a three-month low even after Zambia moved closer to nationalizing some of its mines.The lack of a reaction is even more surprising when compared with other market moves. Zambia's Eurobond yields surged to a record high and the currency hit a 3 1/2-year low.Zambian President Edgar Lungu is esca...Read More

Peru's military fights illegal gold mining in rainforest

Mon May 20 07:54:32 2019 / Staff reporter

By day, Peruvian police and soldiers search for and destroy equipment used by illegal gold miners in a part of the Amazon rainforest where mining has transformed once-dense foliage into a desert pocked with dead trees and toxic pools. As night falls, they play cards and soccer, call family from their remote outpost or have a medic pluck burrowing parasites from their feet.Read full newsRead More

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