BEIJING - Aluminum Corp of China Ltd, known as Chalco, is cutting output on some of its aluminium production lines in northern China, it said on Friday, as Chinese aluminium prices sank to a fresh two-year low.China's biggest state-run aluminium producer has decided to make around 470,000 tonnes of annual output at units including Shanxi Huasheng and Shandong Huayu subject to "flexible" output arr...Read More
Mr. Paul Kuhn reportsDRILLING STARTS AT AVRUPA MINERALSALVALADE PROJECT, PORTUGALAvrupa Minerals Ltd. has started drilling at the Sesmarias copper/zinc discovery located on its 100-per-cent-owned Alvalade property in the Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB) of south Portugal.The company will drill approximately 2,500 metres in five to seven diamond drill holes to enlarge and upgrade at least two lenses of c...Read More
* New plant to be built in Morowali nickel industry complex* Indonesia to become "main player" in lithium batteries* Well positioned to meet nickel, cobalt demand for EVs* Minister says Indonesia will "control world market" (Adds quotes, detail)JAKARTA - Developers will begin building a lithium battery project in Morowali, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, on Jan. 11, Coordinating Maritime Min...Read More
Mr. Steve Fray reportsGOLDMONEY INC. INVESTEE MENE RAISES EQUITY & GOLD-SECURED NOTE FINANCINGGoldmoney Inc. investee company Mene Inc. has entered into agreements to raise $30-million in equity and gold-secured note financing from Canaccord Genuity Corp. and a private institutional investor, with potential for additional gross financings of over $100-million including potential warrant exerci...Read More
Mr. David Wolfin reportsAVINO ANNOUNCES FURTHER EXTENSION OF CONCENTRATES PREPAYMENT AGREEMENT WITH SAMSUNG C&TAvino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd.'s concentrates prepayment agreement with Samsung C&T U.K. Ltd., originally announced on July 9, 2015, as amended, has been further extended for repayment of the balance of the principal amount of $6,666,670 (U.S.) to Samsung over a two-year perio...Read More
Mr. Anthony Makuch reportsKIRKLAND LAKE GOLD INCREASES FOSTERVILLE MINE'S 2018 PRODUCTION OUTLOOK TO OVER 330,000 OUNCESKirkland Lake Gold Ltd.'s Fosterville mine is on track for record quarterly production in the fourth quarter of 2018, with full-year 2018 production now expected to exceed 330,000 ounces versus current guidance of 300,000 to 310,000 ounces. Fosterville's strong fourth quarter 201...Read More
Aurania Resources' (TSXV: ARU) exploration team announced the discovery of silver-lead-zinc mineralization in grab samples that run as high as 325 g/t silver, 48% zinc, and 39% lead in its Lost Cities - Cutucu project in Ecuador.In a media statement, the Toronto-based miner said that the discovery was made between the new Tiria epithermal gold-silver target and the Jempe copper porphyry zone.Accor...Read More
INK CEO Ted Dixon remains skeptical that a meaningful floor has been established for stocks this fall. On the other hand, a bullish set-up for gold stocks is continuing. Those were the key takeaways from his latest interview with Jim Goddard published Thursday night.As for the broad market, INK is looking for four key signposts to confirm stocks are likely poised to move higher. At this point onl...Read More
In his latest interview with Jim Goddard, economist Mish Shedlock suggests that the best outcome of the Trump-Xi dinner summit this weekend would be a minor deal that holds off on new tariffs for a while. However, the soft but outspoken economist doesn't expect a deal.My own expectation is there is no dealMish goes on to suggest that Trump is determined to raise tariffs on China and cars, and tha...Read More
I continue to receive questions regarding the direction of the market, to which I can only reply "I don't know." I certainly have thoughts about the factors affecting metals markets, but am not under the illusion that I KNOW where the market is headed.What I do know is that my money is best invested, in tranches, in the best companies in the sector. The best companies are led by the best managemen...Read More
November 30, 2018GOLD:Short Term Update:What a day! This is incredible! We called it with our wave counts, and now it's really happening as the Fed may have just blinked!Within wave .iii. we are now working on our first impulsive sequence, as shown on our "Daily Gold Chart".Within that first impulsive sequence we believe that we are working on a subdividing wave $iii$. Within wave $iii$, wav...Read More
The stocks of Franco-Nevada (TSX:FNV)(NYSE:FNV) and Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX:WPM)(NYSE:WPM) both experienced lows on September 11. However, Franco-Nevada stock has fared much better by appreciating about 16% while Wheaton Precious Metals stock is only trading about 2% higher since then.The two companies are in a similar line of business. Why is there a big difference in their recent price acti...Read More
There is growing conjecture that now is the time for investors to bolster their exposure to gold. The yellow metal has again rebounded, rising to just over US$1,220 per ounce as fears of a market correction and slower than expected economic growth coupled with rising geopolitical risk have spooked investors. While they typically think of senior miners like Barrick Gold Corp. and Goldcorp Inc. when...Read More
Canadian savers are constantly searching for reliable stocks to add to their RRSP portfolios.For much of 2018, the market appeared expensive, but the recent correction is finally giving buy-and-hold investors an opportunity to pick up some top names on the TSX Index at attractive prices.Let's take a look at Suncor (TSX:SU) (NYSE:SU) and Nutrien (TSX:NTR) (NYSE:NTR) to see if one deserves to be on...Read More
This year has been a very difficult time for silver investors and miners. The white metal has fallen by over 16% since the start of 2018 to be trading at around US$14.60 per ounce, and there are signs that a recovery is a long way off.Nonetheless, this shouldn't deter investors from acquiring primary silver miner Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAAS)(NASDAQ:PAAS). Recent developments indicate that...Read More
Note: New homes sales, based on the seasonally adjusted annualized rate metric, are down over 23% from their peak in November 2017. Pending home sales, which translate into existing home sales less canceled contracts (typically failed financing), are down on a year-over-year basis 11 out of the last 12 months. But it's not just interest rates, which aren't up much from their lows in the context of...Read More
The company has the Elandsfontein phosphate project on South Africa's west coast, is in the process of buying the Hinda phosphate project in the Republic of Congo and also has the rights to the Aflao prospect in Ghana. Elandsfontein is currently under care and maintenance after six weeks of operation in 2017, and needs around US$16 million to get back into production. The compa...Read More
The surprise was not in the results themselves from the four-hole program at the unnamed discovery, assumed to be the historic Oak Dam West anomaly.The surprise was that BHP announced t...Read More
"This gives them the ability to analyse and upload field data in real-time from the most isolated locations around Australasia," Inmarsat said in a statement.Imdex's (ASX: IMD) cloud-based hub aggregates and transmits field data from subsurface instrumentation and mobile units, allowing an automated and instant upload of the data to a company's headquarters.Imdex's general manager product developm...Read More
The BMW i3 battery-powered automobile. Source: BMW Group.BMW Group is teaming up with BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics to launch a cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in a bid to improve working conditions in artisanal mining operations as well as living conditions in surrounding communities.Cobalt, which is produced primarily as a by-product of copper and ni...Read More