Gold Rarity and Value Shown In Stunning Gold Visualisationsby Jeff Desjardins of Visual CapitalistSince Ancient times, gold has served a very unique function in society.Gold is extremely rare, impossible to create out of "thin air", easily identifiable, malleable, and it does not tarnish. By nature of these properties, gold has been highly valued throughout history for every tiny ounce of weigh...Read More
Trade wars are always bullish for gold and safe havens. There are also reports that US army has attacked Syrian army. Other than US interest rate hike, rest of the factors are bullish for gold. US June interest rate hike is more or less a done deal. At the beginning of the year, I had written that my bullish assumption of gold is based on four interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve this year...Read More
Having collapsed this morning following a profit warning (and mass layoffs) this morning, we suspect the following chart will start to send Deutsche Bank counterparties scrambling for protection...Read full newsRead More
At press time, bitcoin (BTC) is priced at US$7,820 with a 5% loss over the last 24 hours of trading. Ethereum (ETH) is currently trading at US$610 and Ripple at US$0.62. BCash (BCH) has lost over 11% in overnight trading, with similar downward trends being exhibi...Read full newsRead More
A salar-size gap has opened up between bulls and bears in the lithium market.In March Morgan Stanley sent shares of lithium companies tumbling after the investment bank forecast overproduction of the battery raw material and plunging prices.Some in the industry characterized the New York bank's assessment as little more than a hit job to help a client pick up assets cheaply. Miners pointed to th...Read More
THOOTHUKUDI, India, May 24 (Reuters) - India's Tamil Nadu state said on Thursday that it was seeking a permanent closure of a big copper smelter run by London-listed Vedanta Resources after 13 people died in protests demanding the closure of the plant on environmental grounds."The government's position is very clear, it doesn't want the plant to run," said Sandeep Nanduri, the top official of the...Read More
#Barrick Gold: Niedrigste Quartalsproduktion in den letzten 16 Jahren #gold #miningRead full newsRead More
Mr. Peter Tallman reportsKLONDIKE GOLD COMMENCES 2018 DRILLINGKlondike Gold Corp. has commencedits 2018 diamond drill program at the company's wholly owned Klondike district property inYukon.A minimum total of $2.5-million is budgeted for 2018, including an estimated 5,000 metres of drilling (see March 9, 2018, news release).All major work contracts have been finalized, with work components under...Read More
The DOJ has opened a criminal investigation into whether large bitcoin traders - so-calledRead full newsRead More
Deutsche Bank, which issued a tacit profit warning today, confirmed its headcount would fall "well below" 90,000, from just over 97,000. while its equities sales and trading headcount would be slashed by about 25%.Read full newsRead More
Mr. John Watson reports NV GOLD PROVIDES UPDATE OF EXPLORATION AT ITS ATV GOLD PROJECT, NEVADANV Gold Corp.has recently completed follow-up drilling and received analyses from its second diamond core hole ARC-6C at its 100-per-cent-controlled Across-the-Valley (ATV) gold project in north-central Nevada. As reported by the company in news releases dated March 1, 2018, hole ARC-6C intercepted a sequ...Read More
ST PETERSBURG, Russia/MOSCOW, May 24 (Reuters) - Russian aluminium producer Rusal has asked the Russian government to purchase some of its output, a government source said on Thursday, in an effort to alleviate the pain inflicted by U.S. sanctions.Rusal, the world's second largest aluminium producer, also announced that its chief executive and seven board members had quit - part of a strategy it h...Read More
SANTIAGO, May 23 (Reuters) - Chile's constitutional court said it would not get involved in a dispute between a foreign-backed miner and state-run copper miner Codelco over adjoining lithium deposits in the Maricunga salt flat, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Wednesday.Salar Blanco, 50 percent-owned by Australia's Lithium Power International, with smaller stakes held by Canada's B...Read More
LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Anglo Asian Mining, which focuses on copper, gold and silver mining in Azerbaijan, said on Thursday it was considering paying its first dividend now that it had reported a profit, cut debt and built up cash.A dividend would set Anglo Asian apart from many London-listed junior miners, which typically are busy exploring and need to raise money rather than to hand it out."T...Read More
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - NioCorp Developments, which is in the process of raising financing for a minerals project in Nebraska, has just seen its Toronto-listed shares surge from C$0.52 to $0.70 in the space of two days thanks to the U.S. government.NioCorp's planned mine and processing facility at Elk Creek will prod...Read More
LONDON, May 24 (Reuters) - Mining firm Petra Diamonds said it aims to raise $178 million to help cut its debt burden, and warned it could run low on working capital and breach its debt covenants if shareholders do not back the proposed rights issue.Petra, which last month finalised an agreement with its lenders for a waiver of its December 2017 debt covenant and a resetting of debt agreements for...Read More
Canadian miners are definitively back in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) game, with the value of such transactions hitting $25 billion during the first three months of the year, or 86% more than in the same period of 2017, though volume of deals was slightly down.Deals involving critical materials for the making of batteries that power electric cars, particularly lithium and cobalt, led the pil...Read More
ST PETERSBURG, May 24 (Reuters) - Polyus, Russia's largest gold producer, said on Thursday 2018 production was likely to be at the upper end of its forecast range of 2.375-2.425 million troy ounces.Chief Executive Pavel Grachev said on the sidelines of the St Petersburg economic forum that 2018 capital expenditure would be slightly below an initially planned $850 million because Polyus was ramping...Read More
SANTIAGO, May 24 (Reuters) - Chilean miner SQM said on Thursday that it would invest $525 million to boost its lithium production capacity in Chile through 2021 as demand for the key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries continues to surge.SQM , one of the world's largest producers of lithium and fertilizers, said it would be ready to produce as many as 180,000 metric tonnes of lithium in Chile...Read More
Precious metals producer Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) blasted Thursday comments made by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) accusing the company of failing to take precautions two avoid injuries at its mines.According to the union, a seismic event on May 22 caused a fall of ground at the company's Ikamva mine, part of Kloof operations, leaving two employees inj...Read More