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Gold Seeker Closing Report: Gold and Silver Chop Near Unchanged

17 May, 2018 / Chris Mullen, Gold Seeker Report

CloseGain/LossGold $1291.00+$0.60Silver$16.44+$0.07XAU81.84-0.12%HUI177.47-0.17%GDM620.47-0.22%JSE Gold1013.99-2.72USD93.48+0.08Euro117.96-0.08Yen90.44-0.39Oil$71.49UNCH10-Year3.110%+0.013T-Bond140.375-0.5625Dow24713.98-0.22%Nasdaq7382.47-0.21%S&P2720.13-0.09% The Metals: Gold saw slight gains in Asia before it dropped back to $1285.40 in London and then rebounded in New York, but it ended...Read More

'We're right at peak gold': All major deposits have been discovered, declares Goldcorp chairman

Thu May 17 19:07:11 2018 / National Post

'Are we not looking for it? Are we bad at finding it? Or have we found it all? My answer is we found it all'Read full newsRead More

Top hedge fund managers Ray Dalio and John Paulson still believe in #gold:

Thu May 17 16:10:08 2018 / Staff reporter

Filings show that top-tier hedge fund managers Ray Dalio and John Paulson stayed true to the yellow metal in Q1.Read full newsRead More

'We're right at peak gold': All major deposits have been discovered, declares Goldcorp chairman

Thu May 17 16:05:29 2018 / National Post

'Are we not looking for it? Are we bad at finding it? Or have we found it all? My answer is we found it all'Read full newsRead More

'We're right at peak gold': All major deposits have been discovered, declares Goldcorp chairman

Thu May 17 16:05:29 2018 / National Post

'Are we not looking for it? Are we bad at finding it? Or have we found it all? My answer is we found it all'Read full newsRead More

#IMIC18: Contrarian Investment Picks

Thu May 17 13:31:00 2018 / Staff reporter

The 2018 International Mining Investment Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House International, is about to wrap up. Attendees were treated to the usual line-up of guest speaker presentations. Some of these presentations were more generally market-oriented, while others were specifically investment...Read full newsRead More

Blowback Begins: #EU To Ditch #Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil | Zero Hedge

Thu May 17 12:20:22 2018 / Staff reporter

"I'm privy to the information that the EU is going to shift from dollar to euro to pay for crude from Iran," said the diplomatic source.Read full newsRead More

Tanzanite miner gets bill as Tanzania cracks down on lost mineral revenues

May. 17, 2018, 11:47 AM / Reuters

NAIROBI, May 17 (Reuters) - Tanzanian gemstone miner Tanzanite One has agreed to pay compensation and overdue taxes to the government after unspecified violations led to losses in public revenues, the president's office said.President John Magufuli's government accuses mining firms of cheating Tanzania out of its fair share of mineral wealth through tax dodging and smuggling, allegations they deny...Read More

#Oil Jumps Above $80 For The First Time Since Nov. 2014 | Zero Hedge

Thu May 17 11:45:47 2018 / Staff reporter

Two weeks after Saudi Arabia said it was targeting $80/bbl oil, this morning Riyadh got its wishes early when Brent oil hit the Saudi target, jumping as much as 1% to $80.18.Read full newsRead More

Congo billionaire seeks French loan to develop iron-ore railway

May. 17, 2018, 11:31 AM / Bloomberg News

(Bloomberg) - Paul Obambi, a billionaire investor in the Congo Republic, is in talks with French lenders to fund a railway he's building to export iron ore.Obambi's company SAPRO SA is negotiating with "a consortium of banks" to finance the 450-kilometer (280-mile) track that will link the southwestern town of Mayoko to a port at Pointe Noire, he said in a phone interview from Paris on Tuesday. C...Read More

SilverCrest Closes $17,250,345 Bought Deal Financing

2018-05-17 11:11 / Mr. Eric Fier reports

Mr. Eric Fier reportsSILVERCREST CLOSES $17,250,345 BOUGHT DEAL FINANCING, OVER-ALLOTMENT OPTION EXERCISED IN FULLSilvercrest Metals Inc. has completed its prospectus offering announced on April 26, 2018, whereby the company issued a total of 8,214,450 common shares at a price of $2.10 per common share for gross proceeds of $17,250,345, including exercise of the overallotment option in full. The o...Read More

Goldsource Announces High Metallurgical Test Recoveries at Eagle Mountain

2018-05-17 10:58 / Mr. Ioannis Tsitos reports

Mr. Ioannis Tsitos reportsGOLDSOURCE ANNOUNCES HIGH METALLURGICAL TEST RECOVERIES AT EAGLE MOUNTAIN Goldsource Mines Inc. has released positive metallurgical test results on its continuing saprolite expansion program at its 100-per-cent-owned Eagle Mountain gold project in Guyana, South America. In addition to continuing drilling and trenching at Eagle Mountain, the company is progressing on meta...Read More

Eritrea 'poison pill' complicates miner Lundin's aspirations -sources

May. 17, 2018, 10:45 AM / Reuters

VANCOUVER/TORONTO, May 17 (Reuters) - The weak human rights record of one of Africa's poorest countries is coming between Lundin Mining Corp and its pursuit of a prized European copper and gold asset.Cash-rich Lundin's latest run at fellow Canadian miner Nevsun Resources Ltd is designed to bag the Timok project in Serbia, but it had to bring on a partner to pick up Nevsun's Bisha mine in Eritrea.T...Read More

RT @tbiesheuvel: This is nuts. Half the world's apples traded in a single day

Thu May 17 10:27:21 2018 / Thomas Biesheuvel

Crazy commodity trading in China may actually reflect the wisdom of crowds.Read full newsRead More

New First Nations led campaign calls for improved mining practices and better regulation in British Columbia

May. 17, 2018, 10:24 AM / Globe Newswire

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Without significant improvements to mining practices in British Columbia and better regulation of mining activities, the province has little hope of its natural resources playing a key role in the global transition to a low-carbon future. Instead, communities and the environment throughout B.C. face the prospect of another disaster like...Read More

GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust Declares Monthly Distributions of $0.05

2018-05-17 09:19 / RYE, N.Y. -- (Business Wire)

RYE, N.Y. -- (Business Wire)The Board of Trustees of the GAMCO Global Gold, Natural Resources & Income Trust (NYSE American:GGN) (the "Fund") approved the continuation of its policy of paying monthly cash distributions. The Board of Trustees declared cash distributions of $0.05 per share for each of July, August, and September 2018.The distribution for July 2018 will be payable on July 24, 201...Read More

Gold, Silver, Mining Stocks: One Reversal Too Many

Thu May 17 08:15:17 2018 / Staff reporter

Commodities Analysis by Sunshine Profits (Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA) covering: EUR/USD, XAU/USD, XAG/USD, US Dollar Index Futures. Read Sunshine Profits (Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA)'s latest article on Investing.comRead full newsRead More

#Sweden In Free Fall | Zero Hedge

Thu May 17 08:04:24 2018 / Staff reporter

If it is considered 'objectionable' in the West to talk about the factual consequences of migration, in Sweden it is now viewed as a crime.Read full newsRead More

Why Global #Growth Hit A Wall: #China #Credit Growth Continues To Slow | Zero Hedge

Thu May 17 08:04:17 2018 / Staff reporter

Macroprudential tightening policies in China currently will render economic growth in 2Q18, but more importantly 2H18, dismal; we believe this will spread to emerging markets, rendering the "global coordinated growth" bulls out of sync with realityRead full newsRead More

China's Tianqi Lithium buys minority stake in SQM for $4.07bn

May. 17, 2018, 8:00 AM / Cecilia Jamasmie

China's Tianqi Lithium is buying a 24% stake in Chilean producer SQM from Canada's Nutrien (TSX:NTR) for $4.07bn, further expanding the Asian nation's increasing hold over the market for the key component needed in the making of batteries that power electric vehicles."This is an attractive investment for Tianqi Lithium which fits well within our existing business strategy," Vivian Wu, president of...Read More

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