The town of Hay River, in the Canadian Northwest Territories, could soon have a nearby mine operating again, thanks to a deal between mining companies reached earlier this month.Osisko Metals (TSXV:OM), an exploration company significantly held by Osisko Mining (TSX:OSK) and Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX:OR), purchased all of the shares of Pine Point Mining, which owned the Pine Point lead-zinc...Read More
1. Artificial intelligence is a big deal and will change the world in massive ways.You've been hearing about the coming of the singularity for some time now. The singularity is the hypothesis that the invention of artificial super-intelligence will abruptly trigger runaway technological growth, resulting in unfathomable changes to human civilization.The idea is that an upgradable intelligent agent...Read More
Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg's Renova Group has sold its stake in Russian gold producer Petropavlovsk, Renova spokesman Andrey Shtorkh told Reuters on Wednesday."The deal is closed, we are not disclosing the details," Shtorkh said. He declined to disclose the price of the deal and the buyer of the stake.Petropavlovsk declined to comment. The Interfax news agency reported that the 22 per c...Read More
For the second year in a row, people -and commodity analysts such as those at TD Securities and the Bank of Montreal- are being bullish on silver. This is according to a survey conducted by precious metals retailer Kitco among the readers of its website. Some 151 people, or 39% of the sample of 386 participants, chose silver as 2018's most likely outperformer,with gold taking the second place with...Read More
Copper in London surged to the highest in almost four years after China ordered its top producer to halt output to combat winter pollution, fueling a rally this year driven by optimism about demand and supply disruptions at mines.Jiangxi Copper Co. was told to cut production for at least a week before a new assessment is made on local pollution levels. Earlier in the month, the No. 2 smelter, Tong...Read More
What does desperation look like? This:The weird thing about trees is that someday, like all of us, they die.This tree was on its way out. In fact, the tree was removed in order to protect anyone standing under it from danger. Who usually stands under it? The press. Melania was trying to protect the same press that now attempts to skewer her over landscaping.(Of course, if the tree broke and killed...Read More
What does desperation look like? This:The weird thing about trees is that someday, like all of us, they die.This tree was on its way out. In fact, the tree was removed in order to protect anyone standing under it from danger. Who usually stands under it? The press. Melania was trying to protect the same press that now attempts to skewer her over landscaping.(Of course, if the tree broke and killed...Read More
Here are two Canadian metals and mining stocks that we rate 'buy'. One is a recovery play based on the entrepreneurial skills of its 37.5-per-cent owner and its current price being well below book value. The other is a well-managed integrated mining company whose activities include exploration, development, processing, smelting, refining and reclamation in Canada, United States, Chile and Peru.Sha...Read More
Bitcoin is not completely worthless. But those who believe the cryptocurrency is going to usher in some kind of new Utopian era for humanity are either a.) purposely lying or b.) completely stupid.A new documentary called Magic Money: The Bitcoin Revolution calls the cryptocurrency the "biggest financial revolution the world has ever seen" and claims, "For the first time in history money is no lo...Read More
In response to the tax bill which will lead to a lot more money in her pocket, Abigail Disney, heiress to the Walt Disney Company fortune, said she would be donating that tax break to a worthy cause of her choosing.No, wait. That's not it at all. She got in front of a camera and made a video complaining that other wealthy people and corporations won't be forced to keep handing over quite as much o...Read More
In response to the tax bill which will lead to a lot more money in her pocket, Abigail Disney, heiress to the Walt Disney Company fortune, said she would be donating that tax break to a worthy cause of her choosing.No, wait. That's not it at all. She got in front of a camera and made a video complaining that other wealthy people and corporations won't be forced to keep handing over quite as much o...Read More
Freedom is found the ability to determine the course of your life. So how can you be truly free when each day's activities are dictated to you?The short answer, you can't. Asking for time off to spend your precious life as you see fit is not freedom in any sense. So how do you escape and take back your financial freedom?We've discussed the gig economy and the freedom found in becoming a freelancer...Read More
Freedom is found the ability to determine the course of your life. So how can you be truly free when each day's activities are dictated to you?The short answer, you can't. Asking for time off to spend your precious life as you see fit is not freedom in any sense. So how do you escape and take back your financial freedom?We've discussed the gig economy and the freedom found in becoming a freelancer...Read More
Posted: Dec 22, 2017JK: Discovery Watch Dec 22, 2017 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Dec 22, 2017HSC: Discovery Watch Dec 22, 2017: Who has Australia's best Nugget Patch?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The p...Read More
AMOS, QUEBEC - Over the last four decades, a series of owners have carved out a resource of nearly three million ounces of gold below the 30 metres of overburden that blankets the Douay project in the Abitibi greenstone belt of northwestern Quebec.But the structures controlling the distribution of that gold - 2.8 million inferred ounces from 83.33 million tonnes grading 1.05 grams gold per tonne -...Read More
Parenting for Freedom article series: This is the second in a series of articles that analyzes how freedom-loving people can align their parenting with their political philosophy, and how doing so will allow ideas about personal liberty to carry on to the next generation.In my previous article, I talked about how parenting is a sentence. It is served by parents to their children for the "crime"...Read More
Parenting for Freedom article series: This is the second in a series of articles that analyzes how freedom-loving people can align their parenting with their political philosophy, and how doing so will allow ideas about personal liberty to carry on to the next generation.In my previous article, I talked about how parenting is a sentence. It is served by parents to their children for the "crime"...Read More
In its November report, mortgage security firm Freddie Mac called 2017 the "best year in a decade" for the housing market by a variety of measures. These include low inflation, strong job growth and historically-low mortgage rates. This assessment is very encouraging, not just for homebuyers and builders and the U.S. economy in general, but also for commodities, resources and raw materials as we...Read More
Published on: Dec 21, 2017 | by finfeedWith the year almost at an end, assay results are still trickling through for workaholic juniors like Pursuit Minerals (ASX:PUR).PUR is actively developing the Paperbark Project and the adjacent Bluebush Project in north-west Queensland with a view of building a zinc mining operation over the coming years. PUR was able to obtain last-minute exploration result...Read More
Every year I put out a list of predictions for the next year. The goal here is to find solid and profitable trends that you can make money on, rather than predict fantastical black swan events that may or may not happen.For your comedic pleasure, here are last year's predictions with comments. Let's see if I was a champ or a chump.Last year I wrote:1. Rates: range bound between 1.60% and 3%.The 1...Read More