Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
I'm not sure about Santa, but unicorns are real.New research shows the 'Siberian unicorn' walked the Earth with humans as recently as 39,000 years ago.Radiocarbon dating has shown the 8,000-pound animal, which is actually a rhinoceros, was alive and well with humans in Eurasia after the last Ice Age. It was originally thought to have gone extinct as long as 200,000 years ago.Some are arguing the c...Read More
Source: BloombergRelief that an escalation in the trade war between the US and China has been avoided - at least for now - sparked a huge rally in mining stocks on Monday.Gold closed at a one-month high just shy of $1,240 an ounce, iron ore continued to climb from recent lows above $66 a tonne and while the rally in the price of copper had fizzled out by afternoon trading, it did not stop investor...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ENERGY CORP. L53-DD2 OIL APPRAISAL - 658 BOPD Pan Orient Energy Corp.'s L53-DD2 appraisal well is on a 90-day production test and currently producing at a steady state of approximately 659 barrels per day (b/d) of 23.9-degree API oil with a basic sediment and water (BS&W) of 1.47 per cent from the "EE sand" through 6.4 metres of perforations between the dept...Read More
Dec 03, 2018 Guest(s): Will Rhind CEO, GraniteShares Changes in monetary policy could really affect stock markets and increase volatility in equities in 2019, this according to Will Rhind, CEO of GraniteShares. "I think we can have quite a significant change if there's a rate rise in December. I think that really increase the likelihood of a stock market sell-off coming into next year. So, we've...Read More
NUNAVUT - Ottawa-based Aura Resources has issued an update of the work done at the Greyhound gold property, a partnership of Aura and Agnico Eagle Mining (the operator and holder of an optioned 70% interest). The project is located 40 km north of Baker Lake, and 32 km south of Agnico's Meadowbank gold mine.Agnico has completed surface mapping, induced polarization surveys, geochemical sampling, an...Read More
Mr.Dan Stuart reportsJUGGERNAUT COMPLETES $1,677,000 FINANCINGJuggernaut Exploration Ltd.'snon-brokered private placement of $1.65-million announced on Nov. 27, 2018, has been increased and closed at $1,677,800 subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange. Due to strong demand from institutions and accredited investors alike in the Americas and Europe, management is arranging a second-tranche...Read More
In August, Semafo (TSX: SMF) started flying expatriate employees by helicopter from its Boungou and Mana mines in Burkina Faso to the capital city of Ouagadougou.The Toronto-based company also heightened and reinforced escorts for the transportation of its national employees between the mines and their villages.At Boungou, the government deployed a ground military force on the route between the mi...Read More
Assays from holes drilled into the southwestern part of the Marathon deposit intersected intervals of high-grade gold over wide intervals at open-pit depths, Marathon Gold Corp. (TSX: MOZ) reports.Highlights include 17.39 grams gold over 5 metres from 213 metres downhole including 1.9 metres of 42.76 grams gold in drill hole MA-18-343, and 19.63 grams gold over 2.3 metres from 67 metres downhole,...Read More
QUEBEC - Monarques Gold Corp. of Montreal has received a positive feasibility study for its 100% owned Wasamac gold project 15 km west of Rouyn-Noranda. The study concludes that the underground mine will produce an annual average of 142,000 oz. of gold over a life of 11 years.The Wasamac underground access and development concept. (Image: Monarques Gold)According to the feasibility study, Wasamac...Read More
Mr. Jeff Chisholm reportsPAN ORIENT ENERGY CORP. L53-DD2 OIL APPRAISAL - 658 BOPD Pan Orient Energy Corp.'s L53-DD2 appraisal well is on a 90-day production test and currently producing at a steady state of approximately 659 barrels per day (b/d) of 23.9-degree API oil with a basic sediment and water (BS&W) of 1.47 per cent from the "EE sand" through 6.4 metres of perforations between the dept...Read More
Mr.Dan Stuart reportsJUGGERNAUT COMPLETES $1,677,000 FINANCINGJuggernaut Exploration Ltd.'snon-brokered private placement of $1.65-million announced on Nov. 27, 2018, has been increased and closed at $1,677,800 subject to acceptance by the TSX Venture Exchange. Due to strong demand from institutions and accredited investors alike in the Americas and Europe, management is arranging a second-tranche...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher Monday after Donald Trump proclaimed a 90-day "truce" in the U.S. trade war with China.Nexstar Media Group Inc. (NXST) reached a deal to buy Tribune Media Co. (TRCO) for $6.4 billion, including debt. Tribune shares rose 12%.GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) will buy ovarian cancer...Read More
It is still premature for gold traders to start buying. That's the judgment of many contrarian analysts, who note that gold market sentiment is not yet favorable. This is the same opinion they had six weeks ago, the last time I focused a column on gold market sentiment. Gold GCG9, -0.15% today, of course, is trading slightly lower than where it stood then. Consider the average recommended gold...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly higher at the close of trading on Monday December 3, with broadly positive market sentiment emerging from the weekend's summit in Argentina of the leaders of the G20 group of nations, while the United States and China agreed to limit further use of trade tariffs.The three-month tin price improved most over the afternoon. It made a signifi...Read More
Brazil's primary aluminium production continued to slow in October, according to local aluminium association Abal. The country's primary aluminium output was 50,500 tonnes during the month, 26.30% lower than the 68,500 tonnes in the same period last year. October's figures were the third-lowest monthly output in 2018 despite recording some growth compared with September, when production was 49,100...Read More
Comex copper prices recovered Monday morning in the US, after Chinese and US leaders decided to freeze additional tariffs for 90 days over the weekend at the G20 summit.The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange jumped 5.40 cents to $2.8415 per lb. A temporary detente is positive for the metals markets because the ongoing uncertainty betwee...Read More
The market is already fading quickly from the turbo-boost it was given by the announcement that China and Trump reached a "truce" on Trump's Trade War - whatever "truce" means. Last week the stock market opened red or deeply red on several days, only to be saved by a combination of the repetitious good cop/bad bad cop routine between Trump and Kudlow with regard to the potential for a trade...Read More
The Chinese ferro-silicon market has added to recent price increases amid persistent demand from steel mills in the week ended Friday November 30, while in Europe prices are under pressure after reports of new deals, with long-term delivery negotiations in focus. China builds on price gains while steel mills buy for 2019 smelting schedules European market drops, awaits first-quarter settlements US...Read More
Ferro-chrome spot prices in China were unchanged in the week ended Friday November 30 after the drop in tender prices to December from November was smaller than expected. Chinese mills' ferro-chrome tender price falls by 50 yuan ($7) per tonne Chinese imported and domestic ferro-chrome spot prices stable Alloy prices into Japan and South Korea fall High-carbon ferro-chrome price into Europe unmove...Read More
Greatland's share price spiked last month after it reported a drill hit of 275m at 4.77g/...Read More