* Nornickel sees 2019 palladium market deficit at 800,000 oz* Sees 2019 global palladium consumption up by 500,000 oz* Reports 2018 EBITDA of $6.2 bln, highest level since 2011Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest palladium producer, said on Tuesday tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen a palladium deficit in 2019.Prices for palladium, chiefly use...Read More

OceanaGold Corp. (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) has published an initial resource estimate for its high-grade discovery at WKP, 10 km north of its Waihi gold mine in New Zealand.WKP contains 234,000 ounces of gold and 296,000 ounces of silver in the East Graben vein contained within 0.41 million indicated tonnes grading 18 grams gold per tonne and 22.7 grams silver per tonne.OceanaGold intends to drill 14,5...Read More

Australia-based Oz Minerals on Wednesday said its underlying annual profit slipped, but a better-than-expected performance at its Prominent Hill project was expected to drive future growth.The copper-focused miner posted a 1 percent drop in underlying net profit after tax to A$228.3 million ($159.77 million) for the year ended Dec. 31, compared to A$231.1 million year ago, falling just shy of an A...Read More

Custom screen panels at Bell Creek - Image from PolydeckTahoe Resources' Bell Creek gold mine and processing facility in Ontario was experiencing severe blinding from fibrous blasting residue on their trash circuit screens. This blinding resulted in increased downtime for manual screen cleaning, poor dewatering which reduced throughput, and a need for a secondary screen.Polydeck Mining Project Man...Read More

The biggest driver of major markets right now is the possibility of a U.S.-China trade deal.On that note, please click here now. The U.S. government's wild launch of tariff taxes caused global markets to swoon in the first half of 2018. Gold and the Chinese stock market were hurt more than a lot of other markets.Gold has done well with QE, QT, falling rates, and rising rates, but tariff taxes...Read More

Mining, agri materials, and tech: which of these three Canadian industries can offer investors the greatest knock-on upside potential through high growth in earnings? Let's take a look at one key TSX-listed stock from each of these three high-performing domestic industries and see which buoyant ticker is most likely to reward the gutsy investor with capital gains further down the road.Shopify (TSX...Read More

Mining three satellite deposits that outcrop within one to three kilometres of the Madsen mill at its Madsen project in Red Lake, Ontario, would add roughly $51 million in after-tax net present value to the Madsen project, Pure Gold Mining (TSXV: PGM) reports.A preliminary economic assessment released today of the three satellite deposits-Fork, Russet South and Wedge-was based on their combined re...Read More

Queensland Rail had stowed a train carrying copper, lead and zinc concentrate from Glencore's operations in the Australian state on 31 January as a precautionary measure.That was not sufficient to protect the 80-wagon Mount Isa train after historic rainfall of as much as 1.16 meters by February 7 near Townsville, where Glencore's copper refinery servicing its Mount Isa Mines is located.According t...Read More

Publisher's Note: Mr. James Dines is a legend whose insight has been proven time and time again.One of those insights was a very early bullish call on investing in uranium, making Mr. Dines "The Original Uranium Bug." Today we bring you an excerpt of The Dines Letter discussing it.To your wealth,Nick HodgePublisher, Outsider ClubImplacable, adj. Not to be appeased without a large sum of money.Am...Read More

Feb 27, 2019 Guest(s): Rob McEwen Mining mogul Rob McEwen said that more consolidation on the mega-cap level without premiums would ultimately mean shareholders benefit in the long-term. "Over the last five years, you've heard a growing voice from shareholders saying 'hey, look after our interests first.' And by going in and doing an at-market or discount to market where you can see real synerg...Read More

Toronto-based Mountain Province Diamonds has begun the winter exploration program at its 100% owned Kennady North project. The property is adjacent to the Gahcho Kue diamond mine, a joint venture of De Beers Canada (51%) and Mountain Province (49%).The winter program at Kennady North will focus on drilling several combined indicator and geophysical targets located west and southwest of the Hearne...Read More

Feb 27, 2019 Guest(s): Axel Merk The Fed Funds Rate is still below neutral, and investors can expect one or two more rate hikes this year, but this won't deter gold's slow march forward, said Axel Merk, president and CIO of Merk Investments. "The price of gold has been moving higher even if rates have been moving higher. And it's either the folks investing in gold are looking beyond the hump wh...Read More

Vancouver-based Blue Sky Uranium Corp. has announced positive results from the preliminary economic assessment of its Ivana uranium-vanadium deposit. The deposit is part of the company's Amarillo Grande project in the Rio Negro Province.The PEA calls for an open pit mine that will produce both uranium and vanadium for 13 years. The pre-production capex will be $128.1 million including $28.3 milli...Read More

QMC Quantum Minerals (TSXV: QMC; US-OTC: QMCQF) has visually identified spodumene in the first diamond holes it has drilled into its Irgon lithium project in the Cat Lake-Winnipeg River rare-element pegmatite field in southeast Manitoba.The company is currently amid phase one of a two phase drill program at Irgon, designed to confirm and expand the project's historical resource that Lithium Corpor...Read More

Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended lower, while the Nasdaq gained after U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told the House Ways and Means committee that "much remains to be done" before a trade deal is reached with China.Lowe's (LOW)  posted stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings but noted weakness in Canada's housing...Read More

The biggest driver of major markets right now is the possibility of a U.S.-China trade deal.On that note, please click here now. The U.S. government's wild launch of tariff taxes caused global markets to swoon in the first half of 2018. Gold and the Chinese stock market were hurt more than a lot of other markets.Gold has done well with QE, QT, falling rates, and rising rates, but tariff taxes...Read More

Arbitrage losses have put downward pressure on the Shanghai cif full-plate nickel premium, but the other Chinese nickel premiums were unchanged week on week, as were those in the United States and Europe. Chinese cif full-plate nickel premiums edged down on the basis of widened arbitrage losses European premiums remained flat across the board despite positive macroeconomic sentiment US briquettes...Read More

Lead's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange climbed at the close of trading on Wednesday February 27, finishing above its nearby $2,100 per tonne resistance level amid a continued draw on the LME's dwindling inventory.Total LME lead stocks were now at their lowest level in a decade, with the amount of deliverable material now down to just 61,125 tonnes. More than 40% of on-warrant materi...Read More

Zinc ingot premiums fell to their lowest levels in eight and a half years in Antwerp and Rotterdam on Tuesday February 26 due to market sellers offloading units in reaction to tightening London Metal Exchange future price spreads. European zinc premiums drop sharply  Shanghai zinc market flat  South and East Asia lead markets unchanged with little buying European zinc premiums drop to 8...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday February 27 that are worth another look.Following reports of a potential power shortage in one of China's major ferro-alloy production hubs in the second quarter of this year, market participants have downplayed any immediate impact on ferro-alloy prices in the country, saying they intend to adopt a wait-and-see stance in...Read More