Share this article VANCOUVER - Ecora Resources Plc [ECOR-TSX, LSE, ECRAF-OTC Pink] said Monday it is spending $20 million to acquire a 0.25% net smelter royalty (NSR) over all metal production from the planned open pit of the Vizcachitas copper project in Chile, owned by Andes Copper Ltd.The company said the agreement marks a rare opportunity to acquire a royalty over one of the world's largest un...Read More

News Update BacTech Environmental Corp. launches a new sustainable bond framework for issuing green and social bonds to pay for its bioleaching plant in Tenguel, Ecuador.BacTech Environmental Corp. (BAC:CSE;BCCEF:OTCQB;OBT1:FRA) announced it had launched a new sustainable bond framework for issuing green and social bonds to pay for its bioleaching plant in Tenguel, Ecuador.The company hopes to ra...Read More

Two firms are at odds over permissions allowing one of them to build tunnels in an area where the other one owns mining claims, noted a Red Cloud Securities report.Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) likely will not have its license of occupation and permit relative to its KSM project revoked, as requested by Tudor Gold, purported Red Cloud Securities analyst David Talbot in a July 18 resea...Read More

The white metal is priced for aneconomic outcome that’s unlikely to materialize. AI OptimismWith liquidity-fueled assetsoutperforming in 2023, they’ve decided that QT and higher interest rates arenot going to spoil their party. Moreover, with silver and goldalso liquidity beneficiaries, they have adopted similar attitudes.However, while the gambit can persist in the short ter...Read More

Gold-stock technicalsare dramatically improving, turning increasingly bullish.  After slumping to major support zones in thesummer doldrums, the gold miners’ stocks have surged sharply in the past coupleweeks.  That strong advance has achieveda decisive breakout above the main gold-stock benchmark’s key 50-day movingaverage.  Similar breakouts in recent yearshave heralde...Read More

PolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdExcitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDSouth32 put Hermosa on the approvals fast-track in May, but its recent studies have shown that the Taylor zinc-lead-silver a...Read More

Some C$178.6 million in equity has been raised for Yukon projects over the past 12 months according to Lise Farynowski, director, business and industry development of the Yukon government.Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdWith two CLP licences, Ndom and Gamboukou, being assessed for their potential to host hard rock lithium,...Read More

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedAccording to Susana Muhamad, Colombia's minister of environment and sustainable development, the new decree isn't meant to h...Read More

Arbor Metals wants support for the industry to mirror the support already seen for major battery manufacturers.Read More

PolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdExcitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThe ministry's head of geology and former director of mineral and coal entrepreneur development, Sugeng Mujiyanto, was named...Read More

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedAs of Saturday, 116 "non-coal mines" and 14 tailing ponds in the province stopped production for the flood season, according...Read More

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedThat's enough said about sport because not enough is being said about why Whitehaven Coal has succeeded mining a material so...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A dazzling 19th century brooch, once owned by British royalty and featuring around 200 carats of old mine-cut diamonds, is to be sold in the US, priced at $2.65m.Antique jeweler M.S. Rau, based in New Orleans, describes the ribbon node brooch as "monumental".It says it is "both a captivating treasure and a piece of history". Henry Pelham-Clinton, the 5th Duke of Newcastle, com...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A woman reportedly agreed to sell every piece in her jewelry collection to pay her husband's gambling debts - only to discover that all but one were fake.She says he showered her with valuable gifts, including a Rolex watch, during their 25-year marriage, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Maariv.But she claims that when she took them to be valued, the jeweler said...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Caravanner Carmel Ash found a 424-carat yellow sapphire, valued at up to $200,000 (AUS$300,000), while "specking" - looking for gems, especially after a downpour - in Australia.She said she was "absolutely astounded" when what initially appeared to be a black rock turned out to be a huge and valuable gemstone.Carmel, 71, who describes herself as "half-blind", was walking with husba...Read More

(IDEX Online) -  Alrosa's new CEO, Pavel Marynichev, has been sanctioned the US, as his predecessor Sergey Ivanov was before him.The US State Department announced last Thursday that it was imposing additional sanctions on individuals and entities to degrade Russia's current and future military capabilities.It said Marinychev was being designated for "operating or having operated in...Read More

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedMetals and minerals prices hit all-time highs in 2011 before the bubble finally burst.Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was 36,800 on Jan. 4, 2022, an all-time high. It's about 35,450 today. That's down 3.8% over the past 18 months. That decline is nominal. But if you adjust for inflation, the DJIA was down 6.42% over those 18 months.The same applies to the S&P 500 index. The S&P was 4,794 on Jan. 4, 2022, also an all-time high. It's about 4,559 today. That's down abo...Read More

What if Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche is correct?The European virologist said at the outset of the COVID-19 episode in 2020 that vaccinating the world in the midst of an epidemic was insane because it would train the virus to evolve more dangerously while disabling human immune systems.Last week he issued a warning that the world was within weeks of just such a new and deadly immune escape variant outb...Read More