"The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy."Here is the sage conclusion of Mr. Charles Munger, aged 98 years. Mr. Munger is of course the partner of Warren Buffett and legendary vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.What human vice ranks fourth among the seven lethal sins? That is correct - envy.Today we evaluate the acid emotion of envy. We further document how envy can wreck a man's we...Read More

North America's oldest silver miner, Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL), is set to consolidate its position as the continent's primary silver leader. It is working to increase U.S. output by 20% and to become the most prominent Canadian silver producer by year-end.The 130-year-old company's CEO, Phil Baker, told the recent Canadian Mining Symposium in London that the 1.2 billion oz. silver market is growing...Read More

Robex Resources (TSXV: RBX) was set to restart operations at its Nampala gold mine in Mali after a trespasser was killed on Thursday and work was halted temporarily, the company said. A crowd of artisanal miners intruded onto the open-pit site in the West African country's south and encountered security, the company said in a news release. One other person was injured in the incident, Robex said...Read More

For years, Brazil was overlooked as a favourable mining jurisdiction within South America. But what's recently become apparent is that times are changing. The countries that were once deemed as go-to options are now experiencing civil unrest and political instability. While these countries no longer attract the investment dollars they once did, Brazil is emerging as a mining destination of choice....Read More

EnCore Energy (TSXV: EU; OTCQB: ENCUF) has won a court challenge to its US$32 million Dewey-Burdock uranium project in South Dakota. The Oglala Sioux Tribe and watchdog group Aligning for Responsible Mining wanted a United States appeals court to review its decision in August approving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) licence for enCore to mine uranium at the project about 150 km south...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LON: RIO; ASX: RIO) is now the majority owner of the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, as it has completed its US$3.3 billion buyout of Canadian miner Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ).Shareholders of the Montreal-based company approved on Monday the deal that gives Rio Tinto control over the world's largest known copper and gold deposit, with a 66%...Read More

Panama's government has ordered First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to halt operations at its Cobre Panama copper mine after it failed to agree terms for a new contract with the Canadian miner.The move, unusual among Latin American countries, came after First Quantum missed a Wednesday night deadline to ink a new royalty deal that has been in the works since September 2021.The miner said on Friday...Read More

Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) said the board has approved an investment decision and full restart of construction activities at its Skouries gold-copper project in northern Greece.The proposed mine, which has reserves of 3.7 million oz. of gold and 1.7 billion lb. of copper, was halted from 2017 to 2021 due to government delays in issuing permits and community opposition.After inkin...Read More

Wall Street finished lower again on Friday, although the major U.S. equity averages cut their losses late in the day.Read full newsRead More

Shark Tank star Kevin OLeary sparred with CNBC anchors over the $15 million he was given as a paid sponsor of now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - Four men arrested during a jewelry raid at a s JCPenney store may be linked to a series of heists that netted $1.5m.The suspects were apprehended as they smashed display cases with hammers to steal diamond jewelry at the at the CoolSprings Galleria, in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.Police say one suspect pepper-sprayed an employee and another tried to grab an officer's gun.There ha...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Manufacturers in Surat says business is down by as much as 40 per cent as the ongoing war in Ukraine depresses markets in the US and Europe.Demand in China, where an easing of Covid restrictions has led to a spike in cases, is also weak. It usually accounts for a round a third of India's diamond exports.Many workers in India's cut-and-polish capital have had their wages c...Read More

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially shown its hand. Mandiant, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, recently uncovered a shockingly desperate cyberattack against a single private company.A series of fake social media profiles, typically called "bots," made some bizarre posts. According to Mandiant's report, these posts all came from within CCP-friendly IP addresses.Hilariously pseudo-American n...Read More

Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (CSE-BNKR) is bunkering in Idaho, through the prolific Silver Valley. The prefeasibility study (PFS) had been done earlier, but a more recent update shows the mineral resource is much larger than first assumed.Bunker in the Silver ValleyUnder new Idaho-based leadership, Bunker Hill Mining intends to sustainably restart and develop the Bunker Hill mine as the first step...Read More

This follows the award of a water licence to Roan allowing it to own and operate a dedicated water supply infrastructure for its operations.Read More

The transaction, which values the combined business at about US$1.5 (A$2.2) billion, is expected to close in January and includes a $200 million equity injection from Anglo American.Read More

While Elon Musk has been busy either saving or destroying Twitter, Tesla quietly announced Step 1 of a plan it's been working on for years now.Tesla Electric is a newly spun retail electricity division that uses solar panels and the company's Powerwall batteries to capture, store, and inevitably sell power back to the grid.Customers who buy into this plan would receive credits toward their bill in...Read More

The company's Q3/22 performance along with mine plan and gold resource revisions drove the target price increase, noted a B Riley Securities report.On the heels of Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) providing a Q3/22 financial and operational update, B Riley Securities increased its target price on the Canadian explorer to US$60 per share from US$57, reported analyst Lucas Pipes in a Nov....Read More

Expert Michael Ballanger looks at the S&P 500, the current state of gold and silver, and some resource companies, including Getchell Gold. Ballanger also touches on Powell's anti-inflation campaign and tells you his 2023 outlook. Last Tuesday afternoon, there was an attempted theft of untold magnitude and unimaginable loss; the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board attempted to make off with...Read More

The metals explorer will continue drilling at this property through the winter in preparation for a Q1/23 resource estimate update, noted a PI Financial report.Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQB) released encouraging drill results from its Black Pine project in Idaho, including the discovery of a new zone, reported PI Financial analyst Chris Thompson in a Dec. 14 research note. An updated Bl...Read More