Gold futures are trading lower early Thursday as investors awaited news that could determine the market's direction the rest of the session. During the previous session, the market was under pressure after nearly reaching a seven-month high during Tuesday's session.August Comex gold futures settled at $1289.50, down $8.00 or -0.62%.Although the market is still being underpinned by geopolitical con...Read More
Qatar agreed to provision allowing Moscow to reacquire at least portion of shares By Sarah McFarlane in London and Summer Said in Dubai Russia's sale of one-fifth of its state-owned oil company to Qatar and commodities giant Glencore PLC last year had an unusual provision: Moscow and Doha agreed Russia would buy a stake back, people familiar with the matter said. Russian President Vladimir Putin h...Read More
The Trump administration is going after another of the Obama-era environment protection rules by ordering a review of conservation plan for the greater sage grouse, in a move that would make more land available to oil, gas and mining companies.Announcing the measure, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said that while the federal government has a responsibility under the Endangered Species Act to prot...Read More
Comstock said the programme successfully infilled an open area of the resource model, extended the deposit to the north-east, and intersected high grades - including 0.9m at 208g/t gold - in a 45m down-dip step back on section targeting ultra-high grade gold.A previous highlight from this high-grade section included 1,123g/t gold over 2.3m back in 2013, which continues to outshine the latest resul...Read More
Swedish mining equipment and compressor maker Atlas Copco (STO:ATCO-A) is expanding its offer of products and services for the mining industry by acquiring a 34% stake in Mobilaris MCE, a software maker specializing in optimizing underground operations.While Atlas, Sweden's largest industrial group, did not revealed the value of the transaction, it said the acquisition would help the company adva...Read More
Harmony's stock suffered earlier this year in a mine explosion, claiming the life of 25 people.GLD has appreciated 6.98% while Harmony has fallen 6.62% over the last three months.The PE is 4.25 and dividend yield almost 4%.Harmony Gold Mining (NYSE:HMY) is a South African based gold miner that has suffered with the death of 25 miners back in March. The stock has lagged the price of gold becaus...Read More
Bob brought 321gold.com to the Internet almost 14 years ago. They later added 321energy.com to cover oil, natural gas, gasoline, coal, solar, wind and nuclear energy. Both sites feature articles, editorial opinions, pricing figures and updates on current events affecting both sectors. Previously, Moriarty was a Marine F-4B and O-1 pilot with more than 820 missions in Vietnam. He holds 14 internati...Read More
Investing.com - Gold prices held steady just below their strongest level in seven months in European trade on Wednesday, as investor jitters over looming geopolitical risk events supported demand for safe-haven assets.Comex gold futures were at $1,294.93 a troy ounce by 2:55AM ET (0655GMT), down $2.50, or around 0.2%. Meanwhile, spot gold was at $1,292.40.Gold prices scored a third-straight sessio...Read More
One/some/several "entities" decided at 9:38 a.m. this morning that it was necessary to dump 14,315 contracts of paper gold. This is just the August contract. In total a lot more was unloaded. This represents 1.43 million ozs of gold. The Comex is only showing 900,000 ozs of "gold" as "registered," or available for delivery in June, July and August (assuming all of that gold is actually...Read More
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Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQB: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce that it has signed a vendor agreement and receives a Purchase Order from a leading global two-way radio vendor.Siyata will provide the vendor with both rugged devices as well as commercial vehicle devices with Push-to-Talk Over Cellular ("PoC") capabilities. These devices will...Read More
It looks like solar is making a comeback.Well, that's only partially true. Solar was never really gone. Investors were just scared of the new president's plans to bolster the coal and oil industries in the U.S.And they showed that fear by dumping solar stocks immediately after the election last November. Stock prices across the industry plummeted. And those of us who stuck with our green investmen...Read More
Drilling operations at the Tinka Resources Ayawilca Project in central Peru. Source: Tinka Resources Ltd.Tinka Resources Ltd. [TK-TSXV; TKRFF-OTC] reported results of five additional drill holes from its 100%-owned Ayawilca zinc project in central Peru. All five holes are from the South Ayawilca area. Hole A17-063 has returned one of the best intersections of zinc mineralization at Ayawilca to dat...Read More
June 8, 2017 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Money manager Adrian Day examines Osisko Gold Royalties' purchase of Orion Mine Finance's portfolio, which he views as transformational.Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd. (OR:TSX; OR:NYSE, NY 12.17) is to buy a portfolio of royalties, streams and offtakes from Orion Mine Finance for CA$675 million in cash and CA$450 million in shares. This is "the big deal" Osisko...Read More
"Russiagate"WEST RIVER, MARYLAND - We're back at our post - watching... reading... trying to connect the dots. And we begin by asking: What do "think tanks" think about? The answer in a minute.First, there is a dust-up in the Washington, D.C., area. "Russiagate," it is called. As near as we can make out, some people think the Trump team had or has illegal or inappropriate contacts with the Russian...Read More
"The Moss Mine Gold/Silver Project in Arizona is Scheduled for Production in Q4, 2017"June 8, 2017, Vancouver, B.C. - Northern Vertex Mining Corp. (TSX.V:NEE, US-OTC: NHVCF) (the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company's wholly-owned subsidiary Golden Vertex Corp. has been advanced the second tranche, in the amount of US$5,000,000, under the senior secured credit facility with Sprott P...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics reports that a huge amount of "paper" gold was dumped on the gold futures exchange in New York today, apparently in connection with the congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey:http://investmentresearchdynamics.com/40-5-tonnes-of-paper-gold-dumped-in-4-minutes/Kranzler writes: "One/some/several 'entities...Read More
By: RambusThere is something happening in the commodities complex that has been going on for awhile now that needs to be addressed tonight. A subtle change actually started earlier this year and has been gaining momentum especially in the energy sector. I know for a lot of you, with the weak US dollar, you are thinking, "how could commodities be declining," which goes against everything you have...Read More