Nevsun Resources Ltd. (TSX:NSU) has acquired Reservoir Minerals Inc. in a deal worth US$365 million, the companies announced April 24.The consolidation of the two Vancouver-based companies has created a 100% ownership in the upper zone of the Timok Copper Project in Serbia, which had previously been owned by Reservoir and Freeport McMoRan Inc. As well, the combined company will fully own the cash-...Read More

European stocks ended trade in the red on Monday, amid weak sentiment across the globe, as a sharp decline in mining stocks weighed on the wider benchmarks.Miners slumpSymbolNamePrice Change%ChangeVolumeFTSE---DAX---CAC---IBEX 35--- The pan-European STOXX 600 closed some 0.5 percent down provisionally, with most sectors closing in negative territory. London's FTSE 100 slipped some 0.8 percent, w...Read More

World-class insights firm, Deloitte, recently released a report on the mining industry trends of 2016. In addition to highlighting the emerging trends, this report and other reports from leading organizations within the industry - such as the International Council on Mining & Metals (ICMM) - note some significant issues mining companies are facing. Leading issues include the volatility of the comm...Read More

Base metals were in negative territory on Monday morning on the LME, mostly consolidating after last week's rally. Investors were in a cautious mood ahead of key data releases and central bank meetings this week, traders said.Base metals surged to multi-week and multi-month highs last week but the rallies reflected interest from funds and CTAs and not a fundamental shift in markets, they added."Th...Read More

Canada's Barrick Gold (NYSE, TSX:ABX), the world's largest producer of the precious metal by output, may be announcing Tuesday a significant shift of business focus towards shareholder returns, as former fund manager and current business performance chief, Catherine Raw, assumes as the firm's new chief financial officer.Most shareholders hope that Catherine Raw persuades management to stop prizing...Read More

2016 Campaign's Populist Tone Rankles America's CEOs ... Chief executives at big American companies are increasingly frustrated by the populist tone of the presidential campaign, and concerns are mounting in boardrooms and corner offices that anti-business rhetoric may solidify even after the November election. – Wall Street JournalThis Wall Street Journal article makes the point that Trum...Read More

Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS ... Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff ... In Brazil, Washington has used corruption insinuations to get President Rousseff impeached by the lower house. Evidence is not necessary, just allegations. It is no different from "Iranian nukes," Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction," Assad's "use of che...Read More

2016 Campaign's Populist Tone Rankles America's CEOs ... Chief executives at big American companies are increasingly frustrated by the populist tone of the presidential campaign, and concerns are mounting in boardrooms and corner offices that anti-business rhetoric may solidify even after the November election. – Wall Street JournalThis Wall Street Journal article makes the point that Trum...Read More

Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS ... Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff ... In Brazil, Washington has used corruption insinuations to get President Rousseff impeached by the lower house. Evidence is not necessary, just allegations. It is no different from "Iranian nukes," Saddam Hussein's "weapons of mass destruction," Assad's "use of che...Read More

IHN was thrilled to host an exclusive 90 minute talk with physician, natural health expert and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joel Fuhrman on Monday February 8, 2016. Practitioners know much about nutrition and its powerful effects to create disease or protect against disease but what degree of nutritional excellence is necessary to make a diet therapeutically disease reversing?Dr. Fuhrman...Read More

Freeport McMoRan Inc. is considering selling a minority stake in its portfolio of copper mines, sources familiar with the matter said, one of the options on the table as the company scrambles to slash its $20-billion (U.S.) debt load.Continue reading at The Globe and Mail Image of Freeport McMoRan's Grasberg mine in Indonesia, viewed from space. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia Commons.Read More

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Here is another video of the Star Wars Battlefront moments! Moments from other games will be coming soon! Enjoy!Read More

Jordan publishes the Palisade Radio Precious Metals Update videos for the Palisade Radio youtube channel. He says that at the start of a bull market the miners perform way ahead of the metals and this is what we are seeing now. This has been the worst bear market in 90 years, so the following bull market should prove to be even bigger.People are waiting for a correction in the mining stocks that h...Read More

With sales and operations at the ends of the earth, few companies are in a better position to take the pulse of the global economy and the resource sector in particular than Caterpillar.The world's number one heavy equipment manufacturer has been hit hard by the decline in mining and construction - sales are down more than $20 billion from its 2012 peak.On Friday the Peoria, Illinois-based giant h...Read More

NEW REPORT SHOWS THAT OVER HALF (52%) OF ALL CANADIAN-LISTED MINING COMPANIES ARE ZOMBIESThe Chart of the Week is a weekly Visual Capitalist feature on Fridays.Canada has a reputation worldwide as the epicenter for mining exploration, and over the years the country's junior-listed companies have created billions of dollars in wealth through new mineral discoveries.However, these days, Canada is ho...Read More

US-based Mosaic Co, the world's top producer of phosphate fertilizer, Switzerland's Eurochem and iron ore and nickel giant Vale SA together with private equity firm Apollo Global have been picked to make final bids for Anglo American's niobium and phosphate business in Brazil reports Bloomberg.The Brazilian operations could fetch as much as $1.5 billion according to the report. BHP Billiton spin...Read More

The Panama Papers are going to be made into a movie as Western anti-privacy propaganda grinds on.The Panama Papers comprise 11.5 million emails hacked from the computers of Mossack Fonseca, a provider of corporations, trusts, shell companies and other legal structures that enhance privacy and anonymity.While those whose names appear in the 11.5 million emails have come under suspicion of criminal...Read More

The Panama Papers are going to be made into a movie as Western anti-privacy propaganda grinds on.The Panama Papers comprise 11.5 million emails hacked from the computers of Mossack Fonseca, a provider of corporations, trusts, shell companies and other legal structures that enhance privacy and anonymity.While those whose names appear in the 11.5 million emails have come under suspicion of criminal...Read More

You don't need me to tell you silver hit a high of $17.79 on April 21st yesterday.I have been looking for signs that we definitely hit the bottom.I think I found it.One of the best silver stocks in the sector is now up over 200% since January.When I saw that, I thought it might even be too late to buy in.But this stock is still 85% below its former high in April, 2011.Many of the old timers were t...Read More