Castillo Copper Limited (ASX:CCZ)today announced that it has finished up its first round of drilling at theCangai Copper Mine in NSW and is shifting its focus onto the next campaign. Phase I of the drilling program,which comprised 18 holes along the line of lode targeting deeper sulphidemineralisation, has successfully concluded with assays confirming extensivemineralisation outside the JORC model...Read More

Bob Moriarty Archiveswritten May 18, 2018published May 21, 2018That title may sound a little cruel of me but when a company plucks a company out of bankruptcy court with a 424,000-oz gold resource for a nickel an ounce, what the hell am I supposed to call it? But it gets worse.Midway Gold had gold projects in Nevada and was going into production when a whole bunch of things went south at the same...Read More

LithiumAustralia NL (ASX:LIT) this morning reported that its subsidiary, the VerySmall Particle Company Ltd (VSPC), is making strong progress towardscommercialisation of its patented battery cathode materials productiontechnology.VSPC'sadvanced laboratory facilities are now operational and production of lithiumion battery (LIB) cathode materials has begun at bench scale. Preparation ofLIB coin cel...Read More

Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE)has today announced that it has entered into exclusive negotiations with TheUniversity of Sydney for exclusive rights to develop and commercialiseintellectual property (IP) related to graphene-based quantum computingtechnology. AXE is working with theUniversity's office of Commercial Development and Industry Partnerships (CDIP). The patent rights are jointlyhel...Read More

LithiumAustralia NL (ASX:LIT) reports that it has identified lithium pegmatite swarmsat the Medcalf Lithium Project. Medcalfis located in the southeast part of the Lake Johnson Project in the highlylithium-prospective Yilgarn Block in WA - some 45 kilometres south-east ofLIT's existing Mt Day Lithium Prospect area. Thelithium pegmatites of the Yilgarn Block are attracting investment from some ofth...Read More

Drilling by Archer Exploration Limited (ASX:AXE) has confirmed 'particularly encouraging' copper and gold mineralisation at its Blue Hills Copper Project in South Australia.The recently completed Rotary Air Blast (RAB) geochemical drilling program at the project comprised 226 holes for 2,661m, providing a first pass test of previously identified soil geochemical anomalies. It intersected strong an...Read More

Investing.com - Gold inched higher on Friday, with prices tallying their first weekly gain in a month amid expectations the Federal Reserve will maintain a slower pace of interest rate hikes next year.Gold futures for February delivery tacked on 80 cents, or around 0.1%, to settle at $1,257.90 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.For the week, the precious metal gained about 0...Read More

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks shot to new highs after Republican leaders said they’ll release the final version of the tax overhaul bill Friday evening. The dollar gained as investors assessed messages from the Federal Reserve and European Central Bank meetings this week.All major equity gauges spiked higher earlier in the session, after fence-sitting Senator Marco Rubio said he’d support...Read More

(Bloomberg) -- U.S. equities turned lower with the dollar as investors try to assess the tax overhaul package with leaders in the Senate and House of Representatives aiming to finalize compromise legislation and hold floor votes next week. The euro retreated with the European Central Bank remaining cautious about the prospects of reaching its inflation goals.The S&P 500 Index climbed at the op...Read More

(Bloomberg) -- Mark Schmehl flouts Warren Buffett, thinks valuation is overrated and says most other rules of investing are “total baloney.”The portfolio manager, who just completed Fidelity Investments’ most successful Canadian fund launch ever, eschews investing obsessions such as earnings, cash flow and price-earnings ratios and invests at the extremes of the market instead, i...Read More

* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh* European shares dip* Dollar nurses losses after Fed decision* Pound slips after BoE keeps rates on hold* Euro steady after ECB keeps rates on hold* Stronger than expected German, euro zone PMIsBy Ritvik CarvalhoLONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - World shares eked out modest gains on Thursday as cautious comments on inflation from the U.S. Federal...Read More

* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh* European shares dip* Dollar nurses losses after Fed decision* Pound, euro, await BoE, ECB* Stronger than expected German, euro zone PMIsBy Ritvik CarvalhoLONDON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - European shares and the euro dipped on Thursday as cautious comments on inflation from the U.S. Federal Reserve gave investors pause before a series of central...Read More

* Dollar weakens broadly after Fed forecast 2 more hikes in 2018* Fed upbeat on economy; notch up 2019, 2020 forecast* Oil at 6-week high on U.S. inventory, Iran nuke deal worriesBy Hideyuki SanoTOKYO, March 22 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar was on the defensive on Thursday after posting its largest loss in two months when the Federal Reserve turned out to be less hawkish than anticipated.Worries abo...Read More

Main ConclusionsBritish Columbia's NDP government recently announced a series of new policies intended to lay the foundation for "universal", government-subsidized, $10-per-day daycare across the province.This major policy intervention seems unnecessary as there does not appear to be a wide -spread lack of daycare spots in British Columbia: as of 2016, the province-wide average daycare vacancy rat...Read More

With his stock in freefall, First Quantum Minerals Ltd. chief executive Philip Pascall hopped on a hastily arranged conference call Wednesday morning to soothe investors about a surprise US$7.9 billion tax bill that Zambian authorities sent this week.Pascall rejected the US$7.9 billion figure - more than two-thirds of the company's US$9.5 billion market capitalization. Still, Vancouver-based First...Read More

First Quantum Minerals Ltd. is hoping to talk its way out of a US$7.9 billion tax assessment in Zambia. Investors aren’t so sure, with shares down 17 per cent in the two days since news of the claim emerged.The Vancouver-based miner “completely refutes” the claim and doesn’t understand the authorities’ assessment, chief executive Philip Pascall said on a conference ca...Read More

Climate change giveth, and climate change taketh away — that is, if you can attribute anything to climate change.Last December, Toronto-based Centerra Gold Inc. shut down the mill at its Mount Milligan mine in British Columbia after anemic snowmelt runoff and an unexpected extreme cold snap froze the shallow supply of water in its tailing ponds. On Friday, the company announced that same mil...Read More

Main ConclusionsThe Government of Alberta has run nearly uninterrupted deficits since 2008/09 including deficits expected to average over $9 billion annually between 2016/17 and 2018/19.Alberta's deficit today is much larger than the deficit the current government inherited (about $6 billion) when it took office in 2015/16.Blaming depressed oil prices or fiscal challenges that pre-date the recent...Read More

In early March, RT.com, the Russian based media network, asked me for comments and opinion on the subject of central bank manipulation of gold prices.The comments and opinion that I supplied to RT became the article that RT then exclusively published on its website on 18 March under the title “Central banks manipulating & suppressing gold prices - industry expert to RT“. This artic...Read More

On May 6, 2016, just three days after a wildfire engulfed Fort McMurray, Alta., and forced the evacuation of more than 80,000 people, business icon and philanthropist Peter Munk donated $1 million to the Red Cross to help displaced Alberta families.Measured against all of Munk’s charitable donations — which have totalled more than $200 million — it was a small amount. But this gi...Read More