Wall St. For Main St., Released on 1/9/23During this 20+ minute interview Jason asks Jim about past commodities cycles and the financial history of how governments historically deal with too much debt. Jim thinks that China re-opening will cause a rally in commodities, at least in the short term as demand increases from Chinese demand.Over 200 articles (almost 250), audio podcasts & interviews wit...Read More
New York Post, Released on 1/9/23The Biden administration is considering a nationwide ban on gas stoves - citing the harmful pollutants released by the appliances, according to a report. Continue... Biden administration weighs nationwide ban on gas stoves added by Herman James on 01/10/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Daily Reckoning, Released on 1/9/23The view was that the Chinese just "needed time" to catch up, but sooner than laterContinue... Rickards: China: Death of a Dream added by Herman James on 01/10/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Gold’s nasty divorce from the U.S. dollar was finalized in August 1971 when President Richard Nixon suspended any further convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold by non-U.S. citizens. That action removed any remaining links between the dollar and gold.Without convertibility, any official price for gold became meaningless. At that time, the official U.S. dollar price of gold was raised from...Read More
The project would yield an after-tax net present value of US$726 million at a 5% discount rate and an internal rate of return (IRR) of 39% and 1.9-year payback at a base case silver price of $22.Read More
Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingLa Negra was placed on care and maintenance in 2020 and formerly produced more than 3Mozpa of silver-equivalent including silver, lead,...Read More
China is reopening.The China reopening story is the most powerful market narrative going on today. At least for now, it's more powerful than any Fed analysis, the prospect of a recession, and even lower energy prices in terms of what's driving investor behavior.Of course, the key word is "narrative."It's a powerful story but that does not mean the story is true. If it affects investor behavior, th...Read More
New Pacific Metals (TSXV: UAG) has delivered a strong preliminary economic assessment for its Silver Sand project in Potosi department, Bolivia. The PEA confirms the potential to develop a low capital intensity conventional open pit and tank leach operation at Silver Sand, producing on average 12 million oz. of silver in dor?(C) bars per annum over a 14-year mine life, generating solid financial m...Read More
Maple Gold Mines (TSXV: MGM; US-OTC: MGMLF) says new assays from the past-producing Eagle mine at its Joutel project in Quebec are the strongest yet and show a wider mineralized corridor than previously thought. Drill hole EM-22-015 intersected 10.3 grams gold per tonne over 7.8 metres from 228 metres downhole, including 41.1 grams over 1 metre, Maple said in a news release on Monday. Only 20%...Read More
Our TNM Drill Down features highlights of the top gold assays of the past week. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our sister company Mining Intelligence.This period's top drill assays come from Canada, Peru and Australia. Scottie Resources (TSXV: SCOTT) reported the best assay in hole SR22-156, which intersected 2.4 metres, grading 194 grams gold per tonne from 148 me...Read More
Ivanhoe Mines' (TSX: IVN; OTC: IVPAF) flagship Kamoa-Kakula mining complex in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) produced a total of 333,497 tonnes of copper concentrate during the past calendar year, the company said Monday. Kamoa-Kakula's 2022 copper production represents the upper end of its original guidance range of 290,000 to 340,000 tonnes,. It also represents a 215% output increas...Read More
Tianqi Lithium Energy Australia (TLEA), a joint venture between Tianqi Lithium (HKG: 9696) and IGO Ltd (ASX: IGO), has made a A$136 million ($126 million) bid to acquire lithium explorer Essential Metals (ASX: ESS) as part of the partners' plan to expand their footprint into Western Australia.TLEA, which is 51% owned by China's Tianqi Lithium and 49% by Australian miner IGO Ltd, set the bid at 5...Read More
U.S. markets rose moderately last week after investors digested mixed news on the work front. Markets initially retreated after employers added 223,000 jobs in December, more than analysts expected, which raised concerns the economy's strength would prompt the Federal Reserve to extend its program of interest rate hikes to control inflation. However, another report showing wage gains were slowing...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index gained 11.62 points or 2% over the Jan.2-6, 2023 trading session to end at 581.89.Electra Battery Materials closed the week as the top value gainer on the Venture Exchange, adding $1.22 to close at $3.47. Electra announced on Jan. 4 that it had amended an option agreement with Kuya Silver Corp. for its Ontario Cobalt camp assets. Under the terms of the agreement...Read More
Markets got off to a good start in 2023 with the S&P/TSX Composite Index rising 429.59 points or 2.2% to finish the holiday shortened Jan. 3-6 trading week at 19,814.51. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index gained 7.5 points or 6.9% to 116.36 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index jumped 11.43 points or 6.3% to 192.08. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index climbed 24.23 points or 8.7% to 302.02 and the gold...Read More
Northwestern Canada is a vast hub for mineral exploration and mining. Here's a glimpse of eight companies exploring for precious and base metals in British Columbia, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. Amarc Resources Amarc Resources (TSXV: AHR; US-OTC: AXREF), a Vancouver-based mineral exploration and development company, recently initiated a new drilling campaign at its DUKE deposit in centra...Read More
Gold, copper and silver producer Anglo Asian Mining (LSE: AAZ), has made a third investment in Canada's Libero Copper & Gold (TSXV: LBC), which focuses on finding copper assets in the Americas.The Azerbaijan-focussed miner acquired on Monday 2.6 million new Libero shares at 15 ? each, for a total consideration of $390,000.The investment maintains the company's share holding at 19.8% of Libero, and...Read More
Catch Alamos Gold chief executive officer John McCluskey in this video recount the "Cinderella story" of the formerly underrated Island gold mine in northern Ontario.Few paid attention to the mine in 2015 when it was owned by Richmont Mines and gold was at US$1,285 an ounce. But McCluskey saw the potential. Now with gold around US$1,800 an oz., he's getting ready with the ruby slipper of...Read More
Weimar Silver Baron - Twitter, Released on 1/9/23Kind of incredible what Disney used to teach kids... instead of Woke nonsense today pic.twitter.com/tP4KnRJO4t- Weimar Silver Baron (@BankerWeimar) January 10, 2023 Kind of incredible what Disney used to teach kids... instead of Woke nonsense today added by Herman James on 01/12/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
LONDON, 9 January 2023 - Specialist magazine for Germany's risk and capital management industry AssCompact today reports on the Silver Investor Index from BullionVault, a unique measure of private-investor behaviour in physical precious metals.Thanks to December's steep rise in Euro silver prices, "The Silver Investor Index in Germany recorded a sharp decline," says the report, coming below 50.0 "...Read More