It's 1:15 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon in Vancouver and I arrive a little early for a downtown meeting with Westhaven Ventures (WHN-V) chairman Gren Thomas. A short elevator ride at Granville and West Hastings takes me to Westhaven's modest offices on the 10th floor, where I let myself in and drop by CFO Shaun Pollard's office.Inside, Pollard and veteran geologist Ed Balon - Westhaven's techni...Read More
Brazil's mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world's No.1 iron ore and nickel producer, signed a four-year contract with Emirates Steel, the largest steel producer in the United Arab Emirates, to supply iron ore pellets for the Arabian company's steel production in Abu Dhabi.Such production requires inputs of around 6 million tonnes of iron ore pellets per year, which Vale can easily supply thanks...Read More
Brazil's mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world's No.1 iron ore and nickel producer, signed a four-year contract with Emirates Steel, the largest steel producer in the United Arab Emirates, to supply iron ore pellets for the Arabian company's steel production in Abu Dhabi.Such production requires inputs of around 6 million tonnes of iron ore pellets per year, which Vale can easily supply thanks...Read More
This week, the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, announced that President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that forbids American companies and individuals from buying Venezuelan gold. During a discourse at the Liberty Tower in Miami, Bolton explained that the decision was made given that, in the view of the White House, the Nicolas Maduro regime has been looting the riches of his...Read More
This week, the US National Security Advisor, John Bolton, announced that President Donald Trump signed a new executive order that forbids American companies and individuals from buying Venezuelan gold. During a discourse at the Liberty Tower in Miami, Bolton explained that the decision was made given that, in the view of the White House, the Nicolas Maduro regime has been looting the riches of his...Read More
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurds upgraded their oil export pipeline to accommodate future production growth from their region as well as from the contested Kirkuk area controlled by the central government in Baghdad.The Kurdistan Regional Government completed improvements to the pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Turkey, by installing another pumping station in the Shaikhan area, the KRG's...Read More
Earlier this week, the Google honoured Canadian geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell by dedicating its Doodle to him.Tyrrell, who was born in Weston on Nov.1, 1858, is best known for having discovered the Albertosaurus sarcophagus in 1905 around the foothills between Calgary and Edmonton and the illustration represents just that. However, the Ontario man had a prolific career in mining, having discovered...Read More
Earlier this week, the Google honoured Canadian geologist Joseph Burr Tyrrell by dedicating its Doodle to him.Tyrrell, who was born in Weston on Nov.1, 1858, is best known for having discovered the Albertosaurus sarcophagus in 1905 around the foothills between Calgary and Edmonton and the illustration represents just that. However, the Ontario man had a prolific career in mining, having discovered...Read More
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Universit?(C) Laval and McGill University applied a first-of-its-kind technique that measures the long-term life cycle of sulphur, which helps explain the preferential location of high-value mineral deposits at the edges of ancient continents.In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists explain how they charted the life cycle o...Read More
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Universit?(C) Laval and McGill University applied a first-of-its-kind technique that measures the long-term life cycle of sulphur, which helps explain the preferential location of high-value mineral deposits at the edges of ancient continents.In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists explain how they charted the life cycle o...Read More
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Universit?(C) Laval and McGill University applied a first-of-its-kind technique that measures the long-term life cycle of sulphur, which helps explain the preferential location of high-value mineral deposits at the edges of ancient continents.In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists explain how they charted the life cycle o...Read More
While employees at Google and Microsoft are wary of collaborating with the military, Amazon revels in it.Read full newsRead More
...could potentially "plunge large parts of California into the sea almost instantly"...Read full newsRead More
The slides for this presentation can be viewed here:http://gata.org/files/GATA-NOLA-2018-PPT-PDF-11-1-2018.pdf* * *SLIDE 1 -- TITLERemarks by Chris PowellSecretary/Treasurer, Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee Inc.New Orleans Investment ConferenceFriday, November 2, 2018Since we met at this conference last year much new evidence of manipulation of the gold market by central banks and their bullion...Read More
By John MauldinZombies and UnicornsMissing InvestmentThe Deficit and Debt Drag on the EconomySwimming in LiquidityWork Your IRA Like a MuleGermany, Georgia, and ThanksgivingBut, like Cinderella at the ball, you must heed one warning or everything will turn into pumpkins and mice: Mr. Market is there to serve you, not to guide you. It is his pocketbook, not his wisdom, that you will find useful....Read More
Hedge fund managers sit at the top of the financial world's food chain. They're generally seen as the smartest money managers, and their companies have the most flexibility to pursue new opportunities. The result is supposed to be the best possible returns - for clients who can afford the high fees.But lately things haven't worked out that way. Hedge fund managers appear baffled by the behavior...Read More
By Gary TanashianIt's an over obsessed upon commodity, previously hyped for its (Hubbert's) "peak" status by "experts" like T Boone Pickens and a whole clown show of promoters amplified by the media at the time.Now WTI Crude Oil has reached a thick resistance zone (as managed in NFTRH for the last couple of years) and may be breaking down from a peak of a whole other kind. Here is the monthly ch...Read More
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Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Writing in the October edition of The Alchemist, the magazine of the London Bullion Market Association, former French central bank official Isabelle Strauss-Kahn acknowledges that central bank officials notice and are sensitive to complaints that they are manipulating the gold market. She also claims that central bank operations in the gold market have become more tr...Read More