As the economic mood in the global mining industry improves, SRK Consulting’s Accra office, in Ghana, has been making inroads into new markets in Côte d’Ivoire and Togo, SRK Ghana country manager John Kwofie noted in a release last week. He believes that there is potential for improved investor interest in Ghana as well, as the country’s new government takes a more proactiv...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part firmer with gains averaging 0.6% on the morning of Friday October 19, but this follows a general down day on Thursday, when the complex closed down by an average of 0.8%. This morning, prices range from slightly lower on lead to up by 2.1% for nickel, while copper is up by 0.7% at $6,174 per tonne. Volume has been a...Read More
We lower our head... and pause in silent memory…For the black crepe went up on Wall Street 31 years ago today - Oct. 19, 1987.The Dow Jones plummeted 22.6% that distant "Black Monday"… its largest one-day fall ever.A comparable blood-spilling today would plunge the index some 5,700 points.How likely is an encore?Answer shortly.Meantime, the ghosts of October 1987 have the stock market...Read More
My poor dad said he could not invest because he had no money. My rich dad said, "Invest your time when you have no money."Unfortunately, most people have no time to invest. Why? Because they think that working harder and longer will make them richer. Nothing could be further from the truth.Consider these facts:The average U.S. worker clocks in a little more than 1,800 hours per year at work-the hi...Read More
Calgary, Alberta (October 19, 2018) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Corporation") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) announced today that, subject to regulatory approval, it has granted a total of 4,525,000 options to purchase common shares of the Corporation (the "Options") to directors, officers, employees and consultants of Prize. The options have an exercise price of $0....Read More
Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to set up a new research center focusing on advanced subsurface earth resource modeling. Mines is the lead institute in the new Center for Advanced Subsurface Earth Resource Models (CASERM), which will bring together more than 20 faculty members from the two schools' geology, geophysics, ap...Read More
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The story of North American Palladium (TSX: PDL; US-OTC: PALDF) is perhaps best told in threes.In 2003, North American Palladium had just over 3 million oz. palladium equivalent in reserves at its flagship Lac des ??les palladium-platinum-gold-copper-nickel mine in northwestern Ontario. Over the next 15 years the company mined slightly less than 3 million oz. palladium equivalent. Now, a new feasi...Read More
Two years after commercial production began in October 2016, Newmont Mining's (NYSE: NEM) Merian mine in Suriname has poured one million ounces of gold.Newmont Suriname - a subsidiary of the Colorado-based company - owns 75% of the mine and Suriname's state-owned oil company, Staatsolie Maatschappij Suriname, owns the remaining 25% stake.Construction of the mine, about 60 km south of Moengo and 15...Read More
Why interest rates still matter with influential financial journalist and historian James Grant. James "Jim" Grant is an American writer and publisher and the founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets. He is the author , most recently, of The Forgotten Depression: 1921: The Crash That Cured Itself. Grant's television appearances include "60 Minutes...Read More
Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized ecoanomist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He frequently delivers lectures at major economic and investment conferences, and is quoted often in the print media, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Barron's, BusinessWeek, Tim...Read More
The sentiment shift is still subtle, but it's both real and widespread. After a few years of being ignored and/or dismissed as basically useless, gold is cool again, attracting Continue...Read More
The economy depended on the spending habits of baby boomers the last three decades.The success and failure of many companies depended on the spending habits of those same baby boomers.Continue...Read More
Oct 22, 2018 Guest(s): Stephen de Jong CEO & Co-Founder, VRify A technology company promises to transform the way investors visit a mining site, by accessing it virtually. Stephen de Jong, CEO and co-founder of VRify, said that based on his prior experiences working for a mining company, he discovered that giving virtual tours of mine sites was more efficient than traditional investor presentati...Read More
Meital took one simple, legal step to save about $30,000 in taxes every year.She used to be an international photographer based in NYC, making about $100,000. But despite that income, she was still living paycheck-to-paycheck.Continue...Read More
LONDON – The UK has warned that a no-deal Brexit risks London being frozen out of the global diamond trade.Britain is a member of the Kimberley Process, the global certification program used to track and prevent the trade of conflict gems, through its European Union membership. The country will need to apply for its own membership post Brexit, and the government last week warned diamond trad...Read More
The recent gain in gold's price has sparked a return to the physical gold market of Continue...Read More
LONDON, 19 October 2018 - Trading data and investment analysis from BullionVault feature today in a detailed report on the case for gold from Portfolio Adviser, the specialist news magazine and website read by 5,000 wealth managers, investment advisers and other finance professionals in the UK and Channel Islands.Noting how this month's plunge in the FTSE All-Share Index of UK stocks has coincided...Read More
LONDON, 19 October 2018 - BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash was a guest today on CNBC TV-18, India's leading financial news channel.Speaking by phone from London, Adrian said now looks a good time to start accumulating gold ahead of the financial and political risks 2019 will bring.The current move higher in gold prices has been led, he went on, by formerly bearish hedge-fund traders cl...Read More
A free tool can help traders bank big this earnings season.Financial stocks (JPM, C, and WFC) kicked off earnings season on Friday, and traders need to position themselves now in order to ensure maximum profit from it.One company can help any investor do just that.They've developed a tool that predicts volatility based on earnings announcements.The tool works on select stocks with a 77.6% accuracy...Read More