Canada's Portofino Resources (TSXV: POR) (FSE: POT) executed an amended agreement this week with a private Argentine concession to acquire a 100% interest in the Yergo lithium project in the northwestern Catamarca province.The red dots indicate Portofino's lithium projects in Argentina.In a press release, Portofino said the 2,932-hectare project encompasses a full salar and is located approximatel...Read More
Canada's Portofino Resources (TSXV: POR) (FSE: POT) executed an amended agreement this week with a private Argentine concession to acquire a 100% interest in the Yergo lithium project in the northwestern Catamarca province.The red dots indicate Portofino's lithium projects in Argentina.In a press release, Portofino said the 2,932-hectare project encompasses a full salar and is located approximatel...Read More
Canada's ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) signed a non-binding letter of intent this week with Orano Canada, a subsidiary of France's Orano Group.The letter refers to the possible acquisition by ALX of a 51% participating interest in the Close Lake uranium project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan. This is the same province that hosts the Hook-Carter project, where the Van...Read More
Canada's ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) signed a non-binding letter of intent this week with Orano Canada, a subsidiary of France's Orano Group.The letter refers to the possible acquisition by ALX of a 51% participating interest in the Close Lake uranium project located in the eastern Athabasca Basin area of northern Saskatchewan. This is the same province that hosts the Hook-Carter project, where the Van...Read More
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European scientists have announced plans to start mining the moon as early as 2025, though what they'll be extracting is neither gold nor diamonds, but waste-free nuclear energy thought to be worth trillions of dollars.The goal is to place a lander on the lunar surface to mine and process regolith for water, oxygen, metals and an isotope called helium-3, which may prove useful for fueling future...Read More
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Assays are back for the first 21 holes of a 61-hole drill program completed at Monarques Gold's (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQFR) McKenzie Break project and have extended the deposit laterally and at depth.The best intercept from the project, 35 km north of Val-d'Or, Que., was 61.20 grams gold over 2.6 metres starting from 254.8 metres downhole, including 265 grams gold over 0.6 metre in drill hole MK-18-...Read More
The M&A battle among the world’s biggest gold diggers intensified this week, with Barrick bearing its teeth in a US$18 billion hostile bid for arch rival Newmnont. The move was immediately blasted as “desperate” and “bizarre” by Newmont’s CEO, Gary Goldberg. He suggested the “at market valuation” offer - actually a discount to recent sha...Read More
First Vanadium (TSX-V: FVAN) is one of the better known vanadium companies. Its CEO, Paul Cowley, can be seen in a number of video clips that I linked to at the bottom of the page. Despite being a blue chip name, First Vanadium's market cap is just US$19.5 M. This, for a company that claims to have the highest-grade primary vanadium project in North America, and a plan to fast-track its fl...Read More
With gold prices hitting a 1o-month high in February, the mega-merger between Goldcorp Inc. (TSX:G)(NYSE:GG) and Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) seemed to be progressing smoothly.Peter Hug, the global trading director at Kitco Metals, highlighted how the “uncertainty of trade talks and fears that the U.S. equity market may be running out of steam is creating capital flows into a more protective...Read More
With share prices falling in some of the best mining stocks on the TSX index, capital gains investors have some bargains to choose from at the moment. But what kinds of growth rates in terms of annual earnings can would-be investors expect from discounted mining stocks such as these? With gold and silver potentially set to have a good 2019, value opportunities abound for traders looking for upside...Read More
Elon Musk a has long track record of being long on promises and short on deliveries - literally and figuratively. His motive, as has been self-professed repeatedly on Twitter, is to torment short-sellers by driving the stock higher with fraudulent tweets. But underlying Musk's garish bravado and overtly fraudulent financial reports is a business operation that, by all indications, is slowly...Read More
By various gauges ofvalue, the gold and gold mining sector is the most undervalued of all theinvestment sectors; that should change shortly. if we judge by the lack ofresearch coverage of gold companies we might conclude that there is littleinterest, but don't be fooled. Our analysis suggests that we are seeing one of the best opportunities ever...Read More
Oscar Gonzalez Rocha, CEO of Southern Copper Corp. Source: Southern Copper Corp.Southern Copper Corp. [SCCO-NYSE, Lima] is expected to soon receive a construction license for its long delayed US$1.4 billion Tia Maria copper project in Peru.Reuters news service is reporting that Peru is expected to grant the license ahead of the lapse of the project's environmental permit in August 2019.Companies i...Read More
South Star Mining's Santa Cruz graphite project in Bahia State, Brazil. Source South Star Mining Corp.South Star Mining Corp. [STS-TSXV; STSBF-OTCQB] said Friday March 1 that it has completed the first tranche of a previously announced $500,000 private placement that will be used to advance the company's flagship Santa Cruz graphite project in Brazil.South Star shares were active on the news, risi...Read More