Detour Gold said on Thursday it has picked Paulson & Co-backed nominee Bill Williams to be its interim chief executive officer, replacing Michael Kenyon.The Canadian gold miner was previously involved in a months-long proxy fight with billionaire John Paulson's hedge fund, which pushed for a complete overhaul of the board and Kenyon's resignation.Williams is a mining industry veteran and was a for...Read More
We have home sales plunging, prices declining, and wage growth is decelerating, construction remains strong but has also begun to slow. While each cycle may differ ever so slightly, the outcome is almost always the same.Read full newsRead More
Egypt-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) began the year with some key board changes by announcing Josef El-Raghy had moved from executive chairman to chairman, 16 years after becoming managing director.The company, which closed 2018 with disappointing news related to its Sukari gold mine in Egypt, said El-Raghy will remain on the board while the search for a successor continues.The E...Read More
And the hits for Apple shareholders just keep on coming.Read full newsRead More
Newly public Finland gold explorer Firefox Gold (TSXV: FFOX) recently identified five new gold targets on its Jeesio gold project in Northern Finland's central Lapland greenstone belt after compiling samples in its geochemical database.The 2,751-sample Jeesio database contains 838 new till samples from the company's recently completed bottom of till sampling program, 768 historical Geological Surv...Read More
by Robert KientzSummaryI discuss the recent streaming deal with Northern Vertex CEO Ken Berry.We also go over the $8 million private placement.During the interview, we cover extensively the accomplishments for 2018 as well as the options the company has to expand production and acquire new assets.I analyze the optionality for both companies, Maverix and Northern Vertex.I discuss why this deal, alo...Read More
Gold rallied substantially toward the end of 2018, and it's now trading at close to US$1,290 per ounce. This can be attributed to rising uncertainty concerning the global economic outlook and greater geopolitical risk fueled by Trump's erratic approach to policy making. That notable increase sees the yellow metal up by around 1% over the last year and has been a boon for gold miners.Despite gold's...Read More
The company said in early December the Ethiopian government would formally sign off on its resettlement plan, project financing and construction schedule for the gold project "in the coming weeks". Sign-offs are needed for these on top of the mining licence, which Kefi got in 2015. The company now says this round of approvals will be done by the end of January."We reported that we expect...Read More
The Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC), to be held on January 20-21, is shaping up to be the largest show in six years, organiser Cambridge House International CEO Jay Martin told MiningRead More
Gold and silver looking good, still, so far… Remember, in a “legit bull market” for precious metals, silver will lead gold…This separation fits the description, but will need to widen considerably, with silver outperforming gold significantly, for a true bull market to be in play…The gold-to-silver ratio will need to fall sharply as well, from current levels (80 and a...Read More
It's the dumbest New Year's resolution I've ever heard."This year, I'm going to start investing and start getting rich!"You know what kind of people make New Year's resolutions like that?Poor people!Why would anyone "wait" to get rich?If it were the middle of summer and you figured out a way to more than double your money on a single stock, would you wait until the new year to buy that stock? Of...Read More
Matt Siegfried, a physical glaciologist and new assistant professor of geophysics at Colorado School of Mines, is currently in Antarctica contributing to the Subglacial Antarctic Lakes Scientific Access (SALSA) project, and his work, to service one of the continent's remote GPS stations, was featured by the Gizmodo news site Earther. Funded by the National Science Foundation, SALSA aims to improv...Read More
At more than 60% built, mine construction has unfolded mostly as planned at Victoria Gold's (TSXV: VIT) Eagle gold project in the Yukon, according to president and CEO John McConnell."Mother nature has been the biggest nuisance," McConnell says in a telephone interview with The Northern Miner."We had an extremely wet spring, which hampered earthworks. Then we had a very warm fall and start to wint...Read More
Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has approved Irving Resources' (CSX: IRV) Otoineppu prospecting plan at its Omu Sinter prospect, part of its 100% owned Omu gold-silver project near Hokkaido, Japan.Irving will now submit a mine safety regulation permit to the Japanese government. The company meanwhile is trying to get work permits for a Canadian drill crew to run an upcoming drill p...Read More
Exploring Firefox Gold's Mustajarvi Project in Finland. Source: Firefox Gold Corp.FireFox Gold Corp. [FFOX-TSXV] on Thursday January 3 reported new results from a 2018 field program at its 100%-owned Mustajarvi gold project in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt in Finland.The company said sampling along two intersecting mineralized structures has identified high-grade gold. This expands the range...Read More
ELKO - A positive regulatory environment, plentiful resources and high enough metal prices encouraged progress in the mining industry in 2018, and Nevada participated in - if not led -Read full newsRead More
- Are we to prepare for a global Debt Bubble Collapse in 2019?- 2019 to see the political and economic uncertainty of 2018 continue and likely to deepen- Investors lulled into a false sense of security by politicians, brokers, bankers etc.- Much "cheer leading" of the "economic recovery" narrative and by extension financial markets - particularly property and stock markets- Trade wars, currenc...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1283.00+$0.80Silver$15.51+$0.04XAU70.94+0.40%HUI160.71+0.08%GDM586.15-0.39%JSE Gold1397.58+21.83USD96.79+0.65Euro113.44-1.15Yen91.69+0.46Oil$46.54+$1.1310-Year2.655%-0.028T-Bond146.96875+0.96875Dow23346.24+0.08%Nasdaq6665.94+0.46%S&P2510.03+0.13% The Metals: Gold gained $6.50 to $1288.70 in late Asian trade before it dropped back under unchanged at $1278.90 by early aft...Read More
"Fantastic day on the markets for many companies I am following in the first trading day of 2019.(#CSE: $BOSS) (#CSE: $TGIF) (#CSE: $CROP) (#CSE: $HUGE) all having a wonderful day!"Read full newsRead More
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