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Defense Metals in the Media

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Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

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29 December, 2023

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November 21, 2023

What's Next for Gold?

06 June, 2023

Platinum and Palladium

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Transition to Production

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Silver Suppression?!

February 02, 2021

Gold: Year in Review 2020, and 2021 Outlook

January 04, 2021

Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

AbraPlata: CMR's full analysis of an Argentina focussed gold and silver junior

May 2020

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

US-Africa Summit has critical minerals sub-text

December 09, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

US President Joe Biden is scheduled to host African leaders in Washington from December 13-15 to "foster new economic engagement," in the words of the State Department.Read More

Tech Talk for Friday December 9th 2022

December 09, 2022 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 11 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved lower following release of the November Producer Price Index at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was an increase 0.2% versus a gain of 0.2% in October. Actual was an increase of 0.3%. On a year-over-year basis, consensus was an increase of 7.2% versus a gain of 8.0% in Octobe...Read More

Sound Money Isn't Enough

December 08, 2022 / dailyreckoning.com

We note the following: the United States Department of Defense has failed its annual audit for the fifth consecutive year.It has - in fact - failed each and every audit since the business began in 2018.Has Congress seized the red pencil... and threatened to run it through the defense budget until the Pentagon can square the ledgers?No it has not.Congress' latest proposal would spend an additional...Read More

Critical Minerals Strategy focuses on faster timelines, building remote infrastructure

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The federal government on Friday unveiled the details of its Critical Minerals Strategy, a plan first introduced in its April budget that earmarks almost $3.8 billion over eight years to further develop Canada's place in the global critical minerals industry.A significant portion of the total funding - $1.5 billion - is allocated over seven years for constructing infrastructure for critical minera...Read More

Latin Resources posts first resource for Colina lithium deposit in Brazil

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Australia-based Latin Resources (ASX: LRS) has reported an initial resource estimate for its Colina hard rock lithium deposit in Brazil after just 10 months of drilling. The deposit, part of its Salinas project in Minas Gerais state, holds 2.1 million tonnes of indicated resource grading 1.21% lithium oxide for 25,100 tonnes of Li2O (or 60,000 tonnes lithium carbonate equivalent), plus 11.2 mil...Read More

Endeavour Silver announces 600M oz indicated resource for newly acquired Pitarrilla project

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR, NYSE: EXK) filed a technical report for its recently acquired Pitarrilla silver-lead-zinc project in Durango state, Mexico that outlines indicated and inferred resources as of Oct. 6.Total indicated resources (open pit and underground) at Pitarrilla are estimated at 158.6 million tonnes grading 96.4 grams silver per tonne, 0.31% lead and 0.74% zinc. Contained metal come...Read More

Nominations open for 2023 Peter Munk and Eira Thomas Awards

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Young Mining Professionals (YMP), in partnership with The Northern Miner, has opened nominations for the 2023 Young Mining Professional of the Year Awards, the organization said in a release on Thursday. The awards are named after two iconic entrepreneurs in the mining industry, Peter Munk and Eira Thomas.YMP is soliciting nominations from the public to identify the top leaders in the mining and m...Read More

Pakistan closer to letting Barrick Gold proceed with US$7B project

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Pakistan's Supreme Court endorsed on Friday a settlement between the country's government and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), which allows the Canadian miner to resume work at its Reko Diq copper and gold project.The favourable court decision is vital to securing parliamentary support for the US$7-billion project, which is the final approval Barrick would need to kick off construction at Rek...Read More

World Gold Council sees positive 2023 outlook for gold amidst global uncertainty

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Despite an "unusually high level of uncertainty" surrounding consensus expectations for 2023, on balance, a "mixed set of influences implies a stable but positive performance for gold," the World Gold Council states in its Gold Outlook 2023: The global economy at a crossroads. In an environment where there are headwinds and tailwinds for gold based on an outlook of weaker global growth and a shor...Read More

EU inks deal with Chile to boost access to battery metals, renewables

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The European Union (EU) and Chile inked on Friday a fresh partnership deal that will give the bloc greater easier access to lithium, copper and other raw materials that are key to the transition to renewable energy sources.Chile, the world's top copper producer and the second largest lithium miner, will drop tariffs on all imports from the EU, except sugar, and make it easier for European compani...Read More

Will Indigenous-led impact assessments help or hinder mine project approvals?

December 09, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

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RT @proactive_ca: $USHA Usha Resources provides positive update on drilling at the Jackpot Lithium Project

December 09, 2022 / tinyurl.com

Usha Resoruces CEO Deepak Varshney joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has provided an update on the drilling...Read full newsRead More

What Happened to $220K Bitcoin? Max Keiser And Daniela Cambone Have A Heating Discussion Over The Crypto Collapse

December 09, 2022 / marketsanity.com

Stansberry Research, Released on 12/9/22"Sam Bankman-Fried ran out of runway, it's similar to Bernie Madoff and also the 2008 financial crisis," says Max Keiser of the Keiser Report, founder of Bitcoin Capital and Heisenberg Capital. "The regulators really have some answers that need to be filled in, this was the culmination of a multidecade nightmare," he tells Daniela Cambone in this edition of...Read More

Michael Pento: The Fed is Stealing Your Retirement

December 09, 2022 / marketsanity.com

Liberty and Finance, Released on 12/9/22 (Recorded on 12/6/22)Inflation by design is legalized theft of your retirement. Central banks, in full collusion with governments, are draining the value from our savings, pension, Social Security, and retirement accounts, forcing people back into the workforce, and forcing retirement fund managers to take ever riskier bets to keep afloat, putting all our f...Read More

Schiff: economy, inflation, jobs, crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, the NFT craze, Elon Musk, Tesla, and Twitter

December 09, 2022 / marketsanity.com

The Megyn Kelly Show, Released on 12/9/22Peter Schiff and Megyn Kelly discuss the economy, inflation, jobs, crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX, the NFT craze, Elon Musk, Tesla, and Twitter.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his name as President and Chief Global Strategist of Euro Pacific Capital. He fr...Read More

'Amazing' Drill Results Point to Big Opportunity, Analyst Says

December 11, 2022 / www.theaureport.com

Junior explorer Western Exploration Inc. releases more "amazing" drill results from its Aura gold project in northern Nevada, one investment manager says.Junior explorer Western Exploration Inc. (WEX:TSX.V;WEXPF:OTC) has released more "amazing" drilling results from its Aura gold project in northern Nevada, handing a big opportunity to investors, one investment manager told Streetwise Reports.The...Read More

Silver Producer Yields Record Revenue in Q3/22

December 11, 2022 / www.theaureport.com

The company grew revenue 73% from Q2/22 while continuing to ramp-up production at its cornerstone Peruvian mining asset, noted a Red Cloud Securities report.The Q3/22 financial results of Silver X Mining Corp. (AGX:TSX.V) were notable for record revenue and production and revenue from its flagship Nueva Recuperada project in Peru, and the company's first-ever net gain reported Red Cloud Securities...Read More

Royalties reform could dampen investors' appetite for Chile's copper sector

June 29, 2021 / www.woodmac.com

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Proposed changes to Chile’s mining royalty regime will not have a drastic impact on the country’s production landscape in the near-term.However, analysis from global natural resources consultancy Wood Mackenzie, a Verisk c...Read More

Red metal, green demand: copper's critical role in achieving net zero

October 20, 2022 / www.woodmac.com

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Read More

Pakistan's top court backs settlement with Barrick Gold in $7B mining project

December 11, 2022 / dlvr.it

Pakistan's supreme court endorsed a settlement between Barrick Gold (GOLD) and the country's government to resume mining at the $7B Reko Diq copper and gold project.Read full newsRead More

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