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

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

The mining industry shows a lack of focus on gender and diversity in their environmental, social and governance strategies, a recent report by Stratum International and Digbee has found.Based on a survey of global mining sector decision-makers, the study deems "concerning" such an overlook in an industry that "needs to change the perception that mining is a male-only environment."According to the...Read More

Gold Fields' (JSE, NYSE: GFI) chief executive officer Chris Griffith is stepping down on Dec. 31, only a month after the company's failed attempt to take over Canada's Yamana Gold (TSX: YR; NYSE: AUY).Griffith, 57, was appointed CEO of the South African gold miner in April 2021, taking over from Nick Holland, who retired after 13 years. Griffith had previously held the top job at Anglo American P...Read More

Shares in Ecuador-focused SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) dropped on Monday more than 7% after revealing it had completed a US$36-million capital raise with the participation of new investors, including Jiangxi Copper Investing.The company, which saw its chief executive and managing director of less than a year leave last month, is said to be at the centre of a bidding war between Jiangxi, China's...Read More

Last Friday, Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) unveiled what it's calling the world's first sixth-generation bomber - the B-21 Raider. It's a sleek and stylish plane whose ghostly visage and convex shape make it almost look like a UFO.Almost every aspect of the B-21 remains classified, but Northrop Grumman and Air Force officials have made a few key points about it beyond improved stealth capability a...Read More

The miner will buy 22.2 million shares at 18c per share, a 26% premium to the five-day volume-weighted average price of Candente shares. FMG first invested in Candente in early 2020 and holds 52.Read More

The transaction will create the first nickel resource and green technology company listed on the NYSE, the firm said.Read More

Dmitry Peskov is by far my favorite Russian propagandist. Just about everything he says is so off base it borders on satirical. His sole purpose as Kremlin spokesperson is to convince the media that the endless stream of Russian urine currently flooding the world is actually just rain. And he's doing a terrible job. Back in March, when Russian gas shipments to Europe were still under negotiati...Read More

These new results are from drilling recently completed at this Carlin-style gold property in Utah, noted a PI Financial report.Liberty Gold Corp. (LGD:TSX; LGDTF:OTCQB) announced the results of three types of drilling done at its Goldstrike gold project in Utah, having completed its 2022 field season there, reported PI Financial analyst Chris Thompson in a Dec. 6 research note."Results from PQ cor...Read More

Colombia's first left wing president is angling to change the mining culture in his country. But this company has one of the elements Gustavo Petro is looking for - silver.The worry for Outcrop Silver & Gold Corp. (OCG:TSX.V; OCGSF:OTCQX; MRG1:DB) when Colombia's leftist President Gustavo Petro took over last summer was that the politician who ran on an anti-mining platform would follow through on...Read More

With these new agreements, the Canadian resource explorer shifts its focus away from gold and toward lithium, a critical metal, and zinc, lead and copper, noted a Fundamental Research report.Rover Metals Corp. (ROVR:TSX.V; ROVMF:OTCQB; 4X0:FSE) entered option agreements on two district-scale projects, Let's Go in Nevada and Indian Mountain Lake in Canada, reported Fundamental Research analyst Sid...Read More

When I was younger, I was taught that if you cannot say something nice, don't say anything at all. Well, when many of you have asked why I have not written about metals in quite some time, now you know the reason. But, I think that's about to change.Before we begin, I want to give you a little background about my history in the metals market.For those who may not remember the action we experi...Read More

The gold mining sector is doing what it should do amid fading inflationIf you have tuned out inflationist gold bugs since mid-2020 you are now in position to capitalize, unlike scores of inflation bugs who’d already bought (and likely sold into tax loss season, 2022).Readers of nftrh.com have seen this space write many times how gold is not about inflation. At least not primarily. That compo...Read More

As investors and others continue to jockey for position in order to announce that “the bottom is in for gold” or that “gold owners received an early Christmas present” or “crypto failures will translate to higher prices for gold”, it is clear that most of them are thinking that increased demand for gold will drive its price higher.That is not the way it works....Read More

Gold’s rally was just stopped by theresistance provided by its previous high and its 60-week moving average. Willgold now reverse? Theabove chart features gold prices in terms of weekly candlesticks. As you cansee, it just approached its August high. Andgold failed to move above it. Last week, I wrote:Theresistance is provided by the weekly closing prices, and since the current weekends toda...Read More

Here’s how to make sense of thedifferent figures reported by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).Macroeconomics From a macroeconomic point of view, the US dollar index (DXY or USDX) has maintained its downward trend within its recent regressionchannel, probably still eyeing the next quarterly S2 pivot just located at the$100 mark. U.S. Dollar Currency Index (DXY), dailychartAs we wil...Read More

The invalidations of breakouts andbreakdowns are strong signals in the opposite direction, and we just saw themthroughout the market – also in gold. The gold price has recently invalidated its small breakout above the 38.2% Fibonacciretracement level, which is a strong bearish sign. If it was just gold where wesaw this kind of performance, we could say it was by chance.However, since we saw...Read More

Physical gold and silver will never become worthless. This fact does not make for much of a marketing pitch. But given recent events, this is a much more important feature than it looks at first glance.Americans, and investors around the world, live in an age of collapsing confidence in institutions. The bubble economy built on zero interest rates by out-of-control central bankers appears to be in...Read More

The HUI rally has hit the logical resistance target where the 200 day moving average meets clear lateral resistance. It has done so in a not particularly overbought fashion due to the chop and grind it took to get here off the lows of the shaded bottoming pattern that we established and tracked in NFTRH over the last several weeks. Now what for the HUI rally (and gold stocks in general)? Well, any...Read More

Over the past two years, there have been some wild and crazy things happen with regard to premiums charged and paid for various physical silver investment products. For the privilege of owning silver in certain specific forms, investors are paying through the nose; and, apparently, willingly so. WHY? Is the cash burning holes in their pockets? I just completed a review of current market premiums...Read More

The primary regulator of the rises and falls in oil's prices is market psychology As I write on the morning of Friday, Nov. 18, crude oil is on track for its second weekly decline.The financial media usually finds "reasons" for a market's price action that are rooted in "market fundamentals," and this decline in oil's price was no exception.On Thurs., Nov. 17, a CNBC headline noted:Oil falls on e...Read More