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Defense Metals in the Media

February 16, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 2

January 11, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

January 02, 2023

Can Gold Hit $3,000 in 2024?

29 December, 2023

Will Bitcoin ETFs Kill Gold?

November 21, 2023

What's Next for Gold?

06 June, 2023

Platinum and Palladium

February 2022

Transition to Production

June 15, 2021

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

What happens when gold supply is shocked?

March 02, 2023 / marketsanity.com

Galen McNamara - Twitter, Released on 3/2/23We already know demand for #gold and #silver is going up significantly. What happens when supply is shocked?Hard to maintain production with steadily decreasing capital expenditures. And don't even get me started on discovery rates falling off a cliff...... pic.twitter.com/wPJ0iu6iyU- Galen McNamara (@GalenMcNamara) March 3, 2023 What happens when gold s...Read More

Mineralization Confirmed in Pipe at Gold Project

March 04, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

The presence of near-surface, high-grade gold mineralization in and around one of the breccia pipes at this property bodes well for the five others there, noted a Canaccord Genuity report.Dakota Gold Corp. (DC:NYSE American) has more drill results in from its Richmond Hill project in South Dakota's Homestake District, and they "help underscore the prospective potential" there, Canaccord Genuity an...Read More

Gold Junior More Than Doubles Claims at Nevada Project

March 04, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

StrikePoint Gold Inc. more than doubles the land package at its new Cuprite gold project in Nevada's Walker Lane gold trend through staking.StrikePoint Gold Inc. (SKP:TSX.V; STKXF:OTCQB) has more than doubled the land package at its new Cuprite gold project in Nevada's Walker Lane gold trend through staking.In January, StrikePoint announced it had acquired a 100% interest in the project from Oroge...Read More

FCA launches investigation into LME nickel market

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Putting local content at heart of ESG effortsSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesBarksdale has line of sight on Sunnyside permitSPONSOREDbarksdale resourcesMid-tier Aeris on copper growth trajectorySPONSOREDaeris resources Alma in right commodity at right addressSPONSOREDalma metalsThe UK regulator the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced it has launched an "enforcement...Read More

Tesla ditching rare earths won't shift deficit

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

At its investor day on March 1, Tesla unveiled a master plan which includes a platform for building next-generation electric vehicles, with a powertrain containing a permanent magnet motor that willRead More

Moneta updates on 903 drill campaign

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company, which is TSX-listed, has released findings from 43 resource infill and step-out drill holes on the 903 gold deposit at the company's Tower Gold project in the Timmins Gold Camp, Ontario,Read More

Ontario seeks to accelerate mine permitting

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Putting local content at heart of ESG effortsSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesBarksdale has line of sight on Sunnyside permitSPONSOREDbarksdale resourcesMid-tier Aeris on copper growth trajectorySPONSOREDaeris resources Alma in right commodity at right addressSPONSOREDalma metalsAfter releasing a five-year critical minerals strategy in 2022, provincial legislators have draf...Read More

Falling tin prices flash warning for other tech metals...

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Putting local content at heart of ESG effortsSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesBarksdale has line of sight on Sunnyside permitSPONSOREDbarksdale resourcesMid-tier Aeris on copper growth trajectorySPONSOREDaeris resources Alma in right commodity at right addressSPONSOREDalma metals  The US$5000/t (20%) fall in the tin price to $25,335/t over the past three weeks has take...Read More

Tanzania open for business

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Putting local content at heart of ESG effortsSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesBarksdale has line of sight on Sunnyside permitSPONSOREDbarksdale resourcesMid-tier Aeris on copper growth trajectorySPONSOREDaeris resources Alma in right commodity at right addressSPONSOREDalma metalsTanzania was once considered one of Africa's most secure jurisdictions but a fight between Acaci...Read More

US-focused copper developer is spoilt for potential catalysts over the coming year.arizona sonoran copper company inc.

March 03, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The junior miner spent much of 2022 growing the resource at Cactus. A maiden resource at the Parks/Salyer deposit - next door to Cactus - saw the total project resource swell from the 3.5 billion pounds of copper outlined in a July 2021 preliminary economic assessment to more than 6Blb, making it the third most significant independent copper development project in the USA. Arizona Sonoran CEO, Geo...Read More

METALS-Copper heads for weekly gain as China optimism builds

March 03, 2023 / www.kitco.com

(Updates prices) LONDON, March 3 (Reuters) - Copper prices on Fridayheaded for their biggest weekly gain since early January asstrong economic data in top consumer China raised demand hopes.Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME)was roughly unchanged at $8,956.50 a tonne at 1717 GMT and uparound 2.8% for the week.Prices hit a seven-month high of $9,550.50 in January butstalled amid sl...Read More

Tech Talk for Friday March 3rd 2023

March 03, 2023 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 12 points in pre-opening trade. Trader interest is expected to focus on response to of the February ISM Non-manufacturing Purchase Managers Index released at 10:00 AM EST. Consensus calls for a drop to 54.5 from 55.2 in January.Costco dropped $9.75 to $475.94 after the company reported less than consensus quarterly rev...Read More

A Contagion of Cowardice

March 03, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University. He was one voice of reason during the pandemic.It's not just his credentials or his position at Stanford. It's his erudition that gave him the reach to make sense of our times. I personally found it compelling.Summing up his message, the response upended a century of public-health practice based on computer modeling that was not i...Read More

Global tailings standard raises the bar for social management

March 03, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

The recent industry engagement efforts of the Church of England and a range of other investors leave no doubt: responsible tailings management is a key focus for 2023. With tailings dam failures on the rise in recent years (a trend expected to continue, unless practices improve), investors, mining communities, workers, and other stakeholders are putting pressure on the mining industry for the whol...Read More

New Tesla motor technology could disrupt rare earths industry

March 03, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

Rare earth element companies may face pressure after Tesla unveiled plans this week to develop car motors without key critical minerals. In North America, California-focused MP Materials (NYSE: MP) and Colorado-based Energy Fuels?EUR?(TSX: EFR; NYSE: UUUU) are the main producers as the West tries to challenge China's dominance in the production of rare earth elements such as neodymium-praseodym...Read More

Odds 'n' Sods: How not to drill a project

March 03, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

I was never really one for keeping a diary; I'm basically too lazy, and not nearly introspective enough. The only time I did keep one, it was by accident. In 1996 I was sent to Iran to supervise a drill program at a gold project called Zarshuran. It didn't go well. A perfect storm of terrible rock conditions and inept local drillers doomed us before we'd even started. The drillers were the most co...Read More

First Quantum losing US$8M a day on Cobre Panama halt

March 03, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) says it's experiencing losses of up to US$8 million a day due to the suspension of ore processing and port loading affecting its giant copper mine in Panama.In a letter sent this week to the country's Maritime Authority (AMP), the chief executive of First Quantum's local unit, Minera Panama, said the halt ordered last week has had a domino effect.CEO Alan Delaney w...Read More

Outgoing PDAC president weighs in on the keys to a vibrant exploration sector

March 03, 2023 / www.northernminer.com

Alex Christopher was appointed president of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada in March 2021 for a two-year term. The geologist and senior vice-president, projects & technical services with Teck Resources, has nearly 40 years of industry experience - and has been on the board of PDAC for a decade.While starting his term during the Covid-19 pandemic has posed challenges - Christop...Read More

There isn't enough copper in the world - and the shortage could last till 2030

March 03, 2023 / cnb.cx

A copper deficit is set to inundate global markets throughout 2023, fueled by increasingly challenged South American supply streams and higher demand pressures.Read full newsRead More

$LEE - Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (LEE) Q1 2023 Earnings Call Transcript.

March 04, 2023 / seekingalpha.com

Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:LEE) Q1 2023 Earnings Conference Call March 2, 2023 10:00 AM ETCompany ParticipantsJosh Rinehults - Vice President, FinanceKevin Mowbray -...Read full newsRead More

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