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Defense Metals in the Media

February 16, 2024

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Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

January 02, 2023

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29 December, 2023

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What's Next for Gold?

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Platinum and Palladium

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Transition to Production

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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

Man caught with 7 kg gold bars worth $427,871 hidden in a portable oxygen tank

March 06, 2023 / marketsanity.com

Citizen Free Press - Twitter, Released on 3/6/23Man caught with 7 kg gold bars worth $427,871 hidden in a portable oxygen tank. pic.twitter.com/lARzG2foJy- Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) March 6, 2023 Man caught with 7 kg gold bars worth $427,871 hidden in a portable oxygen tank added by Herman James on 03/06/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

Perth Mint sold $9 billion of diluted gold to China, got caught, and tried to cover it up

March 06, 2023 / marketsanity.com

ABC News Australia, Released on 3/6/23The historic Perth Mint is facing a potential $9 billion recall ofContinue... Perth Mint sold $9 billion of diluted gold to China, got caught, and tried to cover it up added by Herman James on 03/06/2023View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

Bob Moriarty Says This Silver Co. Could Become a New Eskay Creek

March 07, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold recently appeared as a guest on Streetwise Live to speak about the precious metals industry as well as Dolly Varden Silver. Read more to learn why he believes Dolly Varden could be the next Eskay Creek.This Thursday, February 23, 2023, Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold and 321 Energy sat down with Streetwise Live to talk about mineral exploration, specifically his interest in Dolly...Read More

Grinding, Crushing Tests on REE Ore Yield Favorable Results

March 07, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

Mined material at the project is amenable to conventional methods, which has "positive implications for [the] project cost profile," noted a Noble Capital Markets report. Defense Metals Corp. (DEFN:TSX.V; DFMTF:OTCQB; 35D:FSE) announced that results of crushing and grinding tests on various samples extracted from the Wicheeda rare earth (RE) deposit were positive, reported Noble Capital Markets an...Read More

The PDAC Effect

March 07, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

Michael Ballanger of GGM Advisory Inc. shares his thoughts on PDAC, the current state of the economy, and two gold companies on his radar.This weekend marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the "Ontario Prospectors and Developers Association" where the first meeting ever (in 1933) was to overturn a proposed bill that would have hurt the mining industry.Imagine that.A gathering of hard-rock...Read More

Co. Sees Favorable Grinding Results for Rare Earths Project

March 07, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

The crushing and grinding (comminution) data from Defense Metals Corp.'s Wicheeda rare earth elements (REE) project will help inform its preliminary feasibility study expected early next year.Defense Metals Corp. (DEFN:TSX.V; DFMTF:OTCQB; 35D:FSE) has reported favorable crushing and grinding (comminution) results from multiple samples at its Wicheeda rare earth elements (REE) project in British Co...Read More

Morningstar: Gold Rallies After Hot Inflation Data

February 27, 2023 / www.bullionvault.com

LONDON, 27 February 2023 - Comment from BullionVault's Weekly Update email to clients features today in a gold-price update from investment ratings service Morningstar."New Year 2023's stone-cold bullish case for gold and silver has now melted on hotter-than-expected inflation data," says the report, first posted at MarketWatch and quoting Monday's Weekly Update email for BullionVault users from...Read More

Silver's Subtle Indication / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2023

March 06, 2023 / www.marketoracle.co.uk

Namely, while the GDXJ (upper part of thechart) moved only a little above its recent high, silver has pretty muchdoubled its previous short-term upswing. WhatAre the Suggestions? To be clear, neither of those moveshigher was substantial. However, it is the relative performance that mattersfrom an analytical point of view.As I have emphasized many times before, miners tend to underperform gold clos...Read More

Iris Zone proves Catalyst theory on Bendigo Goldfield...

March 06, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Managing director and chief executive James Champion de Crespigny describes the new Iris Zone, which lies beneath the Boyd's Dam prospect, as pivotal in the company's hunt for the extensions at the 22-million-ounce Bendigo Goldfield. "Bendigo is Australia's second largest goldfield and we have been looking for the extensions north of it. We have long suspected that we sat above it at Boyd's D...Read More

Peru mines gear up for more disruption

March 06, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Residents of Espinar and Chumbivilcas provinces agreed to the strike in the Cusco region on Monday and from Tuesday will resume the blockade of the so-called "mining corridor," according to documentsRead More

Partnerships key to Rio Tinto decarbonisation path...

March 06, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 and to reach net zero by 2050. The company expects its journey to cost US$7.5 billion through 2030.Read More

Nickel's next crisis, oversupply

March 06, 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 22% price drop from US$31,200 a tonne three months ago to latest trades at $24,385/t is a di...Read More

US Watch and Jewelry Sales: A Fourth Month of Decline

March 06, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Watch and jewelry sales in the US fell for a fourth consecutive month in January. A mood of caution persists within the industry and, to some extent, among consumers. Trade is slow and production is low. The January fall is provisionally recorded at 2.1 per cent by the US Department of Commerce, though that is likely to revised next month. December was initially reported a loss of...Read More

122-ct Diamond Recovered at Letseng

March 06, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Gem Diamonds yesterday recovered a 122-carat D color Type II white diamond at its Letseng mine, in Lesotho.It's the first +100-ct diamond of the year at the highest average dollar per carat kimberlite diamond mine in the world.Recoveries of large diamonds last year were below average - four +100-cts compared with an average since 2008 of eight per year, which was a factor in t...Read More

First Diamonds from Marsfontein Project

March 06, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Botswana Diamonds says it expects to see the first recoveries from its Marsfontein project, in South Africa, later this month.Work began at the end of January and the British-based diamond exploration and development company says about 1,500 tons of eluvial gravels from the main Marsfontein pipe have been excavated and are awaiting processing. The Marsfontein Mine, in Limpopo...Read More

Safety First, says New De Beers CEO

March 06, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Al Cook, the new CEO at De Beers, says workers' safety is his first priority as he visits the company's operations."Over 27 years in the energy business, including three years in offshore operations, I've learned that we have to put safety first," he said on LinkedIn, marking his first day in the post.Cook takes over from Bruce Cleaver, was executive vice president o...Read More

Copper future threat as juniors prefer to explore for...

March 05, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

"Well over half of all exploration budgets in 2022 were going towards gold exploration.Read More

Calibre bore increasing

March 05, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Since acquiring the El Limon and La Libertad plants and concessions from B2Gold in 2019, Calibre Mining has steadily seen annual growth in production and resources with the successful execution of itsRead More

Friedland on fire as snow dampens PDAC start

March 05, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Beyond the slick delivery and well-practised jokes which warmed the crowd, many of whom had experienced snow-related travel disruption, the message is a serious one, his efforts to bring technologicalRead More

"Silver is the ultimate green metal," Smallwood

March 05, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Smallwood said silver, which conducts electricity better than copper and gold, is his favourite metal, with growing opportunities due to its increased use in the electronics of vehicles, politiciansRead More

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