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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

China Is NATO's Next War

July 14, 2023 / www.outsiderclub.com

Vladimir Putin's once-ironclad grip on Russia has been badly undermined by his ill-conceived and mismanaged invasion of Ukraine.He was embarrassed badly by a renegade group of mercenaries who marched on Moscow, and the guy who led the attempted coup has yet to face any real consequences. A Russian submarine commander was gunned down as he jogged through a park in a clear-cut case of retaliatory as...Read More

China's Liaoning Province shuts mines due to flooding

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

As of Saturday, 116 "non-coal mines" and 14 tailing ponds in the province stopped production for the flood season, according to the Liaoning Provincial Flood Control and Drought Relief HeadquartersRead More

Glencore releases robust H1 2023 production reports

July 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Copper Copper output of 488,000t was 4% lower than H1 2022, attributed to the issues out of Collahuasi and Antamina. Own-source sales volumes were also lower, due to timings of shipments.Read More

Ecora acquires $20 million Vizcachitas copper royalty

July 24, 2023 / www.canadianinvestor.com

Share this article VANCOUVER - Ecora Resources Plc [ECOR-TSX, LSE, ECRAF-OTC Pink] said Monday it is spending $20 million to acquire a 0.25% net smelter royalty (NSR) over all metal production from the planned open pit of the Vizcachitas copper project in Chile, owned by Andes Copper Ltd.The company said the agreement marks a rare opportunity to acquire a royalty over one of the world's largest un...Read More

Framework Launched for Environmental Tech. Co.'s Green Bonds

July 25, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

News Update BacTech Environmental Corp. launches a new sustainable bond framework for issuing green and social bonds to pay for its bioleaching plant in Tenguel, Ecuador.BacTech Environmental Corp. (BAC:CSE;BCCEF:OTCQB;OBT1:FRA) announced it had launched a new sustainable bond framework for issuing green and social bonds to pay for its bioleaching plant in Tenguel, Ecuador.The company hopes to ra...Read More

Gold Co.'s Claims About License Lack Merit

July 25, 2023 / www.theaureport.com

Two firms are at odds over permissions allowing one of them to build tunnels in an area where the other one owns mining claims, noted a Red Cloud Securities report.Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) likely will not have its license of occupation and permit relative to its KSM project revoked, as requested by Tudor Gold, purported Red Cloud Securities analyst David Talbot in a July 18 resea...Read More

Are Silver's Liquidity Dreams a Mirage? / Commodities / Gold & Silver 2023

July 24, 2023 / marketoracle.co.uk

The white metal is priced for aneconomic outcome that’s unlikely to materialize. AI OptimismWith liquidity-fueled assetsoutperforming in 2023, they’ve decided that QT and higher interest rates arenot going to spoil their party. Moreover, with silver and goldalso liquidity beneficiaries, they have adopted similar attitudes.However, while the gambit can persist in the short ter...Read More

Gold Stocks Technical Breakout / Commodities / Gold and Silver Stocks 2023

July 24, 2023 / marketoracle.co.uk

Gold-stock technicalsare dramatically improving, turning increasingly bullish.  After slumping to major support zones in thesummer doldrums, the gold miners’ stocks have surged sharply in the past coupleweeks.  That strong advance has achieveda decisive breakout above the main gold-stock benchmark’s key 50-day movingaverage.  Similar breakouts in recent yearshave heralde...Read More

South32 takes billion dollar hit on Hermosa

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

PolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdExcitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDSouth32 put Hermosa on the approvals fast-track in May, but its recent studies have shown that the Taylor zinc-lead-silver a...Read More

Yukon's attraction growing

July 21, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Some C$178.6 million in equity has been raised for Yukon projects over the past 12 months according to Lise Farynowski, director, business and industry development of the Yukon government.Read More

Gold explorer Oriole seeks lithium partner in Cameroon...

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdWith two CLP licences, Ndom and Gamboukou, being assessed for their potential to host hard rock lithium,...Read More

Colombia proposes restrictions on mining in protected...

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedAccording to Susana Muhamad, Colombia's minister of environment and sustainable development, the new decree isn't meant to h...Read More

Canadian miner Arbor pushes for critical mineral funding...

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Arbor Metals wants support for the industry to mirror the support already seen for major battery manufacturers.Read More

Indonesian officials detained over illegal nickel mining...

July 25, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

PolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdExcitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThe ministry's head of geology and former director of mineral and coal entrepreneur development, Sugeng Mujiyanto, was named...Read More

China's Liaoning Province shuts mines due to flooding...

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedAs of Saturday, 116 "non-coal mines" and 14 tailing ponds in the province stopped production for the flood season, according...Read More

Coal profits rise as wind power blown off course

July 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Excitement builds at Briggs projectSPONSOREDalma metalsCavalier adds lithium targets to gold and nickel portfolioSPONSOREDcavalier resources ltdNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDPolarX outlines resource boost and potential upside in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedThat's enough said about sport because not enough is being said about why Whitehaven Coal has succeeded mining a material so...Read More

Royal 200-ct Diamond Brooch, Priced at $2.65m

July 24, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - A dazzling 19th century brooch, once owned by British royalty and featuring around 200 carats of old mine-cut diamonds, is to be sold in the US, priced at $2.65m.Antique jeweler M.S. Rau, based in New Orleans, describes the ribbon node brooch as "monumental".It says it is "both a captivating treasure and a piece of history". Henry Pelham-Clinton, the 5th Duke of Newcastle, com...Read More

Gambling Addict's Wife "Discovers her Jewels are all Fake"

July 24, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - A woman reportedly agreed to sell every piece in her jewelry collection to pay her husband's gambling debts - only to discover that all but one were fake.She says he showered her with valuable gifts, including a Rolex watch, during their 25-year marriage, according to a report in the Israeli newspaper Maariv.But she claims that when she took them to be valued, the jeweler said...Read More

Caravanner Carmel Finds $200,000 Sapphire

July 24, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Caravanner Carmel Ash found a 424-carat yellow sapphire, valued at up to $200,000 (AUS$300,000), while "specking" - looking for gems, especially after a downpour - in Australia.She said she was "absolutely astounded" when what initially appeared to be a black rock turned out to be a huge and valuable gemstone.Carmel, 71, who describes herself as "half-blind", was walking with husba...Read More

Alrosa's New CEO Sanctioned by US

July 23, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) -  Alrosa's new CEO, Pavel Marynichev, has been sanctioned the US, as his predecessor Sergey Ivanov was before him.The US State Department announced last Thursday that it was imposing additional sanctions on individuals and entities to degrade Russia's current and future military capabilities.It said Marinychev was being designated for "operating or having operated in...Read More

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