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2020 has been a bullish year for gold up to this point with gold prices headed for seven-year highs over US$1,750 per ounce. On Monday, Canada’s main stock index future rose, supported by firmer gold prices against global concerns related to rising coronavirus cases. Gold futures rose as much as $1,767.6 an ounce, hitting a one-month high, as investors were drawn to safe-havens. Although g...Read More

Gold, silver, and their miners' stocks suffer their weakest seasonals of the year in early summers. With traders' attention normally diverted to vacations and summer fun, interest in and demand for precious metals usually wane. Without outsized investment demand, gold tends to drift sideways dragging silver and miners' stocks with it. Feared as the summer doldrums, sometimes unusual catalyst...Read More

The Foolish position I take is one of high levels of diversification in portfolio design. This will always be true. This article discusses two Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs). These ETFs will provide the base any investor needs to build a high quality, diversified portfolio with a defensive touch — and only two inputs!Global ETFCanadian investors often fall into the trap of having far too much...Read More

There’s another bear market on the way — or at least that’s what many analysts think.“A vast majority of investors believe stock markets around the world are overvalued,” the Financial Times recently reported. “Nearly 80% of fund managers shepherding a combined $600 billion of assets think that stocks are too expensive, the highest share in records going back to...Read More

MINING.COM MINUTE is a roundup of the biggest stories from the global mining and metals industry. Share and get up to speed in a mining minute.This week's top stories:Landslide at Myanmar jade mine leaves at least 162 dead - Read moreEndeavour becomes West Africa's top gold miner - Read moreBHP's Cerro Colorado to scale down operations - Read moreNevada Gold Mines exceeds expectations, says Barri...Read More

Image by Bruce Raynor from Shutterstock. On April 20, Teck Resources Ltd. (TSX:TECK.B) released a 76-page first-quarter financial report that reported an $800 million decline in earnings compared with Q1 2019, due in large part to the impact of a global pandemic.And on May 20, Teck released a 114-page sustainability review for 2019 that details its progress on environmental, social and governance...Read More

Stibnite gold project. Credit: United States Forest Service. Midas Gold (TSX: MAX) announced Thursday that the draft environmental impact statement (EIS) for its Stibnite gold project in Idaho is set to be released next month for public review.In their recently published quarterly schedule of proposed actions, the United States Forest Service (USFS) and other regulators working on the review of t...Read More

Ulu project area. (Image courtesy of Blue Star Gold). Vancouver-based Blue Star Gold (TSXV: BAU) announced that the Chief Public Health Officer of Canada's Nunavut territory has confirmed that the company can begin its work programs in early July on the Hood River and Ulu projects.In a press release, Blue Star said the Health Officer's decision was a response to the Exposure Control Plan and the...Read More

Greatland's Patterson project is located 500 kilometres east of rail and port infrastructure at Port Hedland, pictured here. (Image by Nachoman-au, Wikimedia Commons). The Western Australian Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety announced that Greatland Gold (AIM: GGP) has won a government-conducted ballot in regard to its application for a fourth exploration licence in the Paterson...Read More

Gold, silver, and their miners' stocks suffer their weakest seasonals of the year in early summers. With traders' attention normally diverted to vacations and summer fun, interest in and demand for precious metals usually wane. Without outsized investment demand, gold tends to drift sideways dragging silver and miners' stocks with it. Feared as the summer doldrums, sometimes unusual catalyst...Read More

Gold and silver have been quite active these past few months with gold hitting prices around $1800 USD. With the pandemic, the money printing, talk of recession/depression etc. there has been a renewed optimism in the precious metals and we are now seeing the results in share prices of the mining companies, especially the juniors that have good quality projects on the go.The saying, "patience is a...Read More

Here are three royalty and streaming stocks. They enjoy lower expenses and less risk than their operating peers, while enjoying the upside of any successes.Government responses to COVID-19 are paving the way to a long-term credit crisis, excellent news for precious metals investors, as long as they can stomach a very bumpy ride to profits, says Sprott US Holdings president and CEO Rick Rule."Under...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 2 that are worth another look.European importers of long steel and hot-rolled coil have claimed that this week's definitive decision in the EU steel imports safeguard case review ignored the interests of independent buyers and focused protection only on steelmakers, market sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 1.Chilean...Read More

Chile produced 492,500 tonnes in copper content during May, up 1% from 487,800 tonnes in the corresponding month of 2019, according to data from the country's copper commission Cochilco on Thursday July 2.Chile has been increasing its copper production this year compared to falling volumes in other South American nations like Peru, where the Covid-19 pandemic forced units to close. Including May f...Read More

Three-month prices for base metals on the London Metal Exchange were higher at the close of trading on Thursday July 2, with positive employment statistics from the United States lending support to the complex, while forward-buying in LME copper futures prompted a tightening of the metal's forward curve.Economic data released in the afternoon from the US showed the country's unemployment rate for...Read More

The company said it had entered a binding term sheet with Appian Capital Advisory for up to about C$40.9 million, subject to Toronto Stock Exchange approval.Harte chairman Joseph Conway said following a review process, the proposed transaction was "the best financing alternative available to the company".It was set to comprise a private placement of 9.5 million Series B special shares priced at US...Read More

To help prepare for Daunia's autonomous future, it is estimated more than 30,000 hours of training will be delivered, ranging from general awareness to extensive training for those operating equipment, interacting with the autonomous haul trucks, or taking on new roles.The first Caterpillar autonomous trucks will begin from February next year, with the rollout expected to be completed by the end o...Read More

Pekka Vauramo, formerly CEO of Metso and now head of the joint entity, said aggregates was the "the part of the business that was worst hit by the by the corona[virus]" "In the mining side, we reallyRead More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 2 that are worth another look.European importers of long steel and hot-rolled coil have claimed that this week's definitive decision in the EU steel imports safeguard case review ignored the interests of independent buyers and focused protection only on steelmakers, market sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday July 1.Chilean...Read More