"These findings have important implications for care and monitoring of people who are most vulnerable to severe Covid-19." Continue...Read More

Over the past 4 months the highest quality juniors have had the strongest and most reliable performance. These companies will continue to do well moving forward and for the most part are still worth buying. With that said, at this juncture how can we spot the best performing juniors moving forward?Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT is a Chartered Market Technician and member of the Market Technicians Associati...Read More

The gold market has been on an incredible run in the first half of the year with prices pushing above $1,800 an ounce for the first time since 2011, but renewed bullish sentiment has created a feeding frenzy in the mining space, according to one market analyst.In an interview with Kitco News, Mickey Fulp, founder of the Newsletter Mercenary Geologist, said gold prices are benefiting from a weaker...Read More

Seabridge Gold is testing for a gold-copper porphyry mineral system similar to its KSM project. Seabridge Gold Inc. (SEA:TSX; SA:NYSE.MKT) announced in a news release it commenced drilling at its Iskut project in British Columbia. "Seabridge acquired the large land package at Iskut because we saw clear evidence of a porphyry system with many of the characteristics of our giant KSM project in rock...Read More

Silver investmentdemand is exploding in recent months, skyrocketing higher inwildly-unprecedented fashion!  That has catapultedsilver sharply higher since mid-March’s COVID-19-lockdown stock panic.  Accelerating even in this usually-weak summerseason, the massive capital inflows deluging into silver show no signs ofabating.  This is very bullish for silver,yet most traders rem...Read More

The number of cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. have been rallying very quickly in last weeks, giving way only to the gold prices, which have surpassed $1,800. It’s not easy to terminate the viruses, especially that they are not quite alive. Indeed, the pandemic of the coronavirus is still not over, as the chart below shows. The global number of daily confirmed Covid-19 cases has surpassed 220,0...Read More

The next few weeks are certain to attract much attention to precious metals.  Hardly anyone can argue that Gold has not experienced an incredible upside price rally over the last 12+ months.  Recently, Gold closed above $1800 for the first time since 2011.  Our researchers believe the next target is $1935.  Keep reading to learn why we believe this is the next major price targe...Read More

Crude steel output in Italy decreased by 7.88% year on year in June due to the decrease in steel demand amid the effects of the Covid-19 lockdown measures, Italian steel association Federacciai said on Friday July 17.The county's crude steel production totaled 1.92 million tonnes in June 2020, down from 2.08 million tonnes in the same months of 2019.The June decrease, however, was less then the re...Read More

A summary of Rio Tinto's second-quarter iron ore production report released on Friday July 17.In brief Output from Pilbara operations in Western Australia increased by 4% year on year and by 7% quarter on quarter.Shipments from the Pilbara rose by 1% year on year and by 19% quarter on quarter despite operational controls made in...Read More

Signs of topping, everywhere...by Harry Dent via Harry S. Dent Jr.Something BIG is brewingRead More

There will be a wealth transfer from fiat-backed assets to precious metals...Jeff Clark interviewed on Palisade RadioTom welcomes a new guest to Palisade, Precious Metals Analyst Jeff Clark.Jeff cautions that investors should be skeptical of mining companies' claims because they will always place their best foot forward.Both Jeff and Mike believe there will be a wealth transfer from fiat-backed as...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Prices hold, pipe buying stalls Seamless prices remained broadly stable in much of the world this month - with the notable exception of falling Japan fob prices, because oil and gas producers have been less inclined to fight for premium products as they cut their capital expenditure - but this was not the result of a balance...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key North American steel forecast highlights:Upward momentum in US domestic sheet steel prices came to a halt in the second half of June, wiping out earlier gains. Although the prices of hot-rolled coil (HRC), cold-rolled coil (CRC) and hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG) increased on a monthly average basis, the d...Read More

The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Prolonged flooding in China could limit the use of construction steel and drag down demand for steel rebar in the short term, which in turn could damp the demand for iron ore. So far, it has been reported that steel mills in the affected regions have continued to operate as normal. The floods have, however, caused a few days...Read More

[JOHANNESBURG] French oil giant Total on Friday said it had signed a US$14.9 billion financing agreement for a gas project in northern Mozambique. Read more at The Business Times.Read full newsRead More

There are several ways to get gold exposure, each with their own unique characteristics.Read full newsRead More

Barrick Gold Corp said on Thursday it expected a 15% decline in second-quarter gold production due to coronavirus-induced disruptions at an Argentinian mine and a dispute in Papua New Guinea.Read full newsRead More

San Cristobal operation. (Image courtesy of Minera San Cristobal). Japan's Sumitomo Corp. scored a legal victory in Bolivia after the country's top court ruled in favour of the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Minera San Crist??bal, in a two-year-long labour dispute.This week, Bolivia's Plurinational Constitutional Court ruled that due process was violated when, back in August 2019, an arbitrat...Read More

Spence copper mine located in the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile. (Image courtesy of BHP). BHP (ASX, LON: BHP) is working towards massifying its C-19 Tracer app within Chile's mining industry.According to local media, the world's largest miner has proposed the idea to the Ministry of Science and to other miners operating in the South American country. C-19 Tracer is a mobile application that...Read More

Thomas Albrecht-Schmitt, lead author of the study. (Image courtesy of Florida State University). Researchers have demonstrated that curium can be manipulated to a degree where it may pave the way for new strategies to recycle nuclear fuel and improve the long-term storage of radioactive elements.Curium is element 96 in the periodic table, one of the heaviest known to date and also one of the last...Read More