Seaborne low and high-grade manganese ore prices continued to fall in the week to Friday April 9 while market activity was light and sentiment continued to drop concurrent with pricing expectations among participants from both sell and buy sides failing to approach portside prices levels.Fastmarkets' manganese ore index, 37% Mn, cif Tianjin was calculated at $4.49 per dmtu on Friday April 9, down...Read More

Giyani Metals Corp. (TSXV: EMM) has updated a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) based on a larger inferred resource estimate for the company's flagship Kgwakgwe Hill (K.Hill) manganese project in southeastern Botswana, about 60 km southwest of the capital Gaborone.The K.Hill project is a near-surface deposit that Giyani hopes can produce high purity manganese for battery use in the electric ve...Read More

After closing a $61 million bought deal on April 9 (upsized from $55 million), B.C.-focused gold-silver developer Ascot Resources (TSX: AOT) has announced a $20.6 million private placement financing by miner Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI, NYSE: AUY; LSE: AUY).Ascot has entered into an agreement with Stifel GMP, with Stifel purchasing, on a bought deal basis, 24 million Ascot shares at 86 ? each. An underw...Read More

Scottie Resources (TSXV: SCOT) has entered into a letter of intent with AUX Resources (TSXV: AUX; US-OTC: AUXRF) proposing a merger of the two companies that would consolidate the two companies gold-silver holdings in the Stewart mining camp in B.C.'s Golden Triangle into a total of 522 sq. km.Scottie's acquisition of AUX would expand its Cambria project, which is adjacent to Ascot Resources' (TSX...Read More

NextSource Materials (TSX: NEXT; US-OTC: NSRCF) - which is developing its large flake graphite project in Madagascar and is backed by Sir Mick Davis' Vision Blue Resources - is teaming up with a prominent Japanese trading company and its Chinese partner, which owns and operates graphite anode processing facilities in China, to build a battery anode plant that it says should be ready for commission...Read More

Ready for development copper-gold projectSPONSOREDjosemaria resources incKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdAre mining companies being held back by their board composition? SPONSOREDswannWhat investors will be looking for in the spending habits of shoppers is evidence...Read More

Guillermo Lasso, a 66-year-old conservative former banker, has won Ecuador's presidential election with 52.5% of the vote, beating out Andr?(C)s Arauz, a 36-year-old leftist handpicked by former President Rafael Correa.While neither candidate had declared himself anti-mining, Lasso has vowed since the beginning of his election campaign to promote foreign investment in the mining and oil sectors, w...Read More

As Peru goes through yet another presidential election, with 18 candidates running, six likely making it to June's second round and no defined favorite, the Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) made public its most recent dataset, which shows that copper production rose by 0.7% in February compared to the same month last year.According to the report, Peru produced 170,989 tonnes of copper in the s...Read More

Ready for development copper-gold projectSPONSOREDjosemaria resources incKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdAre mining companies being held back by their board composition? SPONSOREDswannCMOC only acquired its 95% interest in the project in December from Freeport-McMo...Read More

Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationCodelco said its relationship with Ecuador and Enami was based on a 2008 binational agreement and the subsequent signing of multiple agreements by the two nations and the two countries. In 2015, Enami and Codelco signed the terms of a shareholder agreement to form a joint venture company to take Llurimagua fo...Read More

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Environmentalists and tribal leaders are fighting a plan by K2 Gold to sell its mining claims to a large corporation for development.Read full newsRead More

With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More

With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More

As Canbud Corp #CBDX story unfolds, here is a brief but extremely informative clip on who they are, what they're doing and why they're doing it.Karl Boyd has...Read full newsRead More

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The tax-filing deadline is fast approaching, and if you haven’t filed yet, it’s time that you pick up the pace. The late-filing penalty is nothing to scoff at. Also, you might be in the danger zone if you don’t take into account every dollar of taxable income or lose valuable opportunities if you don’t benefit from every tax break you are eligible for, just because you...Read More

Despite the underlying sluggishness in global economies, equity markets continue to trade near record highs. While several analysts are predicting a market crash, it’s impossible to time the markets and wait for a pullback. Investors should instead focus on dollar-cost averaging and invest a small amount each month to benefit from market highs and lows.For example, we know the Tax-Free Savin...Read More

The shares of many small companies are rallying in April 2021. These small companies have not only reported strong growth in the recent quarterly fundamentals, but their strong financial growth trend is likely to sustain in the coming years as well.TSX investors can buy any of the following three stocks of small Canadian companies to get handsome returns on their investment in 2021 and beyond.Aya...Read More