KUALA LUMPUR: Shares of Borneo Oil Bhd have rallied to a two-year high in early trade today after announcing a gold deposits discovery in one of its mining plots.Read full newsRead More

Silver futures climbed to the highest in almost seven years and gold continued its march toward a record on expectations there'll be more stimulus to help the global economy recover from the coronavirus pandemic.Read full newsRead More

Gold prices continue climb towards all-time record highs with December gold futures reaching an astounding $2,027 on Tuesday.  The gold frenzy driven in part by the weakening dollar and the global pandemic is good news for Canadian junior gold miners and mid-tier gold exploration companies, particularly those in prolific gold regions across Canada. Although some mining regions faced setbacks...Read More

Speculation is rife that the stock markets could crash again in 2020. Government support and the rush to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to the market fueled one of the fastest recoveries in the stock markets that I have ever seen.Over the last four months, the Canadian stock market recovered most of its lost ground with the majority of top TSX stocks rebounding strongly. However, the stock market’...Read More

Gold has rallied almost 27%, while top miner stock Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) is up 60% this year. While the stock is indeed expensive, its second-quarter earnings underline the growth path.Let’s see what’s next for the world’s second-biggest gold miner.Barrick Gold: Q2 EarningsDriven by rallying gold prices, miners were expected to report fairly high quarterly earnings. B...Read More

Team at Warintza Credit: Solaris The initial hole from the first drill program in 20 years at Solaris Resources' 268-sq.-km Warintza project in south-east Ecuador hit 567 metres of 1% copper-equivalent (0.8% copper, 0.04% molybdenum and 0.1 g/t silver) starting at surface.According to the company, this most recent intercept expands the known mineralization at depth and suggests higher metal gra...Read More

Aerial view of the plant at Aurizona Gold Mine in Brazil (foreground) and Piaba Pit (background). (Image courtesy of Equinox Gold.) In the second quarter, producer Equinox Gold generated a total of 127,016 oz. at all-in sustaining costs of $900 per oz. sold, from six mines in the Americas.Despite the covid-19 pandemic, Equinox still recorded its highest quarterly gold production in the quarter....Read More

Gold has now broken through $2,000 and sits at all-time record-high prices.It shows no sign of slowing down yet (though some gold stocks are getting a bit overextended and due for a bit of a pullback before carrying on their upward march).If it hasn't come into focus for you yet, let's open your aperture.For years - since 2008, really - global banks have conspired to keep rates artificially low. W...Read More

Canada had a wake-up call this year when oil briefly traded at negative prices. It put energy diversification firmly on the agenda. While the oil industry arguably has a few years left in it, there are alternatives massing on the horizon.Clean energy is a high-growth sectorShould energy investors overlook an estimated 77.4% annual earnings growth over the next one to three years? This key uranium...Read More

Destruction caused by spilled tailings from the C??rrego do Feij??o iron ore mine in January 2019. (Image courtesy of Felipe Werneck | Ibama.) The Fire Brigade of Minas Gerais announced it will resume on August 27th the search for still missing bodies of 11 victims of the dam collapse in Brumadinho last year, which killed 270 people. Work was halted on March 21 due to pandemic protocols. The res...Read More

Pit operations at SSR Mining's Marigold gold mine in Nevada. Image from SSR Mining. A total of $8.86 billion worth of M&A deals were struck in the metals and mining industry globally during the second quarter of 2020, according to the latest report from GlobalData.This value represents an increase of 29.1% over the previous quarter and a decline of 14.4% when compared with the last four-quarter a...Read More

Aug 11, 2020 Guest(s): Joe Foster Portfolio Manager This gold price correction is just a case of price consolidation, and the longer-term bullish picture still remains intact, said Joe Foster, portfolio manager of the VanEck International Investors Gold Fund, who maintains a $3,400 an ounce price target."We've been looking for a pullback in the gold market. Nothing goes straight up forever. We h...Read More

Clayton Valley project. Credit: Cypress Development Corp. Cypress Development (TSXV: CYP) on Tuesday released an updated mineral resource estimate for its Clayton Valley lithium project in Nevada, showing an approximate 55% increase in total resources over the estimates found in the May 2020 prefeasibility study (PFS).Measured resources increased to 574.1 million tonnes, averaging 1,081 ppm Li or...Read More

Aug 11, 2020 Guest(s): Karl Moore Professor, Strategy & Organization, McGill University The pandemic has blindsided much of the corporate world, and this will not be the last time that we see a 'black swan," or rare catastrophe, affect the economy, said Karl Moore, professor of strategy and organization at McGill University."We're going to have understand that the black swan is not an unusual an...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday August 11 that are worth another look.China is turning to mergers, acquisitions and mine shutdowns to maintain its drive toward energy reform and the use of fewer fossil fuel resources.Zinc premiums in Singapore and Malaysia...Read More

The three-month price of lead on the London Metal Exchange was the standout performer at the close of trading on Tuesday August 11, climbing by 3% and breaking past nearby resistance, while a continued uptick in producer inflation from the US further supported buying momentum in the afternoon.Lead's outright price on the LME closed at $1,960.50 per tonne on Tuesday afternoon, recovering from an in...Read More

Zinc premiums in Singapore and Malaysia have dropped to their lowest annual level - and since Fastmarkets began assessing the market - while stocks begin to pile up in regional warehouses, trading sources said.Fastmarkets assessed the zinc SHG 99.995% ingot premium, fca Singapore at $85-95 per tonne on Tuesday August 11, down from $90-100 per tonne the week previously and $100-110 per tonne at the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday August 11 that are worth another look.China is turning to mergers, acquisitions and mine shutdowns to maintain its drive toward energy reform and the use of fewer fossil fuel resources.Zinc premiums in Singapore and Malaysia...Read More

Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:admin@guswinger.comAug 11, 2020 Gold is at a point where most of the horrific Corona crisis news is priced in, the US economy continues to strengthen, and not enough government handout money has been spent by Main Street to create inflation. As I’ve been saying for several days, gold is likely to ente...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday August 11 that are worth another look.China is turning to mergers, acquisitions and mine shutdowns to maintain its drive toward energy reform and the use of fewer fossil fuel resources.Zinc premiums in Singapore and Malaysia...Read More