Mining and metals stocks came in for more punishment on Tuesday as the trade spat between the US and China escalated amid a war of words between Washington and Beijing.On Tuesday, Donald Trump threatened to impose a 10% tariff on $200 billion of Chinese goods in retaliation for what the US president called the country's "predatory" trade practices. Beijing also ratcheted up the rhetoric accusing...Read More
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JAKARTA - Environmental officials have warned of the potentially catastrophic impact of a planned gold mine in a conservation zone in eastern Indonesia, amid mixed signals from the district chief responsible for approving the project. The proposed mine would cover 233 square kilometers (90 square miles), an area four times the size of Manhattan, in ...Read full newsRead More
Kinross Gold Corp. announced June 12 that it has decided to move forward with a $100 million expansion to the Fort Knox gold mine about 25 miles northeast of Fairbanks.Read full newsRead More
Royal Gold, Inc. is benefiting from recent investments and using improved gold prices to get ready for its next round of growthRead full newsRead More
One of the strangest stories in the mining industry this year has been the battle between Russian gold miner Petropavlovsk Plc and its activist, mystery shareholders.Read full newsRead More
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JAKARTA - Environmental officials have warned of the potentially catastrophic impact of a planned gold mine in a conservation zone in eastern Indonesia, amid mixed signals from the district chief responsible for approving the project. The proposed mine would cover 233 square kilometers (90 square miles), an area four times the size of Manhattan, in ...Read full newsRead More
MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Sanctions-hit Russian aluminium producer Rusal said on Tuesday it had started shipping bauxite from its Dian-Dian bauxite project in Guinea to its alumina refineries in other countries.Rusal, the world's largest aluminium producer outside China, has been hit by U.S. sanctions imposed on it and co-owner Oleg Deripaska in early April, a move that damaged the company's exp...Read More
Canadian investors are searching for top-quality companies to hold inside their self-directed RRSP portfolios.The strategy makes sense, especially when dividends are invested in new shares to take advantage of the power of compounding. Over a few decades, investors can see reasonably modest initial investments turn into large nest eggs.Let's take a look at Nutrien Ltd. (TSX:NTR)(NYSE:NTR) to see i...Read More
Katanga Mining Ltd. (TSX:KAT) hasn't been short of drama lately. First, the stock fell about 68% from a 52-week high of roughly $2.50 per share to as low as about $0.80 per share. The huge drop was triggered by its partner, G?(C)camines, a state-owned mining company in the Democratic Republic of Congo, threatening to dissolve the joint venture between the two companies.Then, the stock popped about...Read More
Mr. Marc Prefontaine reportsORLA INTERSECTS 147.7 METRES GRADING 1.25 % COPPER AND 0.28 G/T GOLD IN CABALLITO COPPER-GOLD ZONE AT THE CERRO QUEMA PROJECT, PANAMADrilling in the Caballito copper-gold zone at Orla Mining Ltd.'s wholly owned Cerro Quema project in Panama continues to intersect near-surface mineralization with greater than 1 per cent copper and associated gold values.Diamond drill hol...Read More
Mr. Michael Allen reportsNORTHERN EMPIRE ACQUIRES 100%-INTEREST IN HISTORIC GOLDSPAR MINENorthern Empire Resources Corp. has entered into a lease purchase agreement to acquire 100-per-cent interest in the Mary-Goldspar property from a Nevada-based private company. The property is an inlier to Northern Empire's claims in the Bare Mountains district, Nye county, Nevada.Michael G. Allen, president an...Read More
Following the Fed raising rates for the seventh time on Wednesday, investors continued to chase FAANG stocks, encouraged on Thursday by a strong retail sales number for May, which came in at 0.8% - more than double expectations, propelled by higher gasoline station sales.From my perspective, strong retail sales are based largely on soaring gasoline prices. Gas station sales drove 23% of the value...Read More
Dr. John-Mark Staude reportsRIVERSIDE COLLECTS CHIP & GRAB SAMPLES UP TO 19.9 G/T GOLD & 200 G/T SILVER AT THE 100%-OWNED LA SILLA PROJECT IN MEXICO Riverside Resources Inc. has released results from exploration work on its 100-per-cent-owned La Silla gold project located 75 kilometres northeast of Mazatlan in Sinaloa, Mexico. Riverside geologists collected 52 chip, channel and grab samp...Read More