WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump’s nomination of his presidential physician, Ronny Jackson, to head the Veterans Affairs department ran into trouble on Tuesday when a Senate committee delayed his confirmation in light of “new information” it had received.“We will continue looking into these serious allegations and have requested additional information from...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - April 24, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Vatic Ventures Corp. (TSXV: VCV) (FSE: V8V) (OTC Pink: VTTCF) (the "Company" or "Vatic") is pleased to provide an update on its upcoming drilling program at its Saksrithai potash project. The contractor is Aztec Engineering Co. Ltd., an experienced and reputable drilling contractor who has extensive experien...Read More
A new permitting issue has emerged at copper producer Freeport-McMoRan's unit in Indonesia following the introduction of new environmental requirements in April, the United States-based firm said on Tuesday April 24.[Adds details about tailings management, comments from Freeport chief executive officer.]A new permitting issue has emerged at copper producer Freeport-McMoRan's unit in Indonesia foll...Read More
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had been “very honorable” and wanted to meet with Trump as soon as possible.Trump, who made the comments to reporters during a meeting with French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron at the White House, has said a planned meeting with Kim could take place in late May or June.Reporting by...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - April 24, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Grande Portage Resources Ltd. (TSXV: GPG) ("Grande Portage" or "the Company") is pleased to announce receipt of its independent updated resource estimate for the Herbert Gold Project located in S.E. Alaska.The updated NI43-101-compliant resource estimate, authored by DRW Geological Consultants Ltd., used the...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1331.50+$6.50Silver$16.73+$0.10XAU83.28+0.03%HUI182.38+1.40%GDM633.15+0.87%JSE Gold1112.83+2.36USD90.77-0.16Euro122.37+0.29Yen92.13+0.04Oil$67.70-$0.9410-Year2.992%+0.017T-Bond142.50-0.46875Dow24024.13-1.74%Nasdaq7007.35-1.70%S&P2634.56-1.34% The Metals: Gold gained $3.50 to $1328.50 in Asia before it fell back to $1323.50 in London, but it then climbe...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part firmer this morning, Tuesday April 24. The exceptions are aluminium (-0.8%) and tin (-0.1%), while the rest are up by an average of 0.4%, with three-month copper prices up by 0.5% at $6,963 per tonne.On Monday, the United States Treasury's decision that it will not impose secondary sanctions on non-US market participants for doi...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers at the high-profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.John Khoury, founder and managing partner of the $2.7 billion Long Pond Capital hedge fund, revealed a long position in U.S. homebui...Read More
On the 20th anniversary of the breach of the tailings pond at the Los Frailes mine in Spain, environmental organizations held a press conference to alert the public about the possibility of a similar accident taking place.Greenpeace, WWF, SEO/BirdLife, Ecologists in Action, and Friends of the Earth accused the Andaluc?-a council of relaxing administrative and legal requirements to ease the way for...Read More
Summary of Anglo American's production results for the three months ended March 31, 2018.(First-quarter total, % change year-on-year) Copper 155,000 tonnes, +9%...Read More
Graceland Updates By Stewart Thomson 1. The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Gold investors focused on the Western markets and government debt fear trade tend to feel the same kinds of thrills and agony that professional athletes regularly experience.2. Here's a good example: For a few days, silver soars higher on what appears to be the guaranteed start of a long-term...Read More
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar and euro were largely unchanged on Tuesday morning as the 10-year Treasury yield broke through the psychologically significant barrier of 3 percent.The dollar index hit a three-month high of 90.985 against a basket of six currencies in morning trade, though the big gains on rising U.S. government bond yields mostly occurred yesterday.“Yesterday was a big...Read More
Karl Denninger is an American technology businessman, finance blogger, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement. His website is The Market Ticker. Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold discusses Bonterra's latest gold recovery tests. The value of gold as an insurance policy grows with each passing day. The idiots in Washington, London and Paris known well for their gnashing of teeth and wailing while generating gallons of crocodile tears over a false flag attack in Syria are rolling the dice on a game of World War III. And while that's not going to be a...Read More
Source: Streetwise Reports 04/23/2018With a project located on the site of a massive gold rush, this explorer is attempting to find the hard-rock source of the region's placer gold, and an updated resource is expected any day.Cabral Gold Project MapThe land that Cabral Gold Inc.'s (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OCT) Cuiu Cuiu gold project sits on was once the territory of garimperos, migrating miners who c...Read More
Here are 10 key takeaways from Metal Bulletin's and Industrial Minerals' first Battery Materials conference in Shanghai on April 18-19. Bringing online new lithium supply remains a painful process: Bringing new capacity on stream is not easy and it is still difficult to bring new lithium projects online due technical and weather-related issues, as well as lack of investment and know-how, according...Read More
Jim Willie is a statistical analyst in marketing research and retail forecasting. He holds a PhD in Statistics, and his career has stretched over 25 years. He aspires to thrive in the financial editor world, unencumbered by the limitations of economic credentials. Jim operates a free website called Golden Jackass.Read More
With a project located on the site of a massive gold rush, this explorer is attempting to find the hard-rock source of the region's placer gold, and an updated resource is expected any day. Cabral Gold Project MapThe land that Cabral Gold Inc.'s (CBR:TSX.V; CBGZF:OCT) Cuiu Cuiu gold project sits on was once the territory of garimperos, migrating miners who came during the massive Brazilian gold r...Read More
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Ministers from the United States, Canada and Mexico meeting in Washington could agree on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement in the next 10 days, a Mexican business leader said on Tuesday.Negotiators have said a new NAFTA could be possible by early May, and officials hailed progress on the key issue of new automotive sector rules last week.“In the coming 10...Read More
April 24 (Reuters) - Canada's Teck Resources Ltd , the world's second-biggest exporter of steelmaking coal, reported on Tuesday a 15 percent increase in first-quarter adjusted profit on increased sales volumes.Teck, which also mines copper, zinc and gold, said adjusted profit attributable to shareholders rose to C$753 million ($586.4 million) or C$1.31 per share in the quarter ended March 31, comp...Read More