Most of us gold and metal buffs tend to follow the precious metal scene and aside from taking a glance a copper once in a while we seem to ignore what's going on with the base metals. For the past year a lot of analysts have been following cobalt and lithium but at the same time nickel has almost doubled and very few had even noticed. If you have a junior mining stock that has exposure to nickel y...Read More
It's hard to be a gold bug or grass roots mining stock buff and not have an interest in buried treasures or lost gold mines. I think that is what makes prospecting exciting. In a lot of cases it's not the treasure that you hope find but all the excitement that goes into the actual searching for the treasure. I tend to think that with the true prospector it's more the adventure than it is the rewar...Read More
Welcome to 2018. Some analysts are saying that this year is the year for gold. But there are a few other market watchers who are saying forget gold and watch silver, or better yet, buy silver. Be it physical bullion, silver ETF's or silver mining stocks. There are guys out there who are touting we will see $400+ silver price this year. I know it sounds far fetched and even though I think that a $4...Read More
Seems we live in a totally fake world now. Ever since Trump's tag line, "fake news," everything is turning up fake. I have always known about fake statistics, fake information, fake people and yes even fake bullion, but when a story about fake gold came out about a one ounce ingot that supposedly came from the Royal Canadian Mint as being fake, that was enough to raise an eyebrow.Turns out that a...Read More
When it comes to investing in a junior mining company the one you thing can almost always be certain of is "uncertainty." Mining and especially exploration is and always has been a high risk business full of uncertainties. Those uncertainties and risks can range from everything from government politics to commodity prices and everything in between. From raising money to how that money is going to...Read More
I've been reading bits of articles lately about a coming shortage of cobalt. Now I don't really know a whole lot about cobalt other than it's mined so I decided to to do a bit of investigating. There are a few things that I found out about doing some quick research and one is that cobalt mining shouldn't be protested about by enviromentalists. Another important issue that I've discovered is that t...Read More
AntaKori project site. Image by Regulus Resources Regulus Resources (TSXV: REG) has closed its previously announced bought deal financing, including the exercise in full of the underwriter's option. Under the public offering, the company issued 7.78 million units at C$1.06 per unit, with each comprising one common share and one half of one common share purchase warrant, for aggregate gross procee...Read More
Rough diamonds. (Reference image courtesy of Alrosa). The world's top diamond producer by output, Alrosa (MCX: ALRS), and the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company announced this week the signing of a number of agreements to finalize the creation of a joint venture for prospect and exploration work for primary diamond deposits in Zimbabwe. Alrosa says its Zimbabwean operations will follow busine...Read More
Atacama Kozan operation in Chile's Copiap?? province. (Image courtesy of Atacama Kozan). Atacama Kozan, a Chilean-Japanese mining company that operates its namesake copper mine in the Copiap?? province in northern Chile, filed a legal complaint alleging being the victim of fraudulent transactions carried out by Chilean senator Rafael Prohens.According to court documents obtained by local Radio B?...Read More
Sphinx Resources' director Michel Gauthier (left) operates a drone while workers carry out stripping (background) in 2017 at the Sonny zone on the Calumet-Sud zinc property in Quebec. Credit: Sphinx Resources Zinc prices have fallen 32% from a high of $1.63 per lb. in early 2018 to $1.15 per lb. But Jeremie Ryan, CEO of Sphinx Resources (TSXV: SFX), is rolling with the punches."Price fluctuations...Read More
Silver-coloured Leicester's World Tree sculpture. (Image by Mat Fascione, Geograph.org.uk). Researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina are using silver diphosphide (AgP2) as a novel catalyst that takes carbon dioxide pollution from manufacturing plants and transforms it into a material called syngas, from which the liquid fuel used in manufacturing is made.The new catalyst allows the...Read More
LONDON, 2 December 2019 - Analysis from BullionVault features today in a detailed look at the case for and against buying gold this New Year."Gold has been the star performer of 2019, but does the gold rush have further to run?" asks the magazine online. "We consider prospects looking ahead."Read the full report, including BullionVault's analysis of historic patterns for UK investors, at Money Obs...Read More
LONDON, 21 November 2019 - Comment from BullionVault is quoted today in a report on the latest gold-price action published on Morningstar, the investment-fund rating and news service."Gold's sensitivity to trade-deal headlines seems to be easing off," says Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.You can read the full note, first published at MarketWatch, here:Gold prices fall to lowest se...Read More
LONDON, 4 November 2019 - Comment from BullionVault leads today's gold-price update from US investing news-site MarketWatch."Hopes of a trade deal keep making headlines," says Adrian Ash, director of research, but slowing global growth and falling interest rates are "keeping a solid bid under gold."Read Adrian's full comment at MarketWatch here:Gold ends lower as the U.S. stock market rallies but...Read More
LONDON, 4 November 2019 - Comment from BullionVault features in a gold-price report posted today on MSN, the web portal and news-site run by I.T. giant Microsoft.Weighing against gold right now are rumours of a US-China trade deal, plus the US Federal Reserve "talking up a 'pause' in its rate cuts" MSN quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.But global economic growth is weakening...Read More
LONDON, 3 November 2019 - BullionVault tips and money-saving suggestions are quoted at length today in a full-page article about buying gold for investment in the finance section of the Mail on Sunday, the UK's best-selling mid-market tabloid newspaper.Asked about British gold Sovereign coins - sometimes promoted as 'rare' or highly collectible - "Do not feel pressured into buying due to a special...Read More
LONDON, 24 October 2019 - Comment from BullionVault is quoted today by MarketWatch, the US finance news-site from the Dow Jones group of companies."Gold does best when people lose faith in central bankers," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault in London - and today saw the last policy announcement from retiring European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, plus contin...Read More
LONDON, 1 October 2019 - Comment from BullionVault is posted today on the news pages of major US investing platform Fidelity."Monday's quarter-end sell off in gold was ugly but not surprising," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault, in comments first made to news-site MarketWatch. You can read Adrian's view - also syndicated to US investing platform TD Ameritrade - in...Read More
LONDON, 20 September 2019 - BullionVault is named today as an easy way to invest in physical gold by The Week, the UK's 3rd most popular current affairs magazine.Quoting and adding to news, tips and opinion from both The Times and Financial Times' money sections, BullionVault "takes some of the hassle away" for gold investors, The Week says.Subscribers and anyone buying today's edition will find...Read More
LONDON, 14 September 2019 - Two UK customers of BullionVault are interviewed and quoted today by the Wall Street Journal - the US financial markets' newspaper of record - in an article about how Brexit is affecting UK demand for investment gold.One customer "bought gold for the first time over the summer because he 'felt there was such volatility with Brexit and China versus America' and sees gold...Read More