Arctic Star Exploration (TSXV: ADD) announced today that it has received diamond results from caustic fusion analyses on the kimberlite discoveries within the Timantti Diamond Project in Finland.According to Rockstone Research, such a finding is important because, different from other sites around the world, Arctic Star's property is located in proximity to civilization and infrastructure. Timantt...Read More
SPDR Gold Shares is an ETF that tracks the performance of gold in the financial markets. It is denominated by the ticker GLD and is one of the most widely watched gold indicators. The gold price is influenced by a unique set of factors. These include interest rates, the strength of the USD, supply and demand, etc. For casual traders, it's important to know that gold is the go-to investment w...Read More
Investors continue to show considerable interest in safe-haven assets such as gold, as rising geopolitical risks and growing uncertainty created by Trump's erratic administration maintain the attractiveness of the yellow metal. Gold has risen by 3% since the start of 2018, and there is no sign that the metal will drop below the psychologically important US$1,300 per ounce mark any time soon. This...Read More
Volatility has returned to equity markets in 2018, and that is renewing interest in gold as a way to hedge against future uncertainty.Let's take a look at the current situation in the market to see if this is the right time to add gold and the miners to your portfolio.Bull caseGold is up from US$1,240 per ounce in December to the current price of US$1,350. That's a nice gain for holders of the yel...Read More
Geopolitical uncertainty continues to drive gold higher with the yellow metal gaining almost 5% over the last year. Its poorer cousin, silver, has failed to keep pace, dropping by 10% for the same period. That has hit primary silver miners hard, sending the Global X Silver Miners ETF (NYSE:SIL) down by 19% for the same period.It has also caused the gold-to-silver ratio, which provides an important...Read More
SPDR Gold Shares is an ETF that tracks the performance of gold in the financial markets. It is denominated by the ticker GLD and is one of the most widely watched gold indicators. The gold price is influenced by a unique set of factors. These include interest rates, the strength of the USD, supply and demand, etc. For casual traders, it's important to know that gold is the go-to investment w...Read More
India and the USA have signed an agreement enabling their scientists to collaborate on the development and construction of different types of neutrino detectors.The signing of the agreement (Image: DOE)The agreement was signed in New Delhi by US Energy Secretary Rick Perry and India's Atomic Energy Secretary Sekhar Basu. It opens the way to jointly advancing cutting-edge neutrino science projects...Read More
The announced closure of four nuclear power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania will lead to increased emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants, according to a report released by the Brattle Group. The retirement of the Beaver Valley, Davis-Besse, Perry and Three Mile Island plants will also mean higher electricity costs for residents, and the loss of thousands of jobs.Davis-Besse is one of the...Read More
Aluminium on the London Metal Exchange closed above $2,400 per tonne on Tuesday April 17 for the first time since September 2011, continuing its strong momentum triggered by the United States imposing sanctions against Russian aluminium producer Rusal. The light metal has been the most active across the complex since the sanction announcements on Friday April 6, recording daily high-low ranges of...Read More
Comex copper prices failed to maintain enough momentum to open higher in the Tuesday April 17 session in the US, with geopolitical tensions outweighing a solid fundamental outlook.Copper for May settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 3.2 cents or 1.1% to $3.0635 per lb. However, the contract gained significantly in the past two sessions.Over the next few months,...Read More
Stewart Thomsonemail: stewart@gracelandupdates.comemail: stewart@gracelandjuniors.comemail:stewart@gutrader.comApr 17, 2018Sales and profits growth for key Asian gold jewellers continues to set the stage for an imminent and massive mining stocks rally.Pleaseclick here now. Double-click to enlarge this fabulous Chow Tai Fook chart.A major breakout to the upside is in play, and where Chinese jewelle...Read More
Trump's import tariffs may have been welcomed by US manufacturing sectors for being supportive of domestic production, but the sanctions on Russia and Rusal-made aluminium could have far greater repercussions, Lord Copper muses. You don't have to be an admirer of President Trump to admit that one thing he does seem to be well tuned in to is the hopes and fears of the people who gave him his victor...Read More
The vanadium markets in Europe and the United States retreated last week, with traders continuing to sell off inventories to protect against weakening prices in the Chinese market as well as slowing spot market demand. Chinese ferro-vanadium, vanadium pentoxide prices fall on softer demand outside of China. European ferro-vanadium market slides on pressure from quiet spot marketEuropean...Read More
The vanadium markets in Europe and the United States retreated last week, with traders continuing to sell off inventories to protect against weakening prices in the Chinese market as well as slowing spot market demand. Chinese ferro-vanadium, vanadium pentoxide prices fall on softer demand outside of China. European ferro-vanadium market slides on pressure from quiet spot marketEuropean...Read More
A US investment fund specialising in clean technologies is exploring the possibility of producing cobalt in Chile, more than 70 years after the country's last cobalt mine was shut down.Tom Azzopardi in Santiago Samples from Chilean Cobalt Corp's La Cobaltera project in Chile17 APRIL 201817/04/2018commentsshare Wayne, Pennsylvania-based Genlith has teamed up with Chile's former mining undersecr...Read More
Earlier today, Bonterra Resources (BTR.V) released the long-awaited results from its preliminary metallurgical test work on samples from its high grade Gladiator Gold Deposit in Qu?(C)bec.Completing metallurgical studies are a very important milestone in the development process of a gold project. You can have as much gold as you want in a resource in the ground, but if you can't get it out of the...Read More
FORTNER BOYD – LITHUIM PROPERTY ARIZONARedzone Resources Ltd. [REZ-TSXV, REZZF-OTC: REZZF] said Tuesday it has appointed Jean-Philippe Paiement to the company's advisory board. Paiement currently works for a leading mining-focused private equity fund. Prior to that, he worked with SGS Canada Inc., a global mining consultancy where he was involved with Nemaska Lithium Inc. [NMX-TSX, NMKEF-OTC...Read More
South Korea's LG Chem and China's Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt have agreed to form two joint ventures to ensure cobalt supply for lithium-ion batteries.Staff reporterBenchmark's global cobalt statistic for 2017Benchmark Mineral Intelligence17 APRIL 201817/04/2018commentsshare Mining Journal caught up with Benchmark Mineral Intelligence analyst Caspar Rawles to discuss the deal and the dominance...Read More
VANC Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSXV:VANC), a biopharma stock, climbed after announcing an agreement with an affiliate of Emerald Health Therapeutics, Inc. (TSXV:EMH)Sean Mason | April 17, 2018 | SmallCapPowerA supply and distribution agreement with a cannabis company pushed a biopharma stock higher Tuesday. Here's some small stocks making big moves on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 (as of 4 pm EST):VANC P...Read More