Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part stronger this morning, Tuesday April 03, with prices up by an average of 0.7%. Copper, aluminium and nickel lead the advance with gains averaging 1.1% - with copper at $6,811 per tonne, followed by tin and zinc that are up by 0.7% and 0.3% respectively, while lead is bucking the trend with a 0.1% decline.Volume has been high wit...Read More

South African engineering and construction group Murray & Roberts (JSE:MUR) unveiled Tuesday it had been awarded 3.7 billion rand (about $313 million) in mining projects located in sub-Saharan Africa, North America and Australasia.The company, currently subject of a takeover bid from Germany's ATON, said the awarded underground projects included diamond, gold, copper, salt and platinum mines....Read More

OZ Minerals (ASX:OZL) said Tuesday it had received approval from the South Australian government to go ahead with the next phase of development its A$916 million (roughly $704m) Carrapateena copper-gold project.The Mining Lease and Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) allows Oz Minerals to start this month phase two of construction at the project, one of the largest...Read More

Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) said Tuesday an ongoing strike by its subcontractor's workforce at Tongon gold mine in the Ivory Coast, has started to hit operations.Tongon is expected to get back to full capacity with the assistance of the authorities, although it would be a challenge to recover the lost production.As a result, the Africa-focused gold producer is now not sure the operation will a...Read More

https://www.bloomberg.com/Aggregate U.S. debt seen contributing to worries over dollar Gold will surge to the highest level in five years if a global trade war breaks out, according to Rick Rule, chief executive officer of Sprott U.S. Holdings Inc., who's been involved in the market for four decades.Bullion could top $1,400 an ounce in 2018 as escalating trade tensions drive investors to havens a...Read More

Apr 04, 2018 Guest(s): Todd 'Bubba' Horwitz Chief Market Strategist, BubbaTrading.com The U.S. dollar has been artificially suppressed by the Federal Reserve and is due for a breakout, said Todd "Bubba" Horwitz of bubbatrading.com. "The reason they're doing that is to keep interest rates artificially low, even though our rates are rising and the Fed has just hit a hike," Horwitz told Kitco News....Read More

Apr 04, 2018 Guest(s): Peter Hug Global Trading Director, Kitco Metals Investors no longer believe that President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs will be detrimental to markets, this according to Peter Hug, Director of Global Trading at Kitco Metals."The market has basically reversed about 50% of the gains [in gold] since that announcement on the Chinese tariffs, [investors] believe that Trump's...Read More

The TSX stocks on our list have very low Relative Strength Index (RSI) scoresSmallCapPower | April 3, 2018: Trading volumes on the TSX have declined 6% YTD, with the TSX itself falling 6% as well. Today, we have identified four TSX stocks with low Relative Strength Index (RSI) scores. RSI is a measure of price momentum. Values above 70 indicate that a stock may be overbought, while values below 30...Read More

BLOK Technologies Inc. (CSE:BLK) is building disruptive Blockchain solutions BLOK by BLOKThis Content is Exclusive to Our MembersLogin belowRegisterLost your password?Ubika Research has released an analyst note on BLOK Technologies Inc. (CSE:BLK), which invests in and develops emerging companies in the Blockchain technology sector. BLOK Technologies has a robust acquisitive growth strategy, which...Read More

Technical analyst Clive Maund profiles a cobalt company active in the Democratic Republic of Congo.Cobalt is one of the most important minerals in existence, and is vital for the fast growing electric car industry and other applications. Getting on for half the world's cobalt is located in the DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo) in Africa, and while this may conjure up images of groups of youths dr...Read More

"Why do I think gold is going to prosper? Gold prospers most when two conditions occur. One, the dollar rolls over compared to other fiat currencies. I think that's going to happen. Even more so the case, I believe real interest rates are going to fall. Real interest rates are going to fall along with nominal rates come October. There is going to be a watershed epiphany on the part of the Fed that...Read More

Posted: Apr 3, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 3, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 3, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 3, 2018: Alexandria: Is Selling Out Better Than Dilution?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention....Read More

Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More

By Ira EpsteinMonday up Tuesday down pattern puts gold nowhere.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More

Many investors are familiar with the fact that President Franklin Roosevelt closed all of the banks in America and confiscated all of the privately-owned gold by executive Continue...Read More

Australia's mining towns are getting crushed. Not even Sydney is immune.Continue...Read More

Many investors are familiar with the fact that President Franklin Roosevelt closed all of the banks in America and confiscated all of the privately-owned gold by executive order in the early days of his administration, which began in 1933.Presidents since then have seized assets from countries such as Iran, Syria, North Korea and Cuba and imposed sanctions on Russia and many other countries by exe...Read More

"Trump giveth, Trump taketh away," we recently claimed.His promises of tax cuts and deregulation plans gave markets a lovely post-election gift.But his recent tariff plans have taken much of it away…Several months of stock market gains have vanished into the electricity.Now Trump is taking away yet again... this time through Amazon.Trump insists Amazon is strong-arming the retail industry in...Read More

When I was growing up, my Nana - who went through the Great Depression - always reminded to take monetary gifts whenever they were offered.But there may be a few exceptions to her advice.For example, maybe a beneficiary doesn't want to be taxed on the inheritance...From the taxman's point of view, disclaiming property is like never owing it.Here's one scenario where that would be an advantage.You...Read More

Posted: Apr 3, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 3, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 3, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 3, 2018: Alexandria: Is Selling Out Better Than Dilution?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention....Read More