Chile, the world's No. 1 copper producer and one of the top lithium suppliers, is expected to attract about $60 billion in new mines and expansions over the next 20 years, the country's minister of mining says.According to Aurora Williams, miners with operations in the country currently spend $15 billion on support services a year, so the government has set an ambitious goal of helping locals to...Read More
Australia's corporate watchdog is taking Rio Tinto's (ASX, LON:RIO) former chief executive Tom Albanese and chief financial officer Guy Elliott to court for allegedly misleading investors in relation to the miner's botched coal investment in Mozambique.According to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the two ex-executives engaged in "misleading and deceptive" conduct by pu...Read More
Vancouver-based Darien Resource Development (TSXV: DRR), which will soon change its name to New Energy Metals Corp., announced today that has entered into an agreement with Artemis Mining to acquire a 100% interest in the Cristal project located in northern Chile. In detail, the mining site is located along the West Fissure, near the border with Peru, which hosts to the majority of Chile's large p...Read More
http://www.miningweekly.com/VANCOUVER (miningweekly.com) - The Canadian mining industry has welcomed the federal 2018 Budget that was announced this week, highlighting in particular support for the extension of the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit and several additional funds made available for critical skills training.Canada’s Budget 2018, tabled by Canada’s Finance Minister Bill Mornea...Read More
Click here for the full transcript: http://financialrepressionauthority.c...Charles Hugh Smith writes the Of Two Minds blog which covers an eclectic range of timely topics: finance, housing, Asia, energy, long-term trends, social issues, health/diet/fitness and sustainability. From its humble beginnings in May 2005, Of Two Minds now attracts some 200,000 visits a month. Charles also contributes to...Read More
*This interview was recorded on 2/28/18Catherine Austin Fitts is a former Wall Street investment banker, macroeconomic expert and publisher of The Solari Report https://solari.com/.Read More
Posted: Mar 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Mar 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018: Is Namibia an Alternative Source of Cobalt?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. The...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
Most experienced investors know the four most dangerous words are: This time is different. It never is. And yet one of my key predictions here at Peak Prosperity is Continue...Read More
Billionaire investor and Trump adviser Carl Icahn sold $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, days before Trump announced tariffsContinue...Read More
"When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win," Continue...Read More
The gold/silver ratio has risen to 80/1. The ratio should be 9/1 or even lower, President of First Majestic Silver Keith Neumeyer says. Even if the gold price stayed flat, a 9/1 gold/silver ratio would mean triple digit silver.Silver is more than "poor man's gold," he says. Because of how silver is used in technology, it is an essential metal to our modern way of life.Neumeyer updates us on how bl...Read More
The Mexican steel association, Canacero, has called on the federal government to take "reciprocal measures" against the United States if it imposes a 25% duty on steel imports from Mexico. "Canacero expresses concern and it expects immediate reciprocal measures from our government if our country is included in the [232] measures," the association said late on Thursday March 1.The US recorded a ste...Read More
Vietnamese re-rollers are fretting over a 25% import tariff that the United States is set to impose on steel imports, expecting them to reduce the volumes of finished flat products that they can ship there, market sources told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 2.This could in turn result in a supply glut of flat steel in Asia, they warned."Vietnamese re-rollers are growing increasingly worried and th...Read More
The European Steel Association, Eurofer, has welcomed the European Commission's pledge of "appropriate and swift measures" after the United States finally announced Section 232 trade tariffs.US president Donald Trump announced the imposition of import duties of 25% on steel and 10% aluminium on March 1. "We welcome the [EC] announcement [that] appropriate and swift measures will be taken...Read More
Mar 04, 2018 In order for silver to break out of its current trading range, investment demand needs to return to buffer industrial demand, said Michael Steinmann, CEO of Pan American Silver."Silver is a very important metal for the future, and right now, if you look at electronics, if you look at cars...but investment demand has to be there in order to bring it back to new peaks," Steinmann told K...Read More
Mar 04, 2018 The Taylor Mine, named after Arizona Mining CEO Don Taylor, is anticipated to be one of the world's largest lead/zinc mines, and is set to be in production by late 2020."We've got about over 100 million tons of ten and a half percent zinc equivalent," Taylor told Kitco News on the sidelines of the Gold Stock Analyst Investor Day Conference. "The amazing thing is, it's still open-ended...Read More
Kevin O'Leary weighs in on the impact of proposed steel and aluminum tariffs on businesses in the U.S. and Canada.Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian businessman, investor, and television personality. From his basement, he launched SoftKey Software Products and In 1999 Kevin sold his company to the Mattel Toy Company for a staggering 3.7 billion dollars, one of the largest deals ever done in the consumer...Read More
Posted: Mar 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Mar 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018: Is Namibia an Alternative Source of Cobalt?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. The...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