(Kitco News)- TheU.S. labor market is holding steady as the Labor Department report showed thatweekly U.S. jobless claims dropped by 1,000 to 230,000 claims in the weekto Saturday.Thedata was in line with consensus expectations. The government revised theprevious week's data down by 2,000 claims to 231,000.Meanwhile,the four-week moving average for new claims - often viewed as a more reliable...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold is on the defensive, but thestill-soft U.S. dollar is likely to cushion the downside for gold, says FXTM.Around 8 a.m. EST Thursday, spotgold was down $5.05 to $1,339.50 an ounce, while the euro was up to $1.2454from $1.2413 late Wednesday. Lukman Otunuga, research analyst at FXTM,commented that gold eased after a Federal Open Market Committee meetingWednesday in which policyma...Read More
Mr. Jeff Pontius reports CORVUS GOLD CONTINUES TO EXPAND MOTHER LODE DEPOSIT EAST, AT DEPTH AND WEST, DRILLING 70.1 METRES at 1.45 G/T GOLDCorvus Gold Inc. has received assay results from the final eight drill holes from its 2017 phase I drill program at its Mother Lode project in southern Nevada. Results from the first drill hole to specifically target to the east of the deposit (ML17-42 with 28....Read More
Mr. Jeff Pontius reports CORVUS GOLD CONTINUES TO EXPAND MOTHER LODE DEPOSIT EAST, AT DEPTH AND WEST, DRILLING 70.1 METRES at 1.45 G/T GOLDCorvus Gold Inc. has received assay results from the final eight drill holes from its 2017 phase I drill program at its Mother Lode project in southern Nevada. Results from the first drill hole to specifically target to the east of the deposit (ML17-42 with 28....Read More
Mr. Joe Campbell reportsTERRAX CHANNEL SAMPLING CONFIRMS A 100 METER WIDE MINERALIZED ZONE AT SAM OTTO SOUTHTerrax Minerals Inc. has released channel sample results from the Sam Otto South zone on Screamer Island.Sam Otto South is up to 3.5 kilometres south and along trend from the main Sam Otto and extends the potential strike length of that target area to over five km.Channel sample results conf...Read More
Mr. Joe Campbell reportsTERRAX CHANNEL SAMPLING CONFIRMS A 100 METER WIDE MINERALIZED ZONE AT SAM OTTO SOUTHTerrax Minerals Inc. has released channel sample results from the Sam Otto South zone on Screamer Island.Sam Otto South is up to 3.5 kilometres south and along trend from the main Sam Otto and extends the potential strike length of that target area to over five km.Channel sample results conf...Read More
Wednesday the Fed announced adecision on interest rates and once again there was no surprise; they didnothing. The equity markets were wild with a 300-point trading range on heavyvolume and volatility. As history has proven, the Fed has no idea of what to donext; in other words, they are clueless.The metals also were volatile,with gold trading in a $16 range between $1,335 and $1,351, closing near...Read More
Rusty Hutson, chief executive of Diversified Gas & Oil plc (LON:DGOC), tells Proactive they'll triple their gas production through the acquisition of two producing assets in the Appalachian Basin, US, at a cost of US$180mln.Alliance Petroleum Corporation will be bought outright for US$95mln while DGO is also buying the Appalachian assets of a NYSE-listed, but unnamed, company for US$85mln.Both...Read More
Editor's Note: Welcome to Kitco's new Bitcoin Daily Technical Alert. Every trading day veteran Kitco technical analyst Jim Wyckoff will provide you with a concise and easy-to-understand near-term technical brief on Bitcoin. Importantly, Jim will glean the short-term charts and technical studies, and then alert you to the signals he sees regarding upcoming potential bigger price moves or price tren...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold andsilver markets are near steady levels in early U.S. trading Thursday. Themarkets are pausing ahead of a heavy slate of U.S. economic data due forrelease. April Comex gold futures were last down $0.10 an ounce at $1,342.90.March Comex silver was last down $0.04 at $17.195 an ounce.U.S.economic data due for release Thursday includes the weekly jobless claimsreport, the Challen...Read More
By Carlo Martuscelli Glencore PLC (GLEN.LN) said Thursday that production was lower for most commodities in 2017, reflecting the impact of disposals, maintenance work and weather. The natural-resource company said copper production for the year ended Dec. 31 fell 8% to 1.3 million metric tons. The decrease was attributable to constraints on production due to smelter maintenance, end-of-life produc...Read More
Mr. Brian Groves reportsGENESIS METALS PROVIDES SUMMARY OF 2017 DRILLING RESULTS FROM CHEVRIERGenesis Metals Corp. has provided a summary of significant assay results from core drilling within the main zone completed in 2017 at the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Que. The company completed a total of 6,430 metres of drilling on the main zone. The objective of the program was to validate th...Read More
Mr. Brian Groves reportsGENESIS METALS PROVIDES SUMMARY OF 2017 DRILLING RESULTS FROM CHEVRIERGenesis Metals Corp. has provided a summary of significant assay results from core drilling within the main zone completed in 2017 at the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Que. The company completed a total of 6,430 metres of drilling on the main zone. The objective of the program was to validate th...Read More
Over 1,000 miners at Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) Beatrix gold mine in South Africa were trapped underground as a result of a storm that knocked out power on Wednesday night.Storm knocked out power on Wednesday night, preventing evening shift workers from exiting the mine.Spokesman James Wellsted told Eye Witness News that sixty-four workers had been rescued overnight, but over 900 oth...Read More
Over 1,000 miners at Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) Beatrix gold mine in South Africa were trapped underground as a result of a storm that knocked out power on Wednesday night.Storm knocked out power on Wednesday night, preventing evening shift workers from exiting the mine.Spokesman James Wellsted told Eye Witness News that sixty-four workers had been rescued overnight, but over 900 oth...Read More
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IRVINE, CA, Jan. 31, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. (OTC Pink: VMSI), formerly Gold Mining USA, Inc. (OTC Pink: GMUI) announces the successful completion of its name, symbol, and CUSIP number change. The company is now trading live under Vita Mobile Systems, Inc. with the symbol VMSI. The company has completed a ...Read full newsRead More