Red Eagle Mining (R.TO) has re-started the Santa Rosa mill at the beginning of this month, as the company felt comfortable with the size of its stockpile. The development of the underground San Ramon mine is still ongoing with a total of almost 5,300 meters having been completed in 2017 which resulted in the completion of 18 working attack ramps.Of these 18 ramps, 12 are in production (resulting i...Read More
The appreciation of the South African rand since mid-November 2017 should preclude near-term price drops for the country's ores and alloys and will probably lead to further increases, according to producers. Metal Bulletin's indices for South African manganese ore, chrome ore and charge chrome have all been rising since early in December amid strong demand from China. Of those three commodities, t...Read More
The past-producing Snip Mine's 440 Portal and technical crew in BC's Golden Triangle region. Source: Skeena Resources Ltd.Skeena Resources Ltd. [SKE-TSXV] is gearing up for a big exploration program this year in a bid to revive two of Canada's most successful high grade precious metal mines - Snip and Eskay Creek - both located in northwest British Columbia's Golden Triangle region.If the company...Read More
Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV:EMH) and Namaste Technologies Inc. (CSE:N) ink an LOI to develop a fully-integrated e-commerce platformSmallCapPower | January 31, 2018: Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. (TSXV:EMH) and Namaste Technologies Inc. (CSE:N) announced on January 30, 2018, that the two companies have signed a letter of intent (LOI) whereby Emerald Health and Namaste Technologies hav...Read More
New market entrant Syrah Resources forecast a macro change in graphite global supply in the coming years, with battery and EV end markets leading China to become a net importer of the mineral. The graphite market will undergo a shift in structure and pricing that could see China becoming a net importer of natural graphite to meet forecast local demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries, according...Read More
Hand sample from Nasigon NE showing disseminated copper minerals (bornite, covellite, malachite) in calc-silicate rock at the Mitchi Project in Quebec. Source: Kintavar Exploration Inc.Kintavar Exploration Inc. [KTR-TSXV] on Wednesday January 31 released assays from the first four holes of a 2017-2018 winter drilling program at the Mitchi property, which the company has described as the only pure...Read More
field crew surface sampling breccia pipe 6 (2.1 g/t gold; 93.8 g/t silver) at Soledad Project in Peru. Source: Condor Resources Inc.Chakana Copper Corp. [PERU-TSXV] shares began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange Wednesday January 30 as the company released new assays from its Soledad copper-silver-gold project in Peru. By early afternoon Wednesday, the shares were trading at 85 cents, up $0.76 o...Read More
Billet import volumes into Turkey have fallen over the past three years, with the producers opting to buy scrap because the price margin between these two products has widened since the second half of 2016, making scrap imports more profitable.In 2015, Turkey imported 7.85 million tonnes of steel billet, while scrap imports totaled 16.25 million tonnes in the same year, according to the Turkish St...Read More
Turkish steel producers went quiet again on Wednesday January 31 but still expected to book more cargoes for March, according to sources.Market participants expected the Turkish buyers to show some buying interest through to the end of the week."The Turks need to buy more scrap for March. I think they will be back in the...Read More
Commodities fund Tiberius is seeking to underpin a new world of digital currency transactions with a bullish future for industrial and precious metals, by launching a physical metals-backed cryptocurrency called Tiberius Coin.The fund, based in Zug in Switzerland, has more than $300 million of assets under management. In March, it will allow initial investment in the currency ahead of an ICO, or I...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Solstice Gold (TSXV: DVI) Raises $8.37 Million as Dunnedin Completes Spin Out of Gold Assets at Kahuna Project Vancouver, British Columbia - January 31, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Dunnedin Ventures Inc. (TSXV: DVI) (the "Company") to...Read More
Stress will kill you. Most people know this intuitively. Stress weakens your immune system. Stress allows your body to be more easily controlled by pathogens.A recent study compared two sets of mice. One set had a certain stress receptor cell, and one set did not. Normal mice exposed to stress had a higher rate of disease than mice exposed to stress who lacked the stress receptor cell. This held...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Tudor Gold (TSXV: TUD) (FSE: TUC) Reports 94.5m of 0.75 g/t Gold at Treaty Creek, Including 76.5m of 0.86 g/t Gold Vancouver, British Columbia - January 31, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Tudor Gold Corp. (TSXV: TUD) (FSE: TUC) (the "Com...Read More
Comex copper prices bounced back on Wednesday January 31 after a multi-session downturn with a softening dollar lifting the metals complex. Copper for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange gained 2.90 cents or 0.9% to $3.2180 per lb. The contract had been on a four-day losing streak. "Judging by the limited pullback and decent dip-buying interest, bulls are sti...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Scandium International Mining (TSX: SCY) Signs Letter of Intent with Granges AB to Test Scandium Alloys in Heat Exchanger Applications Reno, Nevada - January 31, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Scandium International Mining Corp. (TSX: SC...Read More
Unprecedented Extremes in Overbought ReadingsReaders may recall our recent articles on the blow-off move in the stock market, entitled Punch-Drunk Investors and Extinct Bears (see Part 1 & Part 2 for the details). Bears remained firmly extinct as of last week - in fact, some of the sentiment indicators we are keeping tabs on have become even more stretched, as incredible as that may sound. For ins...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part firmer this morning, Wednesday January 31, the exceptions being aluminium (-0.3%) and lead that is little changed, while the rest of the complex is up by an average of 0.6% - ranged between tin (0.4%) and nickel (0.7%), with copper prices up by 0.5% at $7,117 per tonne. Volume has been average with 8,535 lots traded as of 07.08...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Vendetta (TSXV: VTT) Reports Shallow High Grade Drilling Results from Surface at the Pegmont #Lead-Zinc Project Vancouver, British Columbia - January 31, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Vendetta Mining Corp. (TSXV: VTT) (the "Company")is...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Millennial Lithium (TSXV: ML) (FSE: A3N2) (OTCQB: MLNLF) Announces Positive Preliminary Economic Assessment Results with Strong Upside Potential for Its Pastos Grandes Project, ArgentinaUS$ 824 million after-tax NPV at 8% discount rate and IRR of 23.4% for 2...Read More
Domestic prices for heavy steel plate in Europe are expected to rise following the positive trend settled in the region's market for steel coil products, sources told Metal Bulletin on Wednesday January 31.High slab costs are also expected to support higher plate prices, especially in Southern European, where the majority of plate produced by re-rollers, according to market source.Metal Bulletin's...Read More