Healthy profit margins sent China's crude steel output to a new high in 2017 after dropping closer to the 800-million-tonne mark in the two preceding years. The world's second-largest economy produced a total of 831.73 million tonnes of crude steel last year, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Thursday January 18. This is up 5.7% from a year earlier, the burea...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Tiffany & Co.  reported that its worldwide net sales increased 8% to $1.05 billion in the two month holiday period ended December 31, 2017  due to growth across regions and product categories, and comparable store sales rose 5%.   On a constant-exchange-rate basis that excludes the effect of translating foreign-currency-denominated sales into U.S....Read More

TSX VENTURE: AVGwww.avidiangold.com Mr. Dino Titaro reports:TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Avidian Gold Corp. (TSXV:AVG) (the "Corporation" or "Avidian") is pleased to report the results from its 2017 drilling program at the 100% owned Golden Zone project, Alaska.  Highlight results include:2017 drill intersections in and within the immediate vicinity of the Breccia Pipe Deposit i...Read More

TSX: GQMwww.goldenqueen.com Mr. Thomas Clay reports:VANCOUVER, Jan. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - Golden Queen Mining Co. Ltd. (TSX:GQM | OTCQX:GQMNF) ("Golden Queen" or "the Company") today announces its operating results for December 2017, including total gold production of  2,939 ounces and revenue of US$4.1 m from its Soledad Mountain gold-silver mine (the "Mine") located south of Mojave, Califor...Read More

TSX VENTURE: ALTAwww.altamiragold.com Mr. Alan Carter reports:Vancouver, BC (FSCwire) - Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) (FSE: T6UP) (USA: EQTRF), ("Altamira" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it continues to extend the strike extent of high grade mineralized structures through its recent trenching program at the Baldo East target area at the Cajueiro project located in western Braz...Read More

TSX: ORwww.osiskogr.com Mr. Sean Roosen reports:MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwired - Jan. 18, 2018) - Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd (the "Company" or "Osisko") (TSX:OR) (NYSE:OR) is pleased to announce its preliminary 2017 gold equivalent ounces ("GEOs")1.Record Gold Equivalent Ounces Earned in 2017The Company's portfolio of royalties, streams and other interests delivered a record number of GEOs during t...Read More

TSX: TMRwww.tmacresources.com Mr. Jason Neal reports: Review of Final Environmental Impact Statement and Water Licence Applications for Madrid and Boston Initiated TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TMAC Resources Inc. ("TMAC" or the "Company") is pleased to report that another milestone has been met on the Company's path to production at Madrid and Boston. The Nunavut Impact Review Board ("NIRB") and the...Read More

TSX: OSKwww.osiskomining.com Mr. John Burzynski reports: Mineralization Continues to be Confirmed in Caribou Extension TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Jan. 18, 2018) - Osisko Mining Inc. (TSX:OSK) ("Osisko" or the "Corporation") is pleased to provide new results from the ongoing drill program at its 100% owned Windfall Lake gold project located in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Urban Township, Eeyo...Read More

TSX VENTURE: FCCwww.firstcobalt.com Mr. Trent Mell reports:TORONTO, Jan. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - First Cobalt Corp. (TSX-V: FCC, ASX: FCC, OTCQB: FTSSF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce it has commenced drilling at the Bellellen mine in the Cobalt Camp, Ontario. A total of 15 holes for 2,000 metres are planned at Bellellen to test the relationship between the disseminated style of cobalt miner...Read More

TSX: COGwww.condorgold.com Mr. Mark Child reports:LONDON, Jan. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - Condor Gold (AIM: CNR; OTCQX: CNFGF; TSX: COG) is pleased to announce that Mr Andrew Cheatle has been appointed, with immediate effect, as a Non Executive Director of Condor Gold.Mark Child, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Condor, commented:"I am delighted that Andrew Cheatle has joined the Board. Following the...Read More

TSX: AKGwww.asanko.com Mr. Peter Breese reports:VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Jan. 18, 2018) -Q4 and FY 2017 Highlights:FY 2017 gold production of 205,047 ounces and Q4 production of 51,550 ounces, in line with 2017 revised production guidance of 205 - 225,000 ouncesUS$62.6 million in gold revenue at an average realized price of US$1,264 per ounce for Q4Record quarterly milling perfo...Read More

TSX: OGCwww.oceanagold.com Mr. Michael Wilkes reports:(All financial figures in US Dollars unless otherwise stated)MELBOURNE, Jan. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - OceanaGold Corporation (TSX/ASX: OGC) (the "Company") is pleased to release its full year and fourth quarter 2017 production report for the year ended 31 December 2017, in accordance with the Australian Securities Exchange ("ASX") L...Read More

TSX: HBMwww.hudbayminerals.com Mr. Alan Hair reports:TORONTO, Jan. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hudbay Minerals Inc. ("Hudbay" or the "company") (TSX:HBM) (NYSE:HBM) today released its production and operating cost guidance along with its capital and exploration expenditure forecasts for 2018 and announced the entering into of new three-year collective bargaining agreements in Peru and Manitoba. A...Read More

To borrow from Lewis Carroll: To have confidence in today's central bank-created bubble markets, we have to believe in six impossible things.Continue...Read More

‘Digital Gold’ Bitcoin Flight To Safe Haven Physical Gold– Latest bitcoin, crypto crash causes gold coin and bar demand to surge– Bitcoin down 40% from high, Ripple down 50% and Ethereum down 30%– Ripple and ‘Digital gold’ Bitcoin fall past key psychological price levels– $300bn wiped from cryptocurrency fortunes in just 36 hours– New rese...Read More

Tradingposition (short-term; our opinion): No positions are justifiedfrom the risk/reward perspective.OnTuesday, crude oil hit a fresh 2018 high of $64.89, but then reversed anddeclined very quickly, erasing most of Friday increase. What encouraged oilbears to act and how did this decline affect the short-term picture?Yesterday,the Energy Information Administration said that U.S. oil output is exp...Read More

Metals are setting up for that “Rip Your Face Off Rally”.  The following charts for Gold and Silver show a very interesting setup that is unfolding as the US markets continue to strengthen – that being that the Metals are showing strength in price and we can only assume this is related to some level of FEAR in the markets or expectations that the “Equities and Bitcoin...Read More

Here’sWhat Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Idaho, Etc. Are Doing...In 2017, Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina, and even Minnesota made progress on the sound money front. In 2018, other states could do so as well.36 states have already removed sales taxes from precious metals transactions, and bills being pushed this year by sound money advocates in Alabama and...Read More

The trendiest electric vehicle metal right now is cobalt.Since October, Google Trends shows interest in cobalt for batteries more than tripling. Have a look:Meanwhile the price of cobalt has been soaring. Over the past 12 months, cobalt prices are up over 110%. In the past two years, they have ballooned some 275%.Cobalt is the hottest EV material right now. But there's one major factor that could...Read More

The comments above & below is an edited and abridged synopsis of an article by Jim RickardsBetween 2008 and 2017 the combined balance sheets of the central banks of the US, Japan and the Eurozone expanded by $8.3 trillion, while nominal GDP in those same economies expanded $2.1 trillion. Stocks, bonds, emerging-market debt and real estate have all been pumped up by money printing.This year is when...Read More