This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Monday was a disappointing 94-94-103 draw. The TSX Venture Exchange gained 17 points to 896 while polished diamond prices inched upward. Chuck Fipke's Metalex Ventures Ltd. (MTX) gained one-half...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterU.S. markets were closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. West Texas Intermediate crude for February delivery gained $1.01 to $64.81 in electronic trading on the New York Merc, while Brent for March gained 97 cents to $70.23 (all figure...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold was closed Monday, but the London fix was up $12.45 to $1,339.25. The TSX Venture Exchange gained 17.99 points to 896.19 while the TSX Gold Index added 3.16 points to 203.78. Goldcorp Inc. (G) led Canadian golds high...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange gained 17.99 points to 896.19 Monday. Wilson Jin's first capital pool shell, the halted Transcontinental Gold Corp. (TCG), plans to acquire a mining promotion called Marvel Dragon Holdings Ltd. for the shell's...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellRizal Resources Corp. has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of British Columbia by a $1,000-per-day consultant named Gary John Butchart. (All figures are in Australian dollars.) Mr. Butchart claims that he performed ser...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellNew York prosecutors have asked the judge to imprison Christopher Cervino, charged alongside Vancouver-linked fraudster Ed Durante, for nine to 11 years. They say that Mr. Cervino, 44, used his substantial knowledge of the securities industry to infli...Read More

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellNew York prosecutors have asked the judge to imprison Christopher Cervino, charged alongside Vancouver-linked fraudster Ed Durante, for nine to 11 years. They say that Mr. Cervino, 44, used his substantial knowledge of the securities industry to infli...Read More

We’re getting your prepared for next week’s AME Roundup 2018 and Vancouver Resource Investment Conference! Matt runs down where you can catch The Northern Miner (1:49) and what we’ll be up to at both shows.Meanwhile, we also dig into the World Gold Council’s recently-released “Outlook 2018 Global economic trends and their impact on gold” (8:35) and chat about so...Read More

Investing in high quality companies can bring you gains in any segment of the market cycle. But, when you're buying a high quality company at the bottom of a commodity cycle, the result can be truly spectacular.When I bought the best junior gold companies in 2014 and 2015, near the bottom of the last bear cycle, it turned out to be a fantastic contrarian decision, giving me incredible gains in 201...Read More

How are the top stock picks from the Vancouver Resource Conference 2017 doing?I was doing some DD as I prepare for VRIC 2018 and wanted to know how the top stock picks from 2017 actually played out.Let's see how these newsletter writers top stock picks did.Starting off with the conference host Marin Katusa.Marin mentioned a top stock pick of Blackbird Energy BBI.VTuesday Jan 17,2017 BBI closing p...Read More

Investing in high quality companies can bring you gains in any segment of the market cycle. But, when you're buying a high quality company at the bottom of a commodity cycle, the result can be truly spectacular.When I bought the best junior gold companies in 2014 and 2015, near the bottom of the last bear cycle, it turned out to be a fantastic contrarian decision, giving me incredible gains in 201...Read More

Spain's Nuclear Safety Council (Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear, CSN) and the Moroccan Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security Agency (AMSSNuR) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on increased collaboration.The signing of the MoU in Rabat (Image: CSN)The CSN said that although Spain and Morocco have had regular contact for more than the past ten years on matters related to nuclear re...Read More

The USA's two main uranium producers yesterday filed a petition with the US Department of Commerce (DOC) seeking an investigation into the effects of uranium imports on US national security. Energy Fuels Inc and Ur-Energy are calling for a limit to imports that would reserve 25% of the US nuclear market for domestic uranium production.White Mesa uranium mill (Image: US Nuclear Regulatory Commissio...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower for the second day in a row at the close on Wednesday January 17, while metals continue to retreat from earlier highs. Copper prices continue to fall, dropping a further $44 per tonne from Tuesday's close price, coming under pressure from profit-taking and concerns of Chinese demand."Copper pulls back to a 3.5-week low after strong...Read More

Red Kite is undergoing a restructuring process "to consolidate regulatory oversight" but day-to-day operations were not affected, with all funds and the physical copper business performing "well in line with expectations," it confirmed on Wednesday January 17. Metal Bulletin reported earlier this month that London-based RK Capital Management LLP had entered into a restructuring review that "m...Read More

Usually I'm loathe to stick out price targets on the markets, especially gold and silver, because of the undeniable market intervention of the Central Banks - market manipulation which is blatant to the point at which it is now denied only by card-carrying idiots.Gold and silver had a sharp run-up in the last two weeks of 2017. However, the abrupt move in gold was accompanied by a rapid rise in th...Read More

The primary aluminium market was in a deficit of 1.57 million tonnes for the first 11 months of last year, driven mainly by soaring demand, the World Bureau of Metal Statistics said on Wednesday January 17. This represents a substantial increase from the 770,000 tonne deficit recorded for the whole of 2016, according to the release. Global demand growth, at 2.6%, in January-November 2017 outpaced...Read More

South African manganese ore producers face delays of up to two weeks to ship material after derailments disrupted deliveries to the country's Saldana port. "Derailments caused severe delays; shipments have been pushed back by two weeks," one miner told Metal Bulletin. A second supplier source said he was unable to book material because shipping slots had not been confirmed. South African state tra...Read More

Blue Sky Uranium (BSK.V) has released the assay results from more infill drill holes which were completed at the Ivana uranium target, one of the main zones of the Amarillo Grande uranium-vanadium project in Argentina.The real eye-catchers were the assay results with 1 meter of 10,517 ppm U308, as well as 2 meters of 8,618 ppm and several other 1 meter intercepts with an average grade of in excess...Read More

Bell Copper (BCU.V) and its joint venture partner Rio Tinto (RIO) have initiated a second phase drill program at the Kabba copper project in Arizona. The JV partners are testing the theory of Bell Copper's CEO, Tim Marsh, there might be a large copper porphyry system beneath the surface.A first phase drill program was completed in September and all (five) holes intersected oxidized and leached cap...Read More