New Caledonia's SLN nickel company says this month's strike has created a serious situation for the already troubled business.Read full newsRead More

As the dust settles in Vancouver following twin investor conferences last weekend, junior mining stocks investors are left to ponder when the market turnaround everyone is predicting will actually happen.   That was one of the key questions to emerge from both the Vancouver Resource Investors Conference (VRIC) at Canada Place and the Vancouver edition of the Metals Investors Forum which too...Read More

Fears of bargain-basement battery grade nickel flooding the market starting in 2019 are unsubstantiated, according to Wood Mackenzie analysts. In September last year a Chinese consortium announced a new $700 million High-Pressure-Acid-Leaching (HPAL) plant in Indonesia, which would produce 50,000 tonnes a year of battery-grade nickel chemicals starting in 2019. Two similar projects in Indonesia...Read More

The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new precious metal mines reach commercial production less than 15 months apart over the last two calendar years.In July 2017, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) launched commercial production at its high-g...Read More

Balmoral Resources (TSX: BAR; US-OTC: BALMF) has discovered several new nickel sulphide zones in the central part of its Grasset Ultramafic complex in Quebec after drilling the area during its fall 2018 exploration program. The new discoveries sit 7 km northwest of the company's Grasset polymetallic deposit.Highlights from the area include 1.05% nickel, 0.31% copper, 0.05% cobalt, 0.2 grams platin...Read More

Vancouver's Teck Resources has partnered with the World Food Program (WFP) to fund a new US$3-million pilot program aimed at improving health and economic opportunities for small scale farmers in China's Gansu Province.Teck started its Zinc and Health program in 2011.The program is aimed at reducing zinc deficiency and improve the quality of the local potato crop by providing zinc-enriched fertil...Read More

Newmont Mining plans to acquire smaller rival Goldcorp for $10 billion in the biggest-ever acquisition in the gold sector.Read full newsRead More

  A week in which the trend for M&A in the gold sector accelerated ended with predictions that the copper sector could be next, as analysts issued a bullish outlook for the mineral.   The report from Fitch Solutions on mining the Americas pointed to promising spot levels on nickel, lead, copper, tin and gold, auguring well for 2019. The bullish outlook for copper, in particul...Read More

The new year continues to be a fascinating one in the global mining industry, with the unveiling on Jan. 14 of Newmont Mining's blockbuster US$10-billion deal to acquire Goldcorp, and regain top spot from Barrick Gold among global gold miners.Barrick had entered 2019 on a roll, having completed its own US$5.4-billion acquisition of Randgold Resources in a kind of reverse takeover at the management...Read More

Auryn Resources (TSX: AUG; NYSE-AM: AUG) has found a zone of oxide copper mineralization at the Milpoc prospect, 12 km south of the Sombrero Main target on its Sombrero North copper property in Peru. Rock samples it collected at the 1.2 km by 500 metre Milpoc graded as high as 8.75% copper and 101 grams silver per tonne. Auryn optioned the 1,200 sq. km Sombrero copper-gold project in July 2016 fro...Read More

"LME #nickel enjoying strong trading session, +2% for the day, +6% for the week. Inventory drawdown continues apace, with global reported stocks now at lowest level since Q3 2013. Graphic courtesy Scotiabank"Read full newsRead More

Newmont Mining Corp, the world's No. 2 gold producer, is cutting 120 jobs a...Read full newsRead More

  The gold sector has been the talk of the town this week, as a series of bullish New Year’s predictions for the yellow metal coincided with heavyweight players predicting M&A activity among miners.   With 2018 ending in a rout for markets and the gold price already gathering pace, talk of an up-cycle is hardly surprising. But, most commentators pointed to gold equities havi...Read More

Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS) announced Tuesday that shareholders overwhelmingly (98%) approved the resolution to increase the maximum number of authorized shares of Pan American and the resolution to issue up to 72,533,152 Pan American shares in connection with the proposed plan of arrangement that Pan American will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Tahoe Resources.Tahoe share...Read More

Ascot Resources and IDM Mining say the merger will create aRead full newsRead More

This is the 3rd video in a series of 4 that concludes in a trend forecast for the Silver price 2019. Silver Price Trend Forecast 2018 ReviewGold - Silver RatioSilver Price Trend Analysis 2019Silver Price Trend Forecast Conclusion for 2019 The whole of this analysis was first been made available to Patrons who support my work.So for immediate First Access to ALL of my analysis and trend forecasts (...Read More

"Bloomberg out with a bullish take on 2019 metals price performance. "Our analysis of demand : supply for copper, ali, #nickel & zinc show the ratio improving above par & for the longest period in the database since 1995." https://t.co/Ydx235Vca0"Read full newsRead More

Dozens of massacres and a sprawling organized crime structure are behind a recent alliance between the governments of Venezuela and Turkey to extract, refine and market the "blood gold" that leaves the Amazon and supplies cross-border illegal economies. During a recent visit to Venezuela, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ratified the leading role of Turkey in ...Read full newsRead More

Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE; KL) has drilled high grade and visible gold mineralization on the down plunge extensions of the Swan zone at its Fosterville gold mine in Victoria, Australia.The company says results from 47 new drill holes, totaling more than 17,000 metres of underground drilling outside the current measured and indicated Swan resource, are confirming its geological model. It h...Read More

"New British Columbia Geological Survey report highlighting the crucial role played by the BC mining industry in a low-carbon economy. FPX's Decar #nickel project highlighted in this handy map of BC mines/projects https://t.co/DRT1H0MJgB"Read full newsRead More