In a report forwarded to CEO.CA by resource tycoon Robert Friedland, the Colorado based research firm, IHS Inc. says that zinc demand will gain new strength from its use as a micronutrient in agriculture which will help increase crop yields.  According to the report, the global population is on trend to exceed 9 billion by… Continue Reading

Today, the world’s largest diversified miner, BHP Billiton, announced it is looking to divest all or part of its Western Australian Nickel West business which includes the Mt Keith, Cliffs and Leinster mines and associated concentrators, the Kalgoorlie smelter, Kambalda concentrator and the Kwinana refinery.  The announcement comes as nickel prices continue to soar (although have… Continue Reading

After 3 years of negotiations and court rooms, Bear Creek Mining (BCM:TSXV) has received a very positive court ruling which states that their rights were violated when the Peruvian government passed a supreme decree in 2011 that essentially took all legal rights away from Bear Creek with regards to their Santa Ana project.  The Lima First… Continue Reading

In a surprising announcement, the young and recently announced President of McEwen Mining (MUX:TSX), Ian Ball, announced his retirement from the company effective July 15, 2014.  Not much clarity on the decision was given in the release.  Could this mean tension between Rob McEwen and his protégé or is this the beginning of a new… Continue Reading

Pan American Silver (PAA:TSX) Chairman and resource mogul, Ross Beaty was awarded the Vale Medal for Meritorious Contributions to Mining at the annual gala awards dinner of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) in Vancouver.  The Vale Medal is awarded annually as a mark of distinction and recognition to a person who… Continue Reading

Continental Gold’s Buriticá project is Colombia’s most valuable gold deposit currently advancing towards production. The company is aiming to have over 10 million ounces of gold by 2015 and be in production by 2017, according to their latest corporate presentation. The Buriticá project covers a large area home to many illegal small scale miners, four… Continue Reading

One of the best performing junior mining stocks of 2014 has been NioCorp Developments Ltd., a Vancouver, Canada based company which owns the Elk Creek niobium deposit in Nebraska (niobium is a steel strengthening and lightening alloy). Shares in NioCorp are trading at $0.63 Monday after reaching $0.78 a few days ago. They could be… Continue Reading

While the Nasdaq-100 is flirting with a classic head & shoulders topping pattern, the S&P 500 has formed a diamond pattern over the last three months: Click to enlarge This pattern is likely to reach some resolution next week; a break below the 50-day simple moving average (~186.50) would indicate a measured move target of… Continue Reading

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During the final phase of the last gold rally between 2008 and 2011 we heard a lot about any number of bullish catalysts for gold: The long term decline of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency Insatiable Asian demand for physical gold The specter of hyperinflation resulting from the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing… Continue Reading

Never before have there been so many warning signs of an impending market decline while the senior equity indices remained within 2% of all-time highs. We are quickly approaching a make or break moment for this market and we continue to be in awe of the resilience displayed by the senior indices. To the charts…. Click… Continue Reading

Vancouver Sun copy editor James Kwantes has been moonlighting as an excellent mining writer, operating the World of Mining blog in his spare time since 2011, and we often re-run his WOM stories here. The Sun seems to have taken notice of James’s mining editorial talents, publishing his second BC mining story yesterday, an interview… Continue Reading

Mining mogul Ross Beaty has decided not to move forward with a $5 million exploration joint venture with Magellan Minerals and a private company to explore areas of Brazil’s Pocone gold belt. Tuesday evening Magellan announced that the March 3, 2014 agreement with Mr. Beaty, a successful and closely followed natural resource investor, had been terminated. Commenting… Continue Reading

2014 can be emphatically dubbed the year of energy, not since 2007 have we witnessed such extreme outperformance by energy stocks: Click to enlarge The outperformance really picked up at the beginning of April and grew even wider today with the XLE +.15% vs. -1.42% for the XLF and -1.63% for IWM. The current situation… Continue Reading

The junior miner with the best bench strength already has a new head of operations. Robert Friedland’s Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. has appointed senior South African mining executive Mark Farren, 48, as the company’s executive vice-president of operations. Mr. Farren takes charge of the engineering and development activities now underway at Ivanhoe’s three principal projects in… Continue Reading