Via Energy and Gold.com: The yield on the 30-year Treasury Bond has rallied more than 35 basis points since late-August:   However, there is good reason to believe there isn’t much risk of more upside in bond yields regardless of what the Federal Reserve announces tomorrow: “Long [duration] bonds want the Fed to tighten. The… Continue Reading

Nevada lithium explorer Pure Energy (PE.v) grabbed the spotlight this morning with the announcement of a tentative lithium supply agreement with Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors. The deal establishes a commitment from Tesla for the purchase of an annual volume of product over a period of 5 years by Tesla or its authorized purchasers, based on… Continue Reading

Sabina Gold and Silver Corp. ($SBB.TO)  held a conference call Tuesday morning to review its “initial project” feasibility study on Back River, which was released the previous morning. In case you missed it, Sabina CEO Bruce McLeod outlined the plan for a smaller 3,000-tonne-per-day mill (compared to 6,000 tpd in the May feasibility study) and… Continue Reading

American investors interested in gold and mining stocks, especially small “junior” mining stocks, meet Steve Todoruk, Investment Executive with Sprott Global, from Carlsbad, California. Steve and I spent 36 hours together last week visiting Skeena Resources’ Spectrum property in Northern BC, and got to know each other over cheap wine and good hospitality at the Bear… Continue Reading

In a horrific market for junior mining companies, IDM Mining CEO Rob McLeod was feeling optimistic ahead of his trip to the annual Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek, Colorado. Accompanying him to Colorado was IDM chairman Mike McPhie. I caught up with McLeod for a coffee earlier today, before he left. On his agenda… Continue Reading

Continental Gold (CNL.TO) was expected to receive its final permit to build a large, high-grade gold mine at the Buriticá project in Colombia this summer. This hasn’t happened yet, so Continental announced this morning they’re going to pursue the final Environmental Impact Assessment from the National Government of Colombia as a Project of National Strategic… Continue Reading

Ivan Bebek’s path to junior mining success began in the late 1990s in a business class at Western University in London, Ontario. His professor encouraged the ambitious young student to take a securities course and become a stockbroker. Bebek began to learn more about capital markets, value creation and what it meant to be a… Continue Reading

Here’s a junior explorer trading at less than half its most recent reported cash balance, with a new high-grade gold discovery 8 kilometres from a mine in the making, more assay results from drilling pending, and an excellent management team. This summer, Independence Gold ($IGO.v) drilled about 1,750 metres at the Boulevard project, resulting in… Continue Reading

Ten years after the great California gold rush, prospectors raced to Colorado after the 1858 discovery of gold in creeks near the present-day Denver suburb of Englewood. The gold rush led to the founding of Colorado Territory in 1861; statehood followed in 1876. Gold industry participants are Colorado-bound once again for two of the top… Continue Reading

A first look at Sabina’s scaled-down Back River Feasibility Study Sabina Gold and Silver Corp. ($SBB.TO) used to be a $1-billion market cap gold exploration juggernaut rapidly adding ounces to the Back River gold project in Nunavut, Canada. That was early 2011. Today the company, which owns a very large and rich gold resource in… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: If we could only look at one chart it would have to be the following one: US Dollar Index (Weekly)   After peaking in March the US Dollar Index has spent the last 6 months consolidating between roughly 93 on the downside and 98 on the upside. A decisive resolution of… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Largely due to China’s one-child policy the world’s largest country and 2nd largest economy is facing the specter of a shrinking labor force beginning in two years and lasting for more than two decades:   This phenomenon along with many other factors has China facing a tremendous challenge in maintaining economic… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: An insightful graphic from Goldman Sachs Investment Research which highlights the recent evolution of the global crude oil supply-demand balance and where it’s projected to go over the next 15 months:   The market is currently oversupplied by nearly 2 million barrels per day, however, this oversupply is projected to turn… Continue Reading

Ok. I have a confession. Not quite like a confession. More like an adjustment. I’m only saying this because it’s Financial Fridays. But I’ve mislead a little. That’s all. I’ve written that people should not trade stocks. People should not daytrade. People should stay out of the markets. I believe this. But I also don’t… Continue Reading

Via Energy and Gold.com: Titanium Transportation (TTR.V) is a Canadian based trucking & logistics company that is one of the fastest-growing truckers in North America. TTR hauls freight, primarily from Canada to the US, and the company has actually been a net beneficiary of a weak Canadian dollar. With this being said, companies have to… Continue Reading