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Max Resource (TSX-V:MAX) (OTC:MXROF) (Frankfurt:M1D2) has reported successful iron ore and recovery results from dry magnetic test work at its Florália Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) Iron Ore Project. The project is located 67 kilometers east of …

Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: What are your sentiment indicators saying to you?   Bob Moriarty, Founder, 321gold: Well I’ll tell you something interesting, you’ve known me long enough. I’m a contrarian and …

Gold is up 25% year to date, and what a year it’s been so far. Source: Kitco   Donald Trump has boldly imposed a new era of US economic policy dominated by tariffs, trade wars, …

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Bob finds real value in 5 precious metal junior resource companies.   Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: Bob it looks like Israel and Turkey are going to butt heads in Syria, the …

As the old Chinese saying goes, “When the winds of change blow, some build walls while others build windmills.” The nation building walls is of course the United States under Trump’s radically protectionist tariff policy. …

Donald Trump and Joe Biden can at least agree on one thing: the importance of critical minerals.   Graphite One (TSX-V:GPH) (OTCQX:GPHOF) When Biden was president, he invoked the Defense Production Act to encourage domestic production …

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Max Resource Corp. (TSX-V:MAX) focused much of the last five years building one of the most intriguing grass roots Cu-Ag exploration plays in the world. The early work defined a previously unexploited copper silver red-bed sedimentary …

Rick Mills, Editor and Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: Please tell us about your Red Mountain flagship project.   Silver47 CEO Gary Thompson: Well it all starts with the rocks. The rocks are Devonian meta-sediments and meta-volcanics, …

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The idea sounds great. Hike tariffs on goods coming into the United States, which will protect local industries and workers from foreign competition. The extra revenue flowing into government coffers will be enough to offset income …

“You have to be good to be lucky” is a saying that applies to several aspects of life, from gambling and golf to stock picking and mineral exploration. Main Fault discovery On Nov. 14 Silver North Resources (TSX-V:SNAG) (OTCQB:TARSF) announced a new …

China’s President Xi Jinping took time out of scheduled visits to South America to christen a new port on the Peruvian coast. The $3.5 billion deep water port is in the small fishing town of Chancay, from which the …

The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the first time in over four years in September, sending gold past a record-setting $2,500 an ounce. The aggressive half-percentage-point reduction was in response to the Fed’s significant progress …

Graphite One (TSX-V:GPH) (OTCQX:GPHOF) has taken two giant leaps forward in its strategy of becoming the first vertically integrated producer of active anode materials (AAM) to serve the upstart US EV battery market. Earlier this month, …

This week Donald Trump said he would hit John Deere with a 200% tariff if the agricultural/ construction equipment manufacturer made good on plans to move production to Mexico. The Republican presidential nominee has frequently said …

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In 2017 Germany brought home nearly $31 billion of gold bars that had been stored in New York and Paris after World War II. The Financial Times gives a good account of how Germany amassed, lost and then …

In a typical healthy market, the yield curve (typically the spread between the US 10-year Treasury note and the 3-month or the 2-year note) shows lower returns on short-term investments and higher yields on long-term investments. This makes sense, …

Last Friday, United States Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said “the time has come” to begin lowering interest rates, a process that will likely begin at the Fed’s Sept. 17-18 meeting. Markets are widely anticipating …

The AM-13 discovery is a significant achievement by the Max team working with Freeport-McMoRan Exploration Corporation (Freeport). The 48.0m width at 1.8% copper at Cedro valley and the discovery of a 44.0m outcrop of similar …

The copper market continues to be challenged by supply issues, with two large mines in Chile hit by strikes. On Monday, Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) said it will gradually cut down activities at the Caserones copper …

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Graphite One (TSX-V:GPH) (OTCQX:GPHOF) has taken another step forward in its plan to become the first vertically integrated domestic graphite producer to serve the US electric vehicle battery market. On Thursday, July 25, G1 announced it has …

The weaker labor market and rising unemployment rate, which hit 4.1% in June, is fodder for the US Federal Reserve to slash interest rates, possibly once in September and a second time in December. In …

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Gold loves chaos and should be hitting new highs, especially with inflation coming down and with it, two rate cuts likely before year’s end. Gold generally does well in an environment of lower interest rates/ …

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Silver North Resources (TSX–V:SNAG) (OTCQB:TARSF) is working with partner Coeur Mining (NYSE:CDE) to develop the Tim property, located on the Yukon side of the Yukon-British Columbia border. The company this week announced that Coeur has started …

Graphite One’s (TSX–V:GPH) (OTCQX:GPHOF) CEO Anthony Huston recently traveled to Washington, DC to meet with President Joe Biden. The meeting was between the President and a select group of executives invited to the White House to discuss …

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In 2017, the Chilean government approved a $2.5 billion expansion of BHP’s Spence copper mine — the diversified miner’s second largest copper mine behind Escondida. In 2020, BHP became the top shareholder in SolGold (TSX:SOLG), an …

Metals skidded lower on Wednesday, in reaction to a more hawkish-than-expected US Federal Reserve decision. At its June meeting, the Federal Open Market Committee decided for the seventh straight time to hold interest rates unchanged, …

When a junior resource company’s project becomes too big or too expensive for it to handle, it’s better to bring in a partner. This is the case with Max Resource’s (TSX–V:MAX) (OTC:MXROF) (Fra:M1D2) Cesar copper-silver project in …

Anthony Huston, the CEO of Graphite One (TSX–V:GPH, OTCQX:GPHOF), was at the White House with other industry leaders when President Joe Biden imposed tariffs on Chinese imports including natural graphite. “I was honored to represent everyone …

When Israel bombed a refugee camp in Gaza on the premise that Hamas leaders were hiding there, US-made munitions were found among the wreckage. At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 …

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A junior resource company’s place in the mining food chain is to acquire projects, make discoveries and hopefully advance them to the point when a larger mining company takes it over. Discoveries won’t be made if …