Mining – Precious Metals

Gold, Real Estate and VIX are additions in this month’s Seasonality Report. Although market assessment has been turned upside down, there are still useful strategies to employ in composing a profitable portfolio in highly volatile markets like those that we have been experiencing. One such strategy is using seasonality trends as a guideline. [more]

Uncertainties caused by Covid-19 created a stronger demand for precious metals, increasing quarterly and annual revenue results but positive profits for the last quarter & fiscal year were elusive. [more]

With the price of gold up over 16% year-to-date and almost 23% year-over-year, the time seems to be right for Chinese mining companies to buy up Canadian gold companies. Three recent transactions tag the value of the assets in the US$44 to US$102 per Reserve gold ounce. [more]

Top deals include Equinox Gold receiving $145M from the exercise of warrants, Fortuna Silver Mines closing a US$69M bought deal financing, and Bluestone Resources closing a C$92M bought deal equity financing. [more]

Lorimer Wilson from MunKNEE.com summarizes 18 different predictions for the price of silver and they range from $7-700 per ounce. [more]

SSR Mining and Alacer Gold merging; Adriatic Metals to acquire Tethyan Resource; and, Gold X & Gran Colombia trying to merge with Guyana Goldfields thwarting Silvercorp’s plan to merge with Guyana Goldfields [more]

GFG Resources (8.5m at 71.3 g/t Au), Roxgold (10.0m at 59.4 g/t Au), Monarch Gold (109.0m at 3.33 g/t Au), Kirkland Lake Gold (2.4m at 141.3 g/t) and G2 Goldfields (2.4m at 116.6 g/t Au) led the way. [more]

Wheaton Precious Metals announced a $300M ATM program, Silvercrest raised a combined $128M with participation from SSR Mining, Osisko Gold Royalties completed an $85 million investment from Investissement Québec,… [more]