…was the government approval in Chile for mine expansions which would “open up the floodgates” to new lithium product. The next lithium bear to wake up was commodities researcher Wood…
…just completed a 1,000-square-kilometer Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) survey within its 1,757-square-kilometer property, located 100 kilometers from Medellin. Otherwise known as thermal imaging, LWIR is a brand-new mineral exploration technique…
…act that would have allowed a new company to restart the mine were recently rejected in a vote, MINING.com reported. In Indonesia, control of Grasberg, the world’s second largest copper…
…act that would have allowed a new company to restart the mine were recently rejected in a vote, MINING.com reported. In Indonesia, control of Grasberg, the world’s second largest copper…
…up of oil and gas company reps operating around Sundre, and community members concerned about gas development and accidents. Nineteen years later, SPOG consisted of the local Chamber of Commerce,…
…at $1,311.66 in New York – a 7-month high. Strength in the precious metal was buoyed by rising US-China tensions after the Justice Department charged Chinese tech company Huawei and…
…company’s expansion plans. Another government agency rejected a permit Albemarle needed to extend operations beyond 2021, saying the company failed to explain how new technology would increase the mine’s production…
…of material. The minus-two-millimetre tailings are set aside to later recover any free gold; a sampling protocol is currently being determined. The free gold is separated from the minus-two-millimetre concentrate….
…not much has changed. Just over a year ago Health Canada reported there were 130 advisories in effect in 85 communities compared to 139 in 94 communities the year earlier….
…staggering 16 million ha, larger than England and Wales. The PER report mentioning the rare species is open for comment until March 11. Covenant Lithium says it will take steps…
…tightness. Australia’s Dugald River mine, opened in 2017, and Vedanta Zinc’s Gamberg mine in South Africa, commissioned last July – can between them only produce a combined 420,000 tonnes of…
…can possibly supply. A little bit of research reveals some disturbing statistics. According to the UN’s International Resource Panel (IRP) report, the extraction of material resources – biomass, fossil fuels…
…rising gold price, and you get exposure to news that could potentially send its shares flying. Richard (Rick) Mills aheadoftheherd.com Ahead of the Herd is on Twitter Ahead of the…
…of the potential deposits. At that point Max would be open to bringing in a partner, likely a mid-tier or major gold company, and/or an equity financing for what would…
…2019. This represents around a quarter of spot. On top of this, several new uranium funds and holding companies have emerged in the last year and a half. Seeing an…
…available in North America or coming soon. Almost every auto manufacturer has come out with or is planning to launch an electric vehicle model. Even Ford is working on an…
…in The coming copper crunch, by 2035, without major new mines up and running to replace the ore that is being depleted from existing copper mines, we are looking at…
…new cold war This might surprise some people who have been reading Facebook news instead of real news, but not Ahead of the Herd. We noticed this trend of increasing…
…to lessen the pain of US and European sanctions against the company. In fact Russia has become Venezuela’s new banker, states New York Times, replacing China, which has given up…
…“golden one” would unfold. The selected new leader of the community, commonly the nephew of the previous chief, would go through a long initiation process culminating in the final act…
…power. Bottom line? New Brunswick gets it, BC doesn’t. New Brunswick’s Stable Salt Reactor The strategy to build an SSR “Wasteburner” reactor comes via New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation, a…
…on bottom up searches – finding the companies involved in my chosen sectors. I pick the company I want to invest my money in based on the quality of its…
…option agreement with Spectrum Mining in November 2018 for its Wicheeda Lake claims. In the New Year DEFN began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. The company is also into…
…the idea that higher global copper production will come to pass. Here’s a summary of the news: On January 6 a new copper supply and demand outlook by Fitch Solutions…
…vehicle began to penetrate the internal combustion engine (ICE) car market, however, lithium has become THE commodity to secure. Reuters reports that Ganfeng Lithium – China’s top lithium producer –…
…Corporate Communications Telephone: 604-639-3851 Toll Free: 800-567-8181 Facsimile: 604-687-3119 Email: info@cypressdevelopmentcorp.com NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE…
…Falls in Labrador – compared to combined cycle natural gas turbines (CCNGT). Analyzing the levelized costs of the $10.7 billion Site C dam and the $8.7 billion Keeysak project in…
…for the “red metal” needed for construction (copper wiring), communications and transportation, is now being wired in, pun intended, to the electrification trend. Copper is an essential component of EVs….
…price. These are the two main takeaways from the merger of Goldcorp and Newmont Mining which creates the largest gold company in the world – knocking “New Barrick” (the merged…
…and Mazda have committed $1.6 billion to construct a new auto plant in Huntsville, Alabama. The plant will produce regular ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles – Mazda will make its…
…The conditions are now ripe for another supercycle in commodities.” Dave Forest, also of Casey Research, writes that a coming “Business Inversion” will be great for commodities. What does this…
…compared to 5% in Europe and 10% in Japan. The technology continues to be employed at new sites. Planned installations include 14 lakes earmarked in Tasmania, nine projects in Australia,…
…1990s, no new mines were developed. But it wasn’t long before new fractures appeared. Then-Premier Glen Clark called Greenpeace members “enemies of British Columbia” and “eco-terrorists” for their efforts, along…
…Codelco’s $39 billion, 10-year plan to boost productivity at its mines. This includes going underground at its open-pit open pit Chuquicamata mine, which is expected to add another 50 years…
2019.01.10 Most North Americans equate electric vehicles with Tesla, whose “Gigafactory” in Nevada opened in July, 2016. But now there’s a new kid on the block, and it hopes to…
2019.01.10 Most North Americans equate electric vehicles with Tesla, whose “Gigafactory” in Nevada opened in July, 2016. But now there’s a new kid on the block, and it hopes to…
…being a safe haven seems to be totally false. Richard (Rick) Mills aheadoftheherd.com Ahead of the Herd is on Twitter Ahead of the Herd is now on FaceBook Ahead of…
…because we are being held captive by the Chinese for these materials.” BravoSolution’s Paul Martyn What is news, is the effect that limiting Chinese production will have on rare earth…
…because we are being held captive by the Chinese for these materials.” BravoSolution’s Paul Martyn What is news, is the effect that limiting Chinese production will have on rare earth…
…one of the best companies to have amassed a large, prospective land position is Skyharbour Resources (TSXV:SYH). The Vancouver-based company has just completed its fall drill program focusing on the…
2018.12.30 A new copper and battery metals play in Saskatchewan is out of the gate with an oversubscribed private placement of $1.7 million. Rockridge Resources (TSX-V:ROCK) – a new company…
2018.12.30 A new copper and battery metals play in Saskatchewan is out of the gate with an oversubscribed private placement of $1.7 million. Rockridge Resources (TSX-V:ROCK) – a new company…
…the arrest? US prosecutors say Meng fraudulently deceived HSBC about the level of control Huawei had over a company named Skycom, so that Skycom could do business with Iranian telecoms….
…targets are the rich: wealthy, powerful people and companies within Bolivia, and foreign companies that want to come in and strike deals. But foreign companies have targets on their backs…
…really moved the spot price, says Trimble, are several new uranium funds and holding companies that have emerged over the past 10 months. Seeing an imbalance in the market, their…
…it for four years; a copy was passed to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), which went public with it. The BCGEU said the case is an example where…
…bioprinting: A laser is used to deposit the biomaterials into a receptor via a tape covered with biological material. The laser irradiates the tape, causing the biological material to evaporate…
…that if the rest of the world followed their example, the planet’s temperature would rise to 5.1 degrees C by the year 2100. Most of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come…
…have just pushed forward China’s long-term plan to create “global champions” in robotics and other fields, notes CTV News. Where Chinese companies once struggled to win orders in a competitive…
…are taken into account, the cost per unit is very low compared to the selling price. Companies pay next to nothing for the water they draw from underground aquifers, if…
…signed. The treaty aims to resolve disputes that may arise over waters that straddle the US-Canadian border. It establishes the free use of boundary waters for commerce and navigation, and…
…that could support a lithium carbonate resource to compete with or possibly complement its neighbor, Albemarle’s Silver Peak Mine, whose brine grades are declining. Silver Peak is the only operating…
2018.11.25 We probably have more rare earth deposits in Canada, or controlled by Canadian-listed juniors, than anywhere in the world. But Spectrum Mining Corporation, a private company, controlled one of…
…km from Codelco’s Chuquicamata mine, the world’s largest open-pit copper mine. SeekingAlpha.com Surge Copper With a supply deficit coming, majors and mid tiers hunting for new deposits will be looking…
…got even more interesting. https://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item.aspx?bid=Z-C%3aTGC-2680089&symbol=TGC®ion=C You can see they are working just north, and on strike with Chico. https://www.abenresources.com/projects/gold-projects/chico-gold-project-sk/ My readers were given an opportunity to get into ABN at…
…forever, contributing to the greenhouse effect of global warming. “Today’s announcement is a new form of climate denial: The idea that we can build new fossil fuel projects that will…
…away at the edges of it. Companies like Tesla, GM and Chevy have come out with electric vehicles despite the North American public’s continued reliance on the internal combustion engine….
…agreements on its secondary properties, thus allowing other companies to come in and incur exploration expenditures in return for earning stakes on those properties. The prospect generator component is key…
…deal of power, with massive compression units running 24/7. Where does that power come from? In most cases, the same fracked natural gas is used to run the compression units,…
…injected gold fever back into the area, and combined with a new geological theory and the above factors, breathed new life into the possibility of discoverers hitting the next Valley…
2018.11.06 The drill program at Aben Resources’ (TSX.V:ABN) Forrest Kerr property is looking promising. After only two weeks of drilling, the Vancouver-based company put out a news release on Monday…
…capacity through 2020. The race to lock up lithium in Chile is actually good news for Cypress, because having a mine in the United States frees up the company to…
…very limited commercial production since the 1990s (General Motors’ EV1 – for a great history watch Who Killed the Electric Car?), the real momentum in the switch from cars equipped…
…is news. Big Oil and US politicians whose constituencies are beholden to oil and gas jobs/ tax revenue also point to the fact that this “energy renaissance” has come with…
…companies are expected to receive government support. The European Union said recently that it will allow state aid for electric vehicle battery research and offer billions as incentives for companies…
…possibility of slowed flows or bans on strategic materials, due to politics or trade disputes – a perfect example is Saudi Arabia’s threat to slow or stop oil production if…
…gain or more when things go right. Junior mining has so many small-cap companies chasing discoveries that investors need to be really smart about which companies they choose to buy…
…holes have been completed in this new zone. It’s important to note that this target was identified from soil geochemical anomalies, discussed in greater detail below. The three collared holes…
…The first of three new holes was completed to a depth of 27m, where oxidized and reduced claystones were encountered throughout. Two more holes are expected to be completed in…
…the EU today.” The Super-Cycle Report, Standard Chartered Research 2010 This shift is already underway. According to BHP, the largest mining company on the planet, the impact on commodity demand…
…exceeded domestic investment needs, and were therefore categorized as “surplus petrodollars.” A major share of these oil dollars came to London and New York banks where the new process of…
…to have in common is the belief that a rush of new lithium supply will soon hit the market, but what the analysts don’t realize, or maybe for their own…
…up, and that large copper companies best look to exploration companies to obtain new supply. A deficit in the copper market is predicted in two short years, by 2020. That…
…without battery materials, their production lines grind to a halt. On lithium-ion battery storage, a new report from GTM Research states that global Li battery deployments will grow by 55%…
…new gasoline.” For all of these reasons, I’ve got LITH on my radar screen. Richard (Rick) Mills aheadoftheherd.com Just read, or participate in if you wish, our free Investors forums….
…results using computer data and are losing the art of geoscience to find deposits. With capital costs for new copper projects high, mining companies are teaming up to bring them…
…Clayton Valley of Nevada, right next to Albemarle’s Silver Peak Mine – the only producing lithium mine in the United States. This gives Cypress a compelling advantage over its competitors,…
…comfortably run a stand-alone operation Ie. a mine that could function without any involvement from neighboring Huckleberry Mine. A new five year-exploration permit has been received and allows 150 new…
…US Commerce Department reporting that GDP increased at an annual 4.2%. Good economic news and a rising dollar are generally bad news for gold, which serves as a flight to…
…into the new LNG facility, expected to be completed by 2024. “There is going to be $23-billion in revenue coming to the province that we can put toward the things…
…company’s Ootsa property is an advanced stage copper-gold exploration project containing the East Seel, West Seel and Ox porphyry deposits. It is located adjacent to the Huckleberry open-pit copper mine…
…possibility of slowed flows or bans on strategic materials, due to politics or trade disputes – a perfect example is Saudi Arabia’s threat to slow or stop oil production if…
…they be looking? How about northwestern British Columbia. With excellent geology, a storied mining history, and a perfect storm of factors (new deposits, new infrastructure, declining snow cover, new geological…
…beyond what was discovered last year. The company has done that, but it has also opened up fresh new ground, the South Boundary Zone (SBZ). The new assays, the type…
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…soldiers, sailors and airmen to see analog and digital data. Examples are lasers that help line-of-sight communication links in satellite and ground-based systems; old and new computer monitors; and avionics…
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…minutes drive from Smithers, BC. SURG released new assays Wednesday from Holes S-18 212 and 214, which are the first results from a high-grade breccia zone the company discovered earlier…
…commercial rare earth recovery, thorium production is not economic at present.” Use in nuclear energy The story gets really interesting when thorium was found to be radioactive – just two…
…The search for “black gold” was fuelled by the rising popularity of the automobile which demanded gasoline for its internal combustion engine. The first commercial oil well was drilled in…
…with the uniqueness of the new deposit model, and of course the fact we have no competition in the basin, we believe we’ve really got a hold of something here….
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…rare earth concentrate has always been several fold for junior resource companies – complicated mineralogy means complicated expensive metallurgy, a lack of infrastructure and a lack of technical knowledge of…
…rare earth concentrate has always been several fold for junior resource companies – complicated mineralogy means complicated expensive metallurgy, a lack of infrastructure and a lack of technical knowledge of…
…in Ireland. Here are a few examples of Chinese, Korean and Japanese lithium off-take deals: https://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/documents/our-thinking/research-reports/Asia-Pacific-Markets-Monthly-Aug-2017.pdf https://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/our-thinking/ideas/chinese-buyers-snapping-up-future-lithium-supply-through-off-take-deals http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/lithium-one-korea-resources-corporation-announce-development-joint-venture-sal-de-vida-tsx-venture-li-1271173.htm https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/General-Mining-Mitsubishi-offtake-deal http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/174615/kodal-minerals-soars-on-lithium-offtake-talk-and-chinese-investment-174615.html https://www.ft.com/content/724fb6c4-1ba0-11e7-bcac-6d03d067f81f https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/mining/asia-expanding-foothold-in-latam-lithium-sector Lithium production in 2016 was 89% concentrated in…
…company stakes, or outright mine acquisitions. The reason, of course, is to feed China’s insatiable appetite for commodities. As an example, the Chinese are both the largest producers and consumers…
…limited by servers (cloud computing). The Industrial Internet of Things incorporates machine learning and big data to consistently capture and communicate information – providing companies with the ability for remote…
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…examples of Chinese, Korean and Japanese lithium off-take deals: https://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/documents/our-thinking/research-reports/Asia-Pacific-Markets-Monthly-Aug-2017.pdf https://marketintelligence.spglobal.com/our-thinking/ideas/chinese-buyers-snapping-up-future-lithium-supply-through-off-take-deals http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/lithium-one-korea-resources-corporation-announce-development-joint-venture-sal-de-vida-tsx-venture-li-1271173.htm https://www.businessnews.com.au/article/General-Mining-Mitsubishi-offtake-deal http://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/174615/kodal-minerals-soars-on-lithium-offtake-talk-and-chinese-investment-174615.html https://www.ft.com/content/724fb6c4-1ba0-11e7-bcac-6d03d067f81f https://www.bnamericas.com/en/news/mining/asia-expanding-foothold-in-latam-lithium-sector Lithium production in 2016 was 89% concentrated in three countries: Australia 40%, Chile 33%…
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