PDAC Media coverage

The PDAC 2025 has been organized from 2 to 5 March in Toronto. The present posting gives a glance of the media coverage of that conference.

VRIC media continues coverage on Gold Mining

In the aftermath of the VRIC 2025 (Vancouver Resource Investment Conference), VRIC media continues coverage on Gold Mining in a series of both presentations and interviews.

Vancouver Resource Investment Conference: VRIC 2025

VRIC 2025 hosted at the Vancouver convention center on Jan 19 & 20 is the first resource conference of the year. This blogpost provides the highlights of the videostreams available.

Miners once more started lagging before gold peaked

Miners once more started lagging before gold peaked? You read it right ! They did. With the benefit of quantitative analysis: the linear correlation between the HUI miners index and the gold price this bold statement is corroborated.

Mixed blessings of political turmoil and warfare

The highest NYMEX closing price of Gold has been $2,786.9 on Oct 30. Escalations of the war in the Ukraine and of Israel on two fronts against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza have been and still are the main drivers of rising gold prices.

Silvercrest to be acquired by Coeur Mining

SilverCrest Metals and Coeur Mining have reached a deal for Coeur Mining to acquire Silver Crest in an all shares deal.

The acquisition hunger of First Majestic Silver

Silver mining investors won't have missed the news that First Majestic Silver will acquire Gatos Silver as soon as shareholders will have given their consent. With a 'friendly takeover': agreed by the boards of both miners, there is little doubt that the acquisition will run its course.

Currency crisis coming

Currency Crisis Coming: Peter Schiff predicts the dollar's demise if Kamala Harris wins the presidential election and four years of loose fiscal policy make the debt balloon.

Osisko Mining will be acquired by Gold Fields: beyond press reports

Who follows the gold mining sector cannot have missed following headline: GOLD FIELDS TO ACQUIRE OSISKO MINING FOR C$2.16 BILLION.

How and why did it come to this? Had Osisko not been taken over before?

Are the summer doldrums a thing of the past?

Gold first broke above $2400/Oz on 17 May 2024. Staying above that threshold was not evident. It lasted for three trading days.