Category: Series
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Securing the Future: The Urgency of Lithium Mining in America amid a Green Energy Revolution
In a world on the precipice of a green energy revolution, the once humble lithium has emerged as an unsung hero. This lightweight and energy-dense metal is the lifeblood of electric vehicle batteries and a panoply of renewable energy storage solutions – crucial for our transition towards a lower-carbon future. But as South American countries…
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Niocorp (NB.T) gets massive vote of confidence with Stellantis (STLA) offtake deal
Stellantis NV (STLA.NYSE), one of the world’s largest automotive conglomerates, and Niocorp Developments Ltd. (NB.T), an emerging rare earth metals explorer, have decided to team up and signed a preliminary term sheet’ with the goal bring to finalize a supply agreement which will support Stellantis’s ambition to reduce its carbon footprint to zero by 2038.…
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Stately’s long road to public finally finds an onramp with Gold Flora/TCPO (GRAM.NEO)
Good things happen in sunny Costa Mesa, California and, today, one of those good things happened for a certain group of cannabis investors. Longtime readers may recall Trent Kitsch, who founded Doja Cannabis (which would be consumed by Canopy Growth Corp for $400m), had bounced to his next venture not long after that deal closed…
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World stock markets tumble as bond yields rise
Global equity markets are selling off hard this morning as the probability of more rate hikes increase. The real action is in the bond markets as yields are rising. The US 2 year yield actually broke out into new recent highs taking out the March 2023 peak. The 10 year yield is also breaking out…
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Make or break for silver?
Silver (XAGUSD) remains consolidated after making a one leg down move with the price breaking below $24.50 and then retesting this breakdown zone. This move lower was not a surprise to our readers given my analysis on gold. Silver tends to follow gold rather than copper even though most consider silver a more industrial metal…
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Screw you, Standard Uranium (STND.V) is on the way back
Standard Uranium (STND.V) was on the ropes, I’m not gonna lie. They went all in on a prospect in the Athabasca Basin and gathered a strong crew and fought the cold and did the work and rolled the dice, but what happened on the end of all that is what often happens in the mining…
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The Lithium Market Post-Goodenough: An Assessment Amid the Emergence of Potential Shortages
The world of science and engineering is in a state of melancholy. John B. Goodenough, the acclaimed inventor of the lithium-ion battery and a stalwart of the global scientific community, passed away on Sunday at the age of 100. This Texas University professor, Nobel laureate, and celebrated public servant leaves behind a legacy that reshaped…
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Gold below $1900? Gold breaks critical technical support on hawkish Fed
Gold and other precious metals were rocked last week and have broken below critical technical levels as the likelihood of a Fed soft landing diminish and the likelihood of a recession increases. In the month of June, the Fed ‘paused’ raising interest rates, but Powell did mention the Fed is looking to raise rates two…
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Spotlight on the Uranium Market: Emerging Opportunities Amidst Price Spikes and Underperforming Stocks
So this is it, we’ve finally started to see what’s been brewing in the long-term uranium market for a while, finally reaching the spot market, as the price is breaking out and reached $57.65 USD/lb very recently, and it looks like it’s stabilizing around the $56-57 range. As previously mentioned here, the Swiss vehicle, Zuri-invest…