Articles On Black Cat Syndicate (ASX:BC8)

Gold price to hit $US2,200 as stagflation fears take hold U.S. and allies officially prohibit all transactions with Russia involving gold, one of its financial lifelines. Will it work? Gold price rebounds over past week to $US1,960/oz Our...

War gossip/news remains the main driver of gold prices. The precious metal is having one of those volatile weeks where unless they timed their entry and exit perfectly, investors probably had a tough time whether long or short, says OANDA s...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) has announced a 67 per cent increase to the Jones Find deposit’s mineral resource estimate (MRE) The deposit, located within the Kal East Gold Project, now has an MRE of 1.3 million tonnes at 1.3 g/t gold for 55,0...

A good week for gold, which is up 1.04% to ~$US1,940/oz at time of writing. History shows us war doesn’t usually trigger an extended rally, but news flow – or lack thereof – coming out of Ukraine continues to be the biggest influence on the...

ASX to slip as Wall Street, Europe stocks fall Local shares are set to open lower this morning as US and European equities fell overnight. Eurozone headline CPI was at 5.8% year-on-year in February, the highest since the inception of the Eu...

Investors generally buy gold as a way of diversifying risk when s..t hits the proverbial fan. That’s why the precious metal appears to perform well in times of war or political instability. Conversely, stocks and bonds perform best in a sta...

The latest assay results from Black Cat Syndicate’s (BC8) Kal East Gold Project indicate the mineralisation at Jones Find is open in all directions Results from reverse circulation drilling completed at the end of last year returned a top...

Alas. After teasing gold bugs with a push through $1,840/oz over the past week, we are now back below ~$US1,800/oz. Gold stocks can’t seem to catch a break. What gives? I don’t get it. PM miners didn’t even get the windfall of the market w...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) increases the Majestic Mining Centre’s underground indicated resource by 43 per cent to one million tonnes at 4.5g/t gold for 143,000 ounces This takes the Kal East gold project’s resource, of which Majestic is pa...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) returns final infill and extensional diamond drilling results from the Majestic site at its Kal East gold project near Kalgoorlie in Western Australia The company says the results confirm the potential for an unde...

Global silver demand hit ~1.02 billion ounces in 2021, the first time it has breached 1 billion since 2015, according to the Silver Institute. Of that, industrial demand hit a new high of 524 million ounces. And of that, photovoltaic (solar...

Gold is holding steady above US$1,800/oz – currently trading at US$1816.60. Some players are confident the gold market will trend net positive next year as the market digests the reality of the past 24 months. But commodity analysts at J.P....

With gold spending most of the past week hovering around the US$1,800/oz (A$2,485/oz) mark, speculation has turned away from whether the precious metal can hold its gains to asking if it can test hit the US$1,850/oz mark. Gold is currently...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) completes regional exploration drilling at Fingals Fortune and Jones Find within the Kal East Gold Project in Western Australia A total of 25 holes were drilled at Fingals Fortune to target potential alternate st...

It’s been fairly choppy for precious metals this year, with economic recovery, rising nominal yields and the potential for rate hikes dampening investors’ appetite for gold. But on the flip side, new virus variants, fears of stagflation and...

US Fed chair Jerome Powell finally admitted that inflationary pressures weren’t going to be as sh­­ort-lived as perhaps expected. Earlier this week Powell surprised markets by suggesting it would be appropriate to drop the phrase “inflation...

Following a 7.6% surge from late September, the price of gold briefly hit five-month highs of ~$US1,872/oz on fears that current high inflation levels are more than ‘transitional’. Gold is an ‘inflation hedge’; an investment that ostensibly...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) updates the JORC 2012 mineral resource at Fingals Fortune within the Kal East Gold Project in Western Australia Upon acquisition in July 2020, Fingals Fortune had a resource of 1.2 million tonnes at 2.3 grams per...

Following a 7.6% surge from late September, the price of gold is now sitting ~$US1,860/oz for the first time since June. The Aussie price is looking even better, which is great news for our local producers: USD (dark) and AUD (light) gold p...

Toronto Venture exchange-listed Vox Royalty Corporation (TSX-V: VOX), which holds 37 royalty deals over Australian hard rock projects, says 2022 has the potential to be a record year for discovery drilling, engineering studies being release...

Two explorers hit the bourse today. Julimar nearology play Lycaon Resources (ASX:LYN) – which counts stock promoter Next Investors as a major shareholder — did very well out of the gate. It surged to a +200% gain from its IPO price of 20c p...

Black Cat Syndicate’s (BC8) latest results confirm high grades in and around its open pit at Fingals Fortune within the Kal East Gold Project in WA The company’s infill drilling showed mineralisation results, including 13 metres at 37.43 g...

Growing concerns about inflation could send gold prices soaring back above the US$2,000 ($2,746) an ounce mark it last reached back in 2020. Prices of the precious metal have already been rising steadily over the past fortnight, up some 3.7...

Wall Street falls as US inflation hits 30-year high US stocks continued their slide overnight, as the latest data showed that consumer prices rose at a pace not seen since the early 1990s. Prices in the US jumped 0.9% in October, and 6.2% f...

Infill drilling at the Providence and Canista prospects within the Mt Monger North project in Western Australia’s eastern goldfields region has uncovered significant high-grade mineralisation for newly-listed explorer Monger Gold (ASX: MMG)...

A global carbon taxation regime could slash gold miner profit margins by up to 45% unless an effort is made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Metals Focus says. Some countries, such as Canada and Sweden, already impose carbon taxes and th...

The gold price may be in a holding pattern at ~$US1,800/oz, but Aussie gold miners continue to throw piles of cash at acquisitions and new developments. Westgold (ASX:WGX) looks increasingly likely  to hoover up struggling producer Gascoyne...

E79 Gold Mines (ASX: E79) is the latest gold explorer to hit ASX boards this year, with a suite of tenements in two of the world’s richest gold belts in Western Australia – Laverton and Murchison. The company joined ASX ranks earlier this m...

Gold stocks are cheap, experts keep saying. Well-known analyst Jesse Felder has now demonstrated the “pathetic performance” of the US gold majors in handy chart form. The US listed BANG stocks (Felder’s play on FANG) include gold giants Bar...

Black Cat Syndicate (BC8) continues to receive strong results from Fingals Fortune at the Kal East Gold Project in Western Australia Extensional and infill reverse circulation drilling was completed to infill the southern portion of Fingal...

The +9Moz, ~350,000ozpa ‘Kyuchus’ field will be one of Russia’s biggest gold mining projects. Kyuchus was first discovered in 1963, but its isolation in the harsh Arctic climate of the Yakutia region has, so far, stymied numerous developmen...

Investors want to see gold miners wisely grow their production profile. Not like miners did during the last cycle, when some irrational, highly priced M&A action destroyed significant wealth. The big gold miners have a “lousy recent his...

There is a lot of uncertainty in the market due to tensions in China, rising interest rates and continuing economic recovery of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with investors fleeing for safe havens to park their cash in. Safe havens like gol...

The valuations of major gold miners remain weak despite falling debt and record dividends, according to the latest Metals Focus Gold Peer Group Analysis. Australia’s largest gold miners Newcrest (ASX:NCM), Northern Star (ASX:NST), and Evolu...

It’s been a frustrating few months for gold bulls. As an investment hedge, gold shines during periods of poor or volatile market sentiment. It loves drama like pandemics, civil wars, or the unprecedented failure of the Lehman Brothers in 20...

Wall Street rebounds as iron ore plunges again Australia has just signed a historic defence agreement with the US and UK called the AUKUS this morning, which will include helping Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines. To the markets...

Gold continues to consolidate around $US1,800/oz which, if we went back in time to July 2020, would be cause for celebration. Back then $US1,800/oz was an eight-year high and bullish sentiment was nudging even the shittiest exploration stoc...

Gold bugs would be breathing a sigh of relief this week as the price stabilises just shy of $US1,800/oz ($2,463/oz Aussie) thanks to Monday’s healthy 1.5% gain. While there are plenty of other red hot sectors attracting investor dollars rig...

The gold price itself had 12 months of consolidation. Now we are entering a new stage of a bull market which Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities believes “will take it much, much higher”. In the big scheme of things, the pullback we have...

On Sunday, a chaotic ‘flash crash’ saw the gold price plummet into the $US1600s per ounce before staging a mild recovery. Experts mostly point to a better than expected jobs report out of the US for heavy selling that saw the traditional he...

As an uncorrelated asset – value not tied to larger fluctuations in the traditional markets — gold has had “its lunch cut a bit” by crypto, PCF Capital’s Liam Twigger says. “There is an article in the last Economist asking, ‘what happens if...

Strong consumer buying and modest institutional investment helped create gold demand of 955.1 tonnes over Q2 – a 9% rise from Q1 2021, and in line with the equivalent period last year. While both consumers and retail investors were purchasi...

It is no longer just lip service — to create max value for shareholders, miners know they need good Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) credentials. Failing to maintain good relationships with stakeholders (like governments, local co...

Gold had its worst month since November 2016 in June, down 7% to $US1,779/oz. Mining and exploration stocks have followed suit. This bearish trend creates a buying opportunity, experts say. Boutique investment advisory firm head Frank Holme...

The past fortnight has been quieter for ASX directors trades but two trades from Malaysian directors of United Overseas Australia (ASX:UOS) made up $38 million of the total. United Overseas Australia is a Malaysian property group founded in...

The market giveth and the market taketh. Truer words have never been spoken with gold prices diving nearly US$100 in less than a day after the US Federal Reserve signalled higher inflation and that interest rates could rise twice by 2023. G...

Gold is re-starting its bull rally as two major obstacles — higher US Treasury yields and Bitcoin — fizzle. “Strong headwinds from parabolic Bitcoin and rising bond yields appear to have run their course,” Bloomberg Intelligence senior comm...

Gold’s rally ran out of puff this week, with the precious metal dropping about 2% below ~$1US1,870/oz at Thursday close. Kitco’s Jim Wyckoff calls it “routine profit taking”. “Importantly, the price uptrend in gold on the daily chart remain...

You can forgive incoming Mount Monger Resources managing director Lachlan Reynolds for having a sense of déjà vu. In a way he is back where it all started with the emerging gold explorer, which this week opened the latest junior gold IPO to...

Over the past two months the gold price has turned a corner, up ~12.7% to a high of $US1898/oz. That’s a four month high, erasing almost all of 2021’s losses. The share prices of local gold stocks have responded in kind. Over the past month...