Articles On Catalyst Metals (ASX:CYL)

Catalyst Metals (ASX: CYL) and Navarre Minerals (ASX: NML) have hit a bonanza gold grade of 831 grams per tonne in drilling at the Tawry prospect within the Tandarra joint venture in Victoria. A single diamond drill hole completed as follow...

ASX to open higher as Wall Street returns a mixed bag Oil prices are higher by 3% El Salvador to host a Bitcoin summit with 44 other countries/institutions Aussie shares are set to open higher this morning, despite a mixed bag of results...

US gold price down more than 10% or $200 from its peak But Aussie gold miners faring better due to weak AUD-USD exchange rate This week’s ASX standouts: Twenty Seven Co, OzAurum Resources Our Gold Digger column wraps all the news driving...

Highlights The benchmark index ASX200 traded 2.316% lower at 7194.100 points at 1:58 PM AEST today. The S&P/ASX 200 Energy sector (ASX:XEJ) was down 2.263% at 10091.900 points at 1:56 PM AEST. The three ASX-listed energy stocks, W...

Highlights Drilling over the Boyd’s Dam, and Hayanmi prospects, at Four Eagles Gold Projects returned high-grade gold intercepts. Catalyst Metals received gold intercept values of up to 150g/t from the Boyd’s Dam. Drilling continues a...

A mixed bag for US stocks US stocks struggled for direction in overnight trade, as the S&P500 closed flat while the Nasdaq fell by more than 1% — dragged lower by a 35% slump for Netflix following its lacklustre trading update. So far...

Catalyst Metals (CYL) strikes new zones of high-grade gold through drilling at its Henty Gold Mine in Tasmania, with a mineral resource update slated for early next year The company says “strong” recent drilling results at the Darwin depos...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Wall Street mostly down after Fed decision US stocks were relatively muted after the US Fed signalled it will be begin hiking rates in March. “With inflation well above 2 per cent and a strong labour market, the committee expects it will so...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 iron ore price nosedived overnight but it did little to blunt the performance of the diversified miners, who rode positive sentiment across the market. The Materials index was up 1.44% to lead the ASX 200. Lithium miners were the stando...

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...

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...

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...

The ASX 200 was unable to break free from its recent shackles, edging lower by 0.11% in the Wednesday session. But as a measure of a little more risk-on sentiment creeping back into markets, the microcap Emerging Markets index comfortably o...

Richard Morrow, the veteran stockbroker and long-time supporter of the Victorian mining and exploration industry, has got the spring back in his step. There are two reasons for that. First up, he has been able to get back on to the golf c...

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...

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...

Navarre Minerals (ASX: NML) and joint venture partner Catalyst Metals (ASX: CYL) have revealed up to 112 grams per tonne gold was intercepted while drilling at the Tandarra gold project which is 40km north of Victoria’s Bendigo goldfield. T...

A new explorer spun out of exploration darling Chalice Mining (ASX: CHN) will be a “standout” in the growing Victorian gold space, according to managing director Alex Dorsch. The company is looking to split off its 5000km2 Pyramid Hill proj...

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...

Catalyst Metals has hit 600 grams of gold per tonne at the Henty mine in Tasmania, in the same week the state government awarded an exploration grant to the junior explorer. While drilling outside its current resource at Henty, Catalyst rec...

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...

Navarre Minerals (ASX: NML) has hit “outstanding” gold and silver in the first diamond drill hole at the Morning Bill prospect within the Glenlyle project in western Victoria. The company has received assays from the first of eight diamond...

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...

Are large Bitcoin investors moving back into precious metals? In a note to clients, JPMorgan said large institutional investors are dumping bitcoin in favour of gold, reversing a trend that’s played out over the last two quarters. “The bitc...

Wall Street and Bitcoin slid again All major indices in the US have fallen for the past two consecutive days. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones was down 0.68%, S&P 500 fell 0.85%, and tech heavy NASDAQ dropped 0.56%. Technology and telecom stoc...