Articles On Titan Minerals (ASX:TTM)

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...

Titan’s Linderos project in Ecuador is the belle of the ball after surface exploration returned intriguing gold, silver and copper results from two prospects. Assays from the first 144 rock chips of 227 samples shipped from the Meseta prosp...

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...

One of the biggest exploration success stories of the decade prior to COVID-19 was copper play Sandfire Resources (ASX:SFR). A struggling explorer at the time the GFC hit, it stumbled across the DeGrussa copper-gold deposit and is now a $2...

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...

We just added to our investment in Ecuador gold explorer Titan Minerals (ASX: TTM). Now with at least $18M in the bank, the corporate work behind it, a strengthened team and SIX drill rigs punching holes into Dynasty right now - we think 20...

The company believes newly appointed geologist Barry Bourne is “an innovator” who has designed, proposed, and implemented a full range of initiatives through his experience gained while working within the mining industry. Titan Minerals ha...

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...

ASX Capital Raise Roundup is a fortnightly look at ASX capital raisings. October has historically proved to be one of the market’s most challenging months and this first week did not disappoint. Worries about inflation, valuations, China te...

It was a fairly turbulent night on global markets, but the ASX 200 put in a fairly solid day of trade on Thursday to snap a two-day losing streak. Risk-on sentiment held sway as the microcap Emerging Companies index rose more than 1%, while...

Highlights The ASX 200 edged around 0.4% higher during the opening session. Opening gains were contributed by 10 sectors and the energy space showed some losses on the screen, declining by 1.5%. Qube’s AU$90-million acquisition of New...

After a positive start the ASX finished down over 0.5%. Today, APRA ordered the big banks to increase the home loan “serviceability buffer” from 2.5% to 3% from the end of October and hinted more regulation could be forthcoming. Also hittin...

Stockhead’s ‘Garimpeiro’ columnist Barry FitzGerald is back in the studio for another instalment of The Explorers Podcast. The program is sponsored by emerging company specialist RM Corporate Finance. In this episode, Barry chats to Laurie...

On a day Facebook was out for 6 hours, the tech sector – in Australia and abroad – was sold off and that was enough to send the ASX into negative territory. The ASX 200 closed 0.41% down at 7,248 points and tech was easily the worst sector,...

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...

Drilling at the Cerro Verde prospect within Titan’s Dynasty project has intersected mineralised halos up to five times wider than previously modelled. Notable intercepts from the first 18 holes include: 1.54m at 13.5 grams per tonne (g/t)...

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...

The ASX 200 finished lower for the second consecutive day, falling lower by 0.94% today as COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Australia and across the globe. Health Minister Greg Hunt however said that more than 10 million Australians 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...

Titan Minerals’ has scored strong gold grades from surface channel sampling at the Dynasty gold project in southern Ecuador.  Assay results from 10 channel samples at the Cerro Verde prospect included: 11.52m at 3.32 g/t (CVC010); 10.56m a...

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...

The ASX tech sector succumbed to the latest selloff in tech equities globally. dragging the rest of the bourse down with it. The ASX 200 retreated 0.7% to close at 7,379 points while the ASX Emerging Companies Index lost 1.06%, closing at 2...

Titan Minerals has sold the Zaruma mine and Portovelo process plant in Ecuador to Pelorus Minerals for a tidy US$15 million plus a 2% net smelter return royalty on future copper production. The sale will allow Titan to resolve the balance s...

Titan has outlined a significantly larger gold-copper porphyry system for exploration at its Linderos project in Ecuador after relogging historical holes. The compilation and verification of historical results has identified multiple prospe...

The ASX finished Hump Day nearly a third of one per cent higher. The ASX 200 closed at 7,355 which is 0.31 per cent higher than yesterday while the ASX Emerging Companies Index closed 0.14 per cent higher at 2,193. It was a mostly positive...

Titan is ramping up drilling at its Dynasty gold project a notch with negotiations underway to mobilise another two rigs on site over the next 10 days. Notably, the move to secure more rigs comes just days after mobilising a fourth diamond...

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...

Stockhead’s Top 10 at 10, published at 10.15am each trading day, highlights the best (and worst) performing ASX small caps in morning trade using live data. It’s a short, sharp update to help frame the trading day by showing the biggest mov...

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...

Titan is getting closer towards defining a maiden JORC resource for its Dynasty gold project with the completion of the first 12 diamond holes at the Cerro Verde prospect. While these 12 holes total over 2,000m of drilling with the next thr...

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...

Titan can now finalise the divestment of its non-core Zaruma mine and Portovelo process plant after completing a restructuring of its Ecuadorian operations. The restructuring allows the company to focus on completing the drill program at it...

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...

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...

The recovery in the gold price from its early March lows — ~$1,670s to over $1,825 currently — was mostly driven by the decline in real interest rates and, more recently a poor US jobs report and increasing inflation. US core inflation in A...

Titan Minerals is drilling at the exciting Dynasty gold project in Ecuador, as it looks to convert to JORC standards and grow a foreign 2.1-million-ounce resource.  A total of 12,000m worth of drilling is planned over the next three months...

This fortnight’s list of directors who traded over $100,000 in shares included a trio from NSW-focused copper explorer Peel Mining (ASX:PEX). Peel undertook a rights issue and James Simpson bought $101,801, Simon Hadfield bought $100,150 an...

“When you stop growing you start dying,” is a saying the ASX’s largest gold miners have apparently taken to heart. While hopefully remaining cognisant of the expensive, value-destroying deals which occurred when gold last peaked in the 2010...

Titan’s Dynasty gold project is looking increasingly prospective after step-out drilling confirmed mineralisation below high-grade surface results. Holes intersecting undrilled regions of the Papayal prospect where trenching had returned hi...

V-Con is Stockhead’s investing focused video conference series, bringing you expert insights, panel discussions and presentations from leading analysts, listed small caps and industry players. This latest video conference focuses on the gol...

The gold price traditionally thrives on geopolitical drama. Heightened tensions in eastern Ukraine, the recent incident at an Iranian nuclear site, and news of an unofficial US delegation visiting Taiwan are recent reminders that 2021 will...