Investor Insight Brightstar is a cash-flowing gold producer with a 4.0Moz Mineral Resource base and two major development hubs advancing toward investment decisions. Mining from two high-grade underground mines in Laverton, continuous high-grade drilling success and near-term production expansion positions the company for significant value creation in a record gold price environment. Overview Gold continues to demonstrate its strength as ...

Commodities giants Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO,NYSE:RIO,LSE:RIO) and Glencore (LSE:GLEN,OTCPL:GLCNF) said on Thursday (January 8) that they have restarted talks about a potential business combination. The two major miners spoke previously back in 2024, but failed to reach an agreement. This time around, they say their preliminary discussions are centered around a combination of some or all of their businesses; this could ...

The global lithium market enters 2026 after a punishing 2025 marked by oversupply, weaker-than-expected EV demand and sustained price pressure, although things began turning around for lithium stocks in Q4. Lithium carbonate prices in North Asia fell to four-year lows early in the year, triggering production cuts and project delays, before rebounding sharply in the second half. By late December, ...

Yvonne Blaszczyk, president and CEO of BMG Group, sees the gold price hitting US$5,000 per ounce in Q1 on the back of a complex geopolitical landscape. ‘In terms of the geopolitical configuration of the world, we are witnessing history right now,’ she said. Securities Disclosure: I, Charlotte McLeod, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article. ...

A House GOP lawmaker is working to find more information after learning one of her constituents was possibly detained by Venezuela’s government. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., told Fox News Digital she was ‘advocating for the State Department to assist’ with a U.S. citizen from her district who is possibly being held by the Latin American government. ‘My biggest issue at ...

Congressional Republicans aren’t warming up to using military action to take a long-sought prize of President Donald Trump: Greenland. The colossal, resource-rich arctic island reentered the Trump administration’s orbit following the successful capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.  Top officials, like White House deputy chief of staff of policy Stephen Miller, reiterated earlier this week it was the position ...

President Donald Trump affirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. would ‘always be there for NATO,’ while accusing the alliance of not sharing the same commitment to aiding the U.S. ‘We will always be there for NATO, even if they won’t be there for us,’ the president wrote in a lengthy Truth Social post. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt underscored ...

Venezuelan crude oil is being shipped to the U.S. at speed and in bulk following the arrest of former President Nicolás Maduro, according to a maritime intelligence analyst. As many as ’15 very large crude carrier shipments’ carrying 50 million barrels will end up en route, said Michelle Wiese Bockmann, senior maritime intelligence analyst at Windward, which has tracked oil ...

Nine House Republicans bucked their party leaders on Wednesday evening to advance a vote on a Democrat-led healthcare bill. The nine GOP lawmakers’ support was key to pushing ahead on a vote to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies that expired at the end of last year. A vote on the bill itself is now expected Thursday afternoon. It’s a blow to ...

President Donald Trump is again amplifying his push for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, reinvigorating his repeated comments earlier in his political career that the territory nestled between North America and Europe in the Arctic Circle is a strategic asset for the U.S.  Trump confirmed Saturday that the U.S. military had successfully executed an operation in Venezuela that led to ...