Gold finished May on a strong note and has broken out as high as $1,280 today…as of 11:30 am Pacific, bullion is up $11 an ounce at $1,277 thanks to a much weaker than expected U.S. non-farm payrolls report this morning from the Labor Department…Silver has jumped 22 cents to $17.49…Copper off slightly at $2.55…Nickel has added 4 pennies to $4.03…Crude Oil is 81 cents lower to $47.55 a barrel while the U.S. Dollar Index has tumbled half a point to 96.72…the greenback is in a heap of technical trouble looking out over the balance of 2017, and that’s very bullish for Gold prices…the pundits have grossly underestimated the yellow metal’s potential this year…
U.S. Treasury yields fell on the back of the jobs number this morning with the benchmark 10-year yield slipping as low as 2.14%, giving Gold a nice lift…
Strength in Gold is pushing the entire precious metals complex higher today…while Platinum is seeing the best gains, up $21 an ounce at $951, Palladium has made a significant move with prices in the mid-$830’s – their highest level since September 2014…
The biggest driver for Palladium will be continued growth in the U.S. and Chinese auto sectors…while auto sales in the U.S. have disappointed for 5 consecutive months, the sales pace is still relatively healthy with 16.66 million vehicles sold last month…
The potential job losses in British Columbia are already piling up even before the NDP-Green “power grab” threatens to bring down British Columbia’s Liberal minority government next month, an event that would install a radical regime hostile to resource development…B.C. NDP leader John Horgan has written a letter asking the President of B.C. Hydro to halt work on the huge Site C Dam Project in the northern part of the province…the letter says the project should be independently reviewed by the B.C. Utilities Commission, and urges Jessica McDonald to suspend evictions of First Nations groups on the land…the dam remains under construction with about 2,000 people working at the site…the Liberal government has already spent or committed $4.4 billion for the project…
Gold 9-Month Daily Chart
Gold bulls continue to hold the upper hand with a chart pattern that clearly points toward a test of the $1,300 level this month…
- Breakout confirmed above $1,260
- RSI(14) has momentum at 59% with plenty of room to push higher
- Sell pressure (CMF) has been replaced with weak buy pressure
- ADX indicator confirms a bullish trend
- Rising 50-day moving average (SMA) is currently $1,257
Note how Gold completed a healthy correction to its 2017 uptrend line in early May which coincided with Fib. support…our minimum 2017 target is the low $1,400’s…
It’s notable that despite a looming Fed rate hike, Gold continues to push higher and has rebounded powerfully off its lows during the 1st half of the month around $1,215…
May and June are traditionally the 2 worst back-to-back months on the calendar for Gold…however, the metal is bucking that trend in 2017…with no end in sight to the greenback’s technical woes (further deterioration is likely over the summer as the 200-day SMA begins to decline), and Q3 seasonal strength ready to kick in for bullion, it’s hard to imagine that Gold won’t break out powerfully above $1,300 over the summer in a move that will take many pundits by surprise…
In today’s Morning Musings…
1. A Yukon Zinc play getting ready to run…
2. Castle mine site visit – underground extraction begins, starting with massive Cobalt…
3. Montreal-based technology play surges to new multi-year high – what’s next?…
4. Jaxon Minerals’ updated chart after a wild week…
5. Daniel’s Den – large mines and serially successful people…
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Ggm closed at 8 c on higher volume Do you think sectutor is done ?
Comment by donald — June 3, 2017 @ 4:14 am
Indeed a nice move by GGM yesterday, Donald. Really looks like Secutor PP paper has finally exhausted itself, or else there’s so little left it’s inconsequential. Much of the big bid at .07 was left untouched and the stock firmed up nicely yesterday…
If I were a major, looking at GGM’s May 16 news including updated resources and Block Model, I’d be on the property in a flash…then I’d cut a deal before someone else did to get my hands on what could be a 10 million ounce deposit with a major high-grade component to the north of the open-pit deposit.
Comment by Jon - BMR — June 3, 2017 @ 7:57 am
Regarding GGM…just keep asking myself what the per oz. in the ground
value should be, in light of the current discount price of $6.20 cdn.
Also add some value for additional exploration potential. The ICG take-
out at $200/ oz certainly at least has to skew the average price upward.
Comment by bob — June 3, 2017 @ 10:03 am
Good point, Bob. Common sense tells you Granada deserves a much higher per oz. in the ground valuation, especially now that high-grade resources have been defined north of the open-pit. Fully permitted for production of the 1+ gram resource near-surface in the LONG Bars Zone, and a potentially spectacular high-grade situation at depth is unfolding immediately to the north (1.5 million ounces Inferred already). That’s why I’m convinced some majors are probably starting to knock on the door. GGM is simply too valuable to be trading below 10 cents. The Secutor factor was keeping it down but no more, it appears.
Comment by Jon - BMR — June 3, 2017 @ 10:29 am
Even a reasonable price of $60./oz makes GGM a 10
bagger from here. As in realestate, the low price
could trigger more than one offer…
Comment by bob — June 3, 2017 @ 10:48 am
Agreed, GGM has been an astute accumulation from 6.5 cents up as we’ve been stressing for a while now…you can’t have that much Gold in the ground and not attract the interest of majors…
Comment by Jon - BMR — June 3, 2017 @ 10:55 am