Pile-of-Cash Dilemma for Mining Industry Once Crippled by Slump | Bloomberg

The Fear/No Fear Market | Eric Coffin

HAYWOOD RESEARCH: The Weekly Dig – Zinc Shrugs off Broad Based Commodity Selling to Post 8th Consecutive Weekly Gain

2018 Gold Price Forecast and Predictions | Jeff Clark

Rallying behind Rhodium | Mining Technology

CFTC Gold & Silver Commitment of Traders Report | Feb 2, 2018

In the shadow of oil, coal markets rise from the ashes | Reuters

ECONOMIC CRASH LIKELY? Stock Market Insanity & Risk Reaching Nose-Bleed Levels | SRSrocco Report

Gold Needs More Relative Strength to Breakout | The Daily Gold

Gold Market Update | Clive Maund

Electric Cars and Niche Metals Lure Cash Back to African Mines | Bloomberg

Goldman Sachs lifts bets on copper, coal, iron ore and oil | Financial Review

Blockchain to track Congo’s cobalt from mine to mobile | Reuters

Nickel looks to Breakout in 2018 | Sam Broom

Electric Buses Will Take Over Half the World Fleet by 2025 The number of electric buses will triple within seven years, and virtually all of them will be in China | Bloomberg

Marin Katusa’s Top Picks from VRIC 2018 are a Joke | Penny Mining Stocks

Late Tycoon Goldsmith on Risk, Gambling, Momentum and Management in Investing | CEO.ca

Cameco shut down starts this week | CKOM

The Dollar Breakdown: A Sign of Inflation to Come? | Sprott’s Thoughts

Alabama Bill Would Encourage Use of Gold and Silver in Trade | New American

Trump urges Congress to help stimulate $1.5 trillion in infrastructure spending | Reuters

WORLD’S LARGEST SILVER MINES: Suffer Falling Ore Grades & Rising Costs | SRSrocco Report

John Barrasso holds up Trump energy nominee over uranium policy | Washington Examiner

First Quantum’s nickel output down 24 pct in 2017 | Reuters

All That Glitters Is the Dollar’s Weakness The metal’s recent rise isn’t about inflation rising or cryptocurrencies falling | Bloomberg

Some Essential Reading on Strategic Minerals | National Defense

Congo Raises Cobalt, Copper Taxes Amid Opposition From Miners | Bloomberg

What Now? Insights From the ‘$1700 Man’ who called Gold’s Low | Vince Lanci

China accelerates push to develop motors for electric cars | Nikkei Asian Review

Confiscation of gold by the federal government: A lesson |Rstreet

Tesla Adopting Manganese in New Lithium Batteries to Boost Performance, Lower Cost | Baystreet

Gold & Gold Stocks Approaching Resistance | The Daily Gold

Fund manager Mobius says commodity-related investments will even outperform technology shares, partly because they’ve been undervalued for a long time | Bloomberg

U.S. hits Russian deputy minister and energy firms with sanctions | Reuters

Gold Upleg Breaking Out | Zeal

Lithium and Cobalt: Getting a Jolt from Batteries | Barron’s

Electric Vehicles: who’s in charge? | Utility Weekly

Cobalt Miners News For The Month Of January 2018 | Seeking Alpha

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. CFTC to fine UBS, Deutsche Bank, HSBC for futures market spoofing, manipulation – sources | Reuters

Gold Sector Pops During Conference Week in Vancouver | David Erfle

FOCUS: Nickel prices ‘piggyback’ on dollar weakness, but will it last? | Metal Bulletin

A Top IMF Official Urges China to Heed U.S. Complaints on Unfair Trade | WSJ

Lithium Price Spike Has Moderate Effect on Batteries | BNEF

Electrifying Airplanes | Lithium Spot

Congo mining code passes Senate without opposition | Reuters

Best-Performing Battery Metal of the Past Year Isn’t Cobalt | Bloomberg

CIBC Whistler Institutional Investor Conference – 2018 | Cameco

The Coming Market Crash Will Set Off The Biggest Gold Panic Buying In History | SRSrocco Report

Rising Economic Tide Reaches All Shores for Caterpillar | Bloomberg (CAT shares rise as mining booms)

France to shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021, Macron declares | Independent UK

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