The six naturally occurring noble gases are Helium (He), Neon (Ne), Argon (Ar), Krypton (Kr), Xenon (Xe), and Radon (Rn). They are group 18 in the periodic table. They all share similar properties, being odorless, tasteless and non-flammable. The reason they have such low reactivity is because the outer electron…
The six platinum group elements are ruthenium (Ru), rhodium(Rh), palladium(Pd), osmium(Os), iridium(Ir) and platinum(Pt). These are all transition metals grouped in the centre of the periodic table. Os, Ir and Pt are the three densest metals, Os has a density of 22.6 compared with gold at 19.3 and silver at…
All companies in the following list have uranium projects, however uranium is not necessarily the company’s main focus. In several cases the company’s main project includes uranium along with other metals. In these instances, uranium may not be of economic significance, but its presence will often determine how or even…
Although all stocks listed below do host silver, it is rarely the principle metal. In the main the stocks are base metal plays with accessory silver. One of the exceptions is SVL with its Bowdens project. It has a reserve of 29.9Mt at 69g/t silver and a resource of 128Mt…
In Egypt, in 2700BC, the gold silver ratio was 9. That is, 1oz of gold would buy 9oz of silver. The ratio the fluctuated in a narrow band (typically 10 to 14) for the next 4,400 years. It wasn’t until around 1700AD that the ratio began to rise. It rose…
Since the end of January there have been 4.3m coronavirus cases and 292k deaths. That is a period of a little more than 3 months. The world’s population is about 7.6 billion, 4.3m cases worldwide is about 0.06% of that population. During this coronavirus period total deaths worldwide have been…