Gold should remain strong despite the Fed raising rates, RJO Futures analyst said.

The highlighted drill hole SN22-212 returned 23.03 metres of 37.24 g/t gold and 214.70 g/t silver.

The ATO mine is designed as a two-phased project, containing 26.4mt of proven and probable reserves grading 1.86 g/t AuEq.

Located about 25 km east of Val-d’Or, Monique is one of three past-producing mines at the project.

While Zimbabwe has the world’s third-biggest reserves of platinum-group metals, plus gold, diamond and chrome mines, development has been stymied by political instability.

The question of what happens to Russia’s metal exports is of vast consequence to global markets -- it’s a key supplier of palladium, nickel, aluminum, steel and copper.