Rescue teams have yet to reach three miners who were trapped underground after an earth tremor at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. mine in South Africa triggered a cave-in that killed at least four people.Read full newsRead More
Mine operator Sibanye-Stillwater said on Friday that 10 of 13 miners trapped underground at its South African gold mine were rescued but four of the 10 have died from their injuries.Read full newsRead More
A mining company in South Africa says four workers have died and two others are missing after an earth tremor caused a rockfall at a gold mine.Read full newsRead More
Kejuan Frazier and Andrew Strzelecki were event champions on the first day of the MIAA Outdoor Track & Field ChampionshipRead full newsRead More
Mine operator Sibanye-Stillwater said five of 13 miners trapped underground in a South African gold mine were rescued but one of the five had died.Read full newsRead More
Four workers trapped underground after an earth tremor at a Sibanye Gold Ltd. mine in South Africa have died, bringing the number of people killed at the company's operations this year to at least 10.Read full newsRead More
Seven of the thirteen gold miners who were trapped underground since Thursday at Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) mine in South Africa have died as a result of their injuries, the company confirmed Saturday.The workers got stuck at the company's Masakhane mine, part of the Driefontein operations following a quake that caused a fall of ground in an operating stope."The six employees who w...Read More
Sheahan Diamond Literature Reference CompilationThe Sheahan Diamond Literature Reference Compilation is compiled by Patricia Sheahan who publishes on a monthly basis a list of new scientific articles related to diamonds as well as media coverage and corporate announcements called the Sheahan Diamond Literature Service that is distributed as a free pdf to a list of followers. Pat has kindly agreed...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Friday was a mediocre 73-77-144. The TSX Venture Exchange rose fractionally to 772 while polished diamond prices jumped over 1 per cent. Dermot Desmond's Mountain Province Diamonds Inc. lost one-...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery gained $1.29 to $69.72 on the New York Merc, while Brent for June gained $1.25 to $74.87 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $17.55 to WTI ($...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterNew York spot gold rose $3.40 to $1,315.00 on Friday. The TSX Venture Exchange rose 0.99 point to 772.24 while the TSX Gold Index added 0.08 point to 191.58. Alacer Gold Corp. (ASR) led Canadian gold miners higher, adding seven cents t...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange closed up a fraction to 772.24 Friday, ending the week down 11.52 points. Dennis Nerland's Arkadia Capital Corp. (AKC: halted) has signed a definitive agreement with its qualifying transaction target, Trent Cla...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellHarris Dempsey "Butch" Ballow has received 40 years in jail for defrauding Canadians and others of $32.5-million through a purported Mexican resort listing. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) U.S. District Court Judge Ewing Werlein handed down the sen...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellVancouver-linked securities lawyer Diane Dalmy has asked a judge to spare her jail for her part in a series of pump-and-dumps. As she tells it, a con artist named Billy Lieberman influenced her into participating in the fraud. She also claims that she...Read More
MINING.com editor Frik Els sat down with the chair of the upcoming Resources for Future Generations conference (RFG2018), John Thompson, to discuss trends in mining like responsible sourcing, as well as the conference's drive towards educating consumers about resource issues. John Thompson is currently the Wold Family Professor in Environmental Balance for Human Sustainability at Cornell Universi...Read More
Callinex Mines (CNX.V) has now released an updated resource estimate on its fully-owned Nash Creek zinc project in New Brunswick. The total resource estimate now contains 13.6 million tonnes in the indicated category (at an average grade of 2.68% zinc) and an additional 5.9 million tonnes in the inferred category (at 2.68% zinc as well) for a total zinc-equivalent content of 1.37 billion pou...Read More
Plenty of stupid ideas kill people. But one man’s stupid ideas have killed over a hundred million people.Karl Marx was born 200 years ago today. And despite the utter failure of his communist philosophy in practice, the cult lives on. Still people want to try again… this time they will get it right.Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels originally published The Communist Manifesto in 1848. It...Read More
A Useful Public ServiceThere are nooks and corners in every city where talk is cheap and scandal is honorable. The Alley, in Downtown Los Angeles, is a magical place where shrewd entrepreneurs, shameless salesmen, and downright hucksters coexist in symbiotic disharmony. Fakes, fugazis, and knock-offs galore, pack the roll-up storefronts with sparkle and shimmer. The Alley in LA - in places s...Read More
Seven of the thirteen gold miners who were trapped underground since Thursday at Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) mine in South Africa have died as a result of their injuries, the company confirmed Saturday.The workers got stuck at the company's Masakhane mine, part of the Driefontein operations following a quake that caused a fall of ground in an operating stope.The deaths brings the nu...Read More
Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO, NYSE: TAHO) announced this week the end of a strike carried out by 65 per cent of its workforce at the La Arena gold mine since April 22, 2018.Workers were demanding higher profit-sharing payouts. However, the company has said that it addresses such payouts in accordance with the Peruvian labour law. In a press release, the miner said that, following an agreement with th...Read More