May 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Ralph Profiti, an Eight Capital analyst, reviewed this producer's Q1/18 financials and revised outlook.In an April 25 research note, analyst Ralph Profiti reported that Eight Capital lowered its price target on Freeport-McMoRan Inc. (FCX:NYSE) to $20 from $23 following its "slight miss" on Q1/18 results and reduction in both sales and production guidance fo...Read More
May 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold profiles a mining explorer that is switching gears.There are hundreds of junior resource companies in Vancouver and Toronto that have had the devil's own time trying to get traction since the high water mark for the metals in 2011. I believe we had a major bottom in December/January of 2016 but many companies have yet to secure fina...Read More
May 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Gabriel Gonzalez, an analyst with Echelon Wealth Partners, discussed one of this company's projects, relaying the latest permitting development and impressions from a site visit.In an April 24 research note, analyst Gabriel Gonzalez with Echelon Wealth Partners reported that First Mining Gold Corp. (FF:TSX) began the provincial environmental assessment and...Read More
Bell Copper Corp.'s (TSXV:BCU) project is located on a productive porphyry copper trend near Freeport McMoran Corp.'s Bagdad minePeter Kennedy | May 1, 2018 | SmallCapPower: It is not every day that a junior exploration company stumbles on a major copper porphyry deposit. Currently the world's largest source of copper ore, porphyry deposits are traditionally the domain of major multi-national mini...Read More
Colorado School of Mines was ranked eighth in the nation on Payscale's list of colleges and universities with the highest return on tuition investment 20 years after graduation.With a 20-year return on investment calculated at $909,000, Mines was the top-ranked school in Colorado, one spot ahead of the United States Air Force Academy.Mines is a great value for students paying out-of-state tuition...Read More
Lodewijk "Lou" Brand, a doctoral student in computer science at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded a fellowship from the U.S. Department of Defense.The highly competitive Science, Mathematics and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship-for-Service Program fellowship aims to increase the number of civilian scientists and engineers working in DoD laboratories. After graduation, Brand...Read More
Two Colorado School of Mines professors from the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department were featured in a recent article in The Denver Post about bioscience and health-tech innovations being developed at Colorado universities. Assistant Professor Kevin Cash discussed his work on color-changing tattoo ink for use as a diagnostic tool for doctors, and Assistant Professor Melissa Krebs talke...Read More
Chaarat Gold Holdings (LON:CGH) disclosed Tuesday its unsolicited bid for Centerra Gold's (TSX:CG) Kumtor mine in Kyrgyzstan valued the operation, the Asian country's largest gold mine, at $800 million (about Cdn $1.025 billion at today's exchange rate).The miner, which is developing the Chaarat project in Kyrgyzstan, said the proposed acquisition of Kumtor included $400 million in cash plus th...Read More
Supply constraints affecting cobalt, lithium, copper and nickel, key metals for making the batteries that power electric cars, could slow production rates of such power storage units in the near term, Moody's Investors Service has warned."Declining ore grades for copper, continued lack of investment in new mines and the time required to bring new discoveries to production will constrain metal avai...Read More
Botswana Diamonds (LON:BOD) is expanding its operations from its base country to neighbouring Zimbabwe by teaming up with Vast Resources (LON:VAST) to jointly explore for diamonds in that country.The memorandum of understanding signed Tuesday sees the two companies exchanging past exploration information on areas prospective for diamonds in Zimbabwe. It also says the parties will set up a jointly...Read More
Pacific Ridge Exploration (TSXV: PEX) announced today that it is planning to buy the Spius porphyry copper project, located 40 kilometres southwest of Merritt, British Columbia.In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner whose assets span from Yukon to B.C., said that the Spius property was explored for its porphyry potential in the 1960's and early 1970's. However, most of the records from that...Read More
Following an operation against illegal mining in the north-central Carabobo state, General Juan Carlos Du Boulay Perozo, Commander of the Carabobo Defense Operating Zone No. 45, said that illegal miners in Venezuela have created "unions" in charge of controlling gold trading activities. In the region under Du Boulay's oversight, such illicit organizations operate in an area called Negra Matea, whe...Read More
https://www.northernontariobusiness.com/Greater Sudbury's internationally acclaimed environmental regreening effort to heal its industrially-scarred landscape has hit the 40-year mark.The program, launched in 1978, put the city on the map as an environmental leader in miraculously transforming the area from a mostly tree-less moonscape to a lush landscape.In that four-decade span, more than 3,400...Read More
Canada Cobalt Works Inc. (formerly Castle Silver Resources Inc.) is a growing cobalt focussed Company with past producing Canadian cobalt/silver mines under exploration, a proprietary metal separation process for efficient cobalt extraction plus a cobalt recovery division set up to recover cobalt from spent batteries. The Company is moving forward on all fronts with cobalt prices continuing to ris...Read More
The time has finally come to see if the Fed can pull off its biggest trick yet.Can it finally pull the punch bowl away?For years, it kept the party going and every single dollar possible in equities. Then it tried for years to warn investors that it wouldn't last forever.Now it is increasingly clear, especially after the release of the FOMC minutes earlier this month, that the Fed is committed to...Read More
"Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act...Read More
"Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people become an audience and their public business a vaudeville act...Read More
Gold fell on Monday as easing tensions on the Korean peninsula boosted appetite for assets seen as higher risk.Read full newsRead More
China's trade in industrial metals looks set for significant upheaval this year as the country adapts to fast-evolving supply chains.Read full newsRead More
BTU METALS CORP. ("BTU" or the "Company") (TSXV:BTU) is pleased to announce the Company has closed a first tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (see PR dated April 19th, 2018) issuing 9,007,401 units (the 'Units') at a price of $0.06 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $540,444.06.Read full newsRead More