The American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter at Colorado School of Mines sent 46 students to the Rocky Mountain Regional Student Conference in Rapid City, South Dakota, to compete in concrete canoe, steel bridge and mystery design April 6-7. Despite challenging weather conditions, Mines students made a strong showing in both the team and individual events.The Mines concrete canoe team...Read More
Matt Zappulla, a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been named the winner of the 2018 Willy Korf Award for Young Excellence. The award, given out annually by the Willy Korf Foundation since 2000, recognizes those who contribute to the technological development of the iron and steel industry. Korf built a global steel empire before losing his life in a plan...Read More
Canada's Cameco (TSX:CCO) (NYSE:CCJ), the world's largest publicly traded uranium producer, swung back into the black in the first three months of the year thanks to improved prices for the commodity and the company's efforts to lower costs.The Saskatchewan-based miner posted Friday net earnings of $55 million, or 14 cents per share, compared with a loss of $18 million, or 5 cents per share, in t...Read More
Chinese authorities intervened this week in favour of Tianqi's attempt to grab a 32% interest in Chile's Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world's second largest lithium producer, saying that any efforts to block the $5 billion deal could "leave negative influences."According to Chilean newspaper El Mercurio (in Spanish), Chinese Ambassador Xu Bu openly condemned the move by the country's d...Read More
Antioquia's Governor Luis P?(C)rez said that his province, located in the central northwestern part of Colombia, is the first one to prevent 25 tonnes of mercury from gold mining from polluting local rivers and forests.During a meeting held with officials from the Mining Ministry and other government representatives, P?(C)rez said that the initiative called Antioquia Free of Mercury is yielding po...Read More
Goldcorp-backed Auryn Resources Inc. (TSE:AUG) announced today that it is close to becoming a big player in the Andahuaylas-Yauri belt in southern Peru.The reason behind such assertion is the company's recent addition of 60,000 hectares to its Sombrero project, which means that now its land position is greater than 100,000 hectares. The decision to stack was taken after the company received the re...Read More
http://www.mining.com/Chilean Finance Minister Felipe Larra?-n and his Mining counterpart Baldo Prokurica said today that the government that came to power in March will ensure state copper giant Codelco receives capital incentives so that it can continue to grow.Following Codelco's annual shareholder meeting, Larra?-n and Prokurica said the new capitalization process and the amount that will be p...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - April 27, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Vatic Ventures Corp. (TSXV: VCV) (FSE: V8V) (OTC Pink: VTTCF) (the "Company" or "Vatic") is pleased to provide details of its drilling contract with Aztec Engineering Co. Ltd. ("Aztec") for its upcoming drilling program.Aztec undertakes all types of drilling - mud rotary, RAB, RC, DTH, auger, wireline coring...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - April 27, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) American Lithium Corp. (TSXV: LI) (OTCQB: LIACF) (FSE: 5LA) (WKN: A2AHEL) ("American Lithium" or the "Company") announces that it will move forward with the implantation of its previously announced forward share-split. The Company will issue two common shares for every one common share held by shareholders o...Read More
Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL) has been improving revenues over the last three quarters, now at a rate of $2M/monthSmallCapPower | April 27, 2018: Isodiol International Inc. (CSE:ISOL, $0.80) announced on April 26, 2018, that the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has granted government approval to manufacture commercial cannabidiols (CBD) extracted from hemp stra...Read More
Last week, I talked about volatility and the wild swings the stock market has taken this year.But other markets - namely currencies and commodities - have had their own shares of ups and downs.Take the dollar, for instance.This week, it's on a winning streak. The dollar index gained 2% in the past week, boosted by rising interest rates and higher Treasury yields.But ultimately, it won't last.Here'...Read More
Busy, busy, busy. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and it’s easy to make excuses for why we aren’t getting anything done. Our jobs demand a lot is us, there’s traffic to fight, and the distractions of TV and Facebook are just a click away. But you have to act in order to move forward. You have to break out the mental bondage of feeling overwhelmed and helpless. To help jumpstar...Read More
Busy, busy, busy. It’s easy to get overwhelmed and it’s easy to make excuses for why we aren’t getting anything done. Our jobs demand a lot is us, there’s traffic to fight, and the distractions of TV and Facebook are just a click away. But you have to act in order to move forward. You have to break out the mental bondage of feeling overwhelmed and helpless. To help jumpstar...Read More
Neo Lithium Corp (TSXV:NLC) CEO Waldo Perez discusses with Proactive's Steve Darling the discovery of a new aquifer at depth at their wholly-owned 3Q project in Argentina.Perez says they've been drilling all summer and they've been seeing 'outstanding' results ... not only expanding the resource at surface but they've also discovered another aquifer, another layer of rock, which contains brine. &n...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1317.50-$5.60Silver$16.52-$0.04XAU82.52+0.07%HUI180.53-0.17%GDM630.18+0.33%JSE Gold1095.67+0.56USD91.59+0.39Euro121.06-0.68Yen91.60+0.07Oil$68.19+$0.1410-Year2.982%-0.044T-Bond142.46875+0.71875Dow24322.34+0.99%Nasdaq7118.68+1.64%S&P2666.94+1.04% The Metals: Gold fell $7.70 to $1315.40 by midday in New York before it bounced back higher into the close, but it still ended...Read More
- Investors should not be put off by higher interest rates, World Gold Council research finds they do not always have a negative impact on gold- Only short-term movements in gold are 'heavily influenced by US interest rates'- Correlation between US interest rates and gold is waning, with US dollar a better indicator of short-term gold price- New findings will reassure gold investors that there...Read More
Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV:DAU, OTC:DAUGF, FKFT:QXR2.F) ('Desert Gold' or 'the Company') announces that, subject to exchange approval, it will conduct a non-brokered private placement of up to 4,333,334 units at a price of CDN $0.15 per unit (the 'Unit') to raise up to an aggregate CDN $650,000 (the 'Financing').Read full newsRead More
Blackrock Gold Corporation (TSXV: BRC) (the 'Company') is pleased to announce that its CEO Greg Schifrin has recently conducted a site visit to its recently optioned Silver Cloud Property in Elko County, Nevada to evaluate the property and potential drill targets.Read full newsRead More
The purge began overnight when Deutsche fired 300 U.S.-based investment bankers on Wednesday with another 100 pink slips expected over the next 24 hours.Read full newsRead More
While other central banks have been busy increasing their gold reserves, Canada sold off all its gold reserves in 2016. The Bank of Canada ranks last globally out of 100 major central banks.Read full newsRead More