A court in Thailand found seven environmental activists not guilty Thursday of violating a law on public gatherings that imposes severe penalties for actions that disrupt public services. The activists, all women, in November 2016 blocked access to a meeting at a local government office in...Read full newsRead More
A court in Thailand found seven environmental activists not guilty Thursday of violating a law on public gatherings that imposes severe penalties for actions that disrupt public services. The activists, all women, in November 2016 blocked access to a meeting at a local government office in...Read full newsRead More
Canadian mining technology firm Newtrax Technologies has won a key sale to South Africa's Gold Fields at one of its main operations hubs in Australia.Staff reporter Gold Fields' Invincible mine on Lake Lefroy, near Kambalda in Western Australia. Image: Gold Fields22 APRIL 201822/04/2018commentsshareNewtrax is an emerging IoT technology leader in the niche underground hard rock mine market.It w...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 positive 75-69-150. The TSX Venture Exchange rose two points to 804 while polished diamond prices rose 0.1 per cent. Ken MacNeill and George Read's Star Diamond Corp. (DIAM) traded a...Read More
A cut-cornered rectangular step-cut fancy intense blue diamond weighing 3.47 carats set a price-per-carat world record for a blue diamond after it sold for $1.9 million per carat to reach almost $6.7 million at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Auction.The gem's final price nearly tripled Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of between $2 million and $2.5 million and pushed up the auction final results to $26.2...Read More
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are advocating for collaborations between academia and industry when it comes to finding a balance between exploiting mineral resources from the seabed and protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems.Matthew Alford, a physical oceanographer with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC -San D...Read More
Investors are encouraging Africa-focused Caledonia Mining (TSE:CAL) to expand operations in Zimbabwe, given the new political climate in the southern country.Following the ousting of president Robert Mugabe, the new Emmerson Mnangagwa administration decided to knock out the rule that established that all mines had to be 51 per cent owned by Zimbabweans. Only diamond and platinum assets must comply...Read More
Falcon Oil & Gas Ltd (LON:FOG, CVE:FO) was the standout stock of the week thanks to a long awaited clearance for the group's Australian shale venture.It is now clear to get to work with its major shale discovery after the regional government lifted its moratorium on hydraulic fracturing.The long awaited good news allows the junior oil and gas firm to end its 15-month hiatus and get back to wor...Read More
Wolf Minerals Ltd (LON:WLFE) shares fell on Friday after the firm settled a dispute with GR Engineering over a contract for the Hemerdon tungsten and tin project.GR Engineering secured a contract with Wolf in 2013 for the engineering, procurement and construction of the project in Devon, south England.Wolf had claimed that GR Engineering failed to fix an issue with noise emissions and vi...Read More
The answer isn't as simple as you may think if you look at the big picture gold plays in the investing world.Read full newsRead More
Highland Gold Mining Limited's (AIM:HGM) most recent return on equity was a substandard 4.85% relative to its industry performance of 11.12% over the past year. An investor may attribute anRead More...Read full newsRead More
A court in Thailand has found seven environmental activists not guilty of violating a law on public gatherings that imposes severe penalties for actions that disrupt public services.Read full newsRead More
Highland Gold Mining Limited's (AIM:HGM) most recent return on equity was a substandard 4.85% relative to its industry performance of 11.12% over the past year. An investor may attribute anRead More...Read full newsRead More
Highland Gold Mining Limited's (AIM:HGM) most recent return on equity was a substandard 4.85% relative to its industry performance of 11.12% over the past year. An investor may attribute anRead More...Read full newsRead More
Paradise in LA LA LandMore is revealed with each passing day. You can count on it. But what exactly the 'more is of' requires careful discrimination. Is the 'more' merely more noise? Or is it something of actual substance? Today we endeavor to pass judgment, on your behalf. Normally, judgment would be passed on a Thursday, but we are making an exception. [PT] For example, here in the l...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 May delivery gained nine cents to $68.38 on the New York Merc, while Brent for June gained 28 cents to $74.06 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $16.65 to...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 fell $10.10 to $1,335.20 on Friday. The TSX Venture Exchange rose 2.86 points to 804.96 while the TSX Gold Index slipped 0.22 point to 191.79. Canadian gold miners moved little today. Endeavour Mining Corp. (EDV) fel...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 CaswellThe B.C. Securities Commission must be gentler with its handling of some securities violators, the Court of Appeal for British Columbia has determined. In particular, the regulator should be extra careful when it hands out a permanent ban, the court h...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 gained 2.86 points to 804.96 Friday, ending the week up 9.02 points. Andrew Shapack and Sean Nakamoto have listed a capital pool shell called Pine Trail Capital Trust (PINE: $0.10). It sold a $400,000 initial p...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 CaswellYelena Furman, the New York woman who pleaded guilty to fraud charges after she helped Canadian Myron Gushlak in a shell scheme, has asked for a sentence of no more than three months. She says that Mr. Gushlak manipulated her and lied to her. She clai...Read More