"Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"- James Russell Lowell, 19th century American novelistLet us not mince words.We are living in an age of war profiteers.We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government.We are living in an age of monst...Read More
The Lighthouse MovesPicture, if you will, a brick slowly falling off a cliff. The brick is printed with green ink, and engraved on it are the words "Federal Reserve Note" (FRN). A camera is mounted to the brick.The camera shows lots of things moving up. The cliff face is whizzing upwards at a blur. A black painted brick labeled "oil" is going up pretty fast, but not so fast as the cliff face. It i...Read More
Nickel surged to a more than three-year high amid growing fears that Russia's Norilsk Nickel, top producer of the metal, could be the next victim of US sanctions against Russia that has already caused chaos on aluminum markets.Nickel, used primarily in steelmaking, jumped as much as 4.6% to $14,870 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, the highest level since February 2015. Bullish sentiment was...Read More
Students from Colorado School of Mines, Metropolitan State University of Denver and University of Colorado Denver faced off April 10 in the Clean River Design Challenge, hosted by The Greenway Foundation at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Hydraulics Lab. Multiple news outlets covered the competition, which challenged teams of local college students to design innovative in-stream machines to remove...Read More
Peter Maniloff, assistant professor of economics and business at Colorado School of Mines, recently discussed the findings of a new report on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative with Inside Climate News. The report, from economics consulting firm Analysis Group, found $1.4 billion in economic benefits across the nine member states and no harm to the reliability of the electric grid over the th...Read More
George Sowers, professor of practice in mechanical engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was featured in Space News' coverage of the 34th Space Symposium, happening April 16-19 in Colorado Springs. Sowers was part of an expert panel on space mining and whether national or international law should govern the practice in the future.From the article:The United States and Luxembourg have passed law...Read More
A co-ed student team from Colorado School of Mines placed second in surveying and third in gold panning at the 40th International Mining Games in England.Nine co-ed teams from mining schools from around the world competed in a total of seven events March 30-31. In addition to its strong results in surveying and gold panning, the Mines team placed fourth in both mucking and jack leg. In handsteelin...Read More
You can download all the Leapfrog viewer files from here (link)I normally compress them using winrar, which you can download from here (link)If you want the full Leapfrog Project, send me an e-mail: theangrygeologist@gmail.com with the name of the project you would like.Read More
Following the Castilla-La Mancha government's rejection of its rare earth project near the Campo de Montiel county in central Spain, Quantum Miner?-a is now asking the Guadiana river Hydrographic Confederation for a permit to explore groundwater 200 metres deep, where the company believes there is monazite.The rare earth element, commonly found in placer deposits, is used in the manufacturing of e...Read More
Melbourne-based Davenport Resources (ASX: DAV) reported a maiden Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant resource of 576.6-million tonnes at 12.1% potassium oxide at its Ebeleben mining licence, located in Germany's South Harz region.Ebeleben, which covers 38.8 square kilometres, is one of three perpetual mining licences in the South Harz Basin that Davenport acquired recently from the government a...Read More
http://www.kitco.com/(Kitco News) – One of Canada's most renowned gold mining companies is wading into the base metals sector, particularly zinc, as prices continue to trade near their highest level in more than ten years.Osisko Metals is celebrating its first year of operation as it continues to develop two of Canada's most prominent past producing zinc mining camps.The Osisko brand is more...Read More
Silver has been about as dull as it gets for years now. You wouldn't know by looking at a price chart, but that is poised to change.Look at the trading being done by one of the largest market movers in silver, and you'll see some puzzling mixed signals.Dig deeper into the supply and demand fundamentals, and it starts to make sense.While bearish positions are hitting records, the underlying market...Read More
Careful where you get your weed investing tips.Recommendations from brokerage and bank analysts, as it turns out, could see your principal go up in smoke.A report out in the Globe and Mail called some of their advice "laughably inaccurate."Let's have a look-see...In one of the worst examples, Cormark Securities began its coverage of Aphria (TSX: APH) in December 2017 - after shares had gone up 1,5...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comIn 1873 during the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, the government abolished its income tax.Aside from a single episode in 1894, there would be no income tax in the United States of America for nearly 40 years.It was during this period that the United States emerged as the largest, most powerful economy in the world.And the country achieved this with no income tax. No inflat...Read More
"Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"- James Russell Lowell, 19th century American novelistLet us not mince words.We are living in an age of war profiteers.We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government.We are living in an age of monst...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comIn 1873 during the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, the government abolished its income tax.Aside from a single episode in 1894, there would be no income tax in the United States of America for nearly 40 years.It was during this period that the United States emerged as the largest, most powerful economy in the world.And the country achieved this with no income tax. No inflat...Read More
"Is ours a government of the people, by the people, for the people, or a kakistocracy rather, for the benefit of knaves at the cost of fools?"- James Russell Lowell, 19th century American novelistLet us not mince words.We are living in an age of war profiteers.We are living in an age of scoundrels, liars, brutes and thugs. Many of them work for the U.S. government.We are living in an age of monst...Read More
Stratabound Minerals Corp. (TSXV:SB) ("Stratabound" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that it has closed the final tranche of the non-brokered private placement offering (the "Private Placement") which was first announced on February 20, 2018 and the first tranche closing was announced on March 28, 2018.Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1347.30+$1.30Silver$16.77+$0.10XAU84.21+0.27%HUI182.65+0.10%GDM640.14+0.42%JSE Gold1064.24-32.80USD89.50+0.04Euro123.75-0.03Yen93.63+0.34Oil$66.52+$0.3010-Year2.840%+0.008T-Bond145.8125+0.34375Dow24786.63+0.87%Nasdaq7281.10+1.74%S&P2706.39+1.07% The Metals: Gold gained $2.80 to $1348.80 in Asia before it fell back to $1337.70 at about 9AM EST, but it then rallied back h...Read More
- London house prices fell by 3.2% in the first quarter - Halifax- Brexit, financial and geo-political uncertainty lead to falls- Excluding sale of seven ?10m-plus houses in London, prices were down 3.4% in the year- UK house prices climb by just 0.4% in April, the slowest increase since 2008 for same period- Sales transactions fall by 19% and asking versus selling prices show turning into buyer...Read More