Cobalt has been drifting lower after hitting near 10-year peaks last month to exchange hands for $91,500 a tonne on the LME on Friday. Cobalt remains up more than 300% since hitting multi-year lows at the beginning of 2016 as demand for the metal, a crucial element in batteries used in cellphones and electric vehicles, spikes.While some of the froth has gone out of the spot market, the jostling am...Read More
Colorado School of Mines will showcase the innovative, creative and entrepreneurial spirit of its students during a new weeklong celebration culminating with the university's hosting of The Wright Awards May 3.Mines Innovation Week kicks off April 25 with a one-of-a-kind food experience. Students from Introduction to Construction Engineering will build edible structures-think a Rice Krispies Treat...Read More
Evrim have released some stunning assays from some trenching done at Cuale (link and link), and their share price has gone crazy.However, there may be a bit of a hangover, especially when you look at the detailed assay results (link), where you can see that in Trench 4, you can see that they have sampled 2 very high-grade structures surrounded by a wide zone of >1 g/t Au mineralizat...Read More
The developer of the Authier Lithium Project in Quebec, Sayona Mining Ltd (ASX:SYA), requested the Australia Stock Exchange to place its securities in trading halt pending the release of an announcement by management."Unless ASX decides otherwise, the securities will remain in trading halt until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 or when the announcement...Read More
Norwood-based Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding agreement with a company interested in buying its nickel tenements E36/899, E37/909 and E36/936 located south-east of Leinster in Western Australia. A corporate a press release reveals that, under the terms of the Tenement Sale Agreement, the exploration company should receive A$50,000 in cash and paid upfro...Read More
Officials from Peru's National Police Force and the National Prosecutor's Office dismantled an illegal mining site in an area known as La Pampa in the southeastern Madre de Dios region.In a statement issued by the Interior Ministry, the officials explained that they burned nine engines and 10 boats, as well as sized 10 hoppers, 200 metres of PVC pipes, 300 gallons of fuel and six motorbikes. They...Read More
https://www.bloomberg.com/Cobalt 27 Capital Corp., owner of the world's largest private stockpile of cobalt, said it is in talks for potential tie-ups with major Chinese companies seeking to secure supplies of the key metal in batteries powering electric vehicles.Car and battery makers from China have approached Cobalt 27 to discuss long-term partnerships and supply contracts, Anthony Milewski, ch...Read More
It won't be a shock for readers to hear miners are sticking with what they know works when building power plants at off-grid mines. But even as the majors spruik clean energy approaches and have managed to significantly cut water usage and power usage, operations still largely use heavy fuel oil, diesel plants, natural gas and coal-fired power stations for power. Sandfire's A$40m solar project...Read More
Silicon Valley is pouring venture capital into startups that use cultured animal cells to grow meat. The hope (now backed with hundreds of millions of dollars) is that they'll someday replace corn fields, feedlots and slaughterhouses with football-field sized vats from which an entire city's hamburgers and chicken nuggets emerge sans animal suffering or land degradation. Most people would probably...Read More
Ascot Resources Ltd (TSX.V: AOT) is a focused gold and silver explorer and near-term producer in Northern British Columbia, with a portfolio of advanced and grassroots projects in the Golden Triangle region. Ascot's flagship Premier Project is a near-term, high-grade, advanced exploration project with large upside potential and a historic mine. We learned from Derek White, President and CEO of Asc...Read More
Posted: Apr 16, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 16, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018: Who won the Kelowna street fight?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projec...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
There's two types of capital that drive the resource space: institutional capital and retail capital.The usual order of things is that the institutional capital, the so-called "smart" money, positions itself early, picking the best names with the best management teams at bargain prices.Then it simply waits for the retail money to recognize the trend, come in, and bid share prices up.The "simply wa...Read More
Posted: Apr 16, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 16, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018: Who won the Kelowna street fight?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projec...Read More
Posted: Apr 16, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 16, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018: Who won the Kelowna street fight?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projec...Read More
Posted: Apr 16, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 16, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018: Who won the Kelowna street fight?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projec...Read More
Posted: Apr 16, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 16, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 16, 2018: Who won the Kelowna street fight?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The projec...Read More
A few years ago, a cop came to my home and asked whether I would like to get my passport on time. I said, "Yes", and slammed the door, smiling. I didn't know he wanted a bribe.For much of my life, I didn't know people don't always mean what they say. A normal child knows this at the age of 4, but I was 26 when I came to terms with this. I take words literally, and this was at the root of most prob...Read More
A few years ago, a cop came to my home and asked whether I would like to get my passport on time. I said, "Yes", and slammed the door, smiling. I didn't know he wanted a bribe.For much of my life, I didn't know people don't always mean what they say. A normal child knows this at the age of 4, but I was 26 when I came to terms with this. I take words literally, and this was at the root of most prob...Read More
The developer of the Authier Lithium Project in Quebec, Sayona Mining Ltd (ASX:SYA), requested the Australia Stock Exchange to place its securities in trading halt pending the release of an announcement by management."Unless ASX decides otherwise, the securities will remain in trading halt until the earlier of the commencement of normal trading on Wednesday, 18 April 2018 or when the announcement...Read More