While advertising bans and Mt.Gox Trustee overhangs remain, the FUD of a possible global regulatory crackdown in the G-20 Communique was a major driver of this weekend's weakness... until Les Echos confirms FSB has rejected calls for regulation.Read full newsRead More
Australia's Newcrest Mining (ASX: NCM) said that its Wafi-Golpu joint venture with Harmony Gold in Papua New Guinea will need a further $200 million cash injection to get built under improved plans.The updated feasibility study, released Monday, foresees a larger, $2.8-billion gold and copper project with mine wastes being piped into the ocean. Building the proposed mine had been previously expec...Read More
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* Wafi-Golpu JV capital expenditure estimates cutRead full newsRead More
The U.S. Environmental Protection agency wants a mining company to pay for a potentially costly investigation of underground water flows at a southwestern Colorado Superfund site to help the agencyRead full newsRead More
Federal and state regulators are entrusting a water pollution study at an abandoned South Dakota gold mine to a company that is potentially interested in reopening the mine.Read full newsRead More
SPEARFISH - The South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) announced Thursday that it reached an agreement with a mining company drilling exploration holes near the rim ofRead full newsRead More
Plattsburgh, NY voted to place an 18-month moratorium on new commercial cryptocurrency mines in the city on Thursday. Here's why, and what comes next for cities that have had a Bitcoin gold rush.Read full newsRead More
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Kratos offers a rare chance to get in close to the ground floor in the defense business.Read full newsRead More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the INK CIN put in a quiet week of trading, clinging closely to its 50-day moving average. The Index closed down about 1.5 points to finish at 1279.68.Support is at 1277 and 1264. Resistance is at 1280 and 1290 (upper Bollinger band).RSI fell 9 points to 54.37. MACD quintupled...Read More
Production drilling contracts have fortified Capital Drilling's (LN: CAPD) earnings base, but the company is poised like a number of others for a sustained rebound in exploration spending, which seems to be on the cards. Capital's latest results provide more evidence a corner has been turned in the sector.Staff reporter19 MARCH 201819/03/2018commentsshare The Mauritius-headquartered company's 2017...Read More
Inflation has started to show up in economic data, and it may rise faster than expected. One of the best ways to protect your portfolio against inflation is to own gold, which is viewed as an inflation hedge. Besides inflation, there are other reasons that could draw investors towards gold in 2018.The gold price has rallied in 2018, rising from under US$1,250 per ounce in mid-December to trade ov...Read More
An analyst from the Danish investment firm Saxo Bank recently pointed to the Geopolitical Risk Index as being at its highest level since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The index also spiked in August 2017, as fears over a possible conflict with North Korea hit fever pitch. A series of dismissals in the White House coupled with anxiety over rising trade tensions appear to be rattling investors. The 12-...Read More
Australian junior Cobalt Blue Holdings (AU:COB) was one of the cobalt companies on the rise after the in-demand battery material reached a new high on the London Metal Exchange on Friday of US$88,375 per tonne.Staff reporterCobalt Blue Holdings rises on Thackaringa upgrade19 MARCH 201819/03/2018commentsshareCOB hit a 52-week high intraday and closed up almost 3% today as it announced a significant...Read More
The discount of gem-quality, lab-created diamonds, manufactured for use in jewellery, relative to natural diamonds has doubled from 11-20% a year ago to 28-40% today, according to a survey of prices. Paul Zimnisky* Will the future of diamond production be in the lab, as opposed to the mine?19 MARCH 201819/03/2018commentsshareArthur G. Graham, Avakash Patel and Grant Malensek...SPONSOREDRoscoe pos...Read More
Since its inception, Cannabis Wheaton Income Corp. (TSXV:CBW) has developed its streaming platform by funding numerous cannabis facilities/partners across CanadaSmallCapPower | March 19, 2018: Cannabis Wheaton Income Corp. (TSXV:CBW) Thursday announced that it has entered an agreement with Ontario-based R&D firm Honest Inc, part of Province Brands of Canada, the first global brand offering pro...Read More
Renewables could be a major part of all off-grid mining power sources, energy company Total EREN says after opening a solar plant next to Iamgold's (CN:IMG) Essakane gold mine in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso president Roch Marc Christian Kabor?(C) (centre) toured the US$25 million project last week with IAMGold CEO Steve Letwin (on the right)19 MARCH 201819/03/2018commentsshare A Total EREN and Afri...Read More
The Klondex Mines Fire Creek gold mine in Lander, County, Nevada. Source: Klondex Mines Ltd.Under the offer, Klondex shareholders will receive US$2.47 per share in cash or shares of Hecla, marking a 59% premium to Klondex's 30-day volume weighted average prices as at March 16, 2018.On Monday, Klondex shares jumped 60.56% or C$1.09 to $2.89. The 52-week range is $6.45 and $1.66.CI Investments and S...Read More