https://www.azcentral.com/With the impending closure of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant near Page in December 2019, hundreds of power plant workers and coal miners will need new jobs. Arizona’s copper mines could offer them opportunity.Thanks to rebounding copper prices, copper mines across Arizona have hundreds of job openings today. The major companies, Freeport-McMoRa...Read More
We all know by now that marijuana has taken over the United States and Canada.The U.S. market is projected to be a $14.5 billion business this year.Canada is opening its doors for full regulation this summer, and is slated to bring in around $10 billion. Those are both massive markets, and I'm heavily exposed to each. But that isn't what I'm excited about right now. I'm waiting for the entire glo...Read More
China is the world's biggest gold producer, accounting for 15% of global output.And in 2017, its production tumbled 9% - a record drop.This is not a typical occurrence.In fact, it's only the second time since 1980 (37 years) that China's gold output has fallen. But since 2016, authorities in Beijing have increased their scrutiny of gold mining. That's led to broad closure of smaller mines in the c...Read More
"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become...Read More
(Dash Force News) Google has announced that it will be cracking down on cryptocurrency-related advertising, furthering the "crypto blackout" online.According to new policies relating to financial services to be rolled out in June, among newly banned content will be anything related to cryptocurrency:"Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cry...Read More
"Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from increased policing to all-seeing electronic surveillance, the public schools of the twenty-first century reflect a society that has become...Read More
(Dash Force News) Google has announced that it will be cracking down on cryptocurrency-related advertising, furthering the "crypto blackout" online.According to new policies relating to financial services to be rolled out in June, among newly banned content will be anything related to cryptocurrency:"Cryptocurrencies and related content (including but not limited to initial coin offerings, cry...Read More
Ms. Molly Campbell of Resource Capital reportsRESOURCE CAPITAL FUND VI L.P. ANNOUNCES DISPOSITION OF WARRANTS IN VENDETTA MININGOn March 15, 2018, Resource Capital Fund VI LP sold an aggregate of 5.35 million warrants of Vendetta Mining Corp. exercisable for 5.35 million common shares of the company, representing approximately 4.1 per cent of the issued and outstanding common shares assuming exerc...Read More
Mark Ferguson of S&P Global Market Intelligence talks about gold projects and exploration in this PDAC 2018 video interview.Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1316.50-$8.70Silver$16.39-$0.16XAU78.81-1.23%HUI171.57-1.50%GDM600.49-1.22%JSE Gold1067.94-9.34USD90.15+0.41Euro123.05-0.62Yen94.11-0.03Oil$61.19+$0.2310-Year2.825%+0.008T-Bond145.96875+0.09375Dow24873.66+0.47%Nasdaq7481.74-0.20%S&P2747.33-0.08% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1327.90 in Asia before it dropped back to $1315.00 in midafternoon New York trade and then bounc...Read More
The Russia-Britain spat needs to be closely watched. Any deterioration of relations between the two nations will be bullish for gold and bearish for the US dollar. Theresa May is using Russia as a way to divert attention from her political woes and Brexit fears. All international treaties and conventions have been broken by the UK over the killing of an ex spy. I am not even sure whether the UK...Read More
Both Canadian and American markets spent Thursday morning inching back into the green, but commodities went tumbling down.Read full newsRead More
Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM)(LON:FQM) denounced that some workers and leaders from an outside union have been carrying out protest actions since March 9, 2018, which have "reduced the level of work being performed on the [Cobre Panama] project."The information was provided by First Quantum in a media statement and also during a press conference held today by representatives of M...Read More
FTSE 100 closes up around 7ptsFinancial stocks gainTesco gains on JP Morgan upgradeHammerson hammered FTSE 100 closed higher - just - as the Dow Jones in the US rallied amid an easing over trade war tensions.Britain's blue chip index closed up around seven points, or 0.10%, at 7,139, while FTSE 250 was equally lacklustre, adding just around eight points at 19,828.There was no major UK da...Read More
A 'An-12' airplane taking off after refuelling at an airport in Siberia lost almost 172 bars of gold/silver dore that fell to the ground after breaking through the loading bay fuselage. The bars, which originally came from Kinross' Kupol mine in Chukotka, northeastern Russia, weighted 20 kilos each and ended up scattered on the runway and the fields that surround the airport.According to local med...Read More
Astorius Resources Ltd. (TSXV: ASQ, Frankfurt: 47AF)("Astorius" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that alluvial mining consultants, Velrub Ltd. ("Velrub"), have been hired to perform exploration work on both the Company's Condor and Osos1 concessions located in Ecuador.Read full newsRead More
Vernalis plc (LON:VER) shares fell 0.12% to 4.25p in early afternoon trading as the pharmaceutical company put itself up for sale and began winding down its US operations.The AIM-listed firm announced that as part of the strategic review, it has decided to seek offers for the company and will begin to wind down its US commercial business with immediate effect.In the period through to the end of Se...Read More
Blackrock Gold Corporation (TSXV: BRC) ('Blackrock' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that it has closed the non?EUR'brokered private placement that was announced on February 2, 2018, and March 6, 2018. The private placement was originally intended to raise $800,000 and amended to raise $1,300,000.Read full newsRead More
Panasonic confirmed today that they started producing their first battery cells for electric cars in China.Read full newsRead More
The Canadian Dollar dropped, testing the lows of 2018, following CREA data showing existing home sales crashed to the lowest since 2013 and price appreciation slowed dramatically.Read full newsRead More