Gold Exploration in the Republic of IrelandRead full newsRead More
CEO Oliver Schacht from Curetis (EN Amsterdam:CURE) tells Proactive Investors says their Unyvero Platform finds killer bugs in hospitals and tells doctors which antibiotics to use.Schacht says they expect the FDA to approve the platform and first product in the U.S. which is a test for life-threatening ammonia. Schacht says he anticipates this to happen in the next few weeks. Meet Medusa Min...Read More
FTSE 100 rises 59 pointsRetail sales rise less than expected Segro shares jump after well-received results Property company Segro PLC (LON:SGRO) led the Footsie higher on Friday after a strong set of results.The FTSE 100 closed at 7,295, up 60 points on the day and more than 200 points on the week.SEGRO topped the leader-board with a 6.5% rise to 591.2p after reporting a 25.7% increase i...Read More
Investors are shunning the mining sector, data from Thomson Reuters shows, as they struggle to forget the string of multi-billion dollar takeovers and expensive development projects that left them empty handed.Read full newsRead More
As shareholders push the world's cash-rich miners to maintain lush dividends and make the most of existing assets, Glencore is taking a slightly different tactic that positions it for shrewd acquisitions.Read full newsRead More
Elektron Technology plc (LON:EKT) said it has completed the sale of subsidiary Queensgate Nano to Prior Scientific Instruments Ltd in a deal worth up to ?1.6mln, sending its shares higher.The speciality device maker will receive an initial cash consideration of ?800,000 and will be entitled to 50% of product sales revenue above ?900,000 in the 12 months after completion of the deal. T...Read More
Hated by politicians, speculators and money-launderers, Andy Yan's data on Vancouver housing has earned him the right to say, 'I told you so'Read full newsRead More
Velocity Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:VLC) reports the results of its annual general meeting of shareholders held on February 15, 2018 in Vancouver, British Columbia.All the motions presented to the shareholders were approved.Read full newsRead More
Bitcoin prices are the worst nightmare for blockchain critics. After breaking the previously unimaginable $10,000 level, bitcoin plummeted from profit-taking. But soon after, trading normalized, sending bitcoin well above $11,000. However, this robust success represents a quandary: interest for lower-priced “penny cryptocurrencies” has never been higher, yet relatively few know where t...Read More
The idea of endlessly repeated cycles is a very old one. This is how the ancients perceived time: not as linear sequence of events, but as replaying patterns of dark and golden ages. Although the Judeo-Christian culture changed the way we view time, we like to see the market as an area of constant struggle between bulls and bears, and the resulting upward and downward trends.Since the end of the B...Read More
Ahmet Dik, chief executive of Victoria Oil & Gas plc (LON:VOG), tells Proactive's Andrew Scott fourth quarter gas sales were up just short of 19% from the preceding three months.Gross sales amounted to 726mln cubic feet in the fourth quarter, which also represents an 11% increase in the year-on-year comparative.Dik says they're giving top priority to solving the ENEO issue and management are c...Read More
Bill Morgan, CFO at Anglo Asian Mining Plc (LON:AAZ), talks through their recent debt refinancing as well as production targets for 2018.The refinancing will releasing US$8.4mln of capital to accelerate 2018 expansion and optimisation plans, as the principal required for repayment this year will drop to just US$5.1mln from the previous US$13.5mln. Meet Medusa Mining, Cora Gold, Group Eleven...Read More
It will be a bumper time for corporate earnings in the coming week, with over 15% of the FTSE 100 reporting results, though the main focus will be squarely on the banking sector.HSBC PLC (LON:HSBA), Barclays PLC (LON:BARC), Lloyds Banking Group PLC (LON:LLOY), and Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (LON:RBS) will also report numbers, with Laith Khalaf, senior analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown expecting a mix...Read More
Mining Capital's Alastair Ford discusses the appointment of former prominent South African mining figure Cyril Ramaphosa as the country's new president.Ford says it's important for the country to know they'll be lead by people who have the economy at the centre of their minds.''Overall the global investment community seems to like this appointment'', he adds. Meet Medusa Mining, Cora Gold, G...Read More
Story by Jeff DesjardinsCourtesy of: Visual CapitalistSince the invention of the internal combustion engine, there have been many incredible innovations made in the auto industry.Manufacturers created new body styles and market segments, automatic transmissions and power steering were introduced, and safety features such as airbags made passengers much safer. Computers were even added into cars to...Read More
Diversified miner replaces Canadian civil servant-turned business leader with the sameRead full newsRead More
TORONTO, Feb. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Innovation Metals Corp. ("IMC"), a private company specializing in cost-effective processing solutions for critical metals, is pleased to announce the recent award of a research contract from Natural Resources Canada ("NRCan"), for work on the production of rare-earth-element ("REE") oxides and alloys.The contract was awarded as part of NRCan's Rare Earth...Read More
(Bloomberg) - Sweden will step up efforts to find precious minerals such as cobalt and lithium, key battery components that are increasingly in demand among makers of electric vehicles.The government will invest 10 million kronor ($1.26 million) over the next two years to map the existence of minerals deemed important for future growth. While Sweden has a history of mining for base metals, the Ge...Read More
(Bloomberg) - A deal that kept the peace at Russia's biggest mining company for more than five years is starting to fray, leaving three billionaires fighting over the next move.Attorneys for Oleg Deripaska, Vladimir Potanin and Roman Abramovich faced off in London court on Friday in a conflict triggered by Abramovich's desire to sell his stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel PJSC, which could shift the sha...Read More
The gold miners' stocks weathered the recent stock-market plunge really well. As evident in their leading GDX ETF, they were already beaten down before stock markets started falling. The resulting explosion of fear bled into GDX, forcing it even lower. Nevertheless, no major technical damage was done. GDX remained well within its consolidation trend channel and is still within striking dis...Read More