TSX VENTURE: AAZwww.azincourtenergy.com Mr. Alex Klenman reports:VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AZINCOURT ENERGY CORP. ("Azincourt" or the "Company") (TSXV:AAZ) is pleased to announce the commencement of the previously announced exploration work program at the Company's East Preston uranium project with option partners Skyharbour Resources Ltd. and Clean Commodities...Read More
Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) said Monday it expected its Democratic Republic of the Congo mine to achieve full production this year, following the commissioning of its underground operation's automated ore handling and hoisting system.Mine is on track to produce its target of 700,000 ounces of gold in 2018.The company, which has five operating gold mines across west...Read More
Barely a week after finding the world's fifth-biggest diamond in history, Africa-focused Gem Diamonds (LON:GEMD) has unearthed yet another massive rock at its flagship Let??eng mine in Lesotho.The 149-carat, D colour, Type IIa rough diamond is the fourth high quality stone of over 100 carats the company has recovered so far this year at its prolific mine. Earlier in the month the miner discover...Read More
Rising mineral prices and the struggle to earn a living from agriculture have led to an "explosive growth" in global artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the last few years, a new study published Monday shows.Artisanal and small-scale miners produce about 20% of the current global gold supply.According the report, produced by Canada's Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Su...Read More
Mining giant Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) is setting up a new office in Mongolia, independent from its massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine, which will focus on exploration and local links.The opening of the new unit, based in capital city Ulaanbaatar, shows Rio's vote of confidence in a nation that has recently been on Oyu Tolgoi's case.The new office, separate from Rio's presence in the Oyu Tolgoi m...Read More
A collapse at an abandoned gold mine in Uzbekistan has resulted in one death and roughly 20 trapped underground.Radio Free Europe reported on Thursday that around 30 illegal gold miners managed to escape after the cave-in in Sarmarkand – located in the country's southeast. About 20 could not make it back up to surface. The mine used to be run by state-owned Navoiy Mining and Metallurgy Comb...Read More
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/Republican lawmakers are trying to counter accusations that the Trump administration drastically shrank the boundaries of the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah to benefit the uranium mining industry.Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, introduced a bill last month that explicitly bars mining and drilling in the new monument area as well as in the land that was protected b...Read More
What is this wizardry?We live in the future now. Backflipping robots, driverless cars and now the Shapeshifters have arrived.Have you heard of the new software that can make a sunny street appear snow covered in real time? It’s called ‘Image Translation.’Put on some goggles and you’ll make Alaska look like Hawaii.Or how about the software that changes the facial movements y...Read More
What is this wizardry?We live in the future now. Backflipping robots, driverless cars and now the Shapeshifters have arrived.Have you heard of the new software that can make a sunny street appear snow covered in real time? It’s called ‘Image Translation.’Put on some goggles and you’ll make Alaska look like Hawaii.Or how about the software that changes the facial movements y...Read More
Think it's time for the rocking chair when you're in your 70s? Dakota Fred Hurt talks to us about the thrills and dangers of extreme mining on Gold Rush: White Water!Read full newsRead More
VRIC 2018 top picks predictions - Marin Katusa, Rick Rule, and Frank Holmes The Vancouver Resource investment conference kicks off on Sunday morning with Marin Katusa, Rick Rule, and Frank Ho...Read full newsRead More
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A collapse at an abandoned gold mine in Uzbekistan has resulted in one death and roughly 20 trapped underground.Radio Free Europe reported on Thursday that around 30 illegal gold miners managed to escape after the cave-in in Sarmarkand - located in the country's southeast. About 20 could not make it back up to surface. The mine used to be run by state-owned Navoiy Mining and Metallurgy Combine bu...Read More
Perseus Mining (ASX,TSX:PRU) will soon start pouring gold from its Sissingu?(C) gold mine in C??te d'Ivoire, having delivered the first crushed ore to the mill and processing plant earlier this month.Dual-listed Perseus already has a producing mine, the Edikan gold mine in Ghana, which comprises a group of large gold deposits located in the Ashanti gold belt. The Sissingu?(C) mine would be the...Read More
Tahoe Resources (TSX, NYSE:THO) is denying a media report issued on Thursday that its Shahuindo mine in Peru has contaminated local water supplies.The story (in Spanish) by Cajabamba Peru, stated that heavy rains caused a leaching pit to overflow and flooded a nearby village."The heavy rains that have occurred that in the early hours of today, one of the waste pits of this company overflowed and...Read More
Budget cuts within the NHS have crippled Deltex Medical in recent years, leading the blood-flow-monitoring technology firm to try and seek its fortune elsewhere.One territory where it has shifted its focus towards is the US and this week it secured a "major" new hospital across the pond as a customer - news which sent the shares soaring.The hospital - supposedly among the top ten in the States - w...Read More
Bob Moriarty of 321 Gold sees a lot of potential in this company's Nova Scotia and Newfoundland projects.Read full newsRead More
When it comes to acquiring this piece of Southern Nevada real estate, there's nothing wrong with getting the shaft.Read full newsRead More
One report claimed that a leaching pit had overflowed at Tahoe's Shahuindo mine site, flooding a nearby village with toxic materialsRead full newsRead More
Stung by some lousy investments that led to billions of dollars in losses a few years ago, the world's major gold producers have cut way back on mining dealsRead full newsRead More