Roxgold Inc. (TSX:ROXG) announced that the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development of Burkina Faso has granted the company permitting approval to develop the Bagassi South project, located within its high-grade Yaramoko gold mine in the Hound?(C) greenstone region of the West African country."The approval of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment for Bagassi South allows us to...Read More
Wallbridge Mining Company Limited (TSX:WM, FWB: WC7) ('Wallbridge') is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Attila Pentek as Vice President, Exploration effective January 1, 2018, subject to TSX approval.Read full newsRead More
It could be the sharp urban-rural divide, worries about a breakdown in authority or scars from the 2009 uprising. But whatever the cause, residents of the capital are sitting this one out.Read full newsRead More
NEW YORK/LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A severe winter stormfroze pipes and disrupted services at refineries on the U.S.Atlantic coast on Thursday, sending fuel prices higher as heavysnowfall and high winds caused electricity outages for almost80,000 homes and businesses.The only nuclear plantRead full newsRead More
The U.K. Health and Safety Executive is investigating the causes of a crack in a key North Sea oil pipeline that disrupted production at more than 80 fields for weeks.Read full newsRead More
Both countries have floated plans to create homegrown virtual currencies that would put them outside the global financial and banking system.Read full newsRead More
Sexual intimacy cures have been pedalled for centuries but science is now in the marketplace with, among others, Futura Medical's (LON:FUM) MED2002 gel getting noticed in all the right places.The publication, The Journal of Sexual Medicine, is a bit late to the party given that the headline results were announced back in September 2016 but Futura said it nonetheless shows the growing "level...Read More
Israel may ban from trading on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange companies whose main business revolves around bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the Israel Securities Authority (ISA), the country's markets regulator, said on Thursday.Read full newsRead More
Online supermarket Ocado Group PLC (LON:OCDO) was helping the FTSE 250 to reach new highs on Thursday afternoon.The ?2.8bn company was the subject of a double whammy of City chatter about a potential new European contract as well as renewed takeover speculation.On the back of Ocado's tie-up with French grocer Casino back in November, reports in Sweden have suggested a deal with Swedish retailer I...Read More
Qataris allege they were prevented from performing the Umrah pilgrimage by Saudi authorities.Read full newsRead More
Norway beat back an unprecedented lawsuit by environmental groups that sought to curb oil drilling in the country's Arctic waters.Read full newsRead More
Two tankers can turn off their transmitters, rendezvous in secret and transfer the cargo.Read full newsRead More
Mr. Nelson Baker reports MINERAL MOUNTAIN LTD. JOINS OTCQXMineral Mountain Resources Ltd. has been called to trade on the OTC Market's prestigious tier, OTCQX International. The company trades in the United States on OTCQX under the symbol MNRLF.Mineral Mountain Resources began trading on OTCQX International on Jan. 2, 2018. Investors can find current financial disclosure and realtime Level 2 quot...Read More
With the Federal Reserve's latest meeting minutes showing a divide between policymakers over how fast interest rates need to rise this year, official US jobs data will be closely eyed on Friday.The US non-farm payrolls report is expected to show employers added 188,000 jobs in December, compared to 228,000 in November.The jobless rate is forecast to remain at 4.1%.Average hourly earnings growth is...Read More
Paul Welch CEO of SDX (LON:SDX, CVE:SDX) brings Proactive up to date with flow testing on their three wells drilled in Morocco...all contributing significantly now to SDX's infrastructure and supply ambitions for 2018. Additionally, the company has now secured a four-month extension to the current phase of the Lalla Mimouna permit, also onshore Morocco, through to July 22 so that it will have suff...Read More
JEFF DESJARDINS on January 4, 2018Courtesy of: Visual CapitalistIn 1989, the idea for the exchange-traded fund (ETF) was born.Initially marketed to investors as Index Participation Shares, this innovative new product was meant to be a proxy for the S&P 500 that also traded on an exchange like a stock. After being launched, this early ETF prototype was immediately targeted by lawyers of the Chicag...Read More
Commodities are forging a record-setting run of gains that straddles the end of 2017 and the start of the new year as crude oil notches multiyear highs and investors bet that booming global manufacturing output will help to sustain rising demand for raw materials.Read full newsRead More
Meet Globe 24-7 at one of the world's premier technical mineral exploration conferences, AME's Mineral Exploration Roundup 2018 will take place in beautiful Vancouver, BC. Every year, explorers from around the world come together to share their latest findings, stories, successes and innovative ideas to further the exploration industry.As the industry gains momentum, and sees a resurgence in many...Read More
While it's pulled back a bit since New Year, the price of copper ended 2017 near a four-year high of $3.30 a pound ($7,260 per tonne) extending the bull run in the red metal for a second year. Measured from its multi-year lows struck at the beginning of 2016, copper has gained more than 70% in value.The rally for zinc has been even more spectacular with the metal, mainly used to galvanize steel, e...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business ReporterThe TSX Venture Exchange had its sixth consecutive up-day, climbing 18.9 points to 889.94 Wednesday. Alan Friedman's Tova Ventures II Inc. (TOVA) has arranged to acquire Enthusiast Gaming Inc. as its qualifying transaction. Enthusiast...Read More