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 Mike CaswellRan Armon, a Toronto-area man charged in the United States for a fraudulent on-line trading firm, has pleaded not guilty. He entered the plea in a nine-minute appearance before New Jersey Magistrate Judge Cathy Waldor. She permitted Mr. Armon to go fr...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 Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Tuesday was a positive 88-71-119. The TSX Venture Exchange added another 20 points to 867 while polished diamond prices dropped 0.15 per cent. Thin-trading and effectively bankrupt True North Gem...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 ReporterNew York spot gold gained $14.60 to $1,317.10 on Tuesday. The TSX Venture Exchange rose 20.32 points to 871.04 while the TSX Gold Index added 3.88 points to 199.34. McEwen Mining Inc. (MUX) was strong, adding 23 cents to $3.09 on 981,0...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 climbed 20.35 points to 871.07 Tuesday. Ron Ho's first capital pool shell, the halted Spada Gold Ltd. (SPL), has completed its qualifying transaction, acquiring three gold properties in the Ivory Coast (see She...Read More
by: Paul ZimniskyThrough mid-December 2017, rough diamond prices are up 2.7%* year-to-date, while polished prices are down 3.5%**. However, despite shrinking manufacturer margins, the midstream segment of the industry still bought $5.3B worth of diamonds from De Beers this year, including $450M at the final sight which was 7% over the comparable sight last year and 81% over 2015. De Beers' full-...Read More
Paper is a check drawn by legal looters upon an account which is not theirs: upon the virtue of the victims. Watch for the day when it bounces, marked, 'Account overdrawn.' - Francisco's "Money" Speech - from "Atlas Shrugged"You have to love it - the City of Houston issues $1.01 billion "pension obligation" bonds to "ease" the underfunding of the underfunded public pension fund. "Pension under...Read More
A few weeks ago, Meridian Mining (MNO.V) released the results of a Preliminary Economic Assessment it had commissioned on its Bom Futuro tailings project in Brazil where it plans to process the tailings to recover the tin. These tailings were the result of the historic Bom Futuro tin mine, which produced almost half a billion pounds of tin and as the metallurgical processes weren't as efficient as...Read More
Mason Graphite's Lac Gueret graphite project near Baie Comeau, Quebec. Source: Mason Graphite Inc.Mason Graphite Inc. [LLG-TSXV; MGPHF-OTCQX] said Thursday January 4 that it has raised $45 million from a private placement offering of 18.75 million shares priced at $2.40 per share.Mason is a graphite mining and processing company focused on developing the 100%-owned Lac Gueret Project in northern Q...Read More
The Fort Hills oil sands project is located 90 km north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. Source: Suncor Energy Inc.Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] and Suncor Energy Inc. [SU-TSX] are taking a bigger stake in the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta, Teck said in a progress update. With an expected mine life in excess of 50 years, the Fort Hills oil sands project in the Athabasca region of...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop 2018: The Year of Living DangerouslySource: Michael Ballanger for Streetwise Reports January 4, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) What does the New Year hold in terms of prospects for investors in gold, silver and copper? How will central banks and cryptocu...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Expert Calls this Explorer a BuySource: Adrian Day for Streetwise Reports January 4, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Adrian Day of Adrian Day Asset Management describes why investors should consider this "well-run gold exploration company with downside pr...Read More
Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop Peat Resources Limited (TSXV: PET) Announces Increase in Size of Private Placement Toronto, Ontario - January 4, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Peat Resources Limited (TSXV: PET) (the "Company"), announces that the Company is increasing...Read More
The United States was founded on secession. It didn’t have to be violent, but it was. Whose fault was that? Was it the United States’ fault for insisting on more local governance? Or was it England’s fault for ignoring the consent of the governed?In 1991, when Ukraine and Belarus declared their independence from the USSR, things did not end violently. They were allowed to exit th...Read More
Investors jumped back into copper on Thursday after reports that top consumer China is slashing import quotas of scrap metal, a bullish development first rumoured last year.After pulling back over the first three trading days of the year, Comex copper bounced back to just below $3.30 a pound ($7,270 per tonne) in New York, up over 1% from Wednesday's settlement. While gains were pared by early af...Read More
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A solar system learning park designed by a group of Mines students could soon come to life in Denver's Northeast Park Hill neighborhood. The students of Team Naztek designed the scaled solar system - with an interactive sundial representing the sun and fiberglass planets placed to scale to represent their true distances in the solar system - for their Capstone Design project. They met with Denver...Read More
A new report by BMI research says that refined nickel prices will continue to lose steam in the coming months due to increased supply from Indonesia, subdued demand from China and fading overly-optimistic demand expectations from electric vehicle production."We have kept our nickel price forecast at $10,000/tonne for 2018 and expect prices to head lower over our forecast period from 2017-2021 as t...Read More
Prince Harry's recent engagement combined with the massive success of Netflix's series The Crown has reignited people's and media's interest in the British monarchy.This is probably why newspapers and news sites around the UK paid special attention this week to the fact that later in 2018 the Clogau St David's mine, located near Bontddu in North Wales, might reopen after two decades of inactivity....Read More
Vancouver-based ML Gold Corp.(TSXV: MLG) announced that is has started a winter drilling program on the Stars property, located 40 kilometres south-west of Houston, British Columbia. The company acquired the mine in November from Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. and Divitiae Resources.In a press release, ML Gold informed that it has mobilized a diamond drill rig and drilling is underway. The program...Read More
https://www.economist.com/They offer steady jobs, but some miners would rather hunt stones on their ownAT THE bottom of a muddy basin surrounded by verdant mountains, Dora Alicia Hern??ndez combs through black sludge and rock in the faint hope of finding an emerald valuable enough to lift her out of poverty. "All we need is one shiny stone," she says, as rainclouds smother the mountains overhead....Read More