Chile's state development agency Corfo plans to file an arbitration suit against US lithium miner Albemarle in two weeks, claiming the world's No.1 producer of the white commodity has failed to adhere to the terms of a contract dating back to 2016.Such document says Albemarle must provide as much as 25% of its annual production at a discount (or "preferential price") to companies seeking to produc...Read More
Commodity bull Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is undaunted by the sell-off in raw materials and is forecasting returns of about 17 percent in the coming months, describing the current situation as unsustainable and touting this week's G-20 meeting in Buenos Aires as a potential turning point."Given the size of dislocations in commodity pricing relative to fundamentals - with oil now having joined metals...Read More
MELBOURNE - A hive of mine exploration activity is underway in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, led by Rio Tinto Ltd , which has boosted its holdings 10-fold in the little explored Paterson province in the past year.Rio's interest in the area - flagged by its application for nearly 30 exploration licenses - has sparked a stampede into adjacent lots by other explorers, who...Read More
Mr. Steve Fray reportsGOLDMONEY INC. ANNOUNCES UPDATE OF DISTRIBUTION OF MENE INC. (TSXV:MENE)Goldmoney Inc. has provided an update on the pro rata distribution of Mene Inc. Class B subordinate voting shares to Goldmoney shareholders, as previously announced on Nov. 14, 2018. The details of the distribution are summarized in the attached table.IssuerGoldmoney Inc.SecurityCommon shares Issuer's sym...Read More
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
Mr. Ivan Bebek reportsAURYN IDENTIFIES MULTIPLE COPPER-GOLD DRILL TARGETS AT SOMBREROAuryn Resources Inc. has identified several kilometre-scale targets under copper-gold surface mineralization at its Sombrero project in southern Peru.The targets identified tend to begin at surface and can continue to a depth of 600 metres, representing more than one substantial opportunity for skarn and porphyry...Read More
Mr. Rudi Fronk reportsSEABRIDGE GOLD CLOSES $14.0 MILLION PRIVATE PLACEMENTSeabridge Gold Inc. has closed its previously announced non-brokered private placement of one million common shares of the company at a price of $14 per share for gross proceeds of $14-million. No commissions were payable on this transaction. The proceeds from the financing will be used to finance general working capital re...Read More
Roscan Gold (TSX-V: ROS) announced that it is moving forward with the development of its Kandiol?(C) Project and has just started a 3,500-metre Air Core drilling program, designed to test several of the numerous gold geochemical anomalies identified at the site.Kandiol?(C) is 100%-owned by the Canadian miner and it is located in the gold prospective Birimian Rocks of West Mali, east of B2Gold's Fe...Read More
China has already blocked more than 11 million flights and 4 million high-speed train trips for people who had poor social credit scores... Read full newsRead More
Goldcorp (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) and IBM Canada (NYSE:IBM) just launched IBM Exploration with Watson, a new technology that applies artificial intelligence to predict the potential for gold mineralization and is also capable of using search and query capabilities across a range of exploration datasets."The potential to radically accelerate exploration target identification combined with significantly imp...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Bankers Cobalt Corp. (TSXV: BANC) (OTCQB:NDENF) (the "Corporation" or "Bankers"), is pleased to announce entering a two year option agreement to acquire a 70% interest in an additional 943 km ? permit showing high potential for copper, cobalt and other metals including silver and gold adjoining the recently acquired Kamanjab Project in Namibia.Grant Dempsey, President and COO of Ba...Read More
Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), is pleased to announce that as a result of its expanding distribution partners, it has won a minimum $750,000 tender to supply its UV350 in-vehicle smartphone, Push-to-Talk rugged handsets and other accessories to an enterprise end user.Marc Seelenfreund, CEO and Chairman of Siyata Mobile commented...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index had a tough time generating any upward movement and slid a further 23.3 points or 2% to 1083.55 making for a 6% loss in the last three weeks.MACD fell -0.1 point to -2.7 for its second down week in a row. RSI also dropped moving down 2.4 points from 30.1 to 28.77. Som...Read More
"Weekly Big News Round-Up. What happened in the Resource sector in the past week? Find out here: https://t.co/0pfowSstxC #resource #mining #investing"Read full newsRead More
A dividend of 0.35p (US0.45c) per share for the financial year ended June 30, 2018, was approved by an overwhelming majority at the company's annual general meeting on November 23.It will be paid out on November 30 to shareholders on the register on October 19.The company previously reported a net profit of US$11 million for the financial year, up 24% year-on-year, with group EBITDA also up 21% to...Read More
Will GE be the proverbial "black swan?" - It had come to my attention that General Electric was locked out of the commercial paper market three weeks ago after Moody's downgraded GE's short term credit rating to a ratings level (P-2) that prevents prime money market funds from investing in commercial paper. Commercial paper (CP) is an important source of short term, low-cost, liquid funding for la...Read More
A selection of uncut and unpolished emerald crystals from the Coscuez Mine, Colombia. Source: Fura Gems Inc.Fura Gems Inc. [FURA-TSXV; FUGMF-OTC; BJ43-FSE] said Monday November 26 that it is proceeding with a $5.25 million private placement that will be used to fund development of the company's emerald and ruby assets in Colombia and Mozambique.Fura is a member of the Forbes & Manhattan Group,...Read More
Share this articleCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela will hold onto its U.S.-based Citgo refineries, settling a lawsuit that threw ownership of the struggling country's prized assets into peril.Court papers show that Venezuela on Friday began paying off $1.4 billion that a panel said was owed to the Canadian mining firm Crystallex, following a disputed takeover of the company by the late-President Hug...Read More
On Saturday, I stopped by Royal Farms to grab a cup of coffee.The guy standing in line ahead of me was there to get change after pumping gasoline.I overheard him tell the cashier, "I've got change on pump seven. I can't believe gas is only $2.25. I thought $20 would fill it."Turns out he's not the only one surprised by lower gas prices.Social media was buzzing over the weekend with posts about che...Read More
Share this articleTORONTO - Canada's main stock index was higher in late-morning trading as the energy sector headed up amid rising oil prices, while U.S. stocks also gained ground.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 67.97 points at 15,078.70.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 343.58 points at 24,629.53. The S&P 500 index was up 33.55 points at 2,666.11, while the Nasdaq composite...Read More