* Looking to bolster profitable equipment division* Iberian equipment business sold for $180 mln* Focus on acquisitions in construction and mining sectorsJOHANNESBURG - Barloworld Ltd is in talks to buy a business from Caterpillar Inc using proceeds from the sale of a unit earlier this year, the head of the South African equipment maker said on Monday.Barloworld sold its underperforming Iberian eq...Read More
Kootenay Silver (TSXV: KTN) announced that its wholly-owned Mexican subsidiary entered into an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Columba silver project, which hosts a past-producing mine and is located in the northwestern state of Chihuahua, Mexico.Under the terms of the agreement, Kootenay Silver can acquire a 100% ownership in the concessions by making staged payments of $3.29 m...Read More
Vancouver-based Tasca Resources (TSX.V:TAC) expanded its New Princeton Gold discovery area in British Columbia to 14,650 hectares by completing a staking program of 10,637 hectares surrounding the project.In a media statement, the company said the expansion made sense following a recent gold discovery from the bedrock trenching.Tasca explained that 51 bedrock samples and five float samples were ta...Read More
World's largest miner BHP (ASX, NYSE: BHP) (LON:BLT) said Monday it had settled its long-running tax battle with Australia's tax authorities concerning its marketing operations in Singapore.As part of the settlement reached with the Australian Tax Office (ATO), BHP is paying about A$529 million ($386.43 million) in additional taxes on income for 2003 to 2018, it said in the statement.The mining gi...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee"), the most advanced platform for the distribution of consumer-relevant product information, is pleased to announce its financial results for the three and nine months ending September 30, 2018. The Company is pleased to show quarter on quarter revenue growth 56%, rising to $74,202 from $47,480. The financial h...Read More
Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), a leading global developer and provider of cellular communications systems, is pleased to announce the completion of a supply agreement with a leading Tier 1 cellular carrier in the United States. This agreement is a prerequisite to launching the Uniden (R) UV350 with this operator in the U.S. and...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 INK CIN Index couldn't muster more than about 5 points to the upside before falling, rolling over, and continuing its correction. The Index fell 26.9 points to close the week at 1106.85 for a 2.4% decline, amounting to a stinging two-week loss of 4%.MACD tumbled 7.7 points...Read More
Nearly two months ago, Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX) announced it was acquiring Randgold Resources in a massive deal to become the largest gold company on the planet, with a diversified portfolio of mines that straddles the globe, which includes owning half of the top 10 producing mines on the planet.In the period since then, Barrick provided a less-than-stellar quarterly update and floated di...Read More
RNC Minerals (TSX:RNX), formerly known as Royal Nickel has been mired in relative obscurity. That is until, the company made a significant gold find. Fool contributor Neha Chamaria published a good breakdown on what the find means for the company.To recap briefly, the company found a major gold deposit at its Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia. Ironically, it was also a mine that the company had...Read More
Gold pour at the Aurora Mine in Guyana, South America. Source: Guyana Goldfields Inc.Guyana Goldfields Inc. [GUY-TSX; OTC-GUYFF] has been asked to cease all activity related to underground development at its Aurora Mine in Guyana, South America.A Guyanese newspaper reported over the weekend that the request came from the country's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according to a report by Sco...Read More
Rob McLeod, President and CEO of IDM Mining, shows off the 10 g/t gold mineralization underground at the Red Mountain Mine.Aben Resources Ltd. [ABN-TSXV; ABNAF-OTC; E2L-FSE] reported drill results from the Forrest Kerr Project. Results continue to reveal near-surface high-grade gold mineralization at the Boundary Zone and demonstrate potential for new discoveries.For step-out drilling at the North...Read More
2018 has been a most… interesting year for me. In life, I believe there are 3 main aspects that we all seek to maximize in order to be happy: Wealth, Health, Relationships.Wealth.This first key component hasn’t really gone as expected for me this year… It’s only with the benefit of hindsight when we can reflect back and kind of figure out just exactly what went right/wrong...Read More
Kirsten Marcia is the founder of DEEP and its President and CEO.As noted on the DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP) website, geothermal energy is the only renewable power that is independent of wind and sunshine and produces continuous power made available by an energy producer (baseload). This green energy source provides zero carbon-based fuel consumption and leaves a small environmental f...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ABN) (OTCQB: ABNAF) (Frankfurt: E2L2) reports further results from the recently completed drill program at the Forrest Kerr Project. Drilling has extended the mineralized envelope surrounding the 2017 and 2018 high-grade gold discoveries at North Boundary. This round of focused drilling tested for the depth and lateral extension of know...Read More
The State of New York has a new plan to fight the nation's opioid crisis. And it's a real doozy.The state has gathered together the brightest and most intelligent team in order to create a radical and revolutionary new strategy that's probably guaranteed to stop opioid abuse dead in its tracks...It's raising taxes.Surprised?Of course you're not. Government's solution to every problem is to raise t...Read More
Harold Cheuvront, Colorado School of Mines' longtime vice president of student life and dean of students, oversaw major growth and development in athletics and student life over his three decades of service to the Oredigger community.Among his many accomplishments was the completion of more than $150 million in construction - projects that helped forge the Mines campus into what it is today, inclu...Read More
Make that four years in a row - students from Colorado School of Mines have qualified for the 2019 National Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl.The Mines Ethics Bowl team came in first place at the Rocky Mountain Regionals on Nov. 10 at the University of Northern Colorado, besting teams from UNC, University of Nebraska and Colorado State University. The victory earned the Mines team a bid to nationals, wh...Read More
Spoiler alert: I'm not quitting resource stocks, but that is the sentiment shared by many in the resource space.With a few exceptions, it has been a historically tough year for speculators in the junior resource space.Throw in a crypto bubble, a cannabis bubble (with a real underlying mega-trend), and all-time highs in the major U.S. indices, and you can forgive speculators for not being willing t...Read More
Daniel JamesRecorded live from the mezzanine of the Intercontinental Hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria, this bonus mini-podcast features an interview with Medgold Resources president Dan James as he discusses Serbia's mining potential with Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming. RELATED LINKS:Medgold hunts for gold in Serbia with Fortuna SilverNevsun agrees to $1.86B Zijin takeover bidRead More
This episode concludes our two-part feature interview with Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining, in conversation with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro, recorded live on the sidelines of the Silver & Gold Summit in San Francisco in late October 2018.Rob and Anthony continue their freewheeling conversation, touching on topics including: innovation in the mining industry; Pet...Read More