Colorado School of Mines welcomed more than 200 4th and 5th grade Girl Scouts to campus Nov. 10 for Girl Scout Engineering Day and multiple Denver TV stations were there to cover the fun morning of science exploration. Intended to introduce middle-school girls to STEM fields and majors at Mines, the day's hands-on activities included lava lamps, robotic hands, asphalt cookies, slime, binary bracel...Read More
Colorado School of Mines has begun accepting applications for a new joint graduate program with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) that will launch in the fall of 2019. Unlike traditional energy programs that focus on individual technology areas, economics or policy, the interdisciplinary Mines/NREL Advanced Energy Systems degree program will capitali...Read More
Based the last few days' headlines you'd never know the world is in year 10 of a pretty good expansion. Check this out:Not terrified of a recession? These stocks hint you should be Cyclical commodities continue to weaken, gold moves in relation Italian banks on verge of new crisis on ?,?400 million hole at Banca Carige China rate-cut chatter becomes louder as growth risks gather "iPhone story is...Read More
The midterm elections in the U.S. are mostly behind us - with the exception of a few recounts - the end result will be more gridlock until at least 2020.How will that affect the junior resource space we speculate in? It means there will be very little the two corrupt parties agree on, with infrastructure being the possible exception.Infrastructure is necessary, brings good-paying jobs to people wh...Read More
This special episode features Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining, in a freewheeling conversation with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro, recorded live on the sidelines of Cambridge House's Silver & Gold Summit in San Francisco in late October 2018.Rob and Anthony cover a wide variety of topics, including: gauging management's commitment to a company; the history of inflat...Read More
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Entering Q4 of 2018, Globe 24-7's Luis Valente meets with Ivan Bebek - Executive Chairman and Director of Vancouver-based Auryn Resources Inc. (TSX: AUG, NYSE: AUG) - to discuss Mr. Bebek's outlook on the mining marketplace and his vision for Auryn Resources. Mr. Bebek is optimistic and says that $2,500/oz gold could be a reality in the near future.Auryn Resources pursues world-class discoveries;...Read More
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Australia's iron-ore industry was hit with a second train derailment in a week when 30 empty ore wagons ran off the tracks in the southern part of Western Australia on Sunday.The second derailment happened at 7:30 a.m. Perth time south of Norseman as an ore train returned from the southern coastal port town of Esperance, Mineral Resources Ltd. and Arc Infrastructure said in a statement Sunday. No...Read More
Resolution Copper, a joint venture between giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, demolished a 94-year-old copper smelter stack that belonged to the Magma Mine, now the Resolution Copper Mine near the Arizonian town of Superior, some 60 miles east of downtown Phoenix.According to the company, the chimney stack was structurally unsound and posed a significant threat to safety. "In addition to proactive...Read More
Resolution Copper, a joint venture between giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, demolished a 94-year-old copper smelter stack that belonged to the Magma Mine, now the Resolution Copper Mine near the Arizonian town of Superior, some 60 miles east of downtown Phoenix.According to the company, the chimney stack was structurally unsound and posed a significant threat to safety. "In addition to proactive...Read More
In an operation that lasted a couple of days and that involved four airplanes, police officials, forest rangers and the National Guard, Brazilian authorities dismantled a number of open-pit gold and cassiterite mines operating illegally in the heart of the Amazon.The unregulated mine sites were installed in Jamanxim and R?-o Novo National Parks, located in the northern Par?? state and which extend...Read More
In an operation that lasted a couple of days and that involved four airplanes, police officials, forest rangers and the National Guard, Brazilian authorities dismantled a number of open-pit gold and cassiterite mines operating illegally in the heart of the Amazon.The unregulated mine sites were installed in Jamanxim and R?-o Novo National Parks, located in the northern Par?? state and which extend...Read More
The British Columbia government announced this week that, after one year of consultations with Indigenous peoples, industry, communities, environmental organizations and the public, it introduced legislation to modernize the environmental assessment of major resource projects.In a media statement, the provincial administration said that the idea behind the changes is to provide "a clear and timely...Read More
The British Columbia government announced this week that, after one year of consultations with Indigenous peoples, industry, communities, environmental organizations and the public, it introduced legislation to modernize the environmental assessment of major resource projects.In a media statement, the provincial administration said that the idea behind the changes is to provide "a clear and timely...Read More
Lithium Chile (TSX-V: LITH) owns seventeen projects, encompassing 159,700 hectares of potential Li-bearing Salars in Chile - home to world's largest, high-grade lithium reserves and lowest-cost lithium production. The portfolio includes projects with potential for high-grade lithium brines and excellent chemistry. We learned from Steve Cochrane, President and CEO of Lithium Chile, that they had pu...Read More
Element 25 Limited (ASX: E25) is developing Australia's largest onshore manganese resource at the Company's 100% owned world-class Butcherbird Project to produce high-purity manganese products for the battery revolution. We learned from Justin Brown, who is Executive Director of Element 25, that they have developed a flow sheet, which allows them to process their manganese ore into high-purity man...Read More
"Copper prices have fallen 18% from their June four-year peaks, pressured by investor concerns over the Chinese economy https://t.co/GzGzcRIkuT via @WSJ"Read full newsRead More