South African gold producers signed Thursday a class action settlement with law firms representing thousands of miners who contracted the fatal lung diseases silicosis and tuberculosis while working for them.The 5 billion rand-settlement (about $400 million at today's exchange rate), reached following three years of negotiations, puts an end to the country's largest and most expensive class acti...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 Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for June delivery gained 68 cents to $67.93 on the New York Merc, while Brent for June gained 23 cents to $73.36 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $17.55 to...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 lost 3.35 points to 772.11 Wednesday. Brian Bayley and Murray Sinclair have listed their 24th capital pool shell, Norwick Capital Corp. (NWK), following a $202,500 initial public offering at 15 cents through Ha...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 rose $1.00 to $1,304.60 on Tuesday. The TSX Venture Exchange fell 3.35 points to 772.11 while the TSX Gold Index rose 0.38 point to 189.84. Yamana Gold Inc. (YRI) led Canadian gold miners higher. It added 13 cents to...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 Wednesday was an upbeat 89-64-131. The TSX Venture Exchange fell three points to 772 while polished diamond prices fell 0.1 per cent. Ken MacNeill and George Read's Star Diamond Corp. (DIAM) was...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 Mike CaswellDennis Verderosa, a New York man charged for his part in a boiler room scheme that boosted former Canadian Securities Exchange listing Intelligent Content Enterprises Inc., has pleaded guilty to a criminal fraud charge. The government claimed that Mr....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 Mike CaswellBrian Robert Sodi, the Florida stock tout known as the "Mailman," has won a legal battle over the ankle bracelet that he has been wearing since his arrest on fraud charges. Alabama Judge Herman Johnson has ordered the removal of the bracelet, which ha...Read More
https://theconversation.com/What does the advocacy group the Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) have in common with the Local Government Super fund, the Church of England Pensions Board, and the Seventh Swedish National Pension Fund?Quite a lot, it seems. These three institutional investors joined with the ACCR to co-file a shareholder resolution on climate change at mining gian...Read More
Cypress Development Corp. (TSX-v: CYP) / (OTCQB: CYDVF) / (Frankfurt: C1Z1) killed it with their maiden NI 43-101 compliant lithium resource estimate yesterday! The whisper number was 4 to 6 million Inferred tonnes of Lithium Carbonate Equiv. ("LCE"), (which would have been a tremendous result), but Global Resource Engineering Ltd. determined there's an estimated 6.54 million metric...Read More
Gold continues to gyrate wildly, as geopolitical crises and economic risks weigh on the outlook for financial markets. After dipping sharply in recent days, the lustrous yellow metal has bounced back, rallying by just over US$10 per ounce since the start of May 2018 to be trading at US$1,313 an ounce. This is good news for beaten-down junior gold miner Pretium Resources Inc. (TSX:PVG)(NYSE:PVG), w...Read More
Not much needs to be said about Tesla. Elon Musk's performance on the Company's conference call speaks for itself. He basically told the lemming analysts who have been the Company's Wall Street carnival barkers to go have sex with themselves in response to questions looking for highly relevant details on Model 3 sales projections and Capex spending requirements.I believe Musk is mentally unsta...Read More
The Sabina Gold Exploration camp for its Back River gold project in Nunavut. Source: Sabina Gold & Silver Corp.Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. [SBB-TSX; SGSVF-OTC; RXC-FSE] said Thursday May 3 it is raising $6 million from a non-brokered private placement flow through financing comprised of 3million flow-through common shares at $2 a share. Proceeds will be used for exploration at the company's...Read More
Solar Alliance Energy Inc. (TSXV:SOLR), a solar energy stock, moved higher after announcing record fourth-quarter revenueSean Mason | May 3, 2018 | SmallCapPowerA big revenue bump sparked interest in a solar energy stock Thursday. Here's some small stocks making big moves on Thursday, May 3, 2018 (as of 4 pm EST):Solar Alliance Energy Inc. (TSXV:SOLR), a solar energy stock, powered 17% higher t...Read More
Prize Mning (PRZ.V) kept its word last year as the company completed additional sampling and geophysical surveys on the Kena-Daylight gold project in British Columbia, but unfortunately the market didn't seem to care at all.That's a pity, but Prize never wanted to be a one-trick pony and in the fall of last year, it added the Manto Negro copper project in Mexico to its portfolio. At first, we thou...Read More
The Moa nickel-cobalt operation, a 50-50 joint venture with the Cuban government. Source Sherritt International Inc.Nickel is back on investor radar screens amid hopes that growing electric vehicle demand will boost consumption of the base metal.That's good news for Sherritt International Inc. [S-TSX] a Toronto-based company that is engaged in a nickel mining joint venture with the Cuban governmen...Read More
Cronos Group Inc. (TSXV:CRON) reported a 636% surge in sales in 2017 along with net income that more than doubledSmallCapPower | May 3, 2018: Cronos Group Inc. (TSXV:CRON) (NASDAQ:CRON) Monday reported a 636% YoY jump in sales to $4.1 million for FY 2017 compared to $0.6 million for FY 2016. The Company sold 577 kg of dry flower equivalence (based upon a 5 g equivalence factor for oil) generating...Read More
One of the many past-producing mines from the 1800s on the large Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. Cariboo gold project property near Wells, British Columbia. Photo courtesy Vancouver Public Library.Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. [BGM-TSXV; BGMZF-OTC; IWUB-FSE] shares were active Thursday May 3 after the company announced a maiden resource estimate for the Cow and Island Mountain deposits at its wholly-own...Read More
The gold mining stocks on our list have industry-low forward Price to Cash Flow per share multiplesSmallCapPower | May 3, 2018: Gold prices decreased from US$1,321/oz to US$1,306/oz this week, shortly after the spike witnessed earlier in April from US$1325/oz to US$1355/oz. With concerns over U.S. military intervention in Syria and other geopolitical conflict, gold prices are likely to follow an u...Read More
There is a stealth bull market going on. It's a market pushed by Wall Street and Saudi Arabia, which wants to IPO the world's largest company, Saudi Aramco, at twice the size of Apple.But there is more than that going on. Here are 10 reasons oil is back on the bull.1. The Oil Price ItselfJust look at this chart. Look at it!Oil has been rocking for the past year.2. Global GrowthEmerging markets are...Read More
Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) has a proven track record of earnings growth and the second-highest return on equity of Canada's Big 5 Banks over the past two yearsSmallCapPower | May 3, 2018: Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) (NYSE:RY) is one of the leading banks in Canada, providing financial services across the globe. The Company operates in five business segments - Personal & Commercial Banking,...Read More