To celebrate the life of Peter Munk (1927-2018), founder of Barrick Gold and recipient of The Northern Miner‘s Lifetime Achievement Award, we have prepared this video tribute (see detailed slide notes below).Read Trish Saywell’s feature story on the life of this remarkable man: “Mining titan and philanthropist Peter Munk's lifetime of achievement.” Peter Munk sli...Read More
Kyrgyz state-owned gold miner Kyrgyzaltyn said Wednesday it has yet to see an offer by Chaarat Gold Holdings to acquire Centerra Gold's Kumtor mine, which is the Central Asian nation's largest gold operation.Speaking to Reuters, Kyrgyzaltyn chief executive Bektur Sagynov said the company would have to study Chaarat offer, which would make the London-listed miner Kumtor's operator, while Kyrgyzalty...Read More
Canada's Pangolin Diamonds (TSX-V:PAN) has found its first diamond at the Jwaneng South Project in Botswana, which is located about 100 km south of the Jwaneng diamond mine, the world's richest.Pangolin is led by Leon Daniels, the same geologist who discovered the kimberlite pipe that produced the giant Lesedi La Rona diamond. The white diamond, measuring about 1 mm, was recovered from a soil s...Read More
Shares in Chilean miner Antofagasta Plc. (LON:ANTO) dove Wednesday after the company reported marked drops copper and gold production during the first quarter of the year, due mostly to lower quality ore.Miner said it had expected to begin the year with poorer grades, but would move to higher quality ores as the year went on.The miner said copper output fell by 10.5% to 153,800 tonnes compared w...Read More
On the 20th anniversary of the breach of the tailings pond at the Los Frailes mine in Spain, environmental organizations held a press conference to alert the public about the possibility of a similar accident taking place.Greenpeace, WWF, SEO/BirdLife, Ecologists in Action, and Friends of the Earth accused the Andaluc?-a council of relaxing administrative and legal requirements to ease the way for...Read More
https://www.reuters.com/LONDON (Reuters) – German carmaker Daimler has joined the Responsible Cobalt Initiative, a program established under a Chinese industry body to tackle risks in the cobalt supply chain arising from artisanal mining.Cobalt consumers are under pressure to ensure the material they use is not tainted by child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the source of about 6...Read More
Mineral exploration and development company Beowulf Mining (AIM:BEM) has announced its involvement in a Finnish cooperation network for battery manufacturing.Jacqueline HolmanBeowulf is developing the Aitolampi graphite project25 APRIL 201825/04/2018commentsshareThe network includes existing and new entrant raw material suppliers in Finland's emerging battery manufacturing industry in the cities o...Read More
The Mint Corporation (TSXV:MIT) intends to offer the blockchain-powered remittance solution to further deepen its relationship with licensed exchange house partners in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)SmallCapPower | April 25, 2018: The Mint Corporation (TSXV:MIT) announced on April 25, 2018, that its subsidiary, Mint Block Corp., is engaged in advanced discussions with a leading blockchain-powered p...Read More
There's a story going around about a "treasure trove" of rare earth minerals that have been discovered off the coast of Japan.CNBC - you know, the mining experts - called it a "massive, semi-infinite trove of rare earth metals."Fortune magazine - those other mining experts - crowed, "Japan's Tech Future Is Looking Brighter After a Monumental Discovery in the North Pacific Mud."What this story fail...Read More
Gambling rules in the US are inconsistentOnline gambling has produced even more grey areasFor now, online gambling is legal in four statesThe US's regulated gambling industry makes at least $41bnPresident Trump is yet to reveal his official stance on gamblingAmerica is a strange place when it comes to gambling. Like a lot of America’s laws, gambling changes from state to state, with local go...Read More
"The greatest evil is not now done ... in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell i...Read More
Gambling rules in the US are inconsistentOnline gambling has produced even more grey areasFor now, online gambling is legal in four statesThe US's regulated gambling industry makes at least $41bnPresident Trump is yet to reveal his official stance on gamblingAmerica is a strange place when it comes to gambling. Like a lot of America’s laws, gambling changes from state to state, with local go...Read More
"The greatest evil is not now done ... in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell i...Read More
Peninsula Mines Ltd. (ASX:PSM) managing director Jon Dugdale speaks to Proactive Investors about the company's operations in South Korea spanning base metals, battery metals, and now potentially value-added spherical graphite processing.Drilling into zinc and lead targets is underway with the potential for a discovery at any time, as drilling on key graphite prospects is set to begin in efforts to...Read More
Newcrest Mining has been approved to use the first 200 meters of open pit at Cadia as a storage facility for tailings beginning the first week of May.Read full newsRead More
Caterpillar Inc. began the day euphorically, with shares rallying as the machinery giant beat earnings estimates and raised its own forecast. That all changed when management signaled the first quarter might be as good as it gets.Read full newsRead More
Predictive Discovery Ltd. (ASX:PDI) managing director Paul Roberts tells Proactive Investors that RC drilling results are expected out in the next few weeks for both the Bira Project in Burkina Faso and Ferkessedougou North in C??te d'Ivoire.The gold project generator has extensive 2018 drilling and testing plans with JV partners at its myriad permit sites across West Africa. Furthermore, the comp...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1331.50+$6.50Silver$16.73+$0.10XAU83.28+0.03%HUI182.38+1.40%GDM633.15+0.87%JSE Gold1112.83+2.36USD90.77-0.16Euro122.37+0.29Yen92.13+0.04Oil$67.70-$0.9410-Year2.992%+0.017T-Bond142.50-0.46875Dow24024.13-1.74%Nasdaq7007.35-1.70%S&P2634.56-1.34% The Metals: Gold gained $3.50 to $1328.50 in Asia before it fell back to $1323.50 in London, but it then climbed to a new session...Read More
- Russia buys 300,000 ounces of gold in March and nears 2,000t in gold reserves- Russia now holds just over 1,861 tonnes, more than officially reported by China at 1,842t- Both Russia and China have the power to destabilise US dollar by dumping dollar-denominated assets- Turkey has removed all gold held in the U.S. opting for Bank of England and BIS - Turkey follows trend set by both Germany, N...Read More
Gold found its footing in the market when the US dollar lost some of its steam after reaching a three-month peak on the back of rallying US yields.Read full newsRead More