Colorado School of Mines faculty were recognized for their research, teaching and mentorship at its annual awards celebration, held April 25 in the Student Center Ballrooms.Geoff Brennecka, associate professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, received the Dean's Excellence Award, which recognizes a tenured or tenure-track faculty member for significant and meritorious achievement in tea...Read More
Some companies are special, Advance Gold is a very junior exploration company focused on Mexico. They have assembled a highly talented team - the same dudes that were involved with Alset Lithium, so a "quality" company in all departments.I was blown away by the hugely impressive PR on the Tesbasquena project (link). In the 200 days since the project was acquired, they've been sprinting out o...Read More
Canada's GoldCorp (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) is investing $3.7 million to acquire a 14% interest in a newly formed gold exploration company born Thursday from the merger of Matamec, Canada Strategic Metals and Sphinx Resources.The new explorer, named Quebec Precious Metals Corp. (QPM), will focus on the James Bay area, bordering the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, where it will own three projects until now...Read More
Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) logged Thursday a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on the back of higher gold prices during the first three months of the year, as investors have returned to safe haven assets due to ongoing geopolitical risks.The US miner, the only gold company that forms part of the S&P500 index, earned a quarterly profit of $192 million, or 36 cents a diluted share, compared...Read More
Africa-focused Gem Diamonds' (LON:GEMD) revenue nearly tripled in the first quarter of the year thanks to strong demand for its high-quality white rough rocks and the sale of a 910-carat diamond, the fifth-largest in history.Delivering results for the quarter ended on March 31, the company said the $40 million fetched by the giant D-Colour Type IIa diamond found at its flagship Let??eng mine i...Read More
Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Andromeda Metals (ASX: ADN), according to which the latter may earn up to 75 per cent interest in Minotaur's kaolin-halloysite deposits in South Australia through the expenditure of $6 million over a period of up to 5 years. According to Minotaur, the assets comprise three tenements containing seve...Read More
https://www.bloomberg.com/A little-known Chilean company that until recently churned out mostly crop nutrients may hold a key to the future of electric-vehicle production. And a Chinese mining company is standing ready, poised to grab a big piece of it.Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA sits on the world's richest deposit of lithium. It already produces more than 20 percent of the global supply...Read More
The Critical Investor profiles a miner that is ramping up its gold mine in Nevada on time and on budget.Pan Mine, Nevada1. IntroductionFiore Gold Ltd. (F:TSX.V; FIOGF:OTCQB) has progressed its Pan Mine in Nevada, U.S. in a very steady fashion, on time and on budget. Exploration for additional resources (and hopefully years of mine life as well) has been successful so far, and a new COO has been...Read More
If you think you missed the boat on pot stocks, you are dead wrong.In fact, it may be the single best time to start investing. Marijuana stocks have been beaten down over the last few months - mostly based on the Canadian government's inability to decide on how to legalize and regulate it.This is a temporary issue, and will give you a great chance to buy life-changing stocks at a massive discount....Read More
A judge ruled that a bar was well within its right to kick out Trump supporters. And this is great news.Not because I have any particular animosity towards Trump supporters (any more than other enablers of government oppression). I’m not saying Trump supporters should be kicked out of bars. If I owned a bar I certainly wouldn’t kick out Trump supporters. After all, it’s not lik...Read More
A judge ruled that a bar was well within its right to kick out Trump supporters. And this is great news.Not because I have any particular animosity towards Trump supporters (any more than other enablers of government oppression). I’m not saying Trump supporters should be kicked out of bars. If I owned a bar I certainly wouldn’t kick out Trump supporters. After all, it’s not lik...Read More
"Leverage in the U.S. is grotesque for this stage of the cycle. At the moment you've got peak leverage at peak prices. It's not like you have to dig deep to find a problem."Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1323.10-$8.40Silver$16.56-$0.17XAU82.47-0.97%HUI180.83-0.85%GDM628.27-0.76%JSE Gold1095.11-17.72USD91.20+0.43Euro121.74-0.63Yen91.53-0.60Oil$68.05+$0.3510-Year3.026%+0.034T-Bond141.75-0.78125Dow24083.83+0.25%Nasdaq7003.74-0.05%S&P2639.40+0.18% The Metals: Gold fell $12.50 to $1319.00 by a little after 8AM EST before it chopped back higher in New York, but it still ended...Read More
- Emergency cash offered by Ulster Bank as cash vanishes from accounts- Bank makes EUR500 available to customers whose deposits vanish- Bank investigates after hundreds of complaints on social media- "My salary has disappeared from my account today and my wife had her card declined when trying to pay for a GP visit and medication"- Cyber attacks and Brexit are biggest threats to the securities...Read More
Bitcoin (BTC) is in danger of falling back to $8K, as daily losses continue. The price of US$8,948 at press time, down from an earlier morning high of US$9,743, marks a precipitous fall of nearly US$800, or just shy of 8%. Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Dash, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and Ripple (XRP) ar...Read full newsRead More
Minotaur Exploration (ASX: MEP) announced today that it has signed a binding Heads of Agreement with Andromeda Metals (ASX: ADN), according to which the latter may earn up to 75 per cent interest in Minotaur's kaolin-halloysite deposits in South Australia through the expenditure of $6 million over a period of up to 5 years. According to Minotaur, the assets comprise three tenements containing seve...Read More
Mr. Anthony Makuch reportsKIRKLAND LAKE GOLD EXPANDS NEW HIGH-GRADE ZONE BELOW TAYLOR MINE, REPORTS MINERALIZED EXTENSIONS ALONG STRIKE AND AT DEPTHKirkland Lake Gold Ltd. has releasednew exploration drill results from surface and underground drilling at the Taylor mine in Northeastern Ontario and situated along the PDF. Recent drilling occurred at depth below both the East and West porphyry depos...Read More
Morning Market Breakdown, April 25: After the markets took a nasty tumble just before Tuesday's close, indexes continued to see red Wednesday morning.Read full newsRead More
Australia's biggest gold miner Newcrest Mining Ltd on Thursday cut its full year production forecast, while reporting a fall in third-quarter production.Newcrest now expects production of 2.25-2.35 million ounces of gold for the full-year ending June 30, down from 2.4 million to 2.7 million ounces expected earlier. It also downgraded guidance for its flagship Cadia mine which restarted production...Read More
Canada's First Cobalt, which has just bought another cobalt developer, is keen for more acquisitions to accelerate bringing on production to meet North American demand, a senior company official said.Expectations of soaring demand for cobalt because of its use in electric vehicles has inspired a hunt for the mineral across the globe.Governments and miners are anxious to secure supplies in more sta...Read More