Pretoria, March 22nd 2018: In order to remain competitive and to achieve growth, engineers at firms in South Africa's engineering, mining and manufacturing sectors need to recognise the role that emotional intelligence plays in business growth and career development. This says leading management systems and assessment tool provider, Thomas International.An engineer's management style can be inef...Read More
Paris/Toronto, 19 March 2018 - Total Eren, AEMP and IAMGOLD Essakane SA are pleased to announce that the grand opening ceremony of Essakane Solar, the world's largest hybrid solar/thermal plant, was held on March 16th in Northern Burkina Faso. The new 15 MWp photovoltaic ("PV") power plant will supply IAMGOLD Essakane SA with competitive and carbon-free electricity.President Kabore on Essakane Sol...Read More
ABIDJAN, March 19 (Reuters) - Renewable energy company Total Eren said on Monday it had opened the world's largest solar-thermal hybrid plant in Burkina Faso, the first of what it hopes will be many projects supplying the African mining industry's growing need for power.Total Eren and Africa-focused independent power producer AEMP inaugurated Essakane Solar over the weekend, adding 15 megawatts (M...Read More
A 6.16-carat diamond called Farnese Blue will appear on the market for the first time in history this spring, after having remained in the same family for over three centuries.Sotheby's will be offering the gem at its Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels sale taking place in Geneva on May 15, 2018. The stone's value is calculated between $3,690,000 and $5,270,000. According to a press release issue...Read More
The United States and South Korea could announce a trade deal next week that would cover an exemption from U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs and other trade issues, President Donald Trump and his commerce secretary said on Friday.Trump said the agreement "would be a wonderful deal with a wonderful ally. We're getting very close to it."It was not immediately clear whether the deal would encompass a r...Read More
SANTIAGO, March 16 (Reuters) - Chile's new government is evaluating whether to support a petition filed by its predecessor to block the sale of a stake in top lithium miner SQM to a Chinese firm, a senior government official told Reuters on Friday.Chile development agency Corfo filed a complaint last week to block the sale of a 32 percent stake in SQM to China's Tianqi Lithium or any related entit...Read More
ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland's highest court has upheld the seizure of $1.85 million in Swiss bank accounts, part of a corruption probe linked to a former Mongolian finance minister who helped clear the way for a disputed Rio Tinto mining project, a ruling showed.The Swiss Office of the Attorney General (OAG) also confirmed it has an ongoing criminal investigation in which prosecutors contend on...Read More
Gold has firmed above $1300 in recent days and is holding comfortably above $1300 for now. We think the market will break to the upside sometime this year. The question is when. Here are 3 things to watch that will tell us if Gold is on the cusp of that break-out soon or later.First, keep your eye on Gold's close at the end of next week. It's not only the end of the week and month but also the end...Read More
Gold is one of the most peculiar investments on the market today. We've been mining the metal and using it as a store of wealth for thousands of years, and it has been the reason for countless wars and economic booms throughout the ages.To that end, when confidence in the market starts to wane, investors have been known to seek shelter in gold, knowing that it will weather an economic storm, and m...Read More
The junior gold miners' stocks have spent much of the past year grinding sideways near lows, sapping confidence and breeding widespread bearishness. The entire precious-metals sector has been left for dead, eclipsed by the dazzling taxphoria stock-market rally. But traders need to keep their eyes on the fundamental ball so herd sentiment doesn't mislead them. The juniors' recent Q4 results pro...Read More
Gold has firmed above $1300 in recent days and is holding comfortably above $1300 for now. We think the market will break to the upside sometime this year. The question is when. Here are 3 things to watch that will tell us if Gold is on the cusp of that break-out soon or later.First, keep your eye on Gold's close at the end of next week. It's not only the end of the week and month but also the end...Read More
The junior gold miners' stocks have spent much of the past year grinding sideways near lows, sapping confidence and breeding widespread bearishness. The entire precious-metals sector has been left for dead, eclipsed by the dazzling taxphoria stock-market rally. But traders need to keep their eyes on the fundamental ball so herd sentiment doesn't mislead them. The juniors' recent Q4 results pro...Read More
Just a few months after completing a threeway merger, First Cobalt (FCC.V) has now entered into an agreement to acquire all of US Cobalt's (USCO.V) outstanding shares in an all-share deal at a 62% premium compared to the closing prices of both companies before the deal was announced.First Cobalt will issue 1.5 of its own shares per share of US Cobalt for a total valuation of C$150M on a fully dilu...Read More
Jerome Powell, the new Fed Chairman, made his debut last week. It was jarring to see a modest, reasonable, straight-talking person in that spot after 30 years of aliens from the planet Academic Finance who neither understood nor cared about how actual markets work. I was thinking about posting a short piece on this - and how sad it is that this reasonable human would be stuck with the mess of his...Read More
Written for The Daily Bell by Bill Ottman, Co-Founder of minds.com & Schuyler Brown, Futurist.It's hard to believe the Food Revolution has only been in effect for about ten years. In that time, we've seen drastic changes in the way citizens of the world choose to buy food for their families. What was once considered a pricey preoccupation of the body- and health-conscious has risen to become a...Read More
Jerome Powell, the new Fed Chairman, made his debut last week. It was jarring to see a modest, reasonable, straight-talking person in that spot after 30 years of aliens from the planet Academic Finance who neither understood nor cared about how actual markets work. I was thinking about posting a short piece on this - and how sad it is that this reasonable human would be stuck with the mess of his...Read More
TOPICS IN THIS INTERVIEW:01:05 Overview of the treasury market06:15 The next move for the FED09:55 Assessment of Trump's first year14:10 Healthcare and the looming crisis ahead19:55 Are cryptocurrencies the future or mere speculation?Karl Denninger is an American technology businessman, finance blogger, and political activist, sometimes referred to as a founding member of the Tea Party movement. H...Read More
By Ed Steer24 March 2018 -- SaturdayYESTERDAY in GOLD, SILVER, PLATINUM and PALLADIUM The gold price began to rally as soon as trading began at 6:00 p.m. EDT in New York on Thursday evening -- and most of the gains that mattered in Far East and morning trading in London, were in by shortly before 9 a.m. China Standard Time on their Friday morning. By the COMEX open, gold was up only another f...Read More
China is working a strategy with the Saudis. Since the last months of 2017, the Jackass has been firm that the ARAMCO deal for IPO stock introduction might never occur. And if it did, then Hong Kong might be the only location for the IPO launch. It seems that disclosure and transparency is non-existent to this Arab kingdom. Now the stock listing might be in Riyadh and nowhere else. Imagine the r...Read More
Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger believes silver is poised for a "massive move to the upside."Would it be that a picture is worth a thousand words? In the case of the graphics posted below, in a word, yes! Look at the positioning of the mighty Commercial Traders, who rarely lose money and who operate under the blinded eye of regulatory oversight and governmental sanctuary. As of last Tuesd...Read More