Recent industrial closure shows automation vulnerabilitiesRead full newsRead More
It is difficult to say when the 'free' gold market came into existence, since there always has been one. Yes, the gold price has been set and fixed by governments for long periods of time throughout history, as part of various types of gold standards. However, gold prices always have fluctuated around those official prices.Setting such nuances aside, the modern gold market was born 50 years ago th...Read More
Scientists from Imperial College London and UCL used a synthetic diamond grown in a nitrogen-rich atmosphere to create a new maser that operates continuously.A maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) is the older, microwave frequency sibling of the laser. It was invented in 1954 and has traditionally been used in deep space communication and radio astronomy.However, ear...Read More
Canada's Lundin Gold (TSX:LUG) has closed a $400-million financing that will help it complete the construction of its flagship Fruta del Norte gold project in Ecuador, expected to begin production in late 2019.The Vancouver-based company, which last month secured a $250-million investment from Newcrest Mining, which is part of the total announced today, said the Australian miner now owned 27.1%...Read More
Silver producer Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL) is taking Montana environmental regulators to court for labelling the company and its top executive as "bad actors," while giving them 30 days to iron out a complaint that accuses them of violating the state's mine clean-up laws.The Montana Department of Environmental (DEQ) notice to the company, which could require it to pay up to $30 million, focuses on s...Read More
Shares in Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON:SOLG) (TSX:SOLG) received a fresh boost on Monday, after it said it had found "strongly mineralized" extensions at its 85%-owned Cascabel copper-gold project, 180 km north of the country's capital Quito.The discoveries, the Australian miner said, are predicted to significantly increase Cascabel's high-grade resource tonnage. The project, located on th...Read More
64-hectare property in Ballangen, Norway offers excellent access to renewable hydroelectricityThe Kolos property is located in a natural corridor surrounded by mountainous terrain and water, providing a physical security barrier for the proposed data centre and natural cooling of computing equipm...Read full newsRead More
So-called 'thinking person's coin' is designed to stablize cryptocurrency systemIt's called Saga and it's meant to be everything you typically don't find in a cryptocurrency. No anonymity. No wild price swings. And no initial coin offering. Saga is the brainchild of the Swi...Read full newsRead More
https://www.bloomberg.com/"Ramaphoria" boosted the rand and revived investor sentiment on South Africa. But deep underground in the country's platinum mines, there's very little cause for optimism.Producers in South Africa, which accounts for about 70 percent of the world's mined platinum, are closing shafts and cutting thousands of jobs as a stronger rand combines with stagnating prices for the m...Read More
Commodities Analysis by Adam Hamilton covering: XAU/USD, Gold Futures, Copper Futures, VanEck Vectors Gold Miners. Read Adam Hamilton's latest article on Investing.comRead full newsRead More
Turns out, it may be easier to strike gold by growing green.Read full newsRead More
Barrick Gold Corp, the world's largest producer of bullion, cut the 2017 compensation for its top two executives to reflect a challengingRead full newsRead More
Kinross is the eighth National Mining Association member company to complete each step of the process.Read full newsRead More
Kinross is the eighth National Mining Association member company to complete each step of the process.Read full newsRead More
Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU) (OTC:AVPMF) (FRANKFURT:8AM) has closed the recently announced private placement to raise $550,000, an increase of $50,000 from the original announcement, and issue 6,875,000 units at a price of $0.08.Read full newsRead More
Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSX-V symbol: DAU) ('Desert Gold' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce that it has closed the first tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the 'Private Placement') raising aggregate gross proceeds of $500,000 from Sodinaf International Group Inc. ('Sodinaf') through the issuance of 2,000,000 units (each a 'Unit...Read More
Investment bank Goldman Sachs says its data shows that the yellow metal outperforms after rate hikes four times out of six.Read full newsRead More
Although major markets saw some significant losses on Friday, Monday morning was a breath of fresh air as the indexes made their way back to green.Read full newsRead More
Last week's top-gaining mining stocks on the TSXV were Colonial Coal, Mineral Mountain Resources, Sarama Resources, NuLegacy Gold and Evrim Resources.Read full newsRead More
Last week's other top-gaining mining stocks on the TSX were First Mining Gold, eCobalt Solutions, Mawson Resources and Royal Nickel.Read full newsRead More