A popular thesis since the 1930s is that a natural progression exists from currency wars to trade wars to shooting wars. Both history and analysis support this thesis.Continue...Read More
Gold rose on Friday as the very real possibility of a global trade war took hold of the markets to end the weekContinue...Read More
The Mexican steel association, Canacero, has called on the federal government to take "reciprocal measures" against the United States if it imposes a 25% duty on steel imports from Mexico. "Canacero expresses concern and it expects immediate reciprocal measures from our government if our country is included in the [232] measures," the association said late on Thursday March 1.The US recorded a ste...Read More
Vietnamese re-rollers are fretting over a 25% import tariff that the United States is set to impose on steel imports, expecting them to reduce the volumes of finished flat products that they can ship there, market sources told Metal Bulletin on Friday March 2.This could in turn result in a supply glut of flat steel in Asia, they warned."Vietnamese re-rollers are growing increasingly worried and th...Read More
The European Steel Association, Eurofer, has welcomed the European Commission's pledge of "appropriate and swift measures" after the United States finally announced Section 232 trade tariffs.US president Donald Trump announced the imposition of import duties of 25% on steel and 10% aluminium on March 1. "We welcome the [EC] announcement [that] appropriate and swift measures will be taken...Read More
A memorandum of understanding signed by Holtec International and Energoatom envisages the adoption by Ukraine of Holtec's small modular reactor (SMR) technology with the country becoming a manufacturing hub for SMR-160 reactor components. Separately, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has begun a technical review of an application by Holtec for a consolidated spent fuel interim storage fac...Read More
Russia, Bangladesh and India yesterday signed a memorandum on cooperation in the implementation of the Rooppur nuclear power plant project. Construction of Bangladesh's first nuclear power reactor, Rooppur 1, officially began in late November 2017.The signing of the memorandum (Image: Rosatom)The memorandum is between Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, the Ministry of Science and Technolog...Read More
"Perhaps the most abused farm animals, nearly 280 million laying hens in the United States are confined in barren wire battery cages so Continue...Read More
Posted: Mar 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Mar 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018: Is Namibia an Alternative Source of Cobalt?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
While silver is completely off the radar to most investors, it will turn out to be one of Continue...Read More
Travelling exhibition specialist MTE celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year, and the company – founded by Tony Wightman in 1993 – owes its success to its deep engagement with the mining industry, enabling MTE to establish long-standing relationships with mines and exhibitors. At the time of its founding, Wightman identified a need for a broader scope of engagement between mi...Read More
Posted: Mar 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Mar 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018: Is Namibia an Alternative Source of Cobalt?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
Published on: Mar 2, 2018 | by finfeedEHR Resources (ASX:EHX) has initiated the next phase of its exploration programme at the La Victoria Gold Project in cooperation with Eloro Resources Limited (TSX-V:ELO).EHX has indicated that exploratory drilling will be a key focus moving forward at the site, which is located in the north-central mineral belt of Peru.The company formally notified Eloro that...Read More
Posted: Mar 2, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Mar 2, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Mar 2, 2018: Is Namibia an Alternative Source of Cobalt?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Kaiser Media Watch Blog enables John Kaiser to share online content from other media he deems interesting or relevant to Kaiser Research Online audiences. He collects links to such content and writes a brief explanation. The KMW Blog gets updated during the evening KRO update. After a week or so the current KMW Blog gets archived and a new one is started. Tweets are sent with a link to the item in...Read More
Former Bank of Canada governor and current head of the Bank of England Mark Carney issued a stern warning about the dangers of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in an address to the Inaugural Scottish Economics conference in Edinburgh this week."Classic hallmarks of bubbles"In his speech, Carney labeled the cryptocurrency market as a failure and drew comparisons to a lottery, where people find ri...Read More
Gold is down and it's because some investors - both institutional and retail - are working themselves up about interest rate hikes.There's a new sheriff in town - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell - and with the economy in seemingly good shape, the expectation is that he'll immediately start jacking up interest rates.Well, it's not true.And I know it's not because I've watched this happen in...Read More
This week it's KPMG and Goldcorp in Toronto hosting the start-up firms that might just change mining with their fresh ideas. Last week it was Japanese equipment manufacturer Komatsu in Brisbane. The company's general manager Ryoichi Togashi said he was "blown away by the calibre of solutions" presented at the Brisbane 'Transform Mining' event.Staff reporter Komatsu general manager Ryoichi Togashi...Read More