Lightship today announced that KGHM International, which is working towards the development of the Ajax Copper-Gold project near the city of Kamloops, B.C., will be using the Lightship application to manage and protect field employees working on mine development. The application, also called Lightship, provides site managers with a real time, bird's-eye view of an entire worksite. It tracks and re...Read More
IMF approves China's yuan as reserve currency … Inclusion in elite list alongside US dollar and euro described as a milestone for world's second largest economy. With the decision, the yuan, also known as the renminbi, will join the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound next year in the list of currencies the IMF uses as an international reserve asset. – Al JazeeraDom...Read More
Hours Before the Terror Attacks, Paris Practiced for a Mass Shooting … Since the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, from which 16 people died, Paris-area ambulance crews and emergency personnel have taken part in regular exercises designed to test their readiness for possible attacks. One such exercise was held on Friday morning, the day of the latest terror attacks. In a twist of fate, the s...Read More
IMF approves China's yuan as reserve currency … Inclusion in elite list alongside US dollar and euro described as a milestone for world's second largest economy. With the decision, the yuan, also known as the renminbi, will join the US dollar, euro, Japanese yen and British pound next year in the list of currencies the IMF uses as an international reserve asset. – Al JazeeraDom...Read More
Hours Before the Terror Attacks, Paris Practiced for a Mass Shooting … Since the Charlie Hebdo attacks in January, from which 16 people died, Paris-area ambulance crews and emergency personnel have taken part in regular exercises designed to test their readiness for possible attacks. One such exercise was held on Friday morning, the day of the latest terror attacks. In a twist of fate, the s...Read More
A couple of weeks ago, mining and metals analysts at Barclays put out a research note warning investors that while the sector is having its worst run in fifty years better days aren't necessarily around the corner.This is how the investment bank summarized the current state of the industry when it downgraded the entire sector:"The last 5 years have now been the worst period of performance since 19...Read More
Tabas coal mine in central Iran. Source: Mehr News AgencyCopper, iron ore and heavy rare earth elements could be worth "much more" than Iran's crude oil revenues Mojtaba Khosrowtaj, deputy minister in Iran's Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade tells Bloomberg.Iran is opening $29 billion of mining projects to foreign investors once international sanctions are lifted, roughly equal the oil and gas...Read More
Dark times ahead for Australia's mining industry. (Image via YouTube)Australia's mining industry is likely to see up to 20,000 jobs fade by the end of 2018 as one of the country's leading research firm forecasts a further 58% fall in investments in the sector over the next three years.According to BIS Shrapnel's report, Mining in Australia 2015 to 2030, investment in the country since 2014 has fal...Read More
When the instinct is strongest to curl up in a ball and wait out the ravages of the down market is also when smart companies snap up distressed projects and get to work while capital costs are low. In this interview with The Gold Report, veteran investors Bob Moriarty of 321gold.com and Adrian Day of Adrian Day Asset Management share their messages to mining company CEOs and investors about advanc...Read More
Migrant crisis laid bare: 1.5 MILLION people have entered EU countries illegally this year … The staggering figure was revealed by European Council President Donald Tusk, as leaders from across the continent desperately tried to thrash out a way of stemming the flow of refugees into Europe. Hundreds of thousands of migrants – many fleeing war and persecution from North Africa and the M...Read More
Fo Real S'kebei … Pidgin english is now officially a language Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii Don't 'oe be givin me no stink eye, this is fo real s'kebei. After hundreds of years, Hawaiian Pidgin has been officially recognised as a language. A US census survey into languages, which was released on November 3, included both Hawaiian Pidgin and Pidgin in its official list for the...Read More
Migrant crisis laid bare: 1.5 MILLION people have entered EU countries illegally this year … The staggering figure was revealed by European Council President Donald Tusk, as leaders from across the continent desperately tried to thrash out a way of stemming the flow of refugees into Europe. Hundreds of thousands of migrants – many fleeing war and persecution from North Africa and the M...Read More
Fo Real S'kebei … Pidgin english is now officially a language Na Pali Coast, Kauai, Hawaii Don't 'oe be givin me no stink eye, this is fo real s'kebei. After hundreds of years, Hawaiian Pidgin has been officially recognised as a language. A US census survey into languages, which was released on November 3, included both Hawaiian Pidgin and Pidgin in its official list for the...Read More
Copper producers in China are taking drastic measures to arrest the plummeting price.On Saturday it was announced that nine large copper smelters will cut production by over 200,000 tonnes in 2016, which is around 5 percent of 2015 levels.The move comes as copper prices on the London Metal exchange and in Shanghai fell to six-year lows, on the back of low growth and an oversupplied market. Growth...Read More
Metals discovered from exploration worth about $700 billion.This is a syndicated post.Read the original here.Read More
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Rio Tinto Aluminium Weipa celebrated 50 years of operations in 2013. (Image courtesy of Rio Tinto)Rio Tinto (LON:RIO), the world's second-largest mining group, has approved a $1.9 billion bauxite project in Australia, bucking a trend among most top miners that have mostly delayed new mines to weather the effects of slumping commodity prices.The South of Embley project, located on the Cape York Pen...Read More
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Turkey won't apologize for downing Russian warplane, Erdogan says … Turkey will not apologize for downing a Russian fighter jet it says violated Turkish airspace near the Syrian border, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an exclusive CNN interview Thursday in Ankara. "I think if there is a party that needs to apologize, it is not us," he said from the Turkish capita...Read More
Blockchain technology could reduce role of banks, says BIS … Blockchain technology could reduce the role of intermediaries such as banks and settlement houses, the Bank for International Settlements – or "the central bankers' central bank" – said in a report on Monday. Blockchain technology – or distributed ledger technology, as many financiers prefer to call...Read More