Mining Articles

Summer camp offers hands-on intro to tunnels, engineering

Jul 30 2018 / News room

A new summer camp at Colorado School of Mines hopes to inspire the next generation to think below the surface. Through the support of the University Transportation Center-Underground Transportation Infrastructure (UTC-UTI), Tunnel Camp at Mines welcomed more than 40 local elementary and middle school students to campus in two separate sessions this summer. The second session got underway Jul...Read More

Exclusive Interview: A Huge Megatrend In The Infant Stages

July 30, 2018 / Gerardo Del Real

Gerardo Del Real: This is Gerardo Del Real with the Outsider Club. Joining me today is the Managing Editor for Outsider Club, Investment Director of the personal finance advisory The Crow's Nest, and cannabis stocks advisory The Marijuana Manifesto, Mr. Jimmy Mengel. Jimmy, how's it going today?Jimmy Mengel: Great, Gerardo. Always a pleasure.Gerardo Del Real: The last time we spoke I believe was b...Read More

Looking at the medium term in $gold shows not only is the medium term cycle low late (gold very weak) but the 2015...

Sun Jul 29 22:27:46 2018 / Staff reporter

"Looking at the medium term in $gold shows not only is the medium term cycle low late (gold very weak) but the 2015 uptrend line has been taken OUT.Medium term support is the now activated 2011 downtrend line near 1172 and resistance is now the 2015 uptrend line 1236-1242."Read full newsRead More

$gold not the only commodity hurting. The Agriculture sector is below 1999 !!!! It's at a long term trend line t...

Sun Jul 29 22:12:54 2018 / Staff reporter

"$gold not the only commodity hurting.The Agriculture sector is below 1999 !!!! It's at a long term trend line that's gotta hold.Gold needs OTHER commodities to stop dropping. Odds favor the Ag sector bounces here, but can it be a meaningful bounce.That's the key."Read full newsRead More

Environmentalists worried about prospecting in New Zealand's South Island

Jul. 29, 2018, 2:12 PM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Environmentalists in New Zealand are expressing concerns about the possibility of government accepting applications to prospect for minerals on conservation land across theNelson and Marlborough regions.Interviewed by the news site Stuff, a representative for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand said that the government is creating "concerning expectations," especially for f...Read More

Environmentalists worried about prospecting in New Zealand's South Island

Jul. 29, 2018, 2:12 PM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Environmentalists in New Zealand are expressing concerns about the possibility of government accepting applications to prospect for minerals on conservation land across theNelson and Marlborough regions.Interviewed by the news site Stuff, a representative for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand said that the government is creating "concerning expectations," especially for f...Read More

India's state-owned miner to start digging for local gold

Jul. 29, 2018, 12:57 PM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

India's National Mineral Development Corporation beat giants Adani and Vedanta in an e-auction for a gold mine located in the Chittoor district of the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.According to the Press Trust of India, this is the first time the state-owned company takes on gold mining in the country.The Chittoor mine site is called Chigargunta-Bisanatham and it extends for 263.01 hectares...Read More

India's state-owned miner to start digging for local gold

Jul. 29, 2018, 12:57 PM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

India's National Mineral Development Corporation beat giants Adani and Vedanta in an e-auction for a gold mine located in the Chittoor district of the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.According to the Press Trust of India, this is the first time the state-owned company takes on gold mining in the country.The Chittoor mine site is called Chigargunta-Bisanatham and it extends for 263.01 hectares...Read More

Pebble's Draft Environmental Impact Statement to be ready in January

Jul. 29, 2018, 11:54 AM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM) Pebble mine will be completed in January 2019.During a press conference held this week at its Alaska division, representatives for the Corps said that the document will be open for public comment for 90 days rather than the usual 45 days.Prior to this, a "scoping report"...Read More

Pebble's Draft Environmental Impact Statement to be ready in January

Jul. 29, 2018, 11:54 AM / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM) Pebble mine will be completed in January 2019.During a press conference held this week at its Alaska division, representatives for the Corps said that the document will be open for public comment for 90 days rather than the usual 45 days.Prior to this, a "scoping report"...Read More

Krupp foundation rejects break-up of Thyssenkrupp - Der Spiegel

Jul. 29, 2018, 10:20 AM / Reuters

Ursula Gather, head of the Thyssenkrupp foundation, ruled out a break-up of the German steel-to-submarines conglomerate and rejected allegations she is responsible for a leadership crisis, Der Spiegel newsmagazine reported.Thyssenkrupp's chief executive and chairman quit this month citing a lack of support from "major shareholders" at a time when activist investors Cevian, which holds an 18 percen...Read More

Chile's Escondida mine workers reject labor offer, to vote on strike

Jul. 29, 2018, 10:08 AM / Reuters

Workers at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, have rejected the company's final contract offer and agreed to vote on whether to go on strike, according to an internal union document seen by Reuters on Friday.After several meetings in recent days, the workers at the mine owned by BHP concluded that the company's offer does not meet union demands and creates "prejudicial" labor cond...Read More

Immigrant youth shelters: 'If you're a predator, it's a gold mine'

Sun Jul 29 09:11:11 2018 / Staff reporter

ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. Here's what they show.Read full newsRead More

EPA seeks dismissal of lawsuit over Gold King mine spill

Sun Jul 29 09:11:09 2018 / Staff reporter

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants a federal court to toss a lawsuit filed by Utah, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation seeking the repayment of cleanup costs for a mine spill in Colorado that polluted rivers in three states.Read full newsRead More

Gold Rock Mine proposal would add hundreds of jobs

Sun Jul 29 09:11:08 2018 / Staff reporter

ELY - The Bureau of Land Management's Ely District has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Gold Rock Mine Project in eastern Nevada, approximately 50 miles westRead full newsRead More

Already a Scourge, Illegal Gold Mining in Colombia Is Getting Worse

Sun Jul 29 09:11:07 2018 / Staff reporter

According to a report by the U.N. and Colombia’s government, 66 percent of alluvial gold exploitation in the country is considered unregulated. llegal mining is nothing new in Colombia, but it is expanding at a troubling rate, undermining the rule of law, eroding security and devastating the environment.Read full newsRead More

Jaxon Mining confirms copper gold porphyry discovery in British Columbia, assays pending

Sun Jul 29 09:11:05 2018 / Staff reporter

Jaxon said the first phase of fieldwork included geological mapping and sampling the Red Spring area, located within the Hazelton Property.Read full newsRead More

Selling autonomous trucks moves from push to pull: Caterpilllar

Jul. 29, 2018, 7:27 AM / Michael Allan McCrae

Autonomous trucks are no longer an up-sell, says Caterpillar's Craig Watkins, commercial manager for a surface mining technology.The technology has gained traction and customers are asking for them, said Watkins during an interview with MINING.com at the CIM Convention 2018 held this past May."One of the key changes that's happened over the last year or so is that we have gone from a push scenario...Read More

Silver, Weed, or Tech: Which High-Growth Stock Is the Best?

July 29, 2018 / Victoria Hetherington

High-growth investing is one of the most popular stock plays in the world, with buyers getting in low and selling high. While some plays are risky and call for careful portfolio monitoring, which can be very time consuming, others are more long term. Here is a selection of the very best quality high-growth stocks currently trading on the TSX.While the stocks here have poor value multiples, they al...Read More

Hungry for Income? These 3 Stocks Pay Dividend Yields Above 6%!

July 29, 2018 / Jason Phillips

The TSX Composite has risen 11% from its January lows, and what that's good news. It also means that it's become more and more difficult to find good bargains. It also means it's harder to find stocks of companies that pay attractive dividend yields.At the close of June, the average dividend yield of companies listed on the TSX was just 2.92%.Meanwhile, the three companies that make this list each...Read More

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