There are about 1,500 stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The biggest (and most popular) 250 or so stocks make up the S&P/TSX Composite Index, or the TSX index for short. In fact, these 250 stocks are so big that they make up around 70% of total market capitalization on the TSX.The received wisdom is that pretty much every mainstream stock worth trading on the TSX is included in the S&P...Read More
It has been a tough few years for investors in mid-tier gold miner Eldorado Gold Corp. (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO). The deeply troubled miner has been heavily sold-off because of the market sensing an unacceptable degree of risk attached to its operations to see it down by a whopping 29% for the year to date. This has led to the emergence of claims by some pundits that Eldorado is an attractively valued o...Read More
The economy has hit a wall and is now sliding down it. I don't care what bullish propaganda may or may not be bubbling up in the headlines from the financial media and Wall Street, the hard numbers I look at everyday show accelerating economic weakness. The fact that my view is contrary to mainstream consensus and political propaganda reinforces my conviction that my view about the economy is corr...Read More
Sampling at Shamrock's Topley Project in the Bulkley Valley, 100 km southeast of Smithers, BC. Left to right: Mike Middleton, Lorne Warren and Clayton Gush. Photo courtesy Shamrock Enterprises Inc.Shamrock Enterprises Inc. [SRS-CSE] is currently raising exploration funds for its projects in northern British Columbia, including a $250,000 private placement and a $400,000 flow-through unit offering....Read More
Gold nuggets recovered from the Mt. Roe Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Source: NxGold Ltd.NxGold Ltd. [NXN-TSXV] rallied Thursday June 28 after the company said initial trenching work at its Mt. Roe Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia has confirmed the source of gold nuggets found on the property.The company has previously said that gold nuggets found at Mt. Roe...Read More
Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (16,179.89, down 51.36 points)Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED). Health care. Up $3.58, or 9.69 per cent, to $40.51 on 10.9 million shares.Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Health care. Up 45 cents, or 5.02 per cent, to $9.41 on 9.6 million shares.Bombardier Inc. (TSX:BBD.B). Aerospace, rail equipm...Read More
CALGARY - Pro-pipeline activists who hit the streets in increasing numbers this year to try to drown out anti-pipeline picketers plan to continue to confront their adversaries, even in the face of predictions of protest line violence.Stay-at-home mom and part-time activist Nicole Wapple, 37, of Red Deer, Alta., has been posting information on social media and occasionally taking part in pro...Read More
It was a treasure trove of sin and happiness.A lone oak tree that rested peacefully in the middle of an open field that separated two neighborhoods.A circular path surrounding the sturdy trunk had developed over the years, where local kids had set up empty milk crates that served as chairs and tables. Next to the tree sat a busted up wooden box where, every few weeks or so, a new issue of Playboy,...Read More
Fission Uranium Corp (TSX: FCU, OTCQX: FCUUF) owns the award-winning Patterson Lake South uranium property, host to the near-surface, high-grade Triple R deposit, part of the largest mineralized trend in the Athabasca Basin region. We learned from Ross McElroy, who is President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Geologist of Fission Uranium, that what makes the Triple R deposit unique, within the...Read More
Levon Resources Ltd. (TSX: LVN) is exploring one of the world's largest silver resources at the company's 100%-owned Cordero Project in northwest Mexico. We learned from Ron Tremblay, President and Chief Executive Officer of Levon Resources, that they recently announced a 30% increase in the resource, which is now one and three-quarter billion silver ounce equivalent and a PEA, which is giving the...Read More
June 28, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) An explorer that received good drill results last year is one of the first out of the gate to follow up this summer.Industry watchers are keeping their eyes on summer drilling in British Columbia's Golden Triangle for signs of the next GT Gold or Garibaldi Resources, both of whose shares leaped last year after the announcement of significant discoveries.O...Read More
June 28, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) The Critical Investor delves into the first new copper project fully permitted in Arizona in a decade.Johnson Camp MineDespite copper and other base metals being punished these days, and mining sentiment not at its best with China being drawn into a potential trade war with the U.S., Excelsior Mining Corp. (MIN:TSX; EXMGF:OTCQB) proved a lot of nay-sayers...Read More
A team of Colorado School of Mines students won the grand prize at NASA's collegiate deep space competition, beating out 13 other undergraduate and graduate student teams from around the U.S. and the world.Judges at the 2018 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts - Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition awarded Project POSEIDON - short for Polar Sample Extraction In-situ Drilling Operations Net...Read More
Diptak Bhattacharya, a doctoral student in the Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department, was named the winner of the 2018 Materials Literature Review Prize by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) on June 21.Bhattacharya beat six other finalists, selected from nearly 100 entries, after making a technical presentation at the international competition in London. His scient...Read More
Nanette Boyle, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Colorado School of Mines, has been awarded funding through the U.S. Department of Energy's Early Career Research Program.Boyle will receive $750,000 over five years to develop predictive metabolic models for algae - work that could help speed up the commercialization of strains that produce renewable biodiesel. "Algae ha...Read More
We don't smoke marijuana in MuskogeeWe don't take our trips on LSDWe don't burn our draft cards down on Main StreetWe like livin' right, and bein' free... - Merle Haggard, Okie From MuskogeeI'm a sucker for outlaw country music, and Merle Haggard has always been one of my favorites. Okie From Muskogee was my first introduction to the Mighty Merle.I pulled out the old reco...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1251.80-$7.10Silver$16.05-$0.25XAU79.93-0.69%HUI170.45-1.43%GDM607.67-0.74%JSE Gold1032.87+8.41USD95.34+0.63Euro115.56-0.91Yen90.79-0.16Oil$72.76+$2.2310-Year2.828%-0.052T-Bond145.21875+0.96875Dow24117.59-0.68%Nasdaq7445.08-1.54%S&P2699.63-0.86% The Metals: Gold edged up to $1259.90 at about 8AM EST, but it then drifted back lower into the close and ended near its late...Read More
- London house prices down 1.9 per cent in Q2 (yoy)- London house prices still 50% above 2007 bubble peak (see chart)- Brexit and weak consumer confidence to blame say experts- Little sign that U.K. property "weakness" is likely to change- London property bubble appears to be burstingFrom Bloomberg:U.K. house-price growth has slowed to the weakest pace in five years, while London values are...Read More
Nexus Gold (TSXV:NXS,OTC:NXXGF,Frankfurt:N6E) is pleased to announce that it has closed an initial tranche of its non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of units (each, a "Unit") at a price of $0.25 per Unit.Read full newsRead More
Mr. Michael Allen reportsNORTHERN EMPIRE HIGHLIGHTS DISTRICT-SCALE POTENTIAL OF STERLING GOLD PROJECT WITH NEWLY IDENTIFIED TARGETSNorthern Empire Resources Corp. has provided an updateon the status of its regional exploration program, including mapping, sampling, geophysics and new target identification at the Sterling gold project located in Nye county, Nevada.Michael G. Allen, president and ch...Read More