Gold mine owners have polluted a river in Brazil's Tapaj??s basin and placed a price on the heads of resisting Munduruku leaders. A federal raid in May failed to stem the conflict.Read full newsRead More
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On April 20th, Centenera Mining [TSX-V: CT, OTCQB: CTMIF] reported a strong partial drill hole result at its Esperanza Copper-Gold porphyry project in San Juan Province, Argentina. Excitement over this assay was running high. Management believed that the core looked good, so they rushed the top 166 meters to the lab.Sometimes when expectations are elevated, actual news can disappoint....Read More
To misquote Yoda from one of the less-than-stellar Star Wars' movies: "Begun, the trade war has!"While making light of the rise of American protectionism is a typical knee-jerk reaction of stock market observers, it's important to recognize the U.S. initiation of an all-out trade war for what it is: a return to the pre-globalization economic Dark Ages.The imposition of tariffs on Mexico, Canada, a...Read More
An impressive gold-rich sample from NX Gold's Mt. Roe Project in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Source NX Gold Ltd.NxGold Ltd. [NXN-TSXV; LBHRF-OTC] rallied Friday June 1 after the company said that due to demand from investors, the company is upsizing a previously announced non-brokered private placement of units to $3 million from $1 million.The company said it may increase the size of...Read More
Anthony Milewski, Chairman and CEO of Cobalt 27 Capital, at the company's cobalt warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Photo courtesy Cobalt 27 Capital Corp.The strong global economic growth expected in 2018 should be synonymous with higher industrial metal prices, according to a new commodity trends report by Desjardins Group.The view was supported this week by news that China's vast manufactu...Read More
Bulk sampling at the Dumont nickel-cobalt project near Amos, Quebec. Source: RNC Minerals.RNC Minerals [RNX-TSX] on Friday June 1 announced plans to raise up to $6 million from a private placement of 40 million units priced at 15 cents per unit. The company said Haywood Securities Inc. has agreed to lead a syndicate of agents hired to sell the private placement units, including Laurentian Bank Sec...Read More
Automakers around the world are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to develop the next generation of battery electric vehicles and keep up with the clean car revolution.But one UK-based company hopes it can break into the market to compete with the big boys like Tesla with its newly developed hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle.Meet the Rasa...Right off the bat, you might want to be critical...Read More
Very few miners are adopting a holistic digital strategy, instead opting for purely functional and siloed improvements, a study has found. Noel Dyson*01 JUNE 201801/06/2018commentsshareEY, in its Digital mining: the next wave of business transformation report, found miners were making headway in using digital technology effectively to improve productivity. The problem is, miners lag behind just ab...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - June 1, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Coronet Metals Inc. (CSE: CRF) (FSE: 2CM2) (OTC Pink: CORMF) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it is has changed its name from Coronet to "MegumaGold Corp."At the open of the market on Monday, June 4, 2018 (the "Effective Date"), the Company will commence trading under its new name of MegumaGold Corp...Read More
June 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) A Vancouver-based miner diversifies by adding a Brazilian portfolio to its Mexican project.Leagold Mining Corp. (LMC:TSX.V; LMCNF:OTCQX) announced on May 24 that it has closed its acquisition of Brio Gold. This is a major milestone in the company's goal to become a mid-tier gold producer with a focus on Latin America.The Brio acquisition brings three opera...Read More
Ask the average person about her smartphone, and the odds are better than even that she'll be able to recite the make, model, and salient features such as battery life and camera quality. She may even be in a position to rank the phone relative to other handsets and to make a recommendation as to whether it offers good value for money.Make a similar inquiry about that person's savings account, on...Read More
Friends and EnemiesDo citizens of the United States trust their government will do what's right? It depends who you ask. By and large, the esteem the American populace holds its government in is likely a small fraction of what it was roughly 65 years ago. That was when Lieutenant General William Kelly Harrison Jr. signed the Korean Armistice Agreement. Certainly, in days gone by representati...Read More
June 1, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Precious metals expert Michael Ballanger dissects his volatility trades.One week ago today, I made the following commentary:In the Monday overnight session, the words "panic," "contagion," and "implosion" were being bandied about while the S&P futures were off sharply when I arrived at the gym yesterday at 7:00 a.m. Sure enough, gold and silver did not res...Read More
The Details PlottedIn the last issue of Seasonal Insights I showed you the statistics associated with the popular truism "sell in May and go away" in the countries with the eleven largest stock markets. The comparison divided the calendar year into a summer half-year from May to October and a winter half-year from November to April. In all eleven countries, the winter half-year outperformed the su...Read More
The news BGC Contracting will cut jobs in its home-town of Perth, Western Australia, in the wake of the early closure of its Koolyanobbing mining contract in the state has been overshadowed by the decision by construction tycoon Len Buckeridge's heirs to sell the A$2.5 billion BGC business empire he founded more than 50 years ago.Karma BarndonThe Koolyanobbing iron ore mine in Western Australia01...Read More
Just four years ago, the U.S. Navy released the 2014 U.S. Navy Arctic Roadmap - a policy position that was supposed to outline American objectives in the region through 2030.But four years later, Navy Secretary Richard Spencer and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson sat in front of a Congressional panel explaining why U.S. Arctic policy needed to be overhauled... completely.What trigger...Read More