At long last President Trump has made himself clear about marijuana laws... and it is great news for marijuana stock investors.He just struck a deal with Colorado's Republican Senator Cory Gardner to protect states' rights when it comes to federal crackdowns on the marijuana industry. In a late-night phone call, Gardner was assured by President Trump that he would back off of any federal threats t...Read More
This article was written by Nicholas West and originally published at Activist PostAmid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users' private data, there is an emerging trend that is infinitely more disturbing.The first story popped up in the UK yesterday where police admitted to using a photo sent through WhatsApp to cull fingerprints for e...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comIn January 1980, the price of gold hit a record high of $850 per ounce. Then it began a nearly two-decade slide.By the summer of 1999, gold hit $250 per ounce- a level not seen since the 1970s.So naturally it was at this point that the British government made the infamously stupid decision to sell the bulk of their gold reserves.They began dumping their gold on July 6, 1999. An...Read More
This article was written by Nicholas West and originally published at Activist PostAmid the ongoing Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debacle over their general surveillance and misuse of users' private data, there is an emerging trend that is infinitely more disturbing.The first story popped up in the UK yesterday where police admitted to using a photo sent through WhatsApp to cull fingerprints for e...Read More
Via Sovereignman.comIn January 1980, the price of gold hit a record high of $850 per ounce. Then it began a nearly two-decade slide.By the summer of 1999, gold hit $250 per ounce- a level not seen since the 1970s.So naturally it was at this point that the British government made the infamously stupid decision to sell the bulk of their gold reserves.They began dumping their gold on July 6, 1999. An...Read More
19 April 2018 - RCT has helped the world's largest underground copper mine, El Teniente, successfully and safely mine in mud, in what is believed to be a world-first mining method in these conditions.This impressive feat was facilitated by the company's specialised department, RCT Custom. The bespoke team helped deliver a state-of-the-art ControlMaster (R) Automation solution allowing the copper...Read More
Controversial data analytics company planned to launch a cryptocurrency for selling personal data(File Photo) In recent weeks, Cambridge Analytica (CA) has become an infamous name in the data analytics space, most notably, for working on Donald Trump's digital campaign strategy and troll...Read full newsRead More
While the Dow Jones has been riding a semi-consistent high since making massive gains in 2017, experts think a collision is bound to happen.Read full newsRead More
Mining has long been a central component of BC's economy, dating back to the mid-1800s, and Vancouver Island is no exception.Read full newsRead More
CloseGain/LossGold $1348.60+$1.30Silver$17.18+$0.41XAU85.21+1.19%HUI184.34+0.92%GDM643.88+0.60%JSE Gold1093.98+29.74USD89.62+0.12Euro123.78+0.03Yen93.36-0.27Oil$68.47+$1.9510-Year2.877%+0.037T-Bond144.84375-1.1875Dow24748.07-0.16%Nasdaq7295.24+0.19%S&P2708.64+0.08% The Metals: Gold fell $5 to $1342.30 in Asia before it climbed up to $1355.60 in late morning New York trade and then drifted...Read More
The Thomas-Dobr?(C)e museum was robbed this week when thieves made off with a 16th-century gold case containing the heart of Queen Anne de Bretagne.Read full newsRead More
BlowFish Technologies CEO Jason Priest tells Proactive Investors the newly formed global blockchain company is looking at opportunities with cannabis.Priest says the Toronto headquartered company has been receiving a large amount of interest from cannabis companies since there is a lot of 'friction' with payment systems, so they are looking at using a token in lieu of traditional payment systems....Read More
Researchers with the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland discovered that a planetary "embryo" whose size was between Mercury to Mars gave origin to the meteorite fragments that form the Almahata Sitta collection. The pieces were recovered from the Nubian Desert in Sudan a decade ago.Such fragments contained diamonds of some 100-microns in diameter and have been objects of study...Read More
LGC Capital Ltd (CVE:LG) CEO John McMullen tells Proactive Investors the investment company specializing in legal medical cannabis is closing a deal with cryptocurrency business Evolution Bnk, based out of Italy.McMullen says Evolution Bnk has devised a novel way of combining a cryptocurrency/cannabis equivalent of production where there is 'growing upstairs' and 'data mining downstairs.'" M...Read More
FTSE 100 closes up over 91 pointsInflation falls to 2.5% in MarchPound slidesMiners gainFTSE 100 closed more than 91 points higher, or 1.26%, aided by miners and the weaker pound.The UK index of premier stocks finished at 7,317, while FTSE 250 closed at 20,012 - up by around 182 points, or 0.92%."The FTSE 100 is being helped by the sell-off in sterling. The dip in the pound has made the internatio...Read More
Greg Hahn, president and CEO of Arizona Silver Exploration Inc (CVE:AZS, OTCQB:AZASF), discusses with Proactive's Andrew Scott the first encouraging findings from initial geophysical surveying at their new Sycamore Canyon gold-silver property in Graham county.As revealed last month, Arizona Silver's struck a lease with option to purchase agreement for the site, which it believes has 'tremendous' p...Read More
Kerim Sener, managing director of Ariana Resources plc (LON:AAU), tells Proactive Investors they produced 4,866 ounces of gold from the Kiziltepe project in Turkey during the first quarter to March 31 - an 8% increase quarter on quarter.Ariana's expecting to produce 20,000 ounces for the full year.Sener also discusses the recent boost to their resource base at the Tavsan project to 3.98mln tonnes...Read More
The government of new Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra said on Wednesday it would not "impose" mining projects on nearby communities that object to them, but would seek to promote mining investments to take advantage of improved mineral prices.In the past decade, Southern Copper Corp and Newmont Mining Corp have shelved proposed mines in Peru because of opposition from communities worried about...Read More
Tom Becker, chief executive of Iofina plc (LON:IOF) tells Proactive Investors they maintained iodine production in the latest quarter even with an exceptionally bad US winter and less plants in operation.Two of the plants (IO#3 and IO#5) were offline at the start of the quarter, while parts of the US were hit by one of the coldest winters in living memory.Even so, the group produced 118.2metric to...Read More