Mining Articles

The Full Story Behind China's Gold Mine-Power Plant Swap in Tajikistan

Mon Apr 16 04:49:34 2018 / Staff reporter

The swap is the culmination of a longstanding agreement that began almost a decade ago.Read full newsRead More

Journalist Finds A Hometown 'River Of Lost Souls' After The Gold King Mine Disaster

Mon Apr 16 04:49:31 2018 / Staff reporter

Jonathan Thompson places the Gold King Mine spill within the long history of mining and pollution in Southwest Colorado.Read full newsRead More

EPA fires back at critics over wastewater from the Gold King Mine

Mon Apr 16 04:49:29 2018 / Staff reporter

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is firing back at a mining company that accused the agency of letting untreated mine wastewater get into the Animas River in southwestern Colorado.Read full newsRead More

Why Gold Mining ETFs Are Rallying

Mon Apr 16 04:49:28 2018 / Staff reporter

Inside a few reasons that explain the recent rally in gold mining ETFs.Read full newsRead More

INK Canadian Insider Index continues climb, adds 15 points

Mon, 16/04/2018 2:31 am / Nicholas Winton

Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index continued its April rebound and gained 15 points for a finish at 1267.71.Support moves up to 1241 (200-day moving average) and 1260. Resistance is at 1276 and 1284.RSI moved up nearly 7 points to 53, while MACD rose 4 points to 3.84. The INK CIN's technicals are look...Read More

Syria: What Just Happened?

April 16, 2018 / admin

This essay on the ramifications of the United States' Deep State missile attack on Syria. The OPCW - Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons - is an independent organization formed to implement the provisions of the Chemical Weapons Convention. There's 192 member states, including the U.S. and Russia.Russia sponsored a resolution in the U.N. for the U.N. to endorse the OPCW's inve...Read More

Argentinian secretaries to jail for Veladero spill

Apr 16 2018 / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Federal judge Sebasti??n Casanello prosecuted Sergio Lorusso, Argentina's former Secretary of Environment, and Jorge Mayoral, former Secretary of Mines.The officials are accused of abuse of power in the case of the 2015 cyanide spill at Barrick Gold's (TSX, NYSE:ABX) Veladero mine, the first of three similar incidents registered at the operation between 2015 and 2017.According to Casanello's decis...Read More

Will Gold and Silver Continue to Climb After Friday's Syria Strikes?

April 16, 2018 / Ambrose O'Callaghan

On the night of April 13, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would conduct military strikes in Syria with its allies Britain and France. This was in response to an alleged chemical attack that the U.S. and it allies claim was committed by Syrian government forces. The Syrian government has denied the allegations. Russia, which has emerged as a close ally of the Bashar al-Assad governme...Read More

Tesla (TSLA):"It's Not A Lie If You Believe It"

April 16, 2018 / admin

TSLA stock has levitated on statements from Elon Musk that TSL A would be cash flow positive by Q3, an announcement that TSLA would roll out a Model Y "crossover" SUV by November 2019 and the reiteration of ambitious Model 3 production milestones. All three will never happen.Elon Musk's attorneys must be giving Elon the same advise given to Jerry Seinfeld by George just before Jerry took a polygra...Read More

Lithium Chile will start drilling its brine targets this month

Apr 16 2018 / Staff reporter

Lithium Chile (LITH.V) seems to have completed its early exploration activities and as the company has identified multiple brine areas at its Ollague and Atacama lithium projects in Chile, LITH is gearing up to get a drill program going as soon as possible to test these high-priority targets.Exploration never has a certain outcome: sometimes you hit what appears to be a home run (Millennial Lithiu...Read More

AngloGold loses Venkat to Vedanta

16 APRIL 2018 / Staff reporter

AngloGold Ashanti (JSE:ANG) CEO Srinivasan Venkatakrishnan has resigned after accepting an offer to become CEO of Vedanta Resources (LSE:VED).Staff reporterSrinivasan Venkatakrishnan will move from AngloGold to Vedanta at the end of August16 APRIL 201816/04/2018commentsshareHe has spent 18 years at the company, first as CFO and then as CEO in the past five years, and will leave at the end of Augus...Read More

Shanta reaches black after tough year

16 APRIL 2018 / Staff reporter

Tanzania miner Shanta Gold (AIM:SHG) has managed a profit despite the new Tanzania mining rules, a major capital project and new CEO. New Luika underground delivered despite some grade issues in 201816 APRIL 201816/04/2018commentsshare On production of just under 80,000 ounces of gold in 2017, Shanta brought in EBITDA of US$37.7 million (a 24.5% drop on 2016) and an after tax profit of $4.2 millio...Read More

M2 Cobalt wants to accelerate the Bombo exploration program

Apr 16 2018 / Staff reporter

M2 Cobalt's (MC.V) exploration program in Uganda is in full swing as the airborne and ground survey on the Bombo target (part of one of the Bujagali exploration licenses) has been completed and the crews have moved onto the copper-cobalt-gold zone on another Bujagali exploration license.A total of 3,000 samples have now been taken (1,348 at Exploration License 1666 and 1,747 samples at EL 1665), a...Read More

Gold Explorer Soars on Drill Results

April 16, 2018 / Staff reporter

Evrim Resources Corp. (TSXV:EVM), a gold explorer, surged after announcing drill results that included 13.61 g/t gold over 106.2 metresSean Mason | April 16, 2018 | SmallCapPowerPotential 'bonanza' grade drill results sent shares of a gold explorer surging Monday. Here's some small stocks making big moves on Monday, April 16, 2018 (as of 4 pm EST):Evrim Resources Corp. (TSXV:EVM) shares powered...Read More

Cobalt 27 in talks to supply metal to Chinese firms

April 16, 2018 / Resource World

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.Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. [KBLT-TSXV, 270-FSE], owner of the world's largest stockpile of cobalt, said it is in talks with Chinese companies who are seeking to secure supplies of the metal which is used to manufacture electric vehicle b...Read More

MedReleaf Stock Climbs on Expansion Announcement

April 16, 2018 / Staff reporter

MedReleaf Corp. (TSX:LEAF) said it has completed the purchase of one million sq. ft. of existing greenhouse infrastructureSmallCapPower | April 16, 2018: MedReleaf Corp. (TSX:LEAF) shares jumped nearly 10% on Thursday after the Company announced completion of the purchase of a 164-acre property at Exeter, Ontario, comprising one million sq. ft. of existing greenhouse infrastructure on a 69-acre pr...Read More

Ubika Battery Metals Index Surges 57% Year Over Year

April 16, 2018 / Staff reporter

Our Ubika Battery Metals Index fell during the past two months, though, along with most other battery metals stocksThis Content is Exclusive to Our MembersLogin belowRegisterLost your password?The Ubika Battery Metals Index is down 13% since our last report dated February 12, 2018, underperforming its benchmarks, the TSX-V Index and the Global X Lithium and Battery ETF, which decreased 4% and 6%,...Read More

Could Silver Hit $150 an Ounce?

April 16, 2018 / Luke Burgess

It's been seven years since the last big rally in precious metals. But the U.S. dollar and fiat currencies are in trouble, hinting that gold and silver prices could again go screaming higher.As I explained last week, a collapse of the U.S. dollar is inevitable. The U.S. Dollar Index has been bouncing off of four-year lows for the past several weeks. But this cannot last much longer with a global t...Read More

Abitibi Royalties Inc. (TSX-V: RZZ): Owns Royalties, at the Canadian Malartic Mine, Canada's Largest Gold Mine, Interview with Ian Ball, President and CEO

16/4/2018 / Dr. Allen Alper, PhD Economic Geology and Petrology, Columbia University, NYC, US

Abitibi Royalties Inc. (TSX-V: RZZ) owns various royalties, at the Canadian Malartic Mine, Canada's largest gold mine, that covers portions of Odyssey, East Malartic, Barnat Extension, Gouldie/Charlie zones and all of the Jeffrey zone.In addition, the Company is building a portfolio of royalties on early stage properties near producing mines. We learned from Mr. Ian Ball, President and CEO of Abit...Read More

4 Canadian Stocks That Could Get Hurt by Russian Exposure

April 16, 2018 / Staff reporter

The Canadian stocks on our list could be impacted by new sanctions or a potential military conflict with RussiaSmallCapPower | April 16, 2018: Following U.S. President Trump’s tweets regarding a prospective attack on Syria and new U.S. sanctions, the Russian ruble has fallen to a 16-month low. Many companies operating in Russia have also seen declines, with companies such as Kinross Gold (TS...Read More

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