A new interdisciplinary professional degree program at Colorado School of Mines will provide engineers with the knowledge and skills needed to drive the next generation of technologies and products in the transformative and fast-growing field of advanced manufacturing. Beginning fall 2018, Mines will be among the first universities in the U.S. to offer graduate-level degrees in advanced manufactu...Read More
Take a slice of the Earth's surface and it might look a little like the tabletop sand tanks that a group of local high school students experimented with during a visit to Colorado School of Mines. Clean, clear water flowed through the model, the layers of sand, gravel and clay mimicking the properties of unconfined and confined aquifers. That was before the student scientists injected a "polluta...Read More
It's an extraordinary story about an extraordinary man who became one of the most legendary entrepreneurs in Canadian history.But at its core it is also a love story. It's a tale about Peter Munk's life-long romance with Canada - the country that welcomed him after he and 14 members of his family fled Hungary and the Nazi's death camps in the final year of the Second World War.Since then the iconi...Read More
Senior mining executive and resource financier Stephen R. Dattels joined Barrick Gold in the early 1980s and was one of the key executives during its formative years, where he was involved in the company's growth from a $10-million capital base to a more than $2-billion market capitalization when he left the company in 1987. Dattels kindly agreed to an interview about his friend and former colleag...Read More
Following its acquisition of the Salobro Zinc Project from Vale and IMS Engenharia Mineral, Emerita Resources (TSXV: EMO) has received the necessary permits to start a diamond drilling campaign at the 1,209.75-hectare site, located in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.In a press release, the Toronto-based firm said that it is targeting completion of the revised resource by the end of Q2/2018,...Read More
Perth-based South32 (ASX, LSE, JSE: S32) announced today that it plans to appeal the ruling issued on March 16, 2018, by Colombia's Constitutional Court demanding that the company paid damages to Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities affected by its operations in the northern Cordoba province. The court overturned a previous decision and accepted as valid arguments and evidence presented by co...Read More
http://www.northernminer.com/In this issue of The Northern Miner and at an event at our Canadian Mining Symposium at Canada House in London on April 24 and 25, we are awarding to Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk our Lifetime Achievement Award for transforming Barrick over several decades from a small producer into the world's biggest gold producer in gold output and market value.It's an award that...Read More
Some of the most active companies traded Wednesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange:Toronto Stock Exchange (15,257.90, down 4.24 points)Aurora Cannabis Inc. (TSX:ACB). Healthcare. Up four cents, or 0.51 per cent, to $7.93 on 14.4 million shares.B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO). Miner. Up 14 cents, or 4.03 per cent, to $3.61 on 9.4 million shares.Champion Iron Limited (TSX:CIA). Miner. Down four cents, or 3...Read More
Morgan Stanley was recently out with a report that recommended selling shares of lithium companies because it expects a sharp drop in prices as new supply comes online.Morgan Stanley is wrong. Or it's late getting positioned in the lithium trend and is trying to send stocks lower so it can buy them.Either way, shame on Morgan Stanley.Here's its nutshell version: Lithium prices will drop 45% by 202...Read More
Find out how Barrick took a leap forward in driving innovation from the inside out through BattleBorn-a week-long series of tech ...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1340.70+$3.40Silver$16.58+$0.08XAU81.94+1.09%HUI177.21+0.83%GDM621.01+1.18%JSE Gold1089.78-21.23USD89.62-0.22Euro123.57+0.36Yen93.24-0.47Oil$65.51+$2.0910-Year2.793%+0.013T-Bond145.90625-0.15625Dow24408.00+1.79%Nasdaq7094.30+2.07%S&P2656.87+1.67% The Metals: Gold dipped $6 to $1331.30 in Asia before it bounced up to $1342.40 in early afternoon New York trade and then dr...Read More
- Trump & Russia threaten each other as conflict over Syria escalates- U.S. Navy destroyer armed with tomahawks arrives off Syria, "harassed" by Russian warplanes- Heightened risk of war between Syria, Russia, Israel, UK & the U.S.- Russia & Iran will pay "big price" for gas attack - Trump- Trump will decide on response to Syria attacks "very soon"- Trade and economic war between Russia and U.S...Read More
Developments in Syria are explosive. The FBI raid on Trump's lawyer's office reflects political instability in the USA. These factors can result in a quick rise for gold and decline of the greenback. The US-China trade war can subside in the short term but long term damage has been done to American credibility as a trading partner. Nations will find new ways and means to defriend the USA in way...Read More
After a fatal accident that claimed the lives of six men, Newmont Mining has shut down production at its Ahafo gold mine in Ghana.Read full newsRead More
Following its acquisition of the Salobro Zinc Project from Vale and IMS Engenharia Mineral, Emerita Resources (TSXV: EMO) has received the necessary permits to start a diamond drilling campaign at the 1,209.75-hectare site, located in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.In a press release, the Toronto-based firm said that it is targeting completion of the revised resource by the end of Q2/2018,...Read More
Q BioMed Inc (OTC US:QBIO:) CEO Denis Corin tells Proactive Investors the commercial-stage biotechnology acceleration company is waiting for the US Food and Drug Administration to sign off on a new manufacturing facility to produce Strontium Chloride Sr89 injection.Corin says he is hopeful the FDA will approve the facility in the next 30 days and is excited to bring the non-opioid pain analge...Read More
AnalytixInsight Inc.'s (TSX-V: ALY, OTCQB:ATIXF) ?EUR?Vice President of Corporate Development Scott Urquhart tells Proactive Investors the Artificial Intelligence company is creating a stock trading app to roll out later this year.Urquhart says AnalytixInsight subsidiary MarketWall has a joint venture with Intesa Sanpaolo, a bank in Italy, which will offer stock trading capabilities and finan...Read More
Duos Technologies Group Inc. (OTCQB:DUOT) CFO Adrian Goldfarb tells Proactive Investors the intelligent technology solutions company signed a US$2.8mln deal with Kohl's Corp. (NYSE:KSS) through a subsidiary, Duos Technologies Inc.Goldfarb says Duos will streamline gatehouse operations across its national distribution centers. Meet360 Blockchain Inc at our event,New York, 18 April 2018.Regist...Read More
FTSE 100 closes up 1%Miners reverse Monday's losses and someUS stocks higherAnglo American top riser Big name miners bolstered FTSE 100 on Tuesday and the index closed 1%, or 72 points at 7,266.FTSE 250 also did well, closing 191 points higher at 19,675.It came as equity markets shot up across the board as traders' fears eased after a speech by China's president Xi Jinping, which was su...Read More
Manama, capital of Bahrain, could host the 2019 World Jewellery Confederation CIBJO Congress.During a visit to the kingdom, the president of the self-described "United Nations of the jewelry business," Gaetano Cavalieri, met with Yaser Alsharifi, chairman of DANAT, the Bahrain Institute for Pearls & Gemstones, who brought up the idea of the new location for the next year's meeting. Hosting such a...Read More