Mining Articles

Contaminated water exposure study featured by multiple news outlets

January 03, 2018 / News room

A newly funded study of Colorado residents exposed to drinking water contaminated by firefighting foam used at a U.S. Air Force base was recently featured by multiple news outlets. Researchers at Colorado School of Mines and the Colorado School of Public Health at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are collaborating on the study, which is being funded by the National Institute of E...Read More

Raymond James denies mishandling retiree's account

January 03, 2018 / Mike Caswell

This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellRaymond James Ltd.'s Lori Pinkowski and Seth Allen deny that they did anything wrong in handling the portfolio of a disgruntled North Vancouver retiree. They say that the client understood his investments were going into a discretionary account and th...Read More

Joint Venture Article: Bonterra Achieves Exploration's Grand Slam: a Hit on Every Hole

Jan3, 2018 / MiningFeeds.com

by: Northern Miner Staff Writer, SEPTEMBER 27, 2017The geological model Bonterra Resources (TSX-Venture: BTR) is applying to its Gladiator gold project in the Abitibi belt of Quebec is proving to be a reliable predictor of where extensions of the already substantial deposit will appear.As a result, the Vancouver-based company has been able to quickly expand the known gold mineralization along s...Read More

Will The Real Phillips Curve Please Stand Up

January 3, 2018 / admin

No society that depends on money can work for long if nobody knows the true value of things, including the value of money itself. The price of attempting to live in a culture of pervasive dishonesty is that a re-set is inevitable. When it happens, it will be hugely destabilizing. - James KunstlerPhillips Curve R.I.P. - Paul Craig RobertsFor a decade central banks have printed enormous quantitie...Read More

Fireweed Zinc is gearing up for a resource update at MacMillan Pass

Jan 3 2018 / Staff reporter

Fireweed Zinc (FWZ.V) has now released all drill results of its 2017 drill campaign (with some stellar intervals reported in a December update with for instance 38 meters (true width!) containing almost 16.5% zinc-lead, including 25 meters of 21% Zinc-Lead, which are amazing results).The 2017 drill program was extremely successful as not only did it confirm the historical drill results, it also in...Read More

Jericho Oil raises C$7M through warrant exercises and a placement

Jan 3 2018 / Staff reporter

Jericho Oil (JCO.V) is perhaps one of the best-backed oil companies on the TSX Venture Exchange as not only was it able to count on the Breen family to 'get started' a few years ago, the core shareholders continue to support the company. A total of 7.9 million warrants with a strike price of C$0.60 have now been exercised for total proceeds of C$4.75M (of which 'insiders' contributed approximately...Read More

Roxgold gets permitting approval for West Africa gold mine

January 3, 2018 / Resource World

Roxgold's high-grade Yaramoko Gold Mine in southwestern Burkina Faso, West Africa. Source: Roxgold Inc.Roxgold Inc. [ROXG-TSX; ROGFF-OTC] said it has received permitting approval to develop the Bagassi South gold project in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The approval from the Burkina Faso Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development marks a significant milestone in the permitting process and so...Read More

LiCo Energy Metals jumps 25% on Ontario cobalt assays

January 3, 2018 / Resource World

The Teledyne Mine portal near the historic Cobalt Mining Camp in northeast Ontario. Source: LiCo Energy Metals Inc.LiCo Energy Metals Inc. [LIC-TSXV; WCTXF-OTCQB] on Wednesday January 3 released assay results from drilling at its Teledyne property northeast of Cobalt, northeast Ontario. Investors reacted by sending the share price up 25% or $0.03 to $0.15 in morning trading. Volume was active, wit...Read More

A Silver Stock Rated a Strong Buy

January 3, 2018 / Staff reporter

Investors Free Sign UpMember LoginBecome a MemberNews FeedsSubmit NewsEditor's PicksVideoPodcastsWine Down CornerCompaniesMarketplaceShop A Silver Stock Rated a Strong BuySource: Clive Maund for Streetwise Reports January 3, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) Clive Maund conducts a technical analysis on a silver company and finds it is at a good entry point.There are a number of precious metal...Read More

Exposed: Corrupt Bureau of Land Management Tried to Railroad Cliven Bundy

January 03, 2018 / The Daily Bell Staff

The third trial of Cliven Bundy has ended in a mistrial. The prosecution failed to turn over documents that would have helped the defense.Two earlier trials ended in hung juries. On January 8th, a judge will decide if the case will be dismissed “with prejudice,” meaning that it cannot be once again brought to trial.This all started two years ago when Cliven Bundy asserted his rights...Read More

Solgold maiden resource at Alpala, Ecuador is 5.2m tonnes copper

Jan 3 2018 / Frik Els

After an initial jump shares in Solgold plc (LON, TSX:SOLG) were trading flat by lunchtime on Wednesday after the company, worth $865m on the Toronto stock exchange, released the maiden resource for the Alpala target at its massive Cascabel copper-gold project in northern Ecuador.The latest in a string of announcements from Ecuador, where the Brisbane-based company have completed 63,500m of dr...Read More

Mining in 2018: Copper price to power on

Jan 3 2018 / Frik Els

The price of copper ended 2017 near a four-year high of $3.30 a pound ($7,260 per tonne) extending the bull run in the red metal for a second year. Measured from its multi-year lows struck at the beginning of 2016, copper has gained more than 70% in value.The copper price surged by 30% in 2017 to levels last seen early 2014What happened in 2017The run started on hopes (since dashed) of massive inf...Read More

Graduate student receives NAGT Outstanding TA Award

January 3, 2018 / News room

A Colorado School of Mines graduate student has been honored with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers Outstanding TA Award.William Kyle Blount, a PhD student in hydrology, was nominated for the award by Terri Hogue, professor of civil and environmental engineering, in recognition of his numerous academic and community activities, research experience on hydrologic modeling and data anal...Read More

Boyle part of team awarded $8M for algal biofuel research

January 3, 2018 / News room

A Colorado School of Mines professor is part of a team that has been awarded $8 million over five years by the U.S Department of Energy to engineer a particular strain of alga to produce renewable biofuel.Nanette Boyle, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, will receive $616,000 over the next five years for her part in the project, which is to create a genome-scale metabolic...Read More

Editorial: The coming US mining renaissance

Jan 3 2018 / John Cumming

While for much of past twenty years there has been a slow withering of the mining industry in the U.S., with the notable exceptions of a few bright spots such as gold mining in Nevada, things are starting to look much more optimistic thanks to a combination of rising commodity prices, an easing of regulatory burdens and a new pro-business atmosphere punctuated by the deep corporate cuts in the U.S...Read More

Letter to the editor: A better suggestion for parkland in northern Manitoba

Jan 3 2018 / Northern Miner Staff

The Manitoba Saskatchewan Prospectors and Developers Association (MSPDA) takes the strong view that while it agrees with Stephen Fletcher's view that a creating a new national park on Manitoba's Nickel Belt is an irresponsible action by the federal government (T.N.M., Nov. 16-Dec. 10/17), he should not have so quickly suggested a park in the Seal River area as an alternative.Mr. Fletcher, Member o...Read More

Freeport Indonesia's mining permit extended until June

Jan 3 2018 / Valentina Ruiz Leotaud

Indonesia's government has extended until June 30, 2018, the temporary special mining permit it issued to PT Freeport Indonesia, a subsidiary of US-based Freeport McMoRan (NYSE:FCX).The permit was issued to allow the miner to continue exporting copper concentrate while company representatives and government officials go on with the discussions around Freeport's future operations in the country, wh...Read More

Deadline approaching for Ontario prospectors to make switch to map staking (CBC News Sudbury - January 3, 2018)

Jan 3 2018 / Staff reporter

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/Prospectors will not be able to stake claims until online system is implemented in AprilA deadline is fast approaching that will completely change the way Ontario prospectors do business. In April, the province is rolling in a new Mining Lands Administration System that will see prospectors stake their claims online, instead of on the ground.As of Jan. 9, no n...Read More

My Top Picks for 2017 Review

January 3, 2018 / FI Fighter

At the conclusion of 2016, I issued the following top picks for 2017.Heading into 2017, I was quite bullish on: Birimian Limited (BGS.AX/EEYMF), Critical Elements (CRE.V/CRECF), and Ivanhoe Mines (IVN.TO/IVPAF).How did we end up doing?From the 2017 CEO Stock Picking Contest (shout out to @Evenprime for all his hard work!).BGS.AX up 127%CRE.V up 233%IVN.TO up 67%On the whole, the top 3 picks for 2...Read More

Iran, a Pipe Dream

January3, 2018 / Christian DeHaemer

Last year I predicted that oil, specifically West Texas Intermediate, would end the year with a price of $61.55 a barrel. On the last trading day of the year, it closed at $60.28. I apologize for falling short.As I write this, WTI is trading at $60.85, and it is in a solid uptrend. The price of crude has been going up since January of 2016. As you can see by the chart above, it is now at a crucia...Read More

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