In an effort to invite investment, grow revenue and expand the country's overall economy, Egypt has announced that is considering "offering a number of international bids for mineral exploration sites, particularly for gold," reports local paper Al-Shorfa.But the goal won't be an easy one to achieve and not exactly for a lack of resources. In fact, Egypt has a long mining history, with evidence of...Read More
AN ISLAND IN THE PHILIPPINES - John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010.The weight loss could be from the heat and humidity of the Philippines, where the 72-year-old lives in a house with a single beaten-up air conditioner in his bedroom.Or it could be the stress of writing his memoirs - a project he started...Read More
Early in 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada convicted Toronto securities lawyer Joe Groia of "incivility" during his defense of John Felderhof against quasi-criminal charges laid by the Ontario Securities Commission of insider trading and issuing false or misleading information. (Felderhof was never charged with a criminal offence.) The geologist hired Groia in 1997, the trial began in 2000, an...Read More
Critical Elements is a rare earth mining company whose flagship project, ROSE tantalum and lithium deposit, is located in the ...Read More
China is set to expand its development of overseas uranium sources, with the nation's leading state-owned nuclear power company announcing on Monday that it will speed up investment and exploration in Australia, Africa and Central Asia.The China Daily reports that Sun Qin, chairman of the China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) which is responsible for the operation of over 40% of the country's nuclear...Read More
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA-(Marketwire - Oct. 2, 2012) -THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. NEWS AGENCIESF.D.G. Mining Inc. (TSX VENTURE:FDG) (the "Company") is pleased to announce an updated resource estimate for the Topacio Property, located in eastern Nicaragua, Central America. An Inferred Mineral Resource of 2,702,984 tonnes grading 3.97 g/t gold contai...Read More
Critical Elements/Corporation ??l?(C)ments Critiques est une compagnie mini??re de terres rares dont leur projet phare de tantale et ...Read More
Jean-Fran??ois Meilleur, Vice-President of Critical Elements Corporation, is interviewed by Stu Taylor, Business TalkRadio ...Read More
Pharaoh Gold Mines NL, Centamin's wholly-owned subsidiary, signed gold exploration contracts with Oman, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Sudan.The company has already started exploration at four sites in Ethiopia with 2,000 miners at each site.Pharaoh Gold Mines also holds a concession for Egypt's Sukari gold mine considered among the top 10 gold mines in the world. Sukari has a weekly output of around...Read More
On June 14, 2012, MAG announced the results of an updated National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant Preliminary ...Read More
Well, it’s been a few weeks, so I feel the need to take another painful visit to the penny stock mailbag. Previous episodes include how to find 14,849% (or go bankrupt) and why low volume trumps everything else.This time, Debra writes: “RE: Save the World Air (OTC:ZERO)? Is this a scam or does this have real potential? I’ve invested a lot of money over the last 6 years and, well,...Read More
Guatemala has jumped on the wagon that has been running through most of Latin America this year by proposing an increase of control over its natural resources.President Otto Perez Molina is pushing the Constitutional reform that will make possible for the government to acquire up to 40% of the mining and exploration companies operating in the country.The intended reform to 55 articles of the Cons...Read More