Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corpCanada's NexGen eyes large-scale uranium productionSPONSOREDnexgen energyUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDPresident Laurentino Cortizo called an Extraordinary State Cabinet meeting after talks with First Quantum ended without an agreement being reached.Read More

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U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 36 points in pre-opening trade.U.S. Steel advanced $0.63 to $24.27 after raising guidance for fourth quarter revenues and earnings. Steel Dynamics added $0.28 to $102.20 after predicting an increase in hot rolled steel prices in 2023.Exact Science jumped $11.34 to $55.95 after its colorectal cancer treatment results w...Read More

Today is a high and solemn day - Bill of Rights Day. This, the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution, we celebrate in today's reckoning.In 1941 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt designated Dec. 15 Bill of Rights Day. Thereupon he called upon...the officials of the government, and upon the people of the United States, to observe the day by displaying the flag of the United States on pu...Read More

Sam Bankman-Field of FTX, who seems to have stolen and otherwise misdirected billions from his own crypto scam, was invited to speak at a New York Times event called DealBook on Nov. 30. A seat in the audience cost $2,499. He had been booked for the gig long before because he was a darling of the left, having thrown around many millions to back Democrats in the midterms.He was also loved for runni...Read More

We note - with eyebrows rather raised - the curious arrest of Mr. Sam Bankman-Fried.Bahamian authorities collared and jugged the disgraced former FTX chief and aspiring Madoff on Monday.The collaring and jugging were executed at the request of the United States government.The business transpired hours before he was scheduled to (remotely) appear before the United States House Committee on Financia...Read More

"The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy."Here is the sage conclusion of Mr. Charles Munger, aged 98 years. Mr. Munger is of course the partner of Warren Buffett and legendary vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.What human vice ranks fourth among the seven lethal sins? That is correct - envy.Today we evaluate the acid emotion of envy. We further document how envy can wreck a man's we...Read More

North America's oldest silver miner, Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL), is set to consolidate its position as the continent's primary silver leader. It is working to increase U.S. output by 20% and to become the most prominent Canadian silver producer by year-end.The 130-year-old company's CEO, Phil Baker, told the recent Canadian Mining Symposium in London that the 1.2 billion oz. silver market is growing...Read More

Robex Resources (TSXV: RBX) was set to restart operations at its Nampala gold mine in Mali after a trespasser was killed on Thursday and work was halted temporarily, the company said. A crowd of artisanal miners intruded onto the open-pit site in the West African country's south and encountered security, the company said in a news release. One other person was injured in the incident, Robex said...Read More

For years, Brazil was overlooked as a favourable mining jurisdiction within South America. But what's recently become apparent is that times are changing. The countries that were once deemed as go-to options are now experiencing civil unrest and political instability. While these countries no longer attract the investment dollars they once did, Brazil is emerging as a mining destination of choice....Read More

EnCore Energy (TSXV: EU; OTCQB: ENCUF) has won a court challenge to its US$32 million Dewey-Burdock uranium project in South Dakota. The Oglala Sioux Tribe and watchdog group Aligning for Responsible Mining wanted a United States appeals court to review its decision in August approving the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) licence for enCore to mine uranium at the project about 150 km south...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LON: RIO; ASX: RIO) is now the majority owner of the giant Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia, as it has completed its US$3.3 billion buyout of Canadian miner Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ).Shareholders of the Montreal-based company approved on Monday the deal that gives Rio Tinto control over the world's largest known copper and gold deposit, with a 66%...Read More

Panama's government has ordered First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to halt operations at its Cobre Panama copper mine after it failed to agree terms for a new contract with the Canadian miner.The move, unusual among Latin American countries, came after First Quantum missed a Wednesday night deadline to ink a new royalty deal that has been in the works since September 2021.The miner said on Friday...Read More

Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) said the board has approved an investment decision and full restart of construction activities at its Skouries gold-copper project in northern Greece.The proposed mine, which has reserves of 3.7 million oz. of gold and 1.7 billion lb. of copper, was halted from 2017 to 2021 due to government delays in issuing permits and community opposition.After inkin...Read More

Wall Street finished lower again on Friday, although the major U.S. equity averages cut their losses late in the day.Read full newsRead More

Shark Tank star Kevin OLeary sparred with CNBC anchors over the $15 million he was given as a paid sponsor of now bankrupt crypto exchange FTX.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - Four men arrested during a jewelry raid at a s JCPenney store may be linked to a series of heists that netted $1.5m.The suspects were apprehended as they smashed display cases with hammers to steal diamond jewelry at the at the CoolSprings Galleria, in Franklin, Tennessee, USA.Police say one suspect pepper-sprayed an employee and another tried to grab an officer's gun.There ha...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Manufacturers in Surat says business is down by as much as 40 per cent as the ongoing war in Ukraine depresses markets in the US and Europe.Demand in China, where an easing of Covid restrictions has led to a spike in cases, is also weak. It usually accounts for a round a third of India's diamond exports.Many workers in India's cut-and-polish capital have had their wages c...Read More

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially shown its hand. Mandiant, a U.S. cybersecurity firm, recently uncovered a shockingly desperate cyberattack against a single private company.A series of fake social media profiles, typically called "bots," made some bizarre posts. According to Mandiant's report, these posts all came from within CCP-friendly IP addresses.Hilariously pseudo-American n...Read More

Bunker Hill Mining Corp. (CSE-BNKR) is bunkering in Idaho, through the prolific Silver Valley. The prefeasibility study (PFS) had been done earlier, but a more recent update shows the mineral resource is much larger than first assumed.Bunker in the Silver ValleyUnder new Idaho-based leadership, Bunker Hill Mining intends to sustainably restart and develop the Bunker Hill mine as the first step...Read More