The "American Jobs Plan" also included a $174 billion investment "to win the EV market".Base metals closed higher, except aluminium, on the London Metal Exchange, where copper was up 0.2% to $8,787.75 per tonne.Market futures were mixed.Gold has risen back above $1,700 an ounce and was worth $1,709/oz at the time of writing.Telson Mining (TSXV: TSN) shot up in Toronto as it eyes near-term gold pro...Read More
Funding will come by reversing some of the cuts to the corporate tax rate enacted by his predecessor Donald Trump, bumping it to 28% from 21% (Trump reduced it from 35% to 21%) as well as forcingRead More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Great Atlantic Resources Corp. [GR-TSXV; PH0-FSE] reported gold assays for prospecting rock samples and drill core samples from its 100%-optioned Golden Promise property, located within the central Newfoundland gold belt. All three drill holes from the 2020 program intersected gold-bearing veins, extending the Jaclyn North Zone (JNZ) quartz vein system approximately...Read More
Share this article TORONTO - Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd. [KL-TSX, NYSE; KLA-ASX] filed a NI-43-101 technical report for its 100%-owned Detour Lake mine, northern Ontario. All dollar amounts are expressed in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated.Highlights of the 2021 life-of-mine plan (LOMP) include production of 680,000 to 720,000 ounces from 2021 to 2024, growing to 800,000 ounces in 2025 and rea...Read More
2020 was a record year for our local real estate agent.In my tiny North Country town, with a year-round population of about 260 people, you don't typically see a lot of action in the real estate game.Most of the homes up here are summer homes, and in any given year, you might see three or four on the market, with maybe one or two actually being sold.But not last year.Last year, of the six homes pu...Read More
Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has reported that the sale of its Ana Paula gold project in Mexico, approximately 180 km south of Mexico City, has fallen through as the purchasing company, AP Mining, could not fulfil its financial and certain regulatory and other approvals.Argonaut's president and CEO Peter Dougherty stated in a press release that "after extending the agreement once already, we feel we a...Read More
UEX (TSX: UEX; US-OTC: UEXCF) has reported drill results from the Michael Lake zone on its 100%-owned West Bear cobalt-nickel deposit in the eastern Athabasca basin of Saskatchewan, about 740 km north of Saskatoon.Highlights include drillhole MIC-007, which intersected 9.5 metres grading 0.39% cobalt and 0.62% nickel starting from 77.5 metres, including 2 metres of 1.58% cobalt and 1.96% nickel....Read More
There is a great deal of uncertainty about what the future of automotive propulsion technology will be. This presents challenges to capital formation and allocation.For one thing a lot of people do not realize that these uncertainties even exist. The uncertainties should cause investors, business developers and executives to be extremely cautious in their expectations as to what share of the vehic...Read More
With the mill at Pure Gold Mining's (TSXV: PGM) PureGold mine in Red Lake ramped up to its 800 tonne-per-day nameplate capacity, the new producer is now focusing on fine-tuning its underground operations.First-quarter head grades came in below expectations due to overbreak dilution and limited scheduling flexibility from the temporary single-ramp access to the mine. With limited stope material, th...Read More
When Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) acquired Augusta Resources in September 2014 the key objective was to advance its Rosemont copper project, which if put into production will be one of the largest copper mines in the United States.But the acquisition also brought with it a package of patented mining claims on private land within 7 km of the open-pit project, which held about 20 small pick...Read More
A recent survey by Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada reveals that Inuit women in the mining industry experience a high level of sexual harassment at work.Of those surveyed by the organization, 55% reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment, ranging from unwanted sexual comments or jokes to "intense and varying forms of sexual violence and harassment on a recurring basis."In the aftermath...Read More
The international mining industry is in the early stages of the biggest collective boost it has received for almost 50 years. Arguably, the most recent equivalent was on August 15, 1971, when President Nixon declared that the price of gold would be allowed to float free.Although the U.S. Government did not finally remove the dollar's statutory link to gold until October 1976, the international adh...Read More
Novo Resources (TSX: NVO; US-OTC: NSRPF) has released a preliminary economic assessment for the company's 100%-owned Beatons Creek gold project near the town of Nullagine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, about 296 km southeast of Port Headland and 1,364 km northeast of Perth.The early-stage study envisions an open-pit mine producing 100,000 oz. of gold annually over a six-year mine lif...Read More
The uranium market is emerging from years in the doldrums as the overhang from the nuclear disaster in Japan is cleared and global demand picks up steam. The spot price for U3O8 moved above US$30 per pound for the first time this year as uranium producers and mine developers hoover up above-ground inventories and reactor construction continues apace.Two new research notes from BMO Capital Marke...Read More
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Denmark's Orsted plans to develop an offshore wind farm and adjacent hydrogen plant at the North Sea Port straddling the Dutch-Belgian border, the company said on Wednesday.Read full newsRead More