Sustainability consulting firm ERM says the mining industry needs to do more to prevent tailings dam disasters and notes that a further possible 19 incidents with tailings facilities could occur over the next decade.In a report released last month, ERM reviewed the dam failure incident reports of 11 major dam failures over the last 12 years and concluded that "basic organizational and human factor...Read More
Samarco is expected to resume activities this month, five years after the Fund??o dam tragedy.On November 5, 2015, the dam, owned by Samarco - controlled by Vale (NYSE: VALE) and BHP (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) - burst, releasing 39.2 million cubic meters of tailings waste in the Rio Doce Basin, killing 19 people. At the time it was Brazil's biggest environmental disaster. Brazilian prosecutors said in...Read More
The most recent resource update from Quebec-focused junior QMX Gold (TSXV: QMX) includes meaningful resource growth across all categories and adds an initial underground resource at the 200-sq.-km Bonnefond property in the Val d'Or mining camp.Indicated resources (wholly in the open pit category) within the East zone of the Bonnefond deposit now stand at 7.4 million tonnes grading 1.67 grams gold...Read More
According to GlobalData's latest report, M&A deals in the U.S. metals and mining industry for the third quarter of 2020 totaled US$1.59 billion. The valuation is a decrease of 13% from the previous quarter, and also marks a drop of 10.9% in comparison to the last four-quarter average of US$1.79 billion.Globally, third quarter metals and mining industry M&A deal values totalled US$7.21 billion, of...Read More
Unigold (TSXV: UGD; US-OTC: UGDIF) has reported drill results from its exploration program at the Candelones Extension deposit, part of the company's 100% owned Neita Concession in the Dominican Republic, 220 km northwest of the capital Santo Domingo.The company has completed 31 drill holes totalling 9,470 metres of its planned 15,000 metre program. These include nine metallurgical holes totallin...Read More
A restart of exploration efforts is set to go ahead at the historic St. Anthony gold mine in the Kenora Patricia mining district of Ontario, according to Peter Wilson, president of Maxtech Ventures (CSE: MVT; US-OTC: MTEHF).When the underground mine shut down in 1944, St. Anthony was the largest producing gold mine in the area. By the time it closed, the mine had produced 63,310 ounces of gold at...Read More
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Worst year ever, right?Seems like that's the consensus. And it's hard to argue when you look at the havoc wreaked by the coronavirus, the race riots, and Giuliani pressers.Yet another cherry was added to the top of this cake earlier this week, when the United States reported...More than 200,000 new coronavirus infections nationwide...More than 100,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19...And mor...Read More
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Puma Exploration Inc., PUMA-TSXV, is pleased to announce the closRead full newsRead More
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TriStar Gold Inc. is pleased to announce results from the firsRead full newsRead More
Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to announce that the Company has entered into an agreement with Haywood Securities Inc. (the "Underwriter") for a bought deal private placement financing (the "Offering") wherein the Underwriter has agreed to purchase 2,027,027 flow-through common shares of the company (the "FT Shares") at a price of C$1.48 per FT Share for...Read More
There's an interesting truth about the price of gold.Read full newsRead More
Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") announced today it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement of units of the Company ("Units") at a price of $.055 per Unit, for anticipated aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of approximately $1,500,000 (the "Offering").John Abrams, CEO of Venzee states, "Venzee has established sales targets for...Read More
These Danish companies are planning to build one of the world's biggest hydrogen and e-fuel facilities.Read full newsRead More
Vancouver, BC - KIN Communications ("KIN") is pleased to announce the addition of Josh Peligal to the team as Vice President, Investor Relations. Mr. Peligal will work closely with the company's CEO & President, Arlen Hansen, to broaden KIN's institutional and analyst reach, while implementing best practices and systems oversight to KIN's clients and continually improve on strategic outreach to th...Read More
Nickel prices have taken off as China struggles to source enough of the metal from Indonesia and presenting an opportunity for Australian nickel producers.Read full newsRead More
Futures for TSX jumped on Tuesday driven by higher gold. This marked the end of the roughly five-month low to log the sharpest one-day gain in more than three weeks, supported by a sharp decline in the U.S. dollar. The yellow metal rebounded with a “little bargain shopping” that was a bit “like Black Friday/Cyber Monday in the gold sector,” commented Jeff Wright, executive...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) is now trading near a six-month low. Investors who missed the big gold rally in 2020 are wondering if this is the right time to add Barrick Gold stock to their portfolios.Barrick Gold earnings resultsThe company reported strong Q3 2020 results that showed the powerful impact the increase in gold prices can have on the gold miner’s cash flow.Barrick generated...Read More