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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, May20, 2020(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mission Ready Solutions Inc. ("Mission Ready" or the "Company") (TSXV: MRS) is pleased to...Read full newsRead More
News of more tensions between US and China and a potentially new trade war sent waves through international markets at the beginning of the week. The two world leaders are currently locked in a battle of trying to pinpoint the origin of the coronavirus that shut down whole countries, disrupted supply chains and brought to halt entire sectors, causing an economic slowdown similar to the one during...Read More
They’re vastly different on the face of it — two areas of the TSX that traditionally appeal to very different investment types. But today we will be exploring whether 2020 is the year for buying into both gold and cannabis. How well do these two investment themes complement each other? Are there better names to buy and hold than others? And what is it about these industries that makes...Read More
| Photo: DR Travel Photo and Video/Shutterstock Mining operations in Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and parts of Canada are slowing ramping back up in May after countries, in compliance with government-mandated covid-19 containment measures, halted operations worldwide in March. The fallout of the coronavirus outbreak has forced global miners to cut their 2020 capital expenditure by about $6.4 b...Read More
Mineral tailings mud after dam rupture in Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Adobe Stock) A Minas Gerais state court in Brazil has revoked a decree from Brumadinho municipality that suspended Vale's operating license after health agents said that the company's onsite activities have "not respected the rules of social isolation."Brumadinho's mayor Avimar de Melo Barcelos had also ordered the suspe...Read More
Cactus Breccia Pipes (Image from Alderan) Rio Tinto's (NYSE: RIO ASX: RIO) subsidiary Kennecott has kicked off an initial four-hole 2,000m drill program at Alderan Resources' Frisco copper/gold/silver project in Utah. Kennecott will spend an initial $6 million on exploration at the project area to gain a 55% interest in the project, it said. Rio Tinto's subsidiary will earn 70% of the project by...Read More
Crow Butte operation in northeast Nebraska. Image courtesy of Cameco. US domestic production of uranium concentrate plunged 89% to 174,000 pounds of U3O8 (triuranium octoxide) last year, according to the latest annual report published by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). This also represents a steep decline compared to the 4.89 million pounds the US produced five years earlier.The p...Read More
Image from archives. A coalition of non-profit organizations is pushing for an international moratorium on deep-sea mining following a fresh report that warns of potential irreversible damage to Pacific island states including Kiribati, the Cook Islands, Nauru, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu."Accumulated scientific evidence indicates that the impacts of nodule mining in the Pacific Ocean woul...Read More
The latter includes expansion of its services division. The placement, priced at $2.Read More
In the weeks after the Brumadinho tailings dam collapse in January, 2019, the ore price rocketed up to a peak of $124/t as safety inspectors ordered mine closures, from which the Brazilian industryRead More
Sometimes you just can't wrap your head around how things have gotten to the point that they have.Don't worry, I'm not talking about COVID-19. With the media blasting that crisis to you from every angle, it's far too easy to lose sight of other things right now.So today, we're delving into something that may have even more dire consequences for the U.S. if certain catalysts fall.For the last few w...Read More
Mine financier Eric Sprott is increasing his stake in Dolly Varden Silver (TSXV: DV; US-OTC: DOLLF) to 19.9% - buying 7 million common shares of the company in a private placement at a price of 33 ? per share for gross proceeds of $2.3 million."Eric is currently our largest shareholder with around 12.8% holdings in the company," Shawn Khunkhun, Dolly Varden's CEO, said in an interview. "Through th...Read More
Kore Mining (TSXV: KORE; US-OTC: KOREF) has released assay results from the top of hole 20-368 completed at its wholly owned 130-sq.-km FG gold property, 100 km east of Williams Lake. This drill hole returned 76.5 metres of 1.1 grams gold per tonne, which starts at 6 metres and includes seven quartz vein intervals. Assays for the bottom 40 metres, with three additional quartz vein intersections, a...Read More
Following up on a positive 2019 exploration program, Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is planning 2,000 metres of drilling, plus mapping, prospecting and geophysical surveys this year at the Janice Lake copper-silver project in northern Saskatchewan.The major is earning up to an 80% interest in the project from Forum Energy Metals (TSXV: FMC), which has optioned the property from Transition Metals...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Japan Gold (TSXV: JG) have begun their joint exploration program in the Asian country under an alliance formed in February, which seeks to uncover the nation's gold mining potential.The partnership, known as Barrick Alliance, will see the Canadian gold giant fund a two-year evaluation phase of 28 of Japan Gold's 30 projects in the country.Barrick will also f...Read More
McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) posted a net loss of US$99.2 million, or US25 ? per share, for the quarter ended March 31, primarily due to a US$83.8 million impairment charge for its Gold Bar mine in Nevada.The company says the write-down was necessary because a change in the geological interpretation resulted in a substantial reduction in the expected gold production over the life of the min...Read More