Red Lake District, northwestern Ontario, Canada. Photo by P199, Wikimedia Commons.Shares in Dixie Gold (TSX V: DG), formerly Clean Commodities Corp. skyrocketed 80% Tuesday, following the announcement that it had acquired a district-scale exploration project in the developing Dixie Gold District near Red Lake, Ontario. As a result, Dixie Gold has become one of the largest mineral claim owners...Read More
Joe Biden. (Image by Gage Skidmore, Flickr) Democratic presidential hopeful and former US vice president Joe Biden told unemployed miners, particularly those in the coal sector, to learn to code so that they can access the jobs of the future.According to Washington Post reporter Dave Weigel, at a rally in Derry, New Hampshire, Biden said that if miners are able to go underground 3,000 feet or thr...Read More
Image from Red Pine Exploration Inc. Red Pine Exploration (TSXV: RPX) announced Tuesday it has closed a private placement of approximately 25.9 million flow-through (FT) units and 82.1 million non-flow-through (NFT) units of the company - both at a price of C$0.035 per unit - for aggregate gross proceeds of C$3.78 million.Each FT unit comprises one flow-through common share of the company and one...Read More
Protest against Law 9209. (Image by PTP Mendoza, Twitter). It took less than 24 hours to effectively abolish a controversial mining law that sparked massive protests in the province of Mendoza in Argentina's western-central region.After announcing his decision to annul the law late last week, Mendoza's governor Rodolfo Su??rez presented a formal request before the legislature on Monday. With 34 v...Read More
Nuclear power plant cooling tower in Doel, Belgium. (Reference image by Trougnouf, Wikimedia Commons) Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a method to reduce the volume of contaminated water that needs to be disposed of in nuclear plants.In a paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the scientists said that the mechanism concentrates...Read More
Nasdaq had a great year. By my calculations, it was up 47%.The Nasdaq is a weighted index with the top five companies, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook, making up 36% of the index's value.Of those, Apple was the big winner, climbing 86%. But overall, Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) jumped 153% and is up 1,660% over the past five years.AMD makes microchips, of course, and that...Read More
This episode features a critical look at innovation and the mining industry from Nathan Stubina, Sherritt International vice-president of technologies and operations. Nathan delivered a presentation titled, "Some Inconvenient Facts, Some Inconvenient Perceptions. Staying Still Is Moving Backwards" at the 2019 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, where he argued that technology alone is not enough to...Read More
The mining industry had its share of tragedy this year starting in January with the murder of Canadian geologist Kirk Woodman in Burkina Faso and Vale's tailings dam disaster in Brazil. The bad news continued into the second half of the year with the attack near Semafo's Boungou mine in Burkina Faso that killed 39 employees and contractors. The year had bright spots, too, however, with a torrent o...Read More
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StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was platinum, up 3.85 percent, with silver and palladium just trailing. Gold traders and analysts were overwhelmingly bullish on their outlook for the yellow metal in the weekly Bloomberg survey. Sentiment was bolstered as gold cracked back above $1,500 per ounce. Gold hit a seven-week high despite comments by President Trump that a trade deal signi...Read More
Craig HemkeWith just one, holiday-shortened day to go, it appears that Comex gold and silver will actually finish 2019 with "the best annual gains since 2010". That was a bold forecast when we made it back in January. That it has turned out correct brings more relief than satisfaction.As we move to wrap up 2019, here's one last look at this year's primary guide. Recall that we had "The Generally...Read More