Redzone's Leinster lithium project in the Republic of Ireland. Source: Redzone Resources Ltd.Redzone Resources Ltd. [REZ-TSXV; REZZF-OTC; : REZZF] said Monday February 25 that it has acquired 4,438 hectares of prospective vanadium mineral claims near Mackenzie, British Columbia.The mineral rights were acquired via staking, the company said in a news release.The property is targeting the extension...Read More
Open pit mining operations at the Copper Mountain Mine near Princeton, southern British Columbia.Copper Mountain Mining Corp. [CMMC-TSX; CPPMF-OTC; C6C-ASX] on Monday February 25 announced a new integrated life-of-mine production plan for its flagship Copper Mountain mine in southern British Columbia.Copper Mountain shares advanced on the news, rising 18.6% or 16 cents to $1.02 on volume of 1.98 m...Read More
A Newmont Mining gold pour in Nevada. Source: Newmont Mining Corp.Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] has launched a US$18 billion hostile bid to acquire U.S. rival Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE] in an all share transaction that would create the world's largest gold producer.The combined company would have a market cap of $42 billion. It would produce 10 million ounces of gold annual at an all-in-...Read More
Want to see a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions? Take a look up at the sky.Aircraft are major contributors to carbon emissions. To fly round-trip from New York to London produces the same amount of emissions as the average household produces heating their home for an entire year.Right now, direct emissions from global aviation accounts for more than 2% of the total greenhouse gases be...Read More
Kenneth Osgood, a historian and professor of humanities, arts and social sciences at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured on C-SPAN discussing the CIA, the Cold War and Radio Free Europe. The author of the book "Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad," Osgood's research interests include the history of propaganda and intelligence, the history of media,...Read More
Denise Burgess has been appointed to the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees by Gov. Jared Polis.Burgess, president and CEO of Burgess Services Inc., a Denver-based construction management firm, will serve a four-year term through December 2022.A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, Burgess joined her family's business in 1994 after launching her own career in advertising sales...Read More
Although the Northwest Territories is deep in the grip of winter, there have been several major mining-related developments in the last two months in the areas of new mining legislation and infrastructure.The Northern Miner sat down with the Northwest Territories Minister of Infrastructure and Industry, Tourism and Investment, Wally Schumann, at the Association of Mineral Exploration's (AME) annua...Read More
In December 2018, Yorbeau Resources Inc. (TSX: YRB; US-OTC: YRBAF) optioned its Rouyn gold property in Quebec to IAMGOLD Corporation (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) and a month later, the two companies began drilling the property.The Rouyn property is located roughly 4 km south of Rouyn-Noranda and covers a 12 km stretch of the gold-rich Cadillac-Larder Lake Break.The companies now have two drill rigs turni...Read More
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OCANF) has tabled a maiden resource at its WKP gold prospect, 10 km north of its Waihi gold mine in New Zealand.WKP's East Graben vein contains 410,000 indicated tonnes grading 18 grams gold and 22.7 grams silver for 234,000 oz. gold and 296,000 oz. silver. Its East Graben vein and T-Stream veins also contain 1.05 million inferred tonnes at 11.9 grams gold and 16.8 gr...Read More
Trade wars are not sustainable and you should be using the current weakness in copper prices to initiate or increase positions in your favorite explorers.That's the advice I've been giving subscribers over the past several months and, like clockwork, copper has surged near the $3/lb. level on news that "substantial progress" in trade talks was made over the weekend, along with Trump announcing he...Read More
Steinmetz has been the focus of corruption investigations after his company, where he is officially a consultant, was handed half of Rio Tinto's stake in the massive iron ore project in 2008 by former dictator Lansana Conté.Current president Alpha Conde stripped these rights from Beny Steinmetz Group Resources (BSGR) after it had sold half of the project to Vale for US$2.5 billion (although...Read More
Feb. 22nd, 2019(S14-E684)Featured GuestsDr. Stephen Leeb& Michael PentoPlease Listen HereBest selling author, and show Mentor, Dr. Stephen Leeb returns with an even more robust outlook on precious metals.Dr. Leeb feels the trade war between the US / China will be resolved amicably without undo distress to either nation.The narrative includes the musical accomplishments of Glenn Gould, a most rem...Read More
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Excluding Vale (NYSE:VALE), close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne iron ore supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019, a report by Wood Mackenzie states.According to the market analyst, such a supply disruption would be the result of the new regulation published by Brazil's National Mining Agency or ANM, which establishes the ban of all dams in the country built with the upstream method.Based on the ne...Read More
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA reported this week that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu and will start collecting samples of the dust in its surface.The idea is to analyze such samples and get one step closer to understanding the origin of Earth's water and precious minerals. According to the agency, asteroids are considered one of the candi...Read More
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA reported this week that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu and will start collecting samples of the dust in its surface.The idea is to analyze such samples and get one step closer to understanding the origin of Earth's water and precious minerals. According to the agency, asteroids are considered one of the candi...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More