Back in the 1970s and 1980s when he was keeping America's nuclear weapons up to date, Robert Kelley didn't pay much attention to their source of uranium.But then he was reassigned to lead the international team that accounted for the of hundreds of tons of the heavy metal Iraq secretly extracted at a fertilizer factory to feed Saddam Hussein's weapons program.That discovery at the Al-Qaim phosphat...Read More
A strategic investment by BHP Billiton Canada in Midland Exploration (TSXV: MD) will support the junior company's work on copper exploration in northern Quebec including at its Mythril copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in James Bay Eeyou Istchee.BHP is acquiring 3.44 million units of Midland at $1.70 per unit for $5.9 million. Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchas...Read More
A strategic investment by BHP Billiton Canada in Midland Exploration (TSXV: MD) will support the junior company's work on copper exploration in northern Quebec including at its Mythril copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in James Bay Eeyou Istchee.BHP is acquiring 3.44 million units of Midland at $1.70 per unit for $5.9 million. Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchas...Read More
Trafigura Group Ltd. will take control of Nyrstar NV, Europe's biggest zinc smelter, as part of a deal to restructure the struggling company's debt and steer it away from bankruptcy.Under the agreement, Trafigura - Nyrstar's main shareholder as well as a top supplier, customer and financier - offered a package of its own debt securities to Nyrstar's creditors in exchange for them writing off debt....Read More
Katanga Mining Ltd, a unit of Glencore Plc, said on Monday it resumed exporting and selling a limited quantity of cobalt from its Kamoto Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The company said in November it had temporarily suspended the export and sale of cobalt from the project after uranium was found in levels above the acceptable limit for export.Katanga said on Monday it produced a...Read More
Multi-commodity developer Savannah Resources (AIM:SAV) will become the sole owner of Mina do Barroso lithium project in Portugal through an all-share offer worth $11.9 million.The London, England-based company, which already owns 75% of the asset, said full ownership would "provide greater exposure" for its shareholders to the project as it's developed and commercialized.Mina do Barroso mine cou...Read More
Canada's Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) has agreed to acquire a copper-gold operation in Brazil from fellow miner Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY), (TSE: YRI) in a $1 billion-deal as it looks to beef up its base metals portfolio.The Chapada mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goi??s, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of copper and 100,000 ounces of gold this year.The...Read More
American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) is seeing the payoff of its efforts to develop a technology capable of recycling cathode material and generating products for lithium-ion batteries that are as close to the final form as possible.This week, the Surrey, British Columbia-based company announced that independent lab Kemetco ran a series of tests and the results showed that AMY's pilot plant was able to...Read More
We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of examples of share prices declining precipitously after insiders have sold shares. So before you buy or s...Read full newsRead More
Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More
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Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. The Index had a fairly quiet week but drifted 2.5 points higher by week's end to close at 1149.39.MACD remained fairly firm and dipped 1.68 points to 57.90. MACD rose 1.49 to 2.35 and now is clearly on a MACD buy signal.Support is now at 1139 and 1121 (its lower Bollinger band). Overhead...Read More
Vancouver, BC - Norra Metals Corp. (TSX-V:NORA) (the "Company" or "Norra") is pleased to announce that it has submitted four recently completed, NI 43-101 technical reports on its newly acquired Scandinavian properties to the TSX.V and has now filed those reports on SEDAR.The four Scandinavian projects; Bastutr??sk in Sweden, and the three Norwegian properties; Bleikvassli, Mer??ker and Sagvoll...Read More
MAS Gold (TSXV: MAS) has completed a 3,500-metre drill program in Saskatchewan, targeting the Point gold prospect on its Preview Lake property and the North Lake gold prospect on its North Lake property. Point sits 60 km northeast of La Ronge, Sask., and North Lake is 5 km northeast of Point."It has been in a bit of a slowdown for a number of years, because our joint-venture partner went through r...Read More
Gold has faded from interest in the past couple months, overshadowed by the monster stock-market rally. But gold has been consolidating high, quietly basing before its next challenge to major $1350 bull-market resistance. A decisive breakout above will really catch investors' attention, greatly improving sentiment and driving major capital inflows. With gold-futures speculators not very long...Read More
Literally, the wheels are coming off. Panasonic, which supplies batteries that it manufactures for Tesla at the Gigafactory in Nevada announced that it was cutting back on its plans to expand production capacity at the plant. It also announced that it was suspending plans to produce batteries at Tesla's planned Shanghai Gigafactory. In an article in a Japanese business publication, Panasonic had l...Read More
Poli is executive chairman of ASX-listed Matsa Resources, a gold junior that has flown under the radar in recent years as it beavered away at the historic Lake Carey project in Western Australia'sRead More
Yamana Gold's copper-gold Chapada Mine in Brazil which Lundin Mining is acquiring. Source Yamana Gold Inc.Lundin Mining Corp. [LUN-TSX; LUMI-Sweden] said Monday April 15 that it has struck a deal to acquire Yamana Gold Inc.'s [YRI-TSX; AUY-NYSE] 100% interest in the Chapada copper-gold mine in Brazil for US$800 million.Under the definitive purchase agreement, Yamana will retain a 2.0% net smelter...Read More
The concentrator at the Kamoto Mine in the DRC. Source: Katanga Mining Ltd.Glencore AG's Katanga Mining Ltd. [KAT-TSX] unit has resumed the export and sale of a limited amount of cobalt that complies with both international and local Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) transport regulations with respect to the level of uranium.In the fourth quarter of 2018, Katanga said it would temporarily suspend...Read More
On November 4, 2014, voters in Washington, D.C., approved Initiative 71, a ballot initiative that legalized the recreational use of cannabis for adults 21 and over.But there was a bit of a catch.Initiative 71 "allows adults 21 and older to possess up to two ounces of marijuana, grow up to six plants, and gift up to one ounce of pot to other adults 21 and older, but sales remain banned."So, in shor...Read More