Linda Ann Battalora has been selected as faculty representative to the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees.Battalora, teaching professor of petroleum engineering and a Mines alumna, will serve a two-year term through the end of December 2020. The faculty trustee is elected by the Mines faculty and serves on the board in a nonvoting capacity.A Payne Institute for Public Policy Faculty Fellow...Read More
A team of Colorado School of Mines students earned honors at a hardware-based hackathon for their project to create a device that allows those paralyzed from the neck down to control a wheelchair by detecting brain activity.The team, BrainAble, won the MakeHarvard Originals award, given to the best project built entirely during the 30-hour hackathon and designed solely with materials provided at t...Read More
This mini-podcast features a clash of visions between Franco-Nevada chairman Pierre Lassonde and new Barrick Gold president and CEO Mark Bristow on the value of keeping Barrick's Canadian identity and robust head office presence in Toronto.Franco-Nevada chairman Pierre Lassonde as master of ceremonies for the 2018 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Toronto. Credit: Keith Houghton P...Read More
Katanga Mining (TSX: KAT; US-OTC: KATFF) lost $116 million in 2018's fourth quarter to end the year with $13.4 million in gross profit, a result of temporary cobalt sale suspensions, higher reagent costs at its Luilu metallurgical plant and increased mine infrastructure and support costs.The company recorded a $52.8 million fourth quarter loss in adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciat...Read More
Black Iron Inc. (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) and Glencore (LON: GLEN) are in talks to finance construction of the junior's Shymanivske iron ore project in the Ukraine and have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to begin formal negotiations on the financing-offtake package.The companies envision an investment from Glencore that will help fund construction in exchange for offtake of produ...Read More
Are you looking to make outsized returns by investing in an unpopular cyclical asset that appears to have bottomed? Then look no further than Silvercorp Metals Inc. (TSX:SVM)(NYSE:SVM), which has gained 6% since the start of 2019 and appears poised to soar higher.Quality assetsSilvercorp, a leading primary silver miner in China, reported some solid fiscal third quarter 2019 results despite weaker...Read More
Idaho Champion Gold Mines Canada Inc. (CSE: ITKO) is a discovery-focused gold exploration company that is committed to advancing its 100% owned, highly prospective, mineral properties, located in Idaho, USA. The Baner Project is in Idaho County, the Champagne Project is located in Butte County, near Arco, and four cobalt properties in Lemhi County, in the Idaho Cobalt Belt. At the 2019 Vancouver R...Read More
I used to think Stephen Colbert was funny.But then I realized he was a partisan hack. He, and a slew of other media personalities, has made that abundantly clear during Trump's presidency.They're down if he's up. They're black if he's white.It's reflexive opposition without consideration of facts.Trump has done many bafoonish things, no doubt. But some good things have come about this presidency a...Read More
MICROMINE, the leading provider of mining software solutions, will be exhibiting at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada Convention (PDAC 2019) in Toronto, Ontario from March 3rd till March 6th, 2019. PDAC is the world's premier mineral exploration and mining convention, with over 1000 exhibitors, 3500 investors and 26000 attendees from 135 countries.MICROMINE has exhibited at PDAC f...Read More
Parallel Mining Corp. (TSXV:PAL) (the "Company" or "Parallel") announces that assay results have been received from the recent drilling program designed to test one of the areas of Mane II, the Company's 163 square kilometer optioned concession in the KayaGoran greenstone belt in central Burkina Faso, approximately 20 kilometers south of Nordgold's Bissa Gold Mine.Read full newsRead More
In anticipation of PDAC, Pancontinental Resources (TSXV:PUC) has shared a corporate update with its shareholders, indicating the work completed to date in 2019, as well as future plans. Read full newsRead More
"$MDLZ - Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ) Presents at Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) Conference (Transcript) https://t.co/qwlBesxBKU"Read full newsRead More
COT SPECIAL PUBLICATION SCHEDULE Reminder -- Due to the U.S. Government Shutdown (February 1 Announcement) The last COT report was published on December 21, 2018. Reports going forward from that date will be published in chronological order beginning with the report previously scheduled for release on Friday, December 28, 2018 (based on data from Monday, December 24, 2018). The CFTC publ...Read More
StrengthsThe best performing metal this week was palladium, up 2.05 percent on a strong market outlook. Gold traders and analysts were split between bullish and bearish this week as gold struggles to get back up to highs seen in January, according to the weekly Bloomberg survey. However, the yellow metal remarkably gained this week even as both the U.S. dollar and equities rose on the news that...Read More
By Avi Gilburt, ElliottWaveTrader.net We have all heard it. Many times through history, the hubris of analysts, economists, and market participants has been on display when markets rally extremely strongly. In fact, such hubris often accompanies major market tops. And, history has taught us that most of them are quite severely near sighted.Allow me to show you some examples."We will not have an...Read More
By: Stewart Thomson, Graceland Updates: 1. As US markets re-open after the holiday, the world's "queen of assets" continues her glorious ascent to higher prices. Please click here now. Double-click to enlarge this magnificent short term gold chart.2. The rise above $1332 ushers in my new short-term target: $1355!3. Please click here now. Gold is well on its way to be...Read More
By: Captain Ewave GOLD: Short Term Update: Gold reached a low of 1305.30 this past week, but by the end of week we had moved higher to close in the 1324.80 area. We also had a key weekly reversal higher which is bullish and suggests higher prices are coming in the short term! We updated our count this week to a more bullish count that is suggesting that all of wave ?iii? of !iii! ended at...Read More
By: Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTARoughly one year ago and prior to that we observed that the gold stocks could be following the recovery template from what we deemed a "mega bear market."We define that as a bear market that is over two and a half years in time and over 80% in price. It cuts both ways.The gold stocks from 2011 to January 2016 had declined more than 80% and for more than four years....Read More
So much for the wall of worry! Bulls have improbably shrugged off steep downturns in the housing and auto sectors, rising interest rates, a costly tariff war with China, the pernicious rise of socialism on Capitol Hill, the economic implosion of China and Germany, a strong dollar that has sapped the earning of U.S. multinationals; and, most recently, evidence that retail sales nosedived during t...Read More
China has been increasing gold reserves as a buffer to blackmail by USA and its allies on the global trade war front. Yesterday someone posted on Twitter that bank of England does not reveal the audit of gold reserves. There is no accountability of the Australian gold reserves held with the bank of England. My view is that Bank of England or the Federal Reserve will not give back the reserves...Read More