MINING.com speaks with Jani Puroranta, Chief Digital Officer at Metso, about how digital technology can increase productivity and optimize existing assets. MINING.com: As we all know, in mining productivity is king. But mining companies have a problem with productivity. A 2015 report from McKinsey states that mines were 28% less productive than in 2005. Many mining companies try to squeeze more p...Read More
The comminution process, which includes both crushing and grinding, is one of the world's most energy-intensive industrial processes. Comminution uses at least three percent of total global electricity production and according to the Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution, it accounts, on average, for more than 50 percent of a mine's energy consumption and 10 percent of total production costs....Read More
Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), is pleased to announce the launch of its Uniden (R) Link 4G Cradle Style Cellular Signal Booster ("Uniden (R) Link") and will be available at Costco.ca in addition to the existing portfolio of Uniden Cellular Boosters.Designed specifically for the everyday driver who drops calls or loses cellular...Read More
At the end of August, embattled precious metals miner Tahoe Resources Inc. (TSX:THO)(NYSE:TAHO) saw its stock fall off a cliff, losing almost 24% in a month to see the miner's stock down by 43% since the start of 2018. This significant decline occurred because Guatemala's Constitutional Court confirmed the suspension of operations at Tahoe's flagship Escobal mine.In January 2018, I explained that...Read More
A miner operates his scoop tram at the Barrick Gold/Acacia Mining Bulyanhulu gold mine in Tanzania. Source: Acacia Mining plc.Barrick Gold Corp. [ABX-TSX, NYSE] said Monday October 1 that its Executive Chairman John Thornton has nearly doubled his shareholding in the company to 5 million shares by acquiring 2.27 million shares in the company at an average price of US $11.11 per share.The announcem...Read More
Osisko Metals Executive Chairman Robert Wares.Osisko Metals Incorporated [TSX-V: OM; FRANKFURT: OB51] is pleased to congratulate Robert Wares, one of the original founders of the Osisko group of companies on the announcement of his donation of $5 million to McGill University in Montr?(C)al, Qu?(C)bec. The following is an excerpt from yesterday's McGill press release.As an entrepreneurial geologi...Read More
One of the exploration drill rigs targeting Kamoa-Kakula-style copper mineralization at Makoko on Ivanhoe's 100%-owned Western Foreland exploration licences.Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. [IVN-TSX; IVPAF-OTC] shares advanced on Monday October 1 after the company said it has made an important new discovery of high-grade copper on its 100%-owned Western Foreland licences in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC...Read More
Drilling the Dean lithium project in the Clayton Valley, Nevada. Source: Cypress Development Corp.Cypress Development Corp. [TSX-V: CYP, OTCQB: CYDVF, Frankfurt: C1Z1] is pleased to announce that a National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report titled "Preliminary Economic Assessment Technical Report for Clayton Valley Lithium Project, Esmeralda County, Nevada" has been filed. The Report is availab...Read More
TORONTO - The price of oil hit a four-year high and the Canadian dollar rose to its highest level since May, but the reaction of North American markets to a tentative trade deal to replace NAFTA was fairly subdued.The loonie traded at an average of 78.11 cents US, up from an average of 77.25 cents US on Friday.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 31.29 points to 16,104.43.In New York, the Do...Read More
TORONTO - The Canada's main stock market index and the dollar were up moderately in the first day of trading since Sunday's tentative trade deal involving Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 40.80 points at 16,113.94 as of 11 a.m. EDT. in a narrow advance led by the market's health-care sector, energy sector and Canada's three largest auto parts manufacturers.Meanwhil...Read More
Last year we watched hype turn to mania in the cryptocurrency market. Bitcoin prices spiked to nearly $20,000 before collapsing. It was a classic bubble and bust cycle.This year the hype has shifted from crypto to cannabis. And now some analysts are warning that the cannabis market is also in a bubble phase.But that's not something to worry about yet. In fact, it's just the opposite... It's someth...Read More
Derrick Hudson, associate teaching professor and Daniels Fund Faculty Fellow in Ethics in the Division of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Colorado School of Mines, is a co-editor and author chapter of a new book on South Sudan. "The Challenges of Governance in South Sudan: Corruption, Peacebuilding, and Foreign Intervention," was published this summer by Routledge Press. In addition to s...Read More
At the 2018 Precious Metals Summit in Beaver Creek, Colo., The Northern Miner caught up with three portfolio managers to discuss the gold and silver companies that made an impression on them during the event. Here's what they had to say."I'm inclined to speak about our book and portfolio, of course," Tocqueville Asset Management's Doug Groh says. "One of the companies is Corvus. We're a relatively...Read More
The following is an extract from the newly published coffee table book A History: Placer Development Limited and Placer Dome Inc. compiled by Nean Allman and Justin Baulch, and available at www.aplacerdomehistory.com._______________________The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan in 1937 on an attempted round-the-world flight has become one of aviation history's great enigmas,...Read More
Since listing on the Toronto Stock Exchange in October 2017, shares of Ero Copper (TSX: ERO; US-OTC: ERRPF) have soared from their initial public offering price of $4.75 to $12.30. The company has nearly 85 million shares outstanding for a market cap of just over $1 billion.Its flagship asset-the Vale do Curaca (MCSA) complex-is situated in northeastern Brazil's Bahia state in the Curaca Valley, a...Read More
Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has discovered a third major copper deposit called Makoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo on its 100%-owned Western Foreland copper property, west of its Kamoa-Kakula mining license.Ivanhoe expects to release a maiden resource estimate for Makoko by the end of 2018's third quarter.The company began drilling Western Foreland in 2017's third quarter. It sa...Read More
The proceeds earned during September 2018 from eBook sales are currently being transferred to my brokerage account. Now, it’s time to vote on which dividend paying stock I will purchase this month to add to the “Real Wealth Portfolio“, as I look for redemption (after losing over -$200,000 investing in junk properties in South Chicago).Moving proceeds from Ebook donations from S...Read More
Join me on my new quest for redemption! After blowing myself up to the tune of losing over -$200,000 investing in junk turnkey turkey properties out-of-state (South Chicago), I’m going to do my best to: start over, work extra hard, and rebuild for a better tomorrow.While I apply myself (and my labor) to try and earn $200,000 all over again, I’m going to make things more fun and interes...Read More
German luxury car maker Porsche AG will no longer offer diesel versions of its cars.Porsche is investing over ?,?6 billion ($7 billion) into hybrid and electric mobility technology until 2022. Every other new Porsche car will likely be electrically powered by 2025, either as a hybrid or fully electric.Ganfeng Lithium, China's top producer of lithium, said it's agreed to a deal with Tesla to supply...Read More
"@thousandairefx @HenrikZeberg The greatest use of platinum is the car market...electric could put huge dent in demand.Her'es the chart during the lows"Read full newsRead More