BHP, the world's largest mining company, has urged peers to create an independent international body in charge of overseeing the construction, integrity and operations of tailings dams, which storage mining waste, following the second collapse of a dam in Brazil in the past three years."As an industry, we now have to redouble our efforts to make sure events like this simply cannot happen," Chief E...Read More
Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), is pleased to announce it is supplying various departments of the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) in the Atlantic region of Canada, with its UCP100 in-vehicle cellular device and accessories.The UCP100 is the Company's first 3G in-vehicle cellular device made available in 2013 through cellular...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. Last week, the Index continued its impressive New Year's ascent after finally breaking through an overhead wall of resistance at 1130. The Index closed the week at 1143.97 with a gain of 25.7 points or 2.3%. MACD fell to 0.28. RSI added nearly 10 points to 75.17. RSI has now occupied ele...Read More
"$APYRF - Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust (APYRF) CEO Michael Emory on Q4 2018 Results - Earnings Call Transcript https://t.co/pOwFJTXWYa"Read full newsRead More
Rescue workers retrieved 24 bodies and eight survivors Saturday from two flooded gold mines in Zimbabwe where officials fear dozens more illegal miners are still trapped, state television reported.Read full newsRead More
Eight months after the start of construction of its Whabouchi project in Quebec, Nemaska Lithium (TSX: NMX; US-OTC: NMKEF) says it will cost an additional $375 million to complete the spodumene hard rock mine and electrochemical plant - a 34% increase over estimates in a feasibility study in January 2018.The announcement on Feb. 13 sent the company's shares plunging 35.6%, or 19.5 ?, to 35.5 ? api...Read More
The world's two biggest gold miners both announced mega-mergers over the past 5 months or so. These huge deals briefly garnered some interest in the usually-forgotten gold-stock sector, and fleeting praise from Wall Street analysts. But gold-stock mega-mergers are bad news for gold-miner shareholders on all sides. They reveal the serious struggles of major gold miners, and really retard futu...Read More
Of all the stocks I have invested in over the years, Labrador Iron Ore Royalty (TSX:LIF) is one of the most painful to remember. This is one I held for years before committing the cardinal mistake of selling when the news is the gloomiest, just the time that I should have been buying.From 2013 to 2016, I held shares of this company. When I first heard of it, LIF was trading for around $30 a shar...Read More
With nearly two-thirds of its revenue coming from copper, Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) could be poised to go on steroids over the next decade. At least that's the opinion of one Citigroup analyst."Prepare for a decade of Dr. Copper on steroids," noted a recent Citigroup report, which forecasted prices of US$8,000 per tonne in 2022, rising to $9,000 per tonne by 2028."We look beyond the potential tra...Read More
Gold miner Continental Gold (TSX:CNL) has been mired in controversy since three of its employees were murdered in September 2018, leading to media claims that management was derelict in caring for their well-being. This - along with an armed attack on two engineers near its flagship Buritica project, changes to financial projections, including projected operating costs and the need for an addition...Read More
Last summer I'd discussed the rise in interest for lithium producers, which was largely powered by the excitement for the coming electric vehicle boom. In a follow-up article in July, I'd discussed how the market could behave in the near term. With supply expected to flood the market, I'd warned investors that lithium prices had likely peaked in 2018 and were expected to fall in 2019.This meant th...Read More
Seasonal financial analyst Don Vialoux says his 'best buy' for the coming months is the base metals sector, and the easiest way to play the sector is through exchange-traded funds, he adds. He picks three global base metals ETFs and two copper ETFs, a metal he is especially bullish on.Copper inventory and prices are low. A US-China trade agreement could create a surge in demand for the 'red metal'...Read More
Heath laughs at this now, but it underlines the oddity of his company, which has two royalties on producing mines and sends half of its cashflow back to investors. That will see a C0.15c (US0.Read More
The Choco Precious Metal Project in Colombia. Source Max Resource Corp.Max Resource Corp. [TSX.V: MXR; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D] is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Chris Grainger to the MAX Advisory Board. Dr. Grainger resides in Medellin Colombia and has over 20 years of experience as a geologist with extensive experience in South America, including Colombia, specializing in grassr...Read More
Olympic Dam is a multi-mineral ore body containing uranium oxide, copper, gold and silver. Source BHPBHP Billiton Ltd. [BHP-NYSE; BHPLF-OTCPK] CEO Andrew Mackenzie is urging the global mining industry to ensure there is no repeat of the recent collapse of a tailings dam at Vale SA's [VALE-NYSE], Brumadinho iron ore operation in Brazil.The Brumadinho dam breach, which occurred on Friday, January 25...Read More
Yesterday was President's Day, a holiday celebrated by Wall Street and middle schools alike with a day off. Given this unique opportunity, I took my 12-year-old daughter to the Air and Space Museum on the Mall in Washington, D.C.Air and Space is the most popular of all the Smithsonian museums, averaging 9 million visitors a year, which beats out the Louvre's 8.1 million.My daughter touched the moo...Read More
Space mining - the extraction and use of resources from the moon, asteroids and more - once sat firmly in the realm of science fiction. Now, the first missions to harvest water from the permanently shadowed regions of the moon could be only a decade away. Earlier this month, a pair of Colorado congressmen introduced legislation to study the creation of a NASA-led Space Resources Institute that...Read More
First Mining Gold (TSX: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) says positive interim metallurgical test results for its Springpole gold project, located 110 km northeast of Red Lake, Ont., could increase the project's gold recovery 13.2% to 90.6% and silver recovery 11.9% to 95.1%.M3 Engineering and Technology and ALS Metallurgy completed the flotation testwork on material from Springpole. They then performed separat...Read More
OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; ASX: OGC) reported annual revenue in 2018 of US$773 million and net profit before unrealized gains or losses on undesignated hedges of US$124 million.Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBIDTA) came in at US$364 million.The company generated about US$121 million in free cash flow and US$346 million in operating cash flow.At the end of the year, Ocea...Read More
Scott Williamson, Managing Director of Blackstone Minerals (ASX:BSX), outlines the Company's world class Little Gem Cobalt Gold property in British Columbia, Canada, and provides an overview of Blackstone's Australian Gold properties. Blackstone has a proven management team that is ready and equipped to move this very high-grade project forward. It operates in safe, mining-friendly jurisdictions....Read More