Materials informatics is the next frontier of materials science, taking computational and machine learning tools and applying them to characterizing and discovering materials.A group of Colorado School of Mines students spent their summer getting a hands-on introduction to the burgeoning field, thanks to a newly expanded fellowship program.The Citrine NextGen Fellowship, with additional support fr...Read More
The Northern Miner presents its top-10 list of the largest U.S.-headquartered mid-tier to junior precious metal companies, by market capitalization:1. COEUR MININGMarket cap: US$1.5 billionA drill site at Northern Empire Resources' flagship Sterling gold project in Nevada. Photo by Richard Quarisa.Chicago-based Coeur Mining (NYSE: CDE) comes in at the top of our list. In a friendly bid in early Au...Read More
VANCOUVER - Nevsun Resources' (TSX: NSU; NYSE-AM: NSU) board is unanimously recommending shareholders reject Lundin Mining's (TSX: LUN; US-OTC: LUNMF) bid to buy all of Nevsun's shares at $4.75 per share, the company reported on Aug. 9. The formal recommendation made on Aug. 9 is the company's latest attempt to fend off a hostile takeover by Lundin. In May, Nevsun rejected an unsolicited bid by...Read More
Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCF) has begun processing between 25,000 and 30,000 tonnes of mineralized bulk sample taken from the F2 deposit at its Phoenix gold project near Red Lake, Ontario.It expects to finish processing the bulk sample in 2018's third quarter and reconcile a new block model in the fourth quarter.The company has spent the past several weeks getting its 1,250 tonnes per...Read More
Precious metals miner Hecla Mining (NYSE: HL) has posted a second quarter profit of US$11.9 million on sales revenue of US$147.3 million, powered in large part by a significant decline in silver cash costs.This compares to a loss of US$24.1 million on sales revenue of US$134.2 million during the second quarter of 2017.Hecla says the improved financial performance in the quarter was the result of a...Read More
For the most part, it’s been a pretty horrendous year speculating in mining stocks… Many commodities and their corresponding shares are just devastated right now…Gold sucks.Silver sucks.Copper sucks.Cobalt sucks.Lithium sucks.Etc.I guess uranium has kind of been the “outlier”, holding up a bit better than the rest…But hey, it is what it is… and you canR...Read More
VANCOUVER - Nevsun Resources' (TSX: NSU; NYSE-AM: NSU) board is unanimously recommending shareholders reject Lundin Mining's (TSX: LUN; US-OTC: LUNMF) bid to buy all of Nevsun's shares at $4.75 per share, the company reported on Aug. 9. The formal recommendation made on Aug. 9 is the company's latest attempt to fend off a hostile takeover by Lundin. In May, Nevsun rejected an unsolicited bid by...Read More
CloseGain/LossGold $1213.50+$3.30Silver$15.42+$0.06XAU74.39+0.31%HUI160.51+0.27%GDM578.03+0.24%JSE Gold1054.15-3.56USD95.10-0.09Euro116.15+0.15Yen90.06+0.32Oil$66.94-$2.2310-Year2.963%-0.010T-Bond142.65625+0.0625Dow25583.75-0.18%Nasdaq7888.33+0.06%S&P2657.70-0.03% The Metals: Gold gained $5.30 to $1215.50 in Asia before it dropped back to $1206.60 in London, but it then bounced back higher...Read More
Today we're bringing you another clip from our upcoming Episode of the Goldnomics Podcast with the legendary investor and "Adventure Capitalist", Jim Rogers.In this clip Jim tells us what he thinks about the long-term safe-haven status of the US dollar and what he sees as the future for the Euro currency. Jim also give us his opinion on what he suspects might be the currency to emerge as the onl...Read More
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President Tabar?(C) V??zquez confirmed today on national radio that Aratir?-, a subsidiary of Zamin Ferrous, formalized a $3.5 billion lawsuit against Uruguay alleging that the passing of a new mining law turned out to be a major change in the game rules.V??zquez explained that even though the firm of Indian capitals presented its complaint before the United Nations Commission on International Tra...Read More
President Tabar?(C) V??zquez confirmed today on national radio that Aratir?-, a subsidiary of Zamin Ferrous, formalized a $3.5 billion lawsuit against Uruguay alleging that the passing of a new mining law turned out to be a major change in the game rules.V??zquez explained that even though the firm of Indian capitals presented its complaint before the United Nations Commission on International Tra...Read More
De-risking includes conducting extensive exploration work, arranging appropriate financing in the short to medium term and lowering production costs.Read full newsRead More
Russian aluminium giant Rusal is concerned about an impending catastrophe if U.S. sanctions are not lifted, with some of its production halted as early as September, two sources close to the company said.Under the terms of the sanctions, imposed in April in response to Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, U.S. customers must wind down business with Rusal by Oct. 23."If sanctions ar...Read More
Avrupa Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:AVU) ("Avrupa" or the Company") is pleased to provide an update on its recent exploration activities in Portugal. Read full newsRead More
Mining heavyweight BHP said on Thursday the Federal Court of Minas Gerais approved an agreement with Brazilian authorities which settles a 20 billion reais ($5.30 billion) lawsuit regarding the Samarco dam failure.The company said it had separately agreed to pay $50 million as part of a settlement for a class action complaint filed by American depositary receipt holders over the disaster.Samarco a...Read More
Angkor Gold (TSXV:ANK, OTC:ANKOF) ("Angkor" or "the Company") Angkor President JP Dau is pleased to report the discovery of a new gold-in-soils anomaly at Angkor's Koan Nheak License in Cambodia.Read full newsRead More
Condor Gold has completed the three-year permitting process for its La India gold mine in Nicaragua and is committed to moving forward despite unrest in the country.Read full newsRead More