WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is moving a step closer to charging a carbon tax on large emitters in the province.The Progressive Conservative government has released a discussion paper that eyes a price of $25 per tonne on industrial facilities with annual emissions of at least 50,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.The government wants to set targets for each emitter and charge the tax...Read More
There's an old gold mining saying that's often attributed to Mark Twain:A gold mine is nothing but a hole in the ground with a bunch of liars standing around it.Whether Mark Twain actually used this phrase or some variation of it is debated. But if you paid any attention to the gold market over the past several years, you'll know it's not too far from the truth.Back in 2009 and 2010, everyone want...Read More
Osisko Gold Royalties Ltd (TSX & NYSE: OR) is an intermediate, precious metal, royalty company, with a North American focused portfolio of over 130 royalties, streams and precious metal offtakes. Osisko Gold Royalties offers investors the unique opportunity to participate in the success of world-class gold mines, such as Canadian Malartic and ??l?(C)onore, two of the most precious royalty assets i...Read More
A new summer camp at Colorado School of Mines hopes to inspire the next generation to think below the surface. Through the support of the University Transportation Center-Underground Transportation Infrastructure (UTC-UTI), Tunnel Camp at Mines welcomed more than 40 local elementary and middle school students to campus in two separate sessions this summer. The second session got underway Jul...Read More
Gerardo Del Real: This is Gerardo Del Real with the Outsider Club. Joining me today is the Managing Editor for Outsider Club, Investment Director of the personal finance advisory The Crow's Nest, and cannabis stocks advisory The Marijuana Manifesto, Mr. Jimmy Mengel. Jimmy, how's it going today?Jimmy Mengel: Great, Gerardo. Always a pleasure.Gerardo Del Real: The last time we spoke I believe was b...Read More
"Looking at the medium term in $gold shows not only is the medium term cycle low late (gold very weak) but the 2015 uptrend line has been taken OUT.Medium term support is the now activated 2011 downtrend line near 1172 and resistance is now the 2015 uptrend line 1236-1242."Read full newsRead More
"$gold not the only commodity hurting.The Agriculture sector is below 1999 !!!! It's at a long term trend line that's gotta hold.Gold needs OTHER commodities to stop dropping. Odds favor the Ag sector bounces here, but can it be a meaningful bounce.That's the key."Read full newsRead More
Environmentalists in New Zealand are expressing concerns about the possibility of government accepting applications to prospect for minerals on conservation land across theNelson and Marlborough regions.Interviewed by the news site Stuff, a representative for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand said that the government is creating "concerning expectations," especially for f...Read More
Environmentalists in New Zealand are expressing concerns about the possibility of government accepting applications to prospect for minerals on conservation land across theNelson and Marlborough regions.Interviewed by the news site Stuff, a representative for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand said that the government is creating "concerning expectations," especially for f...Read More
India's National Mineral Development Corporation beat giants Adani and Vedanta in an e-auction for a gold mine located in the Chittoor district of the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.According to the Press Trust of India, this is the first time the state-owned company takes on gold mining in the country.The Chittoor mine site is called Chigargunta-Bisanatham and it extends for 263.01 hectares...Read More
India's National Mineral Development Corporation beat giants Adani and Vedanta in an e-auction for a gold mine located in the Chittoor district of the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.According to the Press Trust of India, this is the first time the state-owned company takes on gold mining in the country.The Chittoor mine site is called Chigargunta-Bisanatham and it extends for 263.01 hectares...Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM) Pebble mine will be completed in January 2019.During a press conference held this week at its Alaska division, representatives for the Corps said that the document will be open for public comment for 90 days rather than the usual 45 days.Prior to this, a "scoping report"...Read More
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM) Pebble mine will be completed in January 2019.During a press conference held this week at its Alaska division, representatives for the Corps said that the document will be open for public comment for 90 days rather than the usual 45 days.Prior to this, a "scoping report"...Read More
Ursula Gather, head of the Thyssenkrupp foundation, ruled out a break-up of the German steel-to-submarines conglomerate and rejected allegations she is responsible for a leadership crisis, Der Spiegel newsmagazine reported.Thyssenkrupp's chief executive and chairman quit this month citing a lack of support from "major shareholders" at a time when activist investors Cevian, which holds an 18 percen...Read More
Workers at Chile's Escondida copper mine, the world's largest, have rejected the company's final contract offer and agreed to vote on whether to go on strike, according to an internal union document seen by Reuters on Friday.After several meetings in recent days, the workers at the mine owned by BHP concluded that the company's offer does not meet union demands and creates "prejudicial" labor cond...Read More
ProPublica obtained police reports and call logs from more than two-thirds of the shelters housing immigrant children. Here's what they show.Read full newsRead More
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants a federal court to toss a lawsuit filed by Utah, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation seeking the repayment of cleanup costs for a mine spill in Colorado that polluted rivers in three states.Read full newsRead More
ELY - The Bureau of Land Management's Ely District has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Gold Rock Mine Project in eastern Nevada, approximately 50 miles westRead full newsRead More
According to a report by the U.N. and Colombia’s government, 66 percent of alluvial gold exploitation in the country is considered unregulated. llegal mining is nothing new in Colombia, but it is expanding at a troubling rate, undermining the rule of law, eroding security and devastating the environment.Read full newsRead More
Jaxon said the first phase of fieldwork included geological mapping and sampling the Red Spring area, located within the Hazelton Property.Read full newsRead More