OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government, chastised last year in an auditor's report that found a lack of oversight of Canada's controversial temporary foreign workers program, is stepping up employer inspections and naming and shaming those caught breaking the rules.Since the start of the year, roughly 1,600 employers have been flagged as "high-risk employers" and selected for inspections by the...Read More
The first brand-new car that your grandchildren will buy will be electric or hybrid - whether they like it or not.And that's because they won't have a choice...I learned to drive with a manual transmission. And to this day, I still prefer to drive a stick shift. It makes me feel like I'm more in control of the car, and I like the experience better than driving an automatic transmission.But today,...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia - May 14, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Altamira Gold Corp. (TSXV: ALTA) (FSE: T6UP) (OTC Pink: EQTRF), ("Altamira" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the Company has claimed an additional 51,553 ha within the Juruena belt of Mato Grosso, Brazil. These new claims are located within the Santa Helena and Colider project areas and are in addit...Read More
Toronto, Ontario - May 14, 2018 (Newsfile Corp.) (Investorideas.com Newswire) Generation Mining Limited (CSE: GENM) (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the Alberta Zinc Project. The project is located along the Mackenzie Highway approximately 80 kilometres from the town of High Level, Alberta, and has excellent infrastructure...Read More
Modern governments and industries work in collusion to control the individual. But ironically, they were only able to grow powerful by exploiting the desire to be an individual.According to Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, governments started out as simple gangs, collecting protection money.Many kingdoms and empires were in truth little more than large protec...Read More
May 14, 2018 (Investorideas.com Newswire) BMO Capital Markets reviewed the latest news involving this gold miner, the announcement of Q1/18 results and a foreign government's request.In a May 8 research note, Andrew Kaip, a BMO Capital Markets analyst, reported that Kinross Gold Corp. (K:TSX; KGC:NYSE) achieved "a solid earnings beat on strong production and lower costs" in Q1/18, but concerns inv...Read More
A Colorado School of Mines professor was recently honored for his contributions to industry at the Association for Iron and Steel Technology's annual conference and exposition, held May 7-10 in Philadelphia.John Speer, John Henry Moore Distinguished Professor of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, was presented the Benjamin F. Fairless Award, which recognizes distinguished achievement in iron...Read More
Smelting, rail and port infrastructure near Callinex's Nash Creek zinc project in New Brunswick. Source: Callinex Mines Inc.Callinex Mines Inc. [CNX-TSXV, CLLXF-OTCQX: CLLXF] on Monday May 14 released the results of an independent initial preliminary economic assessment for the company's 100%-owned Nash Creek and Superjack projects in the Bathurst Mining district of New Brunswick.Callinex has a...Read More
Location Map of LiCo Energy's Glencore Bucke and Teledyne properties near Cobalt, northeast Ontario. Source LiCo Energy Metals Inc.LiCo Energy Metals Inc. [LIC-TSXV, WCTXF-OTCQB] shares were active Monday May 14 after the company released a shareholder update to provide additional information relating to an option agreement with Surge Exploration Inc. [SUR-TSXV, CKVLF-OTCQB].Under the agreement, w...Read More
The AREVA/Denison/OURD Canada McClean Lake uranium mill in the Athabasca Basin of northern Saskatchewan. Source: Denison Mines Corp.Uranium stocks are showing signs of life after retracing the gains made in the fourth quarter of 2017 following news of production cuts by two of the world's leading producers, Cameco Corp. [CCO-TSX; CCJ-NYSE] and Kazatomprom.In a uranium sector update, Haywood Securi...Read More
Modern governments and industries work in collusion to control the individual. But ironically, they were only able to grow powerful by exploiting the desire to be an individual.According to Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, governments started out as simple gangs, collecting protection money.Many kingdoms and empires were in truth little more than large protec...Read More
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As the mining expo Latin America Down Under takes place in Perth, Argentina's Deputy Secretary for Sustainable Mining, Juan Biset, is visiting Australia with the idea of strengthening bilateral relationships and attracting new investments for his country's mining sector, as well as for the renewable and nuclear energy sectors.According to state-owned news agency T?(C)lam, Biset is scheduled to mee...Read More
Nuria Men?(C)ndez, managing director of Orovalle, Orvana Minerals' subsidiary in Spain, told local newspaper La Nueva Espa??a that the company has plans to reopen the Carl?(C)s gold mine, located in the Salas municipality of the Principality of Asturias, northern Spain.According to the newspaper, Men?(C)ndez explained that the mine was put under care and maintenance last year but following some ex...Read More
Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) announced this week that one of the six employees who was hospitalised after being trapped underground for days has been discharged from the hospital and is in good health.According to the miner, the other five rescued employees remain in a stable condition and are making good progress. "The company will continue to ensure that these employees receive appro...Read More
The Managing Director of Sukari Gold Mining Company, Youssef el-Raghy, told Egypt Today that the first large-scale modern gold mine in Egypt has produced 106.7 tonnes of the yellow metal since it started operations in 2010.In Q1 2018, the mine produced 124,296 ounces, some 30,000 ounces below Q4 2017 levels but a 14 per cent increase y-o-y. "Production was below expectations due to a 23 per cent d...Read More
The Managing Director of Sukari Gold Mining Company, Youssef el-Raghy, told Egypt Today that the first large-scale modern gold mine in Egypt has produced 106.7 tonnes of the yellow metal since it started operations in 2010.In Q1 2018, the mine produced 124,296 ounces, some 30,000 ounces below Q4 2017 levels but a 14 per cent increase y-o-y."Production was below expectations due to a 23 per cent de...Read More
A Honduran judge has temporarily blocked a Canadian-listed miner from exhuming dozens of human remains at a more than 200-year-old cemetery in the Central American country to make way for a gold mine, a lawyer for the local citizens said on Friday.Since 2016, Minerales de Occidente (MINOSA), the Honduran subsidiary of Aura Minerals, has angered the citizens of the town of Azacualpa by removing ove...Read More
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Rescuers searching for three Polish miners trapped almost a kilometre underground since a tunnel collapsed eight days ago have found two bodies, taking the death toll from the incident to four, coal company JSW said on Sunday.One man is still missing at the Zofiowka mine in southern Poland, which was struck by an earthquake on May 5, initially trapping seven miners. Two were found dead and two oth...Read More