Shares in Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) climbed almost 8% on Monday after the miner reported a significant revenue increase in its third-quarter driven by record production in the first three months of 2018.The South African diamond producer, owner of the iconic Cullinan mine, which produced the diamonds for the British crown jewels, said revenue for the quarter ended March 31 climbed 44% to $172 mill...Read More
Miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) said Monday they were hopeful their current talks with civil society, a member of the mining code revision tri-partite group and other key interested groups, would help iron out issues that need to be dealt with before the country's new mining code is implemented.The group, which includes Randgold Resources, Glencore, Ivanhoe Mines, Ziji...Read More
Shares in Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM) climbed Monday after the gold miner, Australia's biggest, said its plan to use the first 200 metres of its Cadia Hill mine's open pit as a tailings storage facility had been approved.The company said the permit would create enough storage capacity to enable Cadia East underground mine to return to full production following a dam collapse in March, which halted o...Read More
Posted: Apr 23, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 23, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018: Are the inZinc Warrant Clippers correct?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Posted: Apr 23, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 23, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018: Are the inZinc Warrant Clippers correct?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Editor's Note: Today we're bringing you the Outsider Club's Gerardo Del Real's exclusive interview with the President and CEO of Uranium Energy Corp (NYSE: UEC), Amir Adnani.Mr. Adnani is among the most active and well-connected players in the uranium space, and you'd be hard pressed to find a better person to explain why the uranium sector is heating up.To your wealth,Nick HodgePublisher, Outside...Read More
Posted: Apr 23, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 23, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018: Are the inZinc Warrant Clippers correct?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Posted: Apr 23, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 23, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018: Are the inZinc Warrant Clippers correct?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Posted: Apr 23, 2018JK: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018 with Jim Goddard and John KaiserPublished: Apr 23, 2018HSC: Discovery Watch Apr 23, 2018: Are the inZinc Warrant Clippers correct?Discovery Watch is a weekly 15-20 minute audio show sponsored by HoweStreet.com where Jim Goddard interviews John Kaiser about resource juniors with interesting exploration plays that have caught John's attention. The...Read More
Investors often use the direction of the US dollar as a bellwether for gold's performance. However, over recent years, short-term movements in gold have been more heavily influenced by US interest rates and expectations of policy normalisation. Our analysis shows that the correlation between gold and US rates is waning and that the US dollar is again a stronger indicator of the direction of price....Read More
The law originally targetted the KKK. Now it has been used to arrest people protesting against white supremacists.And that is why free speech is so important.Plenty of people would love to see new laws to stop white supremacists from exercising their–albeit offensive–free speech.But as this 1951 law demonstrates, the law as it is intended is not always how it is applied.Faced with hund...Read More
The law originally targetted the KKK. Now it has been used to arrest people protesting against white supremacists.And that is why free speech is so important.Plenty of people would love to see new laws to stop white supremacists from exercising their–albeit offensive–free speech.But as this 1951 law demonstrates, the law as it is intended is not always how it is applied.Faced with hund...Read More
A loan of $2,350 helps a member to pay for improved seed, organic inputs, and tractor rental, which will allow these farmers to escape subsistence by farming a larger area with a higher yield.Read full newsRead More
A loan of $2,350 helped a member to pay for improved seed, organic inputs, and tractor rental, which will allow these farmers to escape subsistence by farming a larger area with a higher yield.Read full newsRead More
The chemical weapons monitoring group confirmed they were prevented from visiting Douma not by Syrian or Russian authorities, but by the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS).Read full newsRead More
A cut-cornered rectangular step-cut fancy intense blue diamond weighing 3.47 carats set a price-per-carat world record for a blue diamond after it sold for $1.9 million per carat to reach almost $6.7 million at Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Auction.The gem's final price nearly tripled Sotheby's pre-sale estimate of between $2 million and $2.5 million and pushed up the auction final results to $26.2...Read More
Researchers from the University of California San Diego and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are advocating for collaborations between academia and industry when it comes to finding a balance between exploiting mineral resources from the seabed and protecting vulnerable marine ecosystems.Matthew Alford, a physical oceanographer with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the UC -San D...Read More
Investors are encouraging Africa-focused Caledonia Mining (TSE:CAL) to expand operations in Zimbabwe, given the new political climate in the southern country.Following the ousting of president Robert Mugabe, the new Emmerson Mnangagwa administration decided to knock out the rule that established that all mines had to be 51 per cent owned by Zimbabweans. Only diamond and platinum assets must comply...Read More
With melting ice expanding access to the Arctic, investors from China to Canada are watching Greenland's election for signs of the political will to get a flagging mining programme on the island back on track.Greenland is hoping rising commodity prices can help attract foreign investment and get its fragile economy up to speed to realise a long-term goal of independence from Denmark.Hype about a p...Read More
Bolivia will manufacture and market lithium batteries along with German company ACI Systems GmbH, which will invest $1.3 billion in the project, the country's manager of the lithium deposits told the Bolivian state radio on Saturday.Along with Argentina and Chile, Bolivia is part of South America's so-called "lithium triangle," one of the largest global reservoirs of the key mineral for the produc...Read More