WeedMD Inc. (TSXV:WMD) signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture with Phivida Holdings Inc. (CSE:VIDA) to develop cannabis-infused beveragesSmallCapPower | March 11, 2018: WeedMD Inc. (TSXV:WMD) and cannabidiol-infused beverages maker, Phivida Holdings Inc. (CSE:VIDA) Thursday announced that they have signed a letter of intent to form a joint venture called Cannabis Beverages Inc. (CanB...Read More
Fake Responses One month ago we asked: What kind of stock market purge is this? Over the last 30 days the stock market's offered plenty of fake responses. Yet we're still waiting for a clear answer. As the party continues, the dance moves of the revelers are becoming ever more ominous. Are they still right in the head? Perhaps a little trepanation is called for to relieve those brain tensio...Read More
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada said 2018's convention attendance hit 25,606, the best turn out since 2013.Attendance was still marginally better than last year, just up six percent from 24,161.The PDAC Convention in Toronto, arguably the world's largest annual mining convention, is a bellwether of the industry's health. Participants from 125 countries attend.Organizers said...Read More
Reactions continue to pour in following U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports and 10 per cent for aluminium for almost every country but Mexico and Canada.Today, German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries told Reuters that the decision will cost jobs and growth. According to Zypries, Trump does not want to understand the architecture of a free global econom...Read More
Researchers from Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China tried curing blindness using gold and titanium.In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers explain how they replaced mice's deteriorated photoreceptors - sensory structures in eyes that respond to light - with artificial ones made with titanium dioxide and gold nanowires.To prove what at the...Read More
Asection of the northern dam wall at the Cadia mine, located in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales, collapsed into the southern tailings dam on Friday releasing a slurry of finely ground rock, water and a low level of benign processing reagents.The information was provided by owner and operator Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM), whose management issued a statement on Saturday saying that expe...Read More
A branch of journalism that might be called, "don't worry, be happy, because this time is different" tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is actua...Read More
Forget cryptocurrency - the next big "gold rush" isn't even on Earth.Read full newsRead More
The gold miner reported a big jump in profits.Read full newsRead More
Forget cryptocurrency - the next big "gold rush" isn't even on Earth.Read full newsRead More
Forget cryptocurrency - the next big "gold rush" isn't even on Earth.Read full newsRead More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Stockwatch Business Reporter West Texas Intermediate crude for April delivery lost $1.03 to $60.12 on the New York Merc, while Brent for May lost 73 cents to $63.61 (all figures in this para U.S.). Western Canadian Select traded at a discount of $24.30 to WTI ($3...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Will PurcellThe diamond and specialty minerals stocks box score for Thursday was a ho-hum 82-85-123. The TSX Venture Exchange fell two points to 829 while rough diamond prices were flat. Chris Taylor's Dunnedin Ventures Inc. (DVI) dropped two cents to 30.5 cents...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More
This item is part of Stockwatch's value added news feed and is only available to Stockwatch subscribers.Here is a sample of this item:by Mike CaswellU.S. authorities have arrested Brian Robert Sodi, a penny stock tout also known as "Mailman," for a $1.1-million scheme to boost two OTC Markets companies. (All figures are in U.S. dollars.) The government claims that Mr. Sodi, with the help of an uni...Read More
A multidisciplinary and multiethnic team of scientists just published a paper in Nature where they explain the implications of having found calcium silicate perovskites contained within a tiny South African diamond.The gem was dug from the Cullinan mine, located 40 kilometres east of Pretoria, where the world's largest rough diamond was found in 1905. The mine was also the source of two of the lar...Read More
Goldstone Resources (GRL.L) has initiated an investigation to figure out if it could reopen the old Akrokeri mine, located on the prospecting license with the same name. This mine was in production for 5 years between 1904 and 1909 before it had to be shut down due to water inflow, but during those five years, approximately 75,000 ounces of gold were recovered from 104,000 tonnes of rock. This i...Read More
You have probably heard of the Milgram Experiment. Stanly Milgram wanted to see how obedient ordinary people were to authority figures. So he got participants to sign up for an experiment on learning.The unwitting participants were given control over an electric shocker. The nodes were hooked up to an actor who the participants thought was also a random participant. The participant was supposed to...Read More