Connemara Mining Company PLC (LON:CON) saw its shares gain 4% today as it reported high gold grades from one of three holes drilled recently at its Mine River prospect in Wicklow and Wexford in Ireland.CEO Patrick Cullen tells Proactive that assay results from the hole at the Tombreen target indicated an 8m section grading 4.53 g/t gold, which included 2m at 16.1 g/t. Mineralisation ranging from 0...Read More
Miramont Resources Corp. (CSE: MONT) ('Miramont' or the 'Company') is pleased to provide an update of progress at its Cerro Hermoso project in southern Peru.Read full newsRead More
Co-founder of New York-based company HemoGenyx Alexis Sandler tells Proactive how thrilled she was to welcome the Lt.Gov of New York to the HemoGenyx laboratories recently. The Lt.Governor met with their eminent team of scientists and saw first hand why HemoGenyx is described as a 'success story', originally invested in by the state of New York. Not only was this a major honour for HemoGenyx, this...Read More
(Repeats Jan. 10 item. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)Read full newsRead More
Online fashion retailer Boohoo.com PLC (LON:BOO) reported a surge in revenue in the final four months of 2017 but shares fell as it said margins eased.Group total revenue doubled to ?228.2mln from ?114.3mln the same period last year, and was up 93% on a constant exchange rates (CER) basis.The gross margin eased to 52.5% from 53.1% a year earlier, while the retail gross margin dipped to 54.2% fro...Read More
Renforth Resources Inc. (CNSX:RFR) ("Renforth" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the January 2018 drill program at Parbec has commenced.Read full newsRead More
It's all about a City boy's two favourite (legal) things on Friday: pubs and properties.Housebuilder Bovis Homes Group PLC (LON:BVS) will come to the market with a trading statement, hot on the heels of several of its peers which have all updated investors this week.Traders became a little tetchy over margins when Barratt Developments PLC (LON:BDEV) gave its first half update on Thursday, so Bovis...Read More
Shares in Skeena Resources Limited (TSX.V:SKE) jumped 6% on Thursday after the company announced additional drill results from 13 holes at its Snip gold project located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia.In lunchtime trade the Vancouver-based junior was exchanging hands for $0.74, up 10.4% on the TSX Venture Exchange, in more than double usual volumes. Skeena is now worth $53 million in To...Read More
Oil prices have been grinding higher and higher, spurring forecasters to predict they could hit $80 a barrel this year.Read full newsRead More
Oil prices hit a fresh three-year high on Thursday ahead of a U.S. decision on whether to extend temporary waivers on sanctions against Iran.Read full newsRead More
Tracking the shale boom is getting murkier.Read full newsRead More
China is seeing signs of success in its fight against smog as pollution levels slump dramatically in the capital region Beijing.Read full newsRead More
Rio Tinto Group has dropped out of the bidding for a stake in Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA, one of the world's top lithium producers, as it pursues other ways to capitalize on the electric-car boom, people familiar with the matter said.Read full newsRead More
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OPEC may get the credit for the longest winter decline in U.S. crude stockpiles in a decade, but other factors are also at play, including strong refining margins, frigid weather and robust foreign demand.Read full newsRead More
(Bloomberg) - The global power needed to create cryptocurrencies this year could rival the entire electricity consumption of Argentina and be a growth driver for renewable energy producers from the U.S. to China.Miners of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies could require up to 140 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2018, about 0.6 percent of the global total, Morgan Stanley analysts led by Nicholas...Read More
Mr. Greg Smith of Calibre reportsCALIBRE AND CENTERRA GOLD DRILL 77.8 METRES GRADING 1.1 G/T AU AT THE CERRO AEROPUERTO GOLD DEPOSIT, NORTHEASTERN NICARAGUACalibre Mining Corp. has provided an update as the company and Centerra Gold Inc. continue to advance the Siuna project, Borosi Concessions, Northeast Nicaragua.Centerra can earn a 70-per-cent interest in the project by investing $7-million in...Read More
By JEFF DESJARDINS on January 10, 2018Courtesy of: Visual CapitalistRecords for renewable energy consumption were smashed around the world in 2017.Looking at national and state grids, progress has been extremely impressive. In Costa Rica, for example, renewable energy supplied five million people with all of their electricity needs for a stretch of 300 consecutive days. Meanwhile, the U.K. broke...Read More
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia hopes to finalize contract talks with Freeport McMoRan Inc over the Grasberg copper mine by June, although divestment issues are still unresolved, a mining ministry official said on Thursday.Indonesia and Freeport formed a framework agreement in August to transfer the company's rights to Grasberg to a new mine license system from an existing contract of work. Under th...Read More
Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX, NYSE:BTO) said Thursday it had achieved record fourth quarter and full-year output in 2017, thanks mainly to the start of commercial production at its Fekola mine, in south-western Mali.The Vancouver-based company, which poured its first gold at Fekola in November, produced 630,565 ounces of the yellow metal last year, a figure that includes the 79,243 ounces...Read More