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OPEC is monitoring unrest in Iran as well as Venezuela's economic crisis, but the group will only boost output if there are significant and sustained production disruptions from those countries, a senior OPEC source from a major Middle Eastern oil producer said.Read full newsRead More
Not many people had expected the U.S. to turn to Europe for natural gas this winter.Read full newsRead More
Zvi Moram, CEO at BATM Advanced Communications Limited (LON:BVC) tells Proactive about the large-scale cyber security monitoring/encryption technology that has just seen BATM awarded a significant new contract. BATM will now supply cyber security technology solutions to a governmental defence department....with further possible orders coming from the same source.BATM said this is the fourth such c...Read More
Solo Oil PLC (LON:SOLO) Executive Chairman Neil Ritson describes himself himself as ' really happy' with forward progress for the group's 25% owned Ntorya gas project, onshore Tanzania.Aminex, project operator and 75% owner of Ntorya, this morning told investors that it is "actively engaged" with the Tanzanian authorities and with third-party engineering firms, in the advanced stages of planning f...Read More
Small investors are betting that bitcoin's price will rise, while hedge funds and other large traders are betting it will fall. And if the recent past is any indication, bitcoin is about to surge as yet another short squeeze develops...Read full newsRead More
KOLWEZI, Democratic Republic of Congo, Jan. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - Ivanhoe Mines (TSX:IVN) (OTCQX:IVPAF) Executive Chairman Robert Friedland and Chief Executive Officer Lars-Eric Johansson announced today that ongoing upgrading work at the Mwadingusha hydropower plant in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has almost tripled the plant's interim power output from 11 to 32 megawatts (MW)....Read More
Visit Soma Labs Scientific at the Lift Cannabis Expo Vancouver - Canada's biggest and best-attended cannabis tradeshow! Swing by Booth 535 on January 13-14thto check out the newest edition to the Soma Labs line of extraction tech - the BOSS CO2 Extraction System.Leading innovation with its simplicity and "Plug and Play" design, the BOSS combines proprietary max flow technology with advanced th...Read More
Nigeria, Africa's biggest oil producer and a member of OPEC, has suffered fuel shortages over the past few weeks. They complicated transport and hurt economic activity and, in the words of President Muhammadu Buhari, ensured that for many Nigerians the Christmas holidays were "anything but merry and happy." His administration says it's working overtime to end the queues that have formed at gasolin...Read More
Mr. Marc Prefontaine reportsORLA INTERSECTS 102.5 METRES GRADING 0.46 G/T AU AND 1.21% CU AT THE CERRO QUEMA PROJECT, PANAMA Orla Mining Ltd. is providing new results from the 2017 drill program at its wholly owned Cerro Quema project in Panama.Highlights are from the last two holes drilled in the Caballito copper-gold zone.Hole CQDH17-148 intersected 102.5 metres grading 0.46 gram per tonne gold...Read More
Canada's Cruz Cobalt (TSX-V:CUZ) plans to go all in at its projects in North America in 2018, particularly at its three British Columbia-based properties, as the junior miner bets on the growing demand for ethically sourced cobalt, a key ingredient in the batteries used in electric vehicles."We plan to be active on all of our Canadian and US cobalt projects in 2018," the company's president James...Read More
Aaron LeBlanc, COO of oil and gas company Aminex (LON:AEX) talks Proactive through developments at the Ntorya 1/2/3 wells in Tanzania. The new operations, Aaron explains, will enable Aminex to exploit further multiple leads and assets there in the very near future. See Kiliwani North well updates here too, particularly on a significant recharge happening at the reservoir close to the well bore. Aa...Read More
Mr. Christian Milau reports EQUINOX GOLD ANNOUNCES FULL-SCALE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AURIZONA GOLD MINEEquinox Gold Corp.'s board of directors has approved the start of full-scale construction at the Aurizona gold mine in Brazil. All dollar amounts shown are in U.S. dollars.Early works construction has been under way at Aurizona since the third quarter of 2017. The project is advancing well and remai...Read More
NYSE - MKT: ASMTSX-V: ASMFSE: GV6VANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. (NYSE-American: ASM; TSX-V: ASM; FSE: GV6, "Avino" or "the Company") is pleased to announce it has received final approval from the Toronto Stock Exchange (the "TSX") to list its common shares ("Shares") and its warrants ("Warrants") on the TSX on January 8, 2018. Concurrent with the TSX list...Read More
Rescue crews wrestled to bring a blaze on an Iranian oil tanker off China's east coast under control on Monday as fire raged for a second day following a collision with a grain ship, while the body of one of the 32 missing crew members was found on aboard.Read full newsRead More
Diamond miners have started the year off on the right foot as two Africa-focused producers announced Monday the recovery of three huge diamonds, each bigger than 100 carats.Gem Diamonds' (LON:GEMD) unearthed a 117-carat and a 110-carat D color Type IIa diamonds at its flagship Let??eng mine in Lesotho, bringing the number of 100-carat-plus stones the company has found at the operation since ea...Read More
Thank you for joining us in a weekly technical look at the mid-cap oriented INK Canadian Insider (CIN) Index. At our last update on December 18 when we saw the Index close at 1262.38, we were seeing the last bit of year-end tax planning (investors locking in both gains and losses) and the Index faced a wall of resistance at 1269. Now three weeks later, the INK CIN has shattered that wall and bull...Read More
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A magnitude 3.1 earthquake has shaken part of north-central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was recorded at 1:37 p.m. Sunday about 10 miles (17 kilometers) east of Hennessey in Kingfisher County. The temblor was recorded at a depth of two miles (3.5 kilometers). No...Read full newsRead More
Some ideas on how to stop bitcoin mining from destroying the planet.Read full newsRead More