The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors.The idea of school shutdowns, business closures, plus mandatory remote work and other restrictions have previously seemed inconceivable. It was especially remarkable to have such an "all-of-government" response to a virus that we already knew posed a threat mainly to t...Read More

The U.S. government once again hit its borrowing limit yesterday, forcing the Treasury to deploy "extraordinary measures" to avoid default. Of course, it's kind of hard to call those measures "extraordinary" when we're forced to take them every two years.Nevertheless, they'll last until sometime in June. That's when we'll hit the debt ceiling in earnest. And if we don't raise it to accommodate ou...Read More

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TRU Precious Metals Corp. is pleased to announce the acquisition of 14 mineral claims at its Golden Rose Project in Central Newfoundland.Read full newsRead More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Victoria Gold Corp. [VGCX -TO] on Thursday released assay results received to date from the 2022 Raven distal exploration program at the Dublin Gulch gold camp in the Canadian Yukon.Victoria's flagship Eagle gold mine is situated on the Dublin Gulch gold property in the central Yukon Territory, about 375 kilometres north of Whitehorse and approximately 85 kilometres...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsWhile the company said it was "hard to find words" to describe how impressive the latest headline drill hit in Quebec was, the numbers do most of th...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAnglo Asian, which is progressing plans to become a mid-tier copper producer, produced 57,618 gold equivalent oz in 2022, which compared to guidance...Read More

EVM Arabia will be setting up a new battery chemicals complex on a 1.27Msqm at Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, to develop lithium and nickel chemicals plant.Read More

Tiehm's buckwheat has become a totem issue in the federal permitting of new mines that could potentially supply critical minerals, including lithium.Read More

First Majestic guided AISC for its Mexican operations at US$16.69-17.83 silver equivalent oz (EqAg oz), compared to its previous guidance of $15.48 EqAg oz and analysts' estimates of around $15.Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAlien Metals accelerates toward productionSPONSOREDalien metalsMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingThe benchmark S&P/ASX 200 resources index added 13.1% over 2022 for a total return of 22.3%.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Israel Diamond Exchange is to host its first international events since the Covid pandemic.The inaugural Israel Diamond Conference will take place on March 27, bringing together mining ministers, major diamond producers, finance and banking leaders and other key industry figures. A tender of white and fancy color polished goods, Diagurus, the Israeli branch of the South Africa...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Kim Kardashian has bought the amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn by the late Princess Diana.The American socialite and media personality paid $197,453 for the Attallah Cross after fierce bidding at Sotheby's London yesterday. The estimate was $97,000 to $145,000.The The Fleuree cross, circa 1920, set with square-cut amethyst and accented by circular-cut diamonds belong...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy Indian diamond merchant has relinquished her share of a $61m inheritance, to become a Jain nun.Devanshi Sanghvi took part this week in the 'diksha' ceremony, abandoning all material possessions, after a lavish four-day ceremony in which she rode in a carriage pulled by an elephant.She was heiress to the Sanghvi and Sons jewelry bus...Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAlien Metals accelerates toward productionSPONSOREDalien metalsMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingDecember quarter production of 66.9 million tonnes (attributable) took half-year output to a record 131.9Mt (attr...Read More

As I was sitting in my chair steaming over the latest World Economic Forum tweet, one question popped into my head.Why do the Swiss put up with it?Let's face it: there's a cartoonish Bond villain sitting in his mountainous lair, just short of a mustache to twirl, plotting to remake the world in his own image.And if that's not bad enough, the man who taught Klaus Schwab about geopolitics during his...Read More

Today we bear grim news:Uncle Samuel has rammed his whelky head against the "debt ceiling" - the debt ceiling set presently to $31.4 trillion.Unless Congress votes to haul the jacks out of storage... and elevate the ceiling once more... the United States government can issue no additional debt... and risks default as its cupboards run bare.Come the evil day when the china is at last depleted...Eve...Read More

Yukon-focused explorer Granite Creek Copper's (TSXV: GCX; US-OTC: GCXXF) Toronto-quoted equity closed in positive territory Thursday after it released strong initial economics for the Carmacks copper-gold-silver project.Located in the Minto Copper District within the traditional territories of Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation and Selkirk First Nation, Granite's preliminary economic assessment s...Read More

Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; US-OTC: MPVD) has increased the 2023 production outlook for its Gahcho Ku?(C) mine in Canada's Northwest Territories despite reporting a slight miss on the mine's production targets for 2022. For the December quarter Mountain Province recovered 1.6 million carats at an average grade of 1.96 ct. per tonne, taking full-year output to 5.52 million carats agains...Read More

Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; US-OTC: TLOFF) says it has found a new system of nickel and copper mineralization just 3.2 km from its Tamarack project in central Minnesota.Talon is calling this new area at the northern end of the 18-km-long Tamarack Intrusive Complex the Raptor Zone."The company's recent drilling in the Raptor Zone has suggested that the intrusive depositing the high-grade nickel mineral...Read More