Three days prior to the December 14 deadline for Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to ink a contract with the Panamanian government that would allow the company to keep running its Cobre Panam?? copper mine, the country's Chamber of Commerce issued a statement criticizing the way authorities have handled the deal.In the communiqu?(C), the Chamber's president Marcela Galindo De Obarrio expr...Read More

Argentina Lithium & Energy (TSXV: LIT, US-OTC: PNXLF), a member of the Vancouver-based Grosso Group of companies, is aggressively assembling a portfolio of lithium properties in northwestern Argentina as demand for the battery mineral continues its upward trajectory. "The lithium market had a couple of false starts, but this time is different," said Nikolaos Cacos, the company's president and CEO...Read More

I've frequently said that forecasting Fed policy is easy. The Fed actually tells you what they plan to do in advance. This is the "no drama" Fed.All you have to do is listen to what they say and believe them. They don't want to surprise markets or trigger any unexpected volatility. So they signal in advance and move accordingly.In reality, there's a bit more to it than that.The Fed also signals th...Read More

Dear Outsider,It's been one hell of a ride for the markets to close out the year.Volatility just doesn't want to let up.Good inflation numbers, bad inflation numbers...Stock futures up, down, and sideways.It makes you just want to throw up your hands and walk away.But don't forget that markets have come back strong each time the CPI numbers were released the last two months, so we'll make sure to...Read More

The Cerro Yapacana is home to wildlife found nowhere else in the world. Satellite images show the extent of the damage.Read full newsRead More

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's supreme court on Friday endorsed a settlement with Barrick Gold to resume mining the Reko Diq, one of the world's biggest copper and gold deposits sites in the country's southwest, a court order showed. The short order was read out by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, who headed a five-person panel. A Reuters reporter was present in the co...Read More

Pakistan's Supreme Court endorsed on Friday a settlement for Barrick Gold to resume mining at the Reko Diq project, one of the world's largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits, it said in an order.Read full newsRead More

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's supreme court on Friday endorsed a settlement with Barrick Gold to resume mining the Reko Diq, one of the world's biggest copper and gold deposits sites in the country's southwest, a court order showed. The short order was read out by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, who headed a five-person panel. A Reuters reporter was present in the co...Read More

Pakistan's Supreme Court endorsed on Friday a settlement for Barrick Gold to resume mining at the Reko Diq project, one of the world's largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits, it said in an order.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) is finally set to open by next April, after more than three years of delays.The $355m bourse (pictured) was originally supposed to open in January 2020, according to the SDB website. That was put back by September 2021, and then to 2022. Vallabhbhai Patel, chairman of the SDB project, said the government had now granted permission for the building to...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The World Diamond Congress (WDC) is to take place in Israel next March, it has been announced.The Covid pandemic forced organizers to hold the 2020 event online and to cancel the physical congress, which had been due to take place in Hong Kong. The last physical congress, in 2018, was also held in Israel.The World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) and International Diamond Manuf...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The total value of the raid that netted $10m from a Watchmaster vault has now been put at $32m.Sebastian Buchner, spokesman for the Berlin public prosecutor, told reporters on Friday that valuables worth a total of $22m were stolen from lockers rented to private customers at the same venue.Police say the perpetrators, disguised as security guards, sprayed paint on surveillance came...Read More

Canada's new critical minerals strategy is focused on government support to develop six key metals - lithium, graphite, nickel, cobalt, copper, and rare earth elements.Read More

Are Americans finally realizing that virtually all of the mis-and-dis-information bombarding them for so many years actually comes from the government and the news media channels that serve it?Maybe. Because what we've got now in this country is a Propaganda Industrial Complex waging a PSYOPS war on the people of this land. Why is that?Essentially, to cover up past crimes against the country by pu...Read More

Feasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSORED"With the scale-up of the production and sale of Honda's pure el...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Infinity Stone Ventures Corp. [GEMS-CSE; GEMSF-OTC; B21-FSE] has completed its fall drill program on the 100%-owned Rockstone graphite project located near Thunder Bay, northwestern Ontario.The company completed drilling of four holes, RS-22-01, RS-22-02, RS-22-03 and RS-22-04, totalling 800 metres. The initial goal of the fall drill program was to confirm the initial...Read More

Chief Justice of Pakistan announced the decision in a 13-page opinion, Pakistan media reported today.Read More

Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDDenison eyeing low-cost in-situ recovery in Canada's high-grade Athabasca BasinSPONSOREDdenison minesFeasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumThe arrangement was approved by approximately 86.6...Read More

Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDDenison eyeing low-cost in-situ recovery in Canada's high-grade Athabasca BasinSPONSOREDdenison minesFeasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumIf an agreement is not reached on that day, the go...Read More

I was visiting with a friend recently and she was recounting her early panic over COVID. She has kids and loves them. As a mom, she believed her first duty was to protect them from the bad virus that was floating around. She went into full freak-out mode, keeping the kids indoors and spacing them out. Her heart never stopped racing.One day, she looked out her window and saw that her neighbor's dog...Read More