The Minerals Council of Australia published a report titled The Next Frontier: Australian Mining Policy Priorities where it asks the government to advanced a revived tax reform that removes barriers that hinder the growth of the country's mining sector.According to the Council, such reform would encourage additional investment in capital and technology."Australia should have strong tax integrity r...Read More
Scientists with London's Brunel University and Tomsk State University ran a successful experiment that allowed them to introduce nanoscale diamond into an aluminum melt using ultrasonic treatment.In a media statement, the researchers said the result of their trial will be used to create new materials, mainly for maritime transport. Prior to their lab test, no one had synthesized alloys with nanodi...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Diamcor Mining Inc. held its first tender of the year, selling 1,407.66 carats of rough diamonds recovered from Krone-Endora section at Venetia Project. The sale grossed $385,000, with an average price of $273.45/ct. The tender included the sale of one gem quality rough diamond in the "specials" category, weighing 11.57 ct. An additional ~1,858.92 carats of rough di...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Famous jeweler and industry entrepreneur Fred Mouawad has introduced the world's largest round brilliant cut, fancy vivid yellow diamond to be graded by GIA. The 54.21 carat round fancy vivid yellow - named the Mouawad Dragon - was reportedly mined in South Africa. The cutting and polishing of the resulting gem by Mouawad's team of expert cutters took about six month...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers' Phillip Barton announced the company will begin an extensive exploration program in South Africa, expecting to spend more than US$2 million. Phillip Barton, head of South Africa's De Beers Consolidated Mines (DBCM), said the company has been granted dozens of prospecting licenses across a number of provinces. Already, DBCM has received approval for 19 explo...Read More
Liberty Gold (TSX: LGD) has shown an interest in past-producing oxide gold projects in the Great Basin area of the southwest United States.The historic Goldstrike heap-leach mine on its Goldstrike project in Utah's portion of the Great Basin produced 209,000 oz. gold from 12 shallow pits at an average grade of 1.2 grams gold per tonne between 1988 and 1994.In Idaho, the historic Black Pine heap-...Read More
On this edition of Weekly with Andrew McCreath, he takes a lookahead to some big market trends, including a busy week of earnings here in Canada headlined by the gold companies and the lifecos.Read full newsRead More
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Want to participate in a short research study? Help shape the future of investing tools and you could win a $250 gift card! In June 2018, Highland Gold Mining LimitedRead More...Read full newsRead More
On this edition of Weekly with Andrew McCreath, he takes a lookahead to some big market trends, including a busy week of earnings here in Canada headlined by the gold companies and the lifecos.Read full newsRead More
The Minerals Council of Australia published a report titled The Next Frontier: Australian Mining Policy Priorities where it asks the government to advanced a revived tax reform that removes barriers that hinder the growth of the country's mining sector.According to the Council, such reform would encourage additional investment in capital and technology."Australia should have strong tax integrity r...Read More
Following last month's tailings dam disaster at Vale's (NYSE: VALE) C??rrego do Feij??o mining complex, which left at least 140 dead, Amsterdam-based Responsible Mining Foundation issued a statement highlighting the findings of its 2018 Responsible Mining Index report related to miners' tailing dams.According to the report, many of the world's largest mining companies are not able to 'know and sho...Read More
Scientists with London's Brunel University and Tomsk State University ran a successful experiment that allowed them to introduce nanoscale diamond into an aluminum melt using ultrasonic treatment.In a media statement, the researchers said the result of their trial will be used to create new materials, mainly for maritime transport. Prior to their lab test, no one had synthesized alloys with nanodi...Read More
Gold stocks' young upleg is gathering steam, marching steadily to higher lows and higher highs. These bullish technicals are gradually improving sentiment, fueling mounting interest in this contrarian sector. That's helping the gold stocks regain lost ground relative to gold, the driver of their profits. Fundamentals are growing more favorable as gold itself powers higher. All this portend...Read More
Have you considered investing in a gold miner recently?Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX) became the largest gold miner on the planet following its recent merger with Randgold, transforming what was already an enviable portfolio of mines and one of the most efficient miners in the business into a powerhouse miner that owns half of the top 10 performing mines on the planet, and a portfolio of over o...Read More
One of the breakout marijuana stocks of the TSX index this week, and possibly one of the most exciting tickers in the legal weed space at the moment, The Supreme Cannabis Company (TSX:FIRE) is up 3.27% in the last five days with a 104.3% expected annual growth in earnings on the way.Let's take a brief look at a few other pieces of data for this hot weed stock before seeing how it compares with two...Read More
Fura Gems has launched the Provenance Proof Blockchain designed to promote transparency in the coloured gemstones industry. The program was launched by Gubelin Gem Lab with Everledger at the Tucson, Ariz. gem show.Emeralds from Fura's Coscuez mine in Colombia were used to test the technology.The Provenance Proof Blockchain is the first such system for coloured gems, although blockchains are alread...Read More
It might sound like the name of a game show, but "opportunity or trap" is a game investors play every time an undervalued stock shows up on the radar. Sometimes a stock is on a dip, and its quality stats and otherwise upward trend suggest an opportunity; at other times, the stock can turn out to be a falling knife with perpetual downward momentum. So which of these categories do the following unde...Read More
Vancouver-based Golden Predator took a 9,800-tonne bulk sample from the Spades zone at its 3 Aces exploration project late last year, and the company is ready to share the results.Results are available for only the first 6% of the sample. Two concentrates were produced from a gravity circuit. One yielded a 13,261.5-gram dor?(C) bar that contained 365 oz. of gold and 34 oz. of silver. Sale of the g...Read More