Karin Leiderman, associate professor of applied mathematics and statistics at Colorado School of Mines, has received the National Science Foundation's highest honor in support of junior faculty, the NSF CAREER Award.She will receive $509,999 in funding over the next five years to develop new mathematical models and numerical methods for simulating blood clotting - work that could lead to the desig...Read More
Dejun Yang, associate professor of computer science at Colorado School of Mines, is the 2019 winner of the William R. Bennett Prize from the IEEE Communications Society.The Bennett Prize honors researchers for the best original paper published within the last three years, based on its quality, originality, utility, timeliness and clarity of presentation.Yang was recognized for "Incentive Mechanism...Read More
Where are zinc prices headed? It's a question that brings distinctly different opinions and forecasts from the bullish and bearish camps.While zinc's macro-fundamentals could arguably support more robust prices, the metal's price has languished since its decade-high rally to US$1.63 per lb. (US$3,595 per tonne) in early 2018, and has struggled to break above US$1.36 per lb., or US$3,000 per tonne....Read More
Several years after its discovery, Tinka Resources (TSXV: TK) has delivered a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc sulphide deposit at its wholly owned Ayawilca project, 200 km northeast of Lima in central Peru.The PEA tables a US$363-million after-tax net present value (NPV), with an 8% discount rate, and a 27.1% after-tax internal rate of return on the zinc sulphide deposit, along w...Read More
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.14% to finish at 27,192.45, and the S&P 500 Index jumped 1.66% to 3,025.86. Spot gold fell US$6.70 per oz. to US$1,418.30 per ounce.Arch Coal topped the charts with a gain of US$4.79 to US$91.48. The company reported net income in the second quarter of US$62.8 million, or US$3.53 per diluted share, compared with net income of US$43.3 million, or US$2.06 per...Read More
The S&P/TSX Composite Index posted a 0.27% gain to 16,531. Spot gold stayed above the US$1,400 per oz. threshold, finishing at US$1,418.30 per oz. - down US$6.70 per oz., or 0.47%. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index lost 2.23% to end at 205.82, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index lost 2.11% to 110.20, and the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index lost 2.32% to 79.54.Intermediate gold producer Torex Gold R...Read More
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The precious metals sector appears to have started a correction.It was roaring higher until natural resistance kicked in and the U.S. Dollar grinded its way higher, towards its 2019 high. Factor in the Fed decision this week and it has created a natural "buy the rumor, sell the news" event.We cannot know for certain what the Federal Reserve will do or even more importantly, how the market will rea...Read More
The precious metals sector appears to have started a correction.It was roaring higher until natural resistance kicked in and the U.S. Dollar grinded its way higher, towards its 2019 high. Factor in the Fed decision this week and it has created a natural "buy the rumor, sell the news" event.We cannot know for certain what the Federal Reserve will do or even more importantly, how the market will rea...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Tuesday as investors digested a plate full of earnings reports, the start of the two-day Federal Reserve meeting, and comments from President Trump that cast doubts on the success of U.S. trade talks with China. Tech giant Apple (AAPL - Get Report) is scheduled to report fiscal-third-quarter ea...Read More
Three-month base metals prices traded on the London Metal Exchange universally closed down at the afternoon kerb on July 30, with a strengthened dollar complex and inflows across all metals, except zinc, exerting downward price pressure.An increasingly macro-sensitive base metals complex may be reacting to United States President Donald Trump's assertions, via social media, that current US-Sino tr...Read More
I have always secretly wanted to work at a precious metals bullion dealer. I love gold GC00, +0.07%. And silver and platinum. I love them philosophically, and I also just like shiny rocks. But if you think about it, trading metals is a really weird business. Say you are bullish on silver and want to speculate on it, thinking it will appreciate in price. You can buy an ETF, yes, or you can buy sil...Read More
French multi-metals miner Eramet's Weda Bay Indonesian nickel pig iron (NPI) project, which houses an estimated 10,000-tonne deposit of laterite nickel ore, will come online in the second half of 2020.The project is being developed with Chinese stainless steel producer Tsinghan, which is undertaking all construction costs and will hold a subsequent 43% stake in the venture, and will focus on NPI p...Read More
The London Metal Exchange three-month zinc price increased during morning trading on Tuesday July 30, making a steady approach toward $2,500 per tonne amid broadly low turnover and continued US dollar strength. Volumes traded in the galvanizing metal were moderate as of 8:55am, but led a broadly lackluster complex with 2,200 lots exchanged. Reaching an intra-morning high of $2,488 per tonne,...Read More
He was corporate broker to a dozen UK-listed miners and worked on the US$3 billion financing of Aluminium Bahrain's 500,000 tonnes per annum aluminium smelter expansion, the recapitalisation of Kenmare Resources, the acquisition of Stillwater by Sibanye and Rio Tinto's Ivanhoe Mines transactions. SolGold says Hofmaier funded bulk and base metals mines into production and counted numerous global he...Read More