Citigroup Inc. said it entered into a financing deal with Venezuela's central bank in 2015 essentially using $1.6 billion of gold held at the Bank of England as collateral.A subsidiary bought the precious metal up front, taking full legal ownership under a contract that requires Venezuela's central bank to periodically buy back portions at predetermined dates, Citigroup said in a filing on Friday....Read More
Excluding Vale (NYSE:VALE), close to 8 million tonnes of seaborne iron ore supply from Brazil is at risk in 2019, a report by Wood Mackenzie states.According to the market analyst, such a supply disruption would be the result of the new regulation published by Brazil's National Mining Agency or ANM, which establishes the ban of all dams in the country built with the upstream method.Based on the ne...Read More
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA reported this week that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu and will start collecting samples of the dust in its surface.The idea is to analyze such samples and get one step closer to understanding the origin of Earth's water and precious minerals. According to the agency, asteroids are considered one of the candi...Read More
Scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA reported this week that the Hayabusa2 spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Ryugu and will start collecting samples of the dust in its surface.The idea is to analyze such samples and get one step closer to understanding the origin of Earth's water and precious minerals. According to the agency, asteroids are considered one of the candi...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Scientists are calling on mine operators to restore animal communities when they carry out site rehabilitation programs.According to a paper published in the journal Pacific Conservation Biology, the impact of mining on animals is overlooked as fauna tends to be under-recognized in assessments of restoration success. Based on a global review of literature, the Curtin University study found that ov...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More
Mining chatter in the Yukon these days is all about the yellow metal. It's been that way for at least 10 years, according to geologist Mike Burke, who spent more than 20 years working for the Yukon Geological Survey before moving to the private sector."People were having a hard time in 2008, and then along came Kinross and bought Underworld Resources. That started an area play," Burke recalls.Now...Read More
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new precious metal mines reach commercial production less than 15 months apart over the last two calendar years.In July 2017, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) launched commercial production at its high-g...Read More
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new precious metal mines reach commercial production less than 15 months apart over the last two calendar years.In July 2017, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) launched commercial production at its high-g...Read More
The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new precious metal mines reach commercial production less than 15 months apart over the last two calendar years.In July 2017, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) launched commercial production at its high-g...Read More
Fitch Solutions' industry trends analysts have revised Canada's 2019 gold mine production growth forecast up to 6% from 2% predicting production to grow robustly as new projects come online over the coming quarters.Canada's dominance in attracting exploration investment has resulted in a strong gold project pipeline set to come online in 2019. Over the past decade, Canada has been able to attract...Read More
Fitch Solutions' industry trends analysts have revised Canada's 2019 gold mine production growth forecast up to 6% from 2% predicting production to grow robustly as new projects come online over the coming quarters.Canada's dominance in attracting exploration investment has resulted in a strong gold project pipeline set to come online in 2019. Over the past decade, Canada has been able to attract...Read More
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Newmont Mining shares jumped higher Friday amid reports that rival Barrick Gold is prepping a hostile takeover bid that would value the gold mining group at around $19 billion.Read full newsRead More
Live coverage from youtube and facebook of the Tommy Robinson expose. We try to surmount tech issues t at least spread the word. when i asked one o the organisers if i could see the footage? they said "es man get it out there!" which I was very happy with.Unplanned i tried to film the streams from the xpose from any source i could. many streams got shut down. the official one kept getting shut dow...Read More