Mining companies and their shareholders have come to the realization that doing the right things in the communities where they operate is important for a lot of reasons, including the bottom line. Mining executives also tell The Gold Report that the most effective corporate social responsibility programs (CSR) are orchestrated cooperatively instead of applied prescriptively.In 2014 Endeavour Silve...Read More
Investors returned to the metals and mining sector in a big way on Wednesday after good news from the world's two largest economies and metals consumers.Yesterday, Chinese leaders paved the way for a raft of measures to stimulate the country's slowing economy while growth figures in the US, although modest came in ahead of expectations.On the Comex market in New York copper for delivery in March c...Read More
Ready for a Shanghai surprise?China's leaders in October outlined the direction of the world's second largest economy over the next five years.The country's 13th five-year plan running from 2016 - 2020 is the first one approved by Xi Jinping who led a group on "comprehensively deepening reforms" to overhaul China's investment-led economy into one driven by services and consumption.The communique i...Read More
Courtesy of: Visual CapitalistWeeks ago we were delighted to attend an investment conference in San Francisco called The Silver Summit & Resource Expo.Speakers included well-known voices in the investment community such as Grant Williams, Frank Holmes, Frank Trotter, and Rick Rule. The show was also supplemented with people that have helped to build multi-billion companies: precious metals pioneer...Read More
First set of frames for Sardis Lake Marina are being loaded to be shipped to the galvanizer.Read More
SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW HELL'S KITCHEN CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCt1f...For the first time ever, Gordon Ramsay accepts that he cannot help a business and says goodbye to Amy's Baking Company.If you liked this clip check out the rest of Gordon's channels:http://www.youtube.com/gordonramsayhttp://www.youtube.com/thefwordhttp://www.youtube.com/kitchennightmaresMore Gordon Ramsay:Website:...Read More
A new study by McKinsey & Company found that 45% of work activities could be automated using already demonstrated technology. According to the researchthese activities represent about $2 trillion in annual wages in the US. What's more automation does not only affect low-skill, low-wage roles - McKinsey discovered that "even the highest-paid occupations in the economy, such as financial managers, p...Read More
Undoubtedly, 2015 will go down in the history books as one of the worst years on record for mining companies, hit by record-low commodities prices that forced them to axe jobs, dividends, production and sell assets.The main question for next year is whether miners will see the beginning of a recovery phase or they will have to get used to what some describe as the "new normal", characterized by o...Read More
China Gold International Resources Corp. Ltd. (TSX: CGG; HKEx: 2099) (the "Company" or "China Gold International Resources") provides an update on the expansion of the Jiama Copper-Gold Polymetallic Mine (the "Jiama Mine" or "Jiama") and revises its 2015 copper production guidance.The original schedule of commissioning Stage One of Phase II expansion at the Jiama Mine by the fourth quarter of 2015...Read More
Confident and clear, Yellen says rate path will be well signaled … The unanimous backing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen got for the Fed's first rate hike since the financial crisis let her deliver a clear message: Don't expect further rate hikes for a while, and when we are ready, we'll tell you. Yellen's confident and measured performance – she even managed a joke...Read More
US general rebrands Isis 'Daesh' after requests from regional partners … Leader of operations against group uses alternative name – a pejorative in Arabic that rejects fighters' claims on Islam … A top Pentagon general has informally rebranded the jihadists of Isis with the name "Daesh" after allies in the middle east asked he not use the group's other m...Read More
Confident and clear, Yellen says rate path will be well signaled … The unanimous backing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen got for the Fed's first rate hike since the financial crisis let her deliver a clear message: Don't expect further rate hikes for a while, and when we are ready, we'll tell you. Yellen's confident and measured performance – she even managed a joke...Read More
US general rebrands Isis 'Daesh' after requests from regional partners … Leader of operations against group uses alternative name – a pejorative in Arabic that rejects fighters' claims on Islam … A top Pentagon general has informally rebranded the jihadists of Isis with the name "Daesh" after allies in the middle east asked he not use the group's other m...Read More
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It shouldn't come as much of a surprise that most of the world's wettest mines are located in a country that's highly vulnerable to typhoons. The Philippines is home to seven of the mines on this list, where close to 5,000 millimetres of rain can fall in a single year.But the world's wettest mine is Papua New Guinea's Ok Tedi. This open-pit copper, gold, and silver mine gets an average of 6,636 mi...Read More
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), the world's No.1 heavy machinery maker, will have to pay $74 million to one of its suppliers after a U.S. court found it guilty of stealing trade secrets from that company.Following an eight-week trial in Chicago, the jury in a U.S. District Court voted in favour of Miller UK Ltd., an England-based supplier that in 2010 accused Caterpillar of misusing classified information...Read More
Angela Harmantas | SmallCapPower | December 21, 2015: "What's that old saying? I'm not a geologist, I just play one on TV," laughs Eric Coffin, co-founder and editor of commodities newsletter Hard Rock Advisories. Growing up in a mining town and running a consulting firm with his late brother David (who is HRA's co-founder), Coffin approaches his analyses with a slightly different viewpoint to oth...Read More
TORONTO, Ontario (December 21, 2015) - Mega Uranium Ltd. ("Mega") (TSX: MGA) announces that Carmelo Marrelli has been appointed as the company's Chief Financial Officer effective December 31, 2015. Mr. Marrelli will succeed Gerry Feldman, who has resigned from the position to pursue other interests. The board of directors thanks Mr. Feldman for his years of service to the Company, and wishes h...Read More
Janet Yellen's cautious retreat from zero-rate era … With the Federal Reserve's hiking short-term interest rates by a quarter-percentage point, a cautious Janet Yellen has taken the final step to unwind her crisis-manager predecessor's extraordinary economic rescue operation. During her almost two years chairing the Federal Reserve Board, Yellen has phased out the two signature s...Read More