Scientists at Northwestern University have experimentally replicated a medieval gold purification method employed by West Africans in the 10th and 11th centuries.
News ID: 4603 Publish Date : 2019/05/21
Venezuela sold about $570 million in gold from central bank reserves over the past two weeks, skirting U.S. Treasury sanctions designed to freeze assets of the Nicolas Maduro’s administration, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
News ID: 4585 Publish Date : 2019/05/19
Revelo Resources (TSXV: RVL) and Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile (NYSE: SQM) signed this week an exploration option agreement under which the latter can acquire up to an 80% interest in Calvario and Mirador, two of Revelo's copper-focused projects in northern Chile.
News ID: 4350 Publish Date : 2019/04/12
The president and CEO of Vancouver-based Mountainstar Gold has been slapped with a C$150,000 penalty by the British Columbia Securities Commission (BCSC) for making “false or misleading statements” regarding the Pascua Lama gold deposit in Chile.
News ID: 4320 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Ecuador-focused miner Sol Gold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said drilling at its Cascabel copper-gold project in the country’s north has revealed previously unknown mineralization, further increasing the size of one of the biggest copper discoveries of recent years.
News ID: 4319 Publish Date : 2019/04/11
Greenstone Gold Mines, a 50/50 joint venture between Canadian miners Centerra Gold (TSX:CG) and Premier Gold (TSX:PG), has kicked off a core and reverse circulation drilling program at its Hardrock project in southern Ontario.
News ID: 4296 Publish Date : 2019/04/10
With President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to nominate Stephen Moore and Herman Cain to the Federal Reserve Board, attention has turned once again to the gold standard, a policy option once advocated by both men. Trump himself has expressed admiration for the gold standard.
News ID: 4294 Publish Date : 2019/04/10
China’s on a bullion-buying spree. The world’s second-largest economy expanded its gold reserves for the fourth straight month, adding to optimism that central banks globally will continue to build holdings.
News ID: 4261 Publish Date : 2019/04/08
West Africa is well endowed with mineral resources, and many world-class deposits have been discovered there in recent years. The region is a key source of gold, iron ore, bauxite, diamonds, phosphate, uranium, and its mainly untapped mineral wealth provides exceptional greenfield development potential.
News ID: 4182 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
Vladimir Putin’s quest to break Russia’s reliance on the U.S. dollar has set off a literal gold rush.
News ID: 4171 Publish Date : 2019/03/30
Shares in Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) jumped more than 8% on Friday after the miner announced it had dug up a 425.1 carat, D-colour, Type II gem quality diamond at its iconic Cullinan mine in South Africa.
News ID: 4166 Publish Date : 2019/03/29
The Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board issued a Type B water license approving TerraX Minerals’ (TSXV: TXR) broad exploration plan for its Yellowknife City gold project, located in Canada’s Northwest Territories.
News ID: 4129 Publish Date : 2019/03/23
After four straight months of inflows, holdings in global gold-backed ETFs and similar products fell in February by 33 tonnes to 2,479t, equivalent to $1.3 billion in outflows, and gold trading volumes decreased 5% below the 2018 averages to $104 billion per day, according to data from the World Gold Council (WGC).
News ID: 4038 Publish Date : 2019/03/15
Pan African Minerals, a unit of Timis Mining Corp., won’t resume production at its Tambao mine in Burkina Faso as a Paris-based arbitration court has dismissed the company’s $2.2 billion claim against the West African nation.
News ID: 4027 Publish Date : 2019/03/14
Graphene and gold are now being used in ultrasensitive biosensors to detect diseases at the molecular level with near perfect efficiency.
News ID: 3955 Publish Date : 2019/03/11
Peru's Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism reported this week that exports dropped by 7.4% in January 2019 when compared to the same month of the previous year.
News ID: 3954 Publish Date : 2019/03/11
Iranian First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri underlined Washington's failure in sanctions against Iran's metal industries.
News ID: 3920 Publish Date : 2019/03/09
A push by the world’s biggest gold miners to get even bigger will likely have a knock-on effect among their competitors, adding new vigor to an industry that failed to inspire investor support in 2018.
News ID: 3903 Publish Date : 2019/03/08
Australia’s gold production hit an all-time high of 317 tonnes in 2018, breaking the previous record of 314.5 tonnes, which stood for 21 years, consultancy Surbiton Associates says.
News ID: 3843 Publish Date : 2019/03/05
Canada's ALX Uranium (TSXV: AL) signed this week a non-binding letter of intent with Orano Canada, a subsidiary of France's Orano Group.
News ID: 3791 Publish Date : 2019/03/01