Colonial Coal International Corp. {TSX.V: CAD} has started its 2017 field program on its Flatbed coal property located in northeastern British Columbia.

Crews are currently on site for the construction and preparation of drill sites, with the first of two drill rigs currently planned to mobilise shortly. Continue reading →

POET Technologies Inc. {TSX.V: PTK}, a developer of opto-electronic fabrication processes for the semiconductor industry provided shareholders with a review of its strategy, technology roadmap and product development activities during its AGM  held in San Jose, California on Thursday, July 13, 2017. Continue reading →

Colonial Coal International Corp. {TSX.V: CAD} has appointed Matthew James Anderson as the company’s secretary and chief financial officer.

Mr. Anderson’s appointment follows the recent retirement of William Filtness as an executive officer of the company. Continue reading →

Scorpio Gold Corp. {TSX.V: SGN} announced the Mineral Ridge Heap Leach resource estimate by Mine Technical Services (MTS) of Reno, Nevada.

The confirmed resource estimate of 7.1 MT at an average grade of 0.017 oz./ton or 121,700 contained ounces of gold. Continue reading →

Uranium Energy Corp. (UEC)  {TSX.V: UEC} – Sprott Inc and several other asset managers have recently increased their holdings in UEC.

This is despite a low uranium price, making it uneconomic for UEC to produce currently. Continue reading →

Bitcoin $BTC down 7%, Ethereum $ETH 13.4%, 3rd place Ripple 9.4%, and some other of the top cryptos have fallen significantly more in a crypto bloodbath.

Stratis, number 11 by market cap, has fallen 41.% so far today! Continue reading →

Kootenay Silver Inc. {TSX.V: KTN}  announced that Pan American Silver Corp. has informed Kootenay that a drill program has commenced on the Company’s La Negra high grade silver discovery contained within the Promontorio Mineral Belt Project located in Sonora State, Mexico. Continue reading →

Neometals Ltd {ASX: NMT} advises that the sale notice period for its 13.8% equity stake in the Mt Marion Project as originally announced on 7th April 2017, closed, without receipt of a compliant offer.

The Company has now determined that the retention of the Project equity is in the best interests of shareholders’ given the improved offtake pricing structure and levels, and the achievement of significant Project milestones in the intervening period. Continue reading →

Ethereum $ETH continues to fall dramatically, along with most other crypto currencies. Bitcoin $BTC is holding up fairly well, but the remainder of the ‘top 10’ cryptos by market cap are continuing to fall after their recent strong run.

Ethereum has fallen by 50% since briefly hitting $400 around three weeks ago. Continue reading →

StoreDot, the Israeli car and phone battery developer has demonstrated an EV (electronic vehicle) battery recharging from zero to fully charged in 5 minutes, giving the car a range of 300 miles. Continue reading →

Bitcoin $BTC held up well in a week when other cryptocurrencies, such as Ethereum $ETH suffered some serious price falls.

The question on investors’ lips is simply is this a retracement after the massive price surge during 2017, or just a temporary setback? Continue reading →

Strongbow Exploration {TSX.V: SBW} the UK based copper and tin project, at South Crofty in Cornwall, has issued a corporate update. Continue reading →

Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. {TSX.V: BGM} announced additional drilling results from the ongoing 130,000 metre Phase II Island Mountain exploration drilling program at the Company’s flagship Cariboo Gold Project.  Continue reading →

Ethereum {ETH} suffered a ‘flash crash’ a few days ago, dropping from $310 per coin to only 10 cents!  It subsequently rebounded back to the former level, but in the crash many stop losses and margins were hit, resulting in some investors being wiped out.

Coinbase, which runs the GDAX digital currency exchange has announced it will reimburse investor losses. Continue reading →

Neometals Ltd. {ASX: NMT} and Mineral Resources Ltd. {ASX: MIN} announced that, pursuant to the terms of the Offtake Agreement with their partner, Ganfeng Lithium, effective from 1 July 2017 the price payable per dry metric tonne of 6% spodumene concentrate produced at Mt Marion and delivered CFR China (Incoterms 2010) increased from US$750 to US$841. Continue reading →

Lithium miners such as our own Neometals {ASX: NMT} will not be pleased to hear that Samsung, one of the world’s largest producer of mobile phones, plans to start using solid state batteries in two or three years time. Continue reading →

Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:INO) today announced leadership appointments to support its growth and expanding strategic and operational initiatives. Inovio promoted Dr. Keiko Simon to Vice President, Alliance and Program Management and Jeffrey C. Richardson to Vice President, Strategic Relations. Continue reading →

OneGramCoin tokens (OGC) is to become the first crypto currency in the world to be backed by physical gold.

This answers my criticism that crypto coins are another type of fiat currency, the same as national currencies, non of which are backed by physical gold any more. Continue reading →

Condor Gold {AIM: CNR} announced more results from their continued drilling on the Mestiza Vein Set at the La India Project, Leon Province, Nicaragua.

The objective is to convert an historic Soviet mineral resource (2,392 kt at 10.2 g/t gold for 785,694 oz gold) to a Canadian NI 43-101 standard. Continue reading →

Tinka Resources Limited {TSX.V: TK}  announced assay results of five recent drill holes from its 100% owned Ayawilca zinc project in central Peru..

All five holes are from South Ayawilca and the extension of the Central Ayawilca areas, where zinc mineralisation occurs in flat-lying sulphide bodies replacing carbonate and clastic rocks adjacent to a northeast trending fault. Continue reading →