January 10, 2012 Royal Gold Announces 4,000,000 Share Common Stock Offering Royal Gold, Inc. (NASDAQ:RGLD)(TSX:RGL) announced today that it has agreed to sell 4.0 million common shares of Royal Gold to Goldman, Sachs & Co. in an underwritten at-the-market public offering.…
January 10, 2012 Does Every State Need Its Own Grand Canyon and Its Own Uranium Mine? Should every state and every country produce all the metals and minerals it needs, or may it justifiably protect its own environment while allowing others to mine in their countries,…
January 10, 2012 Coal used in a 3MW wind turbine Using publicly available figures from Vestas, a large manufacturer of wind turbines, WCA has calculated the amount of coal used in the production of offshore and onshore wind turbines as…
January 9, 2012 Paulson’s annus horribilis a ‘curse’ on gold says FT Hedge fund genius John Paulson had the worst year of his career in 2011. The FT wonders if he will start dumping gold onto the market in a dash for…
January 9, 2012 Navajo Nation President Receives $14 Million Royalty Check from Peabody Energy The $14 million check was a welcome payment for mined coal on the Navajo Indian Reservation. Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly met with executives from Peabody Energy and accepted the…
January 9, 2012 Investors poured $5.9 billion into precious metal funds last year… no thanks to Paulson Hard Assets Investor reports precious metals ETFs enjoyed solid $5.9 billion inflows last year that brought total assets in the sector to just under $98.5 billion; a figure that represents…
January 9, 2012 Frac Sand (Proppant) Testing Update Stikine Energy Corp. (TSX.V: SKY) ("Stikine" or the "Company") announces it has received crush test results for samples submitted in December 2011 and has also completed a detailed review of…
January 9, 2012 Hathor Provides Corporate Update Hathor Exploration Limited (HAT:TSX) ("Hathor") confirms that approximately 119,456,310 Hathor common shares have been validly tendered to Rio Tinto plc (NYSE:RIO)(LSE:RIO)(ASX:RIO) as of 5:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (EST) on…
January 9, 2012 Kicked out of small town motels, Australia’s ‘coal girls’ resort to RV parks Rural communities in Australia’s mineral-rich states are unhappy about the many working girls following highly-paid miners into their small towns and motel and hotel owners are kicking out prostitutes using…
January 9, 2012 1 million Grand Canyon acres off limits to miners for the next 20 years AP reports that the Obama administration is ignoring intense lobbying from the mining industry and political opponents on the right and will formally ban new uranium mining on 1 million…
ERG signs long-term gallium supply deal with Mitsubishi Kazakhstan, which currently produces no gallium, is set to become the world's second-largest producer. December 20, 2025 | 08:34 am
