France resurrects its 17th century economic policy, sets up state miner to explore for rare earths and gold focusing on francophone Africa and South America.

Just a reminder, gold bars are heavy.

While hedge funds' bullish positions on gold soar to 258 tonnes, gold-backed ETF investors continue to offload their bullion holdings.

Large investors' bullish bets have surged to levels last seen when gold was trading at $1,400 an ounce.

CiDRA’s CYCLONEtracSM is a novel complete turn-key solution capable of monitoring coarse particles and tracking particle size on individual hydrocyclone overflows

Stop by GEOSENSE Booth #942 – see the SPECTRAL EVOLUTION field portable spectrometer with EZ-ID software for real-time mineral identification.

"Market conditions may not significantly recover over the next twelve months"

Hexagon, the leading global provider of design, measurement and visualisation solutions, has acquired Aibotix, a manufacturer of intelligent multicopter systems for high-efficiency aerial applications. The acquisition strengthens the Life of Mine solution offered by Leica Geosystems Mining.

See the OreXpress in the Spectral International Booth #500 at PDAC, March 2-5 in Toronto.