Earlier this week, a fully loaded Brinks truck carrying between $3 million and $5 million in uncirculated loonies and toonies crashed on a snow covered highway in Ontario, Canada.

Ecometals Limited announced after the market close on Friday that is has been forced to give Ecuador Capital Corporation more time to come up with a final payment of $1,750,000 for its Condor Gold Project in Ecuador.

White Tiger Gold (TSX:WTG) is worth only one-tenth of what it was last year and news out late on Friday will do little to restore investor confidence in the Canada-Russia gold miner.

Production at Blanket in Zimbabwe doubled and the Toronto-based company said it paid direct and indirect taxes, royalties, licence fees, levies and other monies to the Government of Zimbabwe totalling $13,6 million.

Prime minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin heads a government commission that has sweeping authority over foreign investment in companies like Polyus Gold, whose gold reserves are considered strategic by the state.

The costs don't add up for nuclear power, according to a study by the Vermont Law School, and the high price tag of making nuclear energy safe is imperilling the industry.

BayFront Capital Partners and its wholly-owned subsidiary Roman Copper Corp. today released further details of their plan for Cupru Min and its world-class Rosia Poieni copper mine, acquired as part of the Romanian government’s privatization program.

Boston Dynamics, a leading robot maker funded by the US Army, filmed two of its latest devices navigating rough terrain.

Galaxy has spent the last 18 months searching the world for a high quality, undeveloped lithium brine deposit and we believe Lithium One's Sal de Vida lithium-potash project in Argentina fits that criterion. The Sal de Vida brine chemistry is highly favourable, with high levels of lithium and potash and low levels of magnesium and sulphate impurities.