Fortuna Silver Mines, Inc. (NYSE: FSM) (TSX: FVI) (BVL: FVI | Frankfurt: F4S.F) is pleased to announce that it has filed its financial statements and MD&A for the three months ended March 31, 2012.
It was almost six months ago that we met at the 2011 Tailings and Mine Waste Conference in Vancouver. It is only six months until we meet at the 2012 conference in Colorado, and before that we have to write the papers. At the 2011 Vancouver conference, I chatted with Michael Davis. Then he was [...]
Peter Pocklington, the former owner of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team, is accused of making false claims about Arizona gold mines and defrauding investors out of millions, says a report in The Calgary Herald.
There are a number of effective training courses and workshops on hydraulics and pneumatics presented to the fluid power industry by member companies of the South African Fluid Power Association (SAFPA) and other dedicated training organisations in thi...
Organizations, no matter their size, simply can’t afford to ignore occupational health and safety (OH&S) risks as an integral part of their business management. When it comes to complying with OH&S legislation, the biggest risk of all for an organization is to do nothing.
Kinross Gold will provide $625,000 over the next five year period in support of a Mine Health and Safety Professorship at Queens University, reports the Canadian Mining Journal.
The funding will support both undergraduate and graduate courses on mining health and safety; short courses on H&S for industrial practitioners; and development of educational materials.
Dar es Salaam. The African Barrick Gold yesterday committed to sponsoring 12 students and academic staff in a Sh320 million bursary in chemical and mining engineering courses at the University of Dar es Salaam as part of efforts to increase skilled...
David Hill of Singularity Hub reports that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)'s new OpenCourseWare program will provide nearly all MIT courses for free on the web, and allow students to study online and earn a certificate of completion. A prototype of the system will be launched this spring.
As government funding has been cut to some schools and others struggle with donations and endowments, institutions are desperate for tuition dollars to cover their expenses, so they are left with little choice but to raise tuition rates (a trend called out by President Obama in his State of the Union address). As the country slowly pulls itself out of a recession and looks to the future for financial stability, it is a crucial time for something big to happen in the educational world.
Midas Gold Corp. ("Midas Gold" or the "Company") (TSX:MAX) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters, led by Haywood Securities Inc., and including Macquarie Capital Markets Canada Ltd., BMO Capital Markets, RBC Capital Markets Inc. and Desjardins Securities Inc. (collectively the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase, on a bought deal basis, 7,900,000 special warrants (the "Special Warrants") of the Company at a price of CDN$4.45 per Special Warrant, for gross proceeds of CDN$35,155,000 (the "Offering").
According to faulty interpretations of Mayan calendars, 2012 is supposed to bring with it the demise of humanity.