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BUCKLE UP: Billionaire Investor Pierre Lassonde Just Warned “It’s Not Going To Be Pretty This Fall”

Billionaire Pierre Lassonde warned King World News “it’s not going to be pretty this Fall.” Lassonde is arguably the greatest company builder in the history of the mining sector.  He is past President of Newmont Mining, former Chairman of the World Gold Council and former Chairman of Franco Nevada.  Lassonde is one of the wealthiest, most respected individuals in the gold world, and as always King World News would like

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SILVER (MSM)

Silver Wheaton Announces Filing of Preliminary Base Shelf Prospectus

[PR Newswire] – VANCOUVER, April 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ – Silver Wheaton Corp. (“Silver Wheaton” or the “Company”) (SLW) (SLW) announces that it has filed a preliminary short form base shelf prospectus with the securities commissions in each of the provinces of Canada, and a corresponding shelf registration statement on Form F-10 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System. The base shelf prospectus

Saturday, April 25: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — It was a fairly quiet trading day from a price perspective in the Far East on their Friday.  The price developed a negative bias right out of the gate, with the low coming at 1 p.m. in Hong Kong trading.  The tiny rally after that made it back above the Thursday close in New York by a few dollars around 8:30 a.m. in London—and then it

Friday, April 24: Today in Gold and Silver

NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Except for the spike low just after 9:30 a.m. Hong Kong time, the gold price traded mostly in a five dollar price band through all of Far East and London trading on their respective Thursday’s.  Once the London p.m. gold “fix” was in, the price rallied a bit before getting sold down starting around 2:45 p.m. EDT in electronic trading. The low and high ticks were

IIROC Trading Halt – SLV

VANCOUVER, April 23, 2015 /CNW/ – The following issues have been halted by IIROC: Company: Stealth Ventures Inc. … Click to view a price quote on SLV. Click to research the Financial Services industry.

ENERGY (MSM)

Discovery brightens solar's future, energy costs to be cut

The solar panel design will make it cheaper to produce hydrogen, but a simple version won’t be available for average citizens for at least 10 years, scientists said. Splitting water molecules to create hydrogen allows the sun’s energy to be more easily stored to generate electricity or power clean cars. The discovery has major implications for climate change, as improved solar energy would reduce fossil fuel dependence.

Oklahoma court rules earthquake victim can sue oil companies

An Oklahoma woman who was injured when an earthquake rocked her home in 2011 can sue oil companies for damages, the state’s highest court ruled on Tuesday, opening the door to other potential lawsuits against the state’s energy companies.     Oklahoma has experienced a dramatic spike in earthquakes in the last five years, and researchers have blamed the oil and gas industry’s practice of injecting massive volumes of saltwater left

Nigeria's Oando to sell 60 pct of downstream business for $276 mln

LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria’s Oando has agreed to sell a 60 percent stake in its downstream business to a consortium of investors including Vitol for $276 million, the energy company said on Tuesday. Oando, which is transitioning from being a marketer of refined petroleum products into an oil and gas explorer, completed the acquisition of ConocoPhillips’s upstream oil and gas business in Nigeria last year.

Supreme Court's EPA ruling focuses on what’s ‘appropriate and necessary’

The Environmental Protection Agency must take cost into account when determining whether to regulate toxic air pollutants emitted from power plants, the US Supreme Court ruled on Monday. In a 5-to-4 decision, the high court said the agency improperly streamlined the regulation process required under the Clean Air Act when it decided to consider only public health hazards in making the initial decision to restrict power plant emissions. EPA’s rule

Sixteen states sue EPA over clean water rule

Sixteen states on Monday filed lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, contesting a rule that expands the definition of bodies of water subject to federal pollution controls. The actions are a coordinated challenge to an EPA rule issued on May 27 that defines the jurisdiction of the EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over rivers, streams, lakes or marshes. It was meant to clarify which waters are

US Supreme Court rejects EPA mercury emissions limits

The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected federal environmental regulations requiring power plants to limit emissions of mercury and other pollutants, in a defeat for the Obama administration. In a 5-4 decision split along conservative and liberal lines, America’s top court sided with 23 states and industry groups who had protested the cost of standards imposed in 2012 by the national Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).