Junior Mining News

Coal mine in Germany turns into hydroelectric battery

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud RAG AG-owned Prosper-Haniel hard coal mine, located in the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia, will be turned into a giant battery that stores excess solar and wind energy. Set to be totally transformed by 2018, the mine will become a 200-megawatt pumped-storage hydroelectric reservoir, which means it will behave

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Police, Ministry of Labour investigating salt mine death

By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud U.S.-listed Compass Minerals (NYSE:CMP) is working closely with Ontario Provincial Police and the province’s labour minister after a contract worker died in the company’s Goderich salt mine, located on North Harbour Road, some 1,800 feet under Lake Huron. After reporting a health emergency on Saturday, the man was treated

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Will FATCA be repealed?

Posted on 19 February, 2017 by Orlando Gotay Since I have been closely following the unfolding—and somewhat constantly shifting tax policy of the Trump administration and the 115th Congress, I get asked often what will happen, if anything, to FATCA, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. Recall FATCA has turned virtually every foreign country and

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