March-quarter exploration and production results from the resources sector flooded in last week to meet the end-of-April deadline, revealing that while the sector seems to be on its way up, funding remains an issue, especially for explorers.

Shares in Roxgold Inc (CVE:ROG) gained nearly 6% in massive volumes on Tuesday, after announcing another set of spectacular drill results from its ultra-high grade Yaramoko project in Burkina Faso.

We can’t ignore it anymore — the markets are rigged. The LIBOR scandal broke almost two years ago, and the banks found responsible for manipulating that key index are still dealing with lawsuits.

One of the biggest problems for the West, the US in particular, is its increasingly parochial perspective from the narrowest of lenses, fully colored by the elite’s use of its main propaganda machine, the Maintstream Media.

No matter how many painstaking measures an investor takes to leave no stone unturned, all of his or her hard work can be undermined by corporate insiders acting on or sharing material nonpublic information.

A growing phalanx of companies in Tucson and Southern Arizona service the mining industry. Amigos, a statewide industry support group, counts its Southern Arizona membership at about 250 to 300 businesses.