TRUST WATCH: Baker Steel Resources

BAKER STEEL RESOURCES: Targets unlisted natural resources firms and undervalued listed companies By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 9 October 2020 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 9 October 2020 What is it? The trust invests mainly in natural resources firms which are not listed on the stock market.  It will also invest in … Read more

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Base Resources soars as it keeps paying divi

SMALL CAP MOVERS: Number of AIM firms paying dividends more than halve, but miner Base Resources soars as it keeps payout By Giulia Bottaro At Proactive Investors For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 14:28 BST, 28 August 2020 | Updated: 14:59 BST, 28 August 2020 Miner Base Resources shot up 32 per cent to 15p this week after … Read more

Humans will have used a whole year’s worth of natural resources by tomorrow

Humans will have used a year’s worth of natural resources in 2020 by tomorrow, August 22 – a calendar event known as Earth Overshoot Day.  The annual date marks the point at which humanity has used all the biological resources that the Earth can regenerate during that year. Due to the lockdowns imposed because of the coronavirus … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Trident Resources is setting a cracking pace

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Trident Resources is setting a cracking pace in its bid to create a diversified UK mining royalty company By Alastair Ford, Proactive Investors, For Thisismoney.co.uk Published: 14:18 BST, 15 July 2020 | Updated: 14:18 BST, 15 July 2020 What a few weeks it’s been for Trident Resources. The company listed on … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Cluff Natural Resources

The AIM market has been called many things over its 25 years, but rarely risk averse. The junior market’s caricature frontier capitalism has been particularly prevalent among the oil exploration stocks. While there are notably fewer truly ‘transformational’ exploration stories than in the past, some do still exist and few opportunities presently seem as underappreciated … Read more

Fitbit is shifting its resources to help build ventilators designed to treat COVID-19 patients

Fitbit is shifting its resources to help build ventilators designed to treat COVID-19 patients The Google-owned company will shift its resources into building ventilators  It’s not immediately clear what the exact cost will be It says the ventilators will be ‘advanced’ but will be moderately priced Here’s how to help people impacted by Covid-19 By James … Read more

SMALL CAP SHARE IDEAS: Galileo Resources

Shares in Galileo Resources have enjoyed a significant boost in recent weeks as the company moved to consolidate its ground position in Zambia, where it holds licences for the Star Zinc and Kashitu projects. Galileo’s chief executive Colin Bird describes those developments more as a ‘mopping up exercise’ than as anything drastically new. A more … Read more

PUNT OF THE WEEK: Mineral sand miner Base Resources

PUNT OF THE WEEK: Mineral sand miner Base Resources ‘is able to work through the coronavirus pandemic’ By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:50 BST, 8 May 2020 | Updated: 09:29 BST, 9 May 2020 AIM-listed Base Resources mines mineral sands WHAT IS IT? An AIM-listed firm that mines mineral sands, which can … Read more

Children share resources with others based on merit

Playground politics: Children share resources with others based on merit and withhold them from those they deem ‘incompetent’, study of pre-schoolers shows The study involved playing games and rewarding stickers to 3 and 4-year-olds Researchers had children allocate stickers to question answering glove puppets  More successful puppets were given considerably more stickers than the others … Read more

SMALL CAP IDEAS: Ariana Resources looks set to benefit from gold price rise

The gold price has hit record highs in several currencies in recent days, including the pound, Canadian dollar, South African rand, and Australian dollar.  It has also recovered much of the ground lost in US dollar terms when investors sold heavily to cover losses elsewhere in the market. That selling is now abating, and the … Read more