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BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – Google $GOOG introduces educational app Bolo to improve children’s literacy in India $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 12:00 PM on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019
SPONSOR:  Betteru Education Corp. Connecting global leading educators to the mass population of India. BetterU Education has ability to reach 100 MILLION potential learners each week. Click here for more information.
BTRU: TSX-V

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  • Google is expanding its suite of apps designed for the Indian market with today’s launch of a new language-learning app aimed at children, called Bolo.
  • The app, which is aimed at elementary school-aged students, leverages technology like Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read in both Hindi and English.

Sarah Perez@sarahintampa

Google is expanding its suite of apps designed for the Indian market with today’s launch of a new language-learning app aimed at children, called Bolo. The app, which is aimed at elementary school-aged students, leverages technology like Google’s speech recognition and text-to-speech to help kids learn to read in both Hindi and English.

To do so, Bolo offers a catalog of 50 stories in Hindi and 40 in English, sourced from Storyweaver.org.in. The company says it plans to partner with other organizations in the future to expand the story selection.

Included in the app is a reading buddy, “Diya,” who encourages and corrects the child when they read aloud. As kids read, Diya can listen and respond with feedback. (Google notes all personal information remains on-device to protect kids’ privacy.) Diya can also read the text to the child and explain the meaning of English words. As children progress in the app, they’ll be presented with word games that win them in-app rewards and badges to motivate them.

The app works offline — a necessity in large parts of India — where internet access is not always available. Bolo can be used by multiple children, as well, and will adjust itself to their own reading levels.

Google says it had been trialing Bolo across 200 villages in Uttar Pradesh, India, with the help of nonprofit ASER Centre. During testing, it found that 64 percent of children who used the app showed an improvement in reading proficiency in three months’ time.

To run the pilot, 920 children were given the app and 600 were in a control group without the app, Google says.

In addition to improving their proficiency, more students in the group with the app (39 percent) reached the highest level of ASER’s reading assessment than those without it (28 percent), and parents also reported improvements in their children’s reading abilities.

Illiteracy remains a problem in India. The country has one of the largest illiterate populations in the world, where only 74 percent are able to read, according to a study by ASER Centre a few years back. It found then that more than half of students in fifth grade in rural state schools could not read second-grade textbooks in 2014. By 2018, that figure hadn’t changed much — still, only about half can read at a second-grade level, ASER now reports.

While Google today highlights its philanthropic efforts in education, it’s worth noting that Google’s interest in helping improve India’s literacy metrics benefits its bottom line, too. As the country continues to come online to become one of the largest internet markets in the world, literate users capable of using Google’s products like Search, Ads, Gmail and others are of increased importance to Google’s business.

Already, Google has shipped a number of applications designed specifically for Indian internet users, like data-friendly versions of YouTube, Search and other popular services, like payments app Tez (now rebranded Google Pay), a food delivery service, a neighborhood and communities networking app, a blogging app and more.

Today, Bolo is launching across India as an open beta, while Google will continue to work with its nonprofit partners — including Pratham Education Foundation, Room to Read, Saajha and Kaivalya Education Foundation — a Piramal Initiative — to bring the app to more children.

Bolo is available now on the Google Play Store in India, and works on Android smartphones running Android 4.4 (Kit Kat) and higher. The app is currently optimized for native Hindi speakers.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/06/google-introduces-educational-app-bolo-to-improve-childrens-literacy-rates-in-india/

ThreeD Capital Inc. $IDK.ca – Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency Is Almost Here $HIVE.ca $BLOC.ca $CODE.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:22 AM on Tuesday, March 12th, 2019

SPONSOR: ThreeD Capital Inc. (IDK:CSE) Led by legendary financier, Sheldon Inwentash, ThreeD is a Canadian-based venture capital firm that only invests in best of breed small-cap companies which are both defensible and mass scalable. More than just lip service, Inwentash has financed many of Canada’s biggest small-cap exits. Click Here For More Information.

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Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency Is Almost Here

  • Investors will soon be able to buy gold and stocks in the form of cryptocurrency, the same way they might buy Bitcoin.
  • Paxos, a New York-based firm that already offers a dollar-backed cryptocurrency (known as a stablecoin) as well as Bitcoin trading services, plans to introduce digital tokens backed by precious metals and publicly traded stocks sometime in 2019.

The company launched its stablecoin, Paxos Standard, six months ago by tying cash reserves to a blockchain—a digital ledger of transactions that is the backbone of any cryptocurrency. Now, it wants to take “any type of asset and put it into a blockchain,” Paxos CEO Chad Cascarilla told Fortune’s “Balancing the Ledger.” The goal is to move assets and settle transactions more quickly and securely and with lower fees, he added.

In order to make it work, Paxos has to ensure that it holds the same amount of inventory—whether that’s dollars, precious metals, or stocks—in the “real world” as are registered on the blockchain. “How you do it with a gold token is how much gold you have in a vault equals how many gold tokens outstanding,” Cascarilla explained. “How do you do it with stocks? How many stocks do I have sitting in an account, equals how many stocks in the blockchain.”

Closest to reality is likely the tokenization of stock market equities and bonds, assets which Paxos has already successfully tested in blockchain transactions, Cascarilla said. “We’re getting pretty close, and I think we’ll see it in 2019.”

Cascarilla believes Paxos is the only cryptocurrency company with an account at the Depository Trust Company, which holds the vast majority of U.S. stocks and bonds, positioning the firm to potentially become the first to bring stock trading to the blockchain. Still, Paxos, which was the first virtual currency company to be licensed in New York, needs additional approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission before it can roll out cryptocurrencies tied to more traditional securities. It’s currently awaiting that approval—something the lengthy government shutdown did not help speed along.

Putting commodities on the blockchain is also underway, and “gold is probably the most obvious,” Cascarilla said, adding that it would be introduced “definitely this year.”

Tokenizing precious metals opens up new possibilities that are currently physically difficult—such as dividing up a gold bar into smaller denominations, transporting heavy quantities more easily, or lending the assets out more efficiently, Cascarilla explained. “Having it sit in a vault but also having it be on a blockchain kind of bridges those two worlds,” he said.

Source: http://fortune.com/2019/03/11/gold-cryptocurrency-stocks-blockchain/

Letter from Richard Nemis $NOT.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:54 AM on Monday, March 11th, 2019

I was introduced to a young man a couple of years ago who kept my secretary busy by phoning repeatedly asking for a short meeting to introduce his company. She said that he was so persistent that without confirming with me, she set a time for him and I to finally meet. That young man was Scott Purkis and the company was Agoracom. I would like now to take this opportunity to say a heart felt sincere thank you to Scott and the whole Agoracom team. Without the communication through the Agoracom system thousands in the retail investor community would have been left in the dark with respect to these recent Noront events. The people who write on the Agoracom site, are one fabulous group of loyal and faithful Noront followers. Their interacting with the Noront team has kept the interest of the project up front in the investor world.

In the past, minority shareholders did not have a voice against the much larger funds and shareholders, but you as a group became a force, an entity unto yourselves and indeed, a force to be reckoned with. You should all be very proud of all your efforts. No longer will the retail investors be the pawn in a chess game, there now lies the opportunity to make it to the other end of the board and become a King.

I would like everybody to believe in the R.O.F. as a real project with astronomical potential. I am sad that I will no longer be at the helm, However, times must change and new leadership is sometimes necessary for a company to reach the next phase.

After our press release issued earlier this week, I was amazed to receive so many wonderful letters and emails expressing good wishes for my future. Well, I’d like to let one and all know that such support is overwhelming, it certainly makes one feel very humble and I am very proud to have been part of the Agoracom HUB .

I have had success in the past and there is still many tomorrows to come with lots of drills waiting to discover the next big hole and I have many plans to keep exploring After today, I am going to take a much needed break. I think I will have a glass of wine, do some fishing and relax and come back with a vengeance, everybody get ready for round two. I’LL BE BACK

Thank you Scott and the Agoracom team and special thanks to all retail investors who have been so extremely supportive.

With more thanks than can be expressed

Richard Nemis

BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – PayPal $PYPL enters India’s $215 B education market #edtech via online platforms $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:30 AM on Monday, March 11th, 2019
SPONSOR:  Betteru Education Corp. Connecting global leading educators to the mass population of India. BetterU Education has ability to reach 100 MILLION potential learners each week. Click here for more information.
BTRU: TSX-V

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PayPal enters India’s $215 B education market via online platforms

  • One of the world’s largest online payment companies, PayPal, is now integrating its services with Indian online education platforms.
  • The US-based company has been active in India since 2008 in the cross-border payments business.

One of the world’s largest online payment companies, PayPal, is now integrating its services with Indian online education platforms. The US-based company has been active in India since 2008 in the cross-border payments business. In 2017, PayPal launched its domestic operations in India. In April last year, PayPal went live for consumers of (domestic) online retail in India. Today PayPal works closely with companies like MakeMyTrip, Freshmenu, etc.

Among the verticals that PayPal has specialised in globally is education, a market worth $215 billion in India.

According to PayPal’s statistics, for 218 million students India has only two million teachers; a ratio of 140:1. More than two million students are already paying online for education, and this is expected to reach 10 million by 2021.

Currently, a large number of parents who lead busy lives, find it difficult to keep up with the simplest of tasks such as paying school fees – just because the options to make these payments are few. Schools are now open to bank transfers, but there is scope to further simplify the experience of the parent. This is where PayPal makes its entry.

Increasing reach of ed-tech platforms

Government initiatives like Digital India and SWAYAM have been trying to enable online education by offering courses free of cost for children as well as adults. There is increased awareness since many (private) players are entering the space, following different models.

For instance, startups like UpGrad, Edureka, Unacademy, and Udacity, focus on online test preparation. Simplilearn and GreatLearning aim to upskill professionals. Startup unicorn BJYU’s, as well as Vedantu and Toppr, target students from 5th-12th grades. Needless to say, these platforms offer a huge clientele for PayPal, which is already present on some of them.

Narsi Subramaniam, Director, Growth, Paypal India.

The average ticket size for transactions on PayPal in the Indian education sector is $20-50. The KYC process on Paypal is done on the website itself (with no physical visits) and is approved in 24 hours provided it meets requirements.

In a chat with YourStory, Narsi Subramaniam, Director, Growth, PayPal India, said that PayPal is generally agnostic to business models.

“We are just enabling payment. We partner with them for solving problems like multiple parties (like parents/students, tutors, schools etc.) being involved in using their website/app for payments, invoicing their payment options, and making the commission process (from the online platform) easier,” he added. 

Enabling multiple platforms

The entry into ed-tech industry was only a matter of time for PayPal, as there is growing acceptance of technology in simplifying the overall experience of education.

Narsi claims that users of online certificates and test preparation using PayPal have already grown on its existing platforms.

PayPal claims to take care of the end-to-end payment management. It is now focusing on the following:

1.    Primary and secondary schools, since CBSE is encouraging schools to go cashless

2.    Online platforms assisting in preparation for tests like GME, GRE, CAT etc.

3.    Reskilling courses for working professionals (already contributes to 40 percent of overall volume on transactions enabled by PayPal)

4.    Higher education (both online and offline platforms)

5.    Casual learning for music, dance, yoga

Narsi added that PayPal has enabled invoicing capabilities for small institutions as well, so that they can send the relevant link to parents and minimise the process. He asserted that this is a great opportunity for tutors who are now onboarding online platforms, as the quantity and quality of online players is increasing. “Online tutorials can go global easily. Four out of ten online math tutors are from India,” he pointed out. 

Since PayPal enjoys familiarity among its target audience, thanks to the brand value, the move into education sector could be a win-win situation for both parties.

Source: https://yourstory.com/2019/03/paypal-enters-india-billions-education-market–za5r79zyad

New Age Metals Inc. $NAM.ca – Palladium To Hit $2,000 In 2019 – Bank of America $WG.ca $XTM.ca $WM.ca $PDL.ca $GLEN

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:00 AM on Monday, March 11th, 2019

SPONSOR: New Age Metals Inc. (TSX-V: NAM) The company’s new Lithium Division has already made significant acquisitions in Canada and the USA. The company also owns one of North America’s largest primary platinum group metals deposit in Sudbury, Canada. Learn More.

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Palladium To Hit $2,000 In 2019 – Bank of America

Neils Christensen Thursday March 07, 2019 11:02

  • analysts added that they see prices rising as high as $2,000 an ounce.
  • June palladium futures last traded at $1,473.40 an ounce

(Kitco News) – Renewed strength in the U.S. dollar, trading near a three-week high, is weighing on the entire precious metals market but that won’t be enough to stop the long-term uptrend in palladium, one bank says.

The precious metal has fallen from its record highs above $1,500 an ounce, but analysts at Bank of American Merrill Lynch (BoAML) said that it still has plenty of opportunities to move higher. The bank is lifting its price forecast this year, saying it sees the metal averaging $1,800 an ounce, a 22% increase from its previous estimate.

The analysts added that they see prices rising as high as $2,000 an ounce. June palladium futures last traded at $1,473.40 an ounce, down 0.87% on the day.

“In our view, palladium is firmly supported by fundamentals on the physical market,” the analysts said.

The bank said that prices will rise as inelastic demand is coming to a head with inelastic supply.

“For years, this has not been an issue, but persistent inventory declines have increasingly raised apprehension over the availability of the precious metal,” the analysts said. “Inelastic supply and demand, combined with market deficits, meant that there was no price at which the market would have cleared.”

While supply continues to tighten, the analysts at BoAML said that they don’t see demand shifting anytime soon as automakers continue to focus on reducing emissions. Palladium is a critical component in catalytic converters in cars with gasoline engines.

The analysts said although higher prices could force some automakers to substitute palladium with cheaper platinum, they don’t see it happening en masse. Quoting industry research, the analysts said that palladium is slightly more effective compared to platinum.

“We understand that car producers will at least for another 12 month retain the immediate focus on emissions, rather than reducing palladium costs,” the analysts said. “This implies that demand will likely remain supported, even when factoring in the recent underperformance of global auto sales.”Source: https://www.kitco.com/news/2019-03-07/Palladium-To-Hit-2-000-In-2019-Bank-of-America.html

Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – Global Native Advertising Market Set to Be Worth over $400 Billion by 2025 $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:25 PM on Sunday, March 10th, 2019
SPONSOR: Good Life Networks (GOOD:TSX-V) Video advertising is the future! Company’s A.I. makes 80,000 calculations / second, targeting 750 million users to deliver higher prices and volume. Company announced combined trailing 12 month revenue at just over $40 Million, $7.9M EBITDA, $3 Million net income. Click here for more information.
GOOD: TSX-V

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Global Native Advertising Market Set to Be Worth over $400 Billion by 2025

  • Analysis of overall digital ad spend growth, combined with native advertising trends per market, globally, has revealed that native advertising spend is expected to increase by 372% from 2020 to 2025.
  • This represents an increase in the native advertising market from $85.83 Billion in 2020 to a total global value of $402 Billion by 2025.

ADYOULIKE, the leading in-feed Native Advertising technology, has released in-depth research forecasting the global growth of the native advertising market to 2025.

Analysis of overall digital ad spend growth, combined with native advertising trends per market, globally, has revealed that native advertising spend is expected to increase by 372% from 2020 to 2025. This represents an increase in the native advertising market from $85.83 Billion in 2020 to a total global value of $402 Billion by 2025.

The US will continue to be the biggest native advertising market by 2025, up from $29.56 Billion in 2020, to $139.5 Billion by 2025. The market in Western Europe is predicted to grow to be worth $92.37 Billion by 2025, with the UK, Germany and France predicted to be the biggest native advertising markets. The UK market will be the largest native advertising market in Europe, estimated to grow from $5.81 Billion in 2020 to $27.42 Billion by 2025. Meanwhile Germany will increase from $4.43 Billion to $20.90Bn by 2025. France will increase from $2.03Bn in 2020 to an estimated global value of $9.58 Billion by 2025.

Central to the growth in advertising spend on native up to 2025 is the proliferation of infeed native, often referred to as native display, which will continue to be driven over the coming years by programmatic native and wider use of outstream native video advertising formats.

Marketing Technology News: Experian Finds More Than a Third of Companies Are Still Unprepared to Respond to a Data Breach

This form of native advertising, with strong mobile, programmatic and video distribution credentials is anticipated to continue to drive native advertising growth in the years to come. According to eMarketer, two-thirds of all programmatic ad dollars will go to mobile, not desktop ads, by 2020. In addition, 83.6% of all digital video ad dollars in the US, will move via automated channels in the next twelve months. These major trends in digital advertising buying habits augur well for all things native.

Marketing Technology News: Shift Technology Lands $60 Million in C-Round

Julien Verdier, CEO, ADYOULIKE, comments;

“We are entering a new phase in native advertising’s journey – universal acceptance and global domination. Our research shows major increases in native advertising spend in all continent’s globally. The value of infeed native advertising formats is now undisputed. Advertisers are increasingly recognising the value of the format and the performance for most campaigns backs out, which is why native is predicted to experience significant annual growth rates every year globally up to 2025.

“Thanks to continued technical innovation, easily traded programmatically, with video and display capabilities, the future is strong for native ads in general. Native advertising will be the number one digital advertising format of the 2020s. Our research and wider market trends back this up. We are excited to share with the market our findings.”

Source: https://martechseries.com/sales-marketing/programmatic-buying/global-native-advertising-market-set-worth-400bn-2025/

North Bud Farms $NBUD.ca Clarifies Terms of Binding Letter of Intent to Enter U.S. Market with Strategic Acquisition of Multi-State Licensed Operator Eureka Vapor $WEED.ca $CGC $ACB $APH $CRON.ca $HEXO.ca $TRST.ca $OGI.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:35 PM on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
  • Clarifies the terms of its press release dated March 6, 2019 with respect to entering into the March 3, 2019 binding letter of intent

TORONTO, March 07, 2019 — North Bud Farms Inc. (CSE: NBUD) (OTCQB: NOBDF) (“NORTHBUD” or the “Company”) clarifies the terms of its press release dated March 6, 2019 with respect to entering into the March 3, 2019 binding letter of intent (“LOI”) to acquire all the issued and outstanding shares of Eureka Vapor LLC. and all of its subsidiaries (“Eureka”), a U.S. multi-state cannabis operator, and arm’s length to the Company, in a transaction valued at CAD$20 million (the “Transaction”). The completion of the Transaction is subject to the following conditions precedent: (i) obtaining the necessary board of director and shareholder approval of the Company and Eureka; (ii) the Company and Eureka satisfying respective due diligence of the other on or before May 30, 2019; (iii) entering into of a definitive agreement (the “Definitive Agreement”) in respect of the Transaction; and (iv) obtaining necessary regulatory and CSE approval. The Company and Eureka shall use commercially reasonable best efforts to satisfy the aforementioned condition precedents as soon as possible, but in any event no later than June 1, 2019 (the “Termination Deadline”) or another date as may be agreed to by the parties. In the event that the conditions precedent have not been satisfied or waived prior to the Termination Deadline, the LOI will automatically terminate.

As referenced in its March 6, 2019 press release, the purchase price of Eureka under the Definitive Agreement will be satisfied by the issuance of common shares (“Common Shares”) of the Company to Eureka shareholders with a price per Common Share to be determined based on a formula of the higher of (a) CAD$0.35 per Common Share; and (b) the 30 day volume weighted average price of the Common Shares. 10% of the Common Shares will be issued to the Eureka shareholders on the closing date of the Transaction (the “Closing Date”), with the remainder of Common Shares issued in equal tranches of six, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months from the Closing Date. In addition, Eureka shareholders are eligible to receive up to an additional CAD$25 million of Common Shares based on the achievement of USD$25 million of revenue derived from existing Eureka California and Colorado operations.

The 10% of the Common Shares issued on the Closing Date will represent up to 9.33% of the total issued and outstanding Common Shares on the Closing Date (if the minimum issuance price of CAD$0.35 per Common Share is assumed and there is no occurrence of dilutive events). The Company will issue a comprehensive press release respecting the terms of the Definitive Agreement upon entering into the Definitive Agreement.

The Company anticipates its common shares will re-commence trading after the dissemination of this news release.
           
About Eureka Vapor LLC.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, EUREKA Vapor was founded in 2011 and holds licenses in both California and Colorado.  EUREKA Vapor’s multi state operation manufactures and sells a premium line of vaporizer cartridges, disposable vapor pens and proprietary vaporizer batteries designed to work with their highly sought-after CO2 extracted oil.  Using their refined extraction processes and techniques developed over almost a decade of extracting, EUREKA Vapor is committed to providing the cleanest and safest natural oil cartridges in the industry.  Long referred to as one of the leaders in the industry, EUREKA has one of the most loyal customer bases in the category which reflects their commitment to honesty and transparency above all else. EUREKA continually looks for innovative ways to improve and refine their product offerings in order to deliver the best, most consistent vaping experience in the industry. 

For more information visit: www.eurekavapor.com

About North Bud Farms Inc.
North Bud Farms Inc., through its wholly-owned subsidiary GrowPros MMP Inc., is pursuing a licence under The Cannabis Act.  The Company is constructing a state-of-the-art purpose-built cannabis production facility located on 95 acres of Agricultural Land in Low, Quebec. North Bud Farms Inc. will be focused on Pharmaceutical and Food Grade cannabinoid production in preparation for the legalization of edibles and ingestible products scheduled for October 2019.

For more information visit: www.northbud.com

Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange (the “CSE”) nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the CSE) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

Forward-looking statements
Certain statements included in this press release constitute forward-looking information or statements (collectively, “forward-looking statements”), including those identified by the expressions “anticipate”, “believe”, “plan”, “estimate”, “expect”, “intend”, “may”, “should” and similar expressions to the extent they relate to the Company or its management. The forward-looking statements are not historical facts but reflect current expectations regarding future results or events. This press release contains forward- looking statements including those relating to the Transaction, the completion of conditions precedent to the Transaction, entering into of the Definitive Agreement, the potential termination of the LOI, the issuance of Common Shares to Eureka shareholders, an issuance price of CAD$0.35 per Common Share at the Closing Date, Eureka achieving USD$25 million of revenue derived from California and Colorado operations, and the issuance of up to CAD$25 million of Common Shares, and the re-commencement of the trading of common shares of the Company. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and various estimates, factors and assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors. Such risks and uncertainties include, among others, the risk factors included in North Bud Farms Inc.’s final long form prospectus dated August 21, 2018 which is available under the issuer’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.  

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
North Bud Farms Inc.
Edward Miller
VP, IR & Communications
Office: (855) 628-3420 ext. 3
[email protected]

Tartisan Nickel Corp. $TN.ca Provides Corporate Update on Projects and Planning $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 4:23 PM on Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Not for distribution to U.S. news wire services or dissemination in the U.S.

  • Provides an update on corporate activities on the suite of Company projects in Canada and Peru.
  • Tartisan CEO Mr. Mark Appleby noted, “2019 will bring a resurgence of exploration at Kenbridge to be financed initially by the return of the Financial Assurance funds pending approval of Tartisan’s remediation of the Alexo-Kelex Nickel Project, meaning that share dilution can be avoided while still generating exploration.”

TORONTO, ON / March 6, 2019 / Tartisan Nickel Corp. (CSE: TN; OTC QC: TTSRF; FSE: A2D PCM) (“Tartisan”, or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on corporate activities on the suite of Company projects in Canada and Peru.

Kenbridge Nickel-Copper Deposit, Atikwa Lake Area, Ontario

First, access road rehabilitation has been completed over the 13.2 km length to the site. This allows a lower-cost resumption of exploration in that air transport from nearby Sioux Narrows Ontario is not needed to the same extent. The line cutting program on the Kenbridge Nickel Copper Project has commenced and as at the date of this news release, two lines have been completed. Line cutting commenced at the southern mapped extremity of the Kenbridge Deposit as it averages some 90m in width; as well, one of the primary exploration targets for a similar depositional environment with historic surface mineralization is found on the west end of the second cut line in the program.

In this way, the Company may start the induced polarization geophysical survey on the two completed lines with the ability to lay out the lines on the frozen lakes, where required, and still hit one of the major exploration targets on the Kenbridge Property, while the rest of the line cutting grid is cut. The Company has made the decision to not pursue the drone-based magnetometer survey at this time.

MineMap Pty. Ltd., of Midland, Western Australia, has been contracted to provide an updated resource model and results of same are expected later in 2019 as well as an updated NI 43-101 Technical Report.

Alexo-Kelex Nickel Project, Iroquois Falls, Ontario

The Company successfully closed the sale of the Alexo-Kelex Nickel Project to VaniCom Resources Limited of Perth, W. Australia, in October, 2018. Tartisan Nickel retains the Financial Assurance Bond held in trust by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry.

As a result of the sale Tartisan also owns 1,750,000 shares of VaniCom Resources Limited.

To that end, the Company has filed a Progressive Rehabilitation Report with the Ministry so as to facilitate the release of funds, which total some C$240,000. Tartisan is actively working with the Ministry to address comments.

Tartisan CEO Mr. Mark Appleby noted, “2019 will bring a resurgence of exploration at Kenbridge to be financed initially by the return of the Financial Assurance funds pending approval of Tartisan’s remediation of the Alexo-Kelex Nickel Project, meaning that share dilution can be avoided while still generating exploration.”

At the Company’s Peruvian projects, site visits are planned for April, 2019 at which point exploration and development strategies should be put in place to create potential additional shareholder value. A key focus will be to define the manganese content of the Don Pancho Project, including core review, QA/QC confirmation sampling, and block modeling the Don Pancho project to the extent possible with existing drilling.

About Tartisan Nickel Corp.

Tartisan Nickel Corp. is a Canadian based mineral exploration and development company which owns a 100% stake in the Kenbridge Nickel-Copper Project in Ontario; a 100% interest in the Don Pancho Zinc-Lead-Silver Project in Peru just 9 km from Trevali’s Santander mine. Tartisan also owns a 100% stake in the Ichuna Copper-Silver Project, also in Peru, contiguous to Buenaventura’s San Gabriel property. Company financial strength is provided by a significant equity stake (6 MM shares and 3 MM full warrants at 40c) in Eloro Resources Ltd, which is exploring the low-sulphidation epithermal La Victoria Gold/Silver Project in Ancash, Peru.

Tartisan Nickel Corp. common shares are listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE:TN; OTC QC: TTSRF; FSE: A2D PCM). Currently, there are 99,703,550 shares outstanding (108,303 ,550 fully diluted).

For further information, please contact Mr. D. Mark Appleby, President & CEO and a Director of the Company, at 416-804-0280 ([email protected]). Additional information about Tartisan can be found at the Company’s website at www.tartisannickel.com or on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.

Jim Steel MBA P.Geo. is the Qualified Person under NI 43-101 and has read and approved the technical content of this News Release.

This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore, involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.

The Canadian Securities Exchange (operated by CNSX Markets Inc.) has neither approved nor disapproved of the contents of this press release.

SOURCE: Tartisan Nickel Corp.

Tartisan Nickel Corp. $TN.ca – Deficit expectations fuel nickel’s climb to six-month peak $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:27 AM on Monday, March 4th, 2019

SPONSOR: Tartisan Nickel (TN:CSE) The company’s Kenbridge Property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14 million tonnes at 0.62% nickel, 0.33% copper. Tartisan also has interests in Peru, including a 20 percent equity stake in Eloro Resources and 2 percent NSR in their La Victoria property. Click her for more information

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Deficit expectations fuel nickel’s climb to six-month peak

  • Stainless steel prices rise, stocks build in China
  • Copper down on profit-taking on long positions

By Pratima Desai LONDON, March 4 (Reuters) – Nickel prices climbed to a six-month peak on Monday as expectations of a fourth consecutive year of supply deficit were reinforced by signs of robust demand from stainless steel mills in China. Benchmark nickel on the London Metal Exchange traded up 0.3 percent at $13,230 a tonne in official rings, having touched its highest since the end of August at $13,405. The price is up 24 percent this year, the best performer among LME metals. “Ultimately the nickel market has been in deficit for three years running and we are expecting another deficit this year,” said Roskill senior analyst Olivier Masson

“The nickel price was probably oversold at the end of last year, when the market was worrying about global trade,”

TRADE: The trade dispute between China and the United States has fuelled concern about global growth and demand, undermining sentiment in metals markets. DEFICIT: Data from the International Nickel Study Group shows the nickel market deficit at 46,000 tonnes in 2016, 115,000 tonnes in 2017 and 127,000 tonnes last year.

Global nickel demand is estimated at about 2.4 million tonnes this year. Of that, about two thirds is destined for stainless steel mills, mostly in China. “The price of stainless steel continues to rise (and) supply of ferronickel is very tight,” GF Futures said in a note, adding that Wuxi Stainless Steel Exchange inventories had risen by more than 10,000 tonnes, or 4.2 percent, since the first half of February. STOCKS: Nickel stocks at 196,542 in LME-registered warehouses have nearly halved since the start of January last year, while cancelled warrants — metal earmarked for delivery — stand at 37 percent. Inventories in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange are below 10,000 tonnes and have fallen nearly 40 percent since the middle of November. SPREADS: Traders say the discount for the cash over the three-month contract is an incentive to buy nickel and sell it forward on the LME. The discount, or contango, of about $80 a tonne is enough to cover financing costs and leave a healthy profit. “The weaker macro numbers we are getting, especially out of China, suggest that negative demand influences will eventually kick in and start to replenish stockpiles,” said INTL FCStone analyst Edward Meir. PROFIT-TAKING: Prices of copper are down on profit-taking by funds with long positions betting on higher prices. Traders say the market has been long on copper for some time. Others say the premium for the cash over the three-month contract at $34 a tonne should attract metal to LME warrant, relieving some of the tightness. PRICES: copper was down 1.3 percent at $6,396 a tonne, aluminium fell 2.1 percent to $1,878, zinc slipped 0.9 percent to $2,758, lead ceded 0.9 percent to $2,124 and tin was down 0.2 percent at $21,575.


(Reporting by Pratima Desai Editing by David Goodman and Louise Heavens)

Source: https://www.kitco.com/news/2019-03-04/METALS-Deficit-expectations-fuel-nickel-apos-s-climb-to-six-month-peak.html

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NOTICE: Iconic Minerals – Fox Business Network – Sunday March, 3, 2019

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In this five minute segment, Richard Kern will be providing comments on the lithium industry while onsite in Nevada, at the Bonnie Claire property.

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