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ThreeD Capital Inc. $IDK.ca – #Crypto Trader DataDash Says #Bitcoin Is Bottoming – Plus #Ripple and #XRP, #Ethereum, #Tron, #Litecoin, #IOTA, #Stellar

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:45 AM on Monday, March 25th, 2019

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Crypto Trader DataDash Says Bitcoin Is Bottoming – Plus Ripple and XRP, Ethereum, Tron, Litecoin, IOTA, Stellar

  • From Bitcoin’s price action to the adoption of XRP, Stellar, and Litecoin, here’s a look at some of the stories breaking in the world of crypto.
  • YouTube’s biggest crypto analyst Nicholas Merten says he believes Bitcoin is bottoming.

Bitcoin

YouTube’s biggest crypto analyst Nicholas Merten says he believes Bitcoin is bottoming.

In the latest edition of DataDash, Merten compares BTC’s current price action to the market decline in 2014 and subsequent sideways trading in 2015, and says three indicators suggest Bitcoin is entering a period of sideways consolidation before a run to the upside.

Merten says the 50 and 100-week moving averages, stochastic RSI and true strength indicator all signal BTC is starting to enter a bottoming phase.

“We’re going to need to see much more substantial price action for Bitcoin to be considered in a bull market. So we’re in neither really a bear market as of the last few weeks, and we’re also not in a bull market. Again, we have to see a justification of price on either side.”

According to Merten’s analysis, current market conditions indicate it will take a few weeks or months for Bitcoin to start gaining momentum.

Ripple and XRP

Days after adding XRP to its platform, the Bahrain-based crypto exchange Rain says the digital asset has officially been declared Sharia-compliant in an audit from their partner, the Shariyah Review Bureau.

Our Shari’a compliance audit was completed by our partner @ShariyahReview.

— Rain (@rainfinancial) March 24, 2019

Ripple has been pushing to expand its presence in the Middle East, announcing an expansion in the region late last year.

Ethereum

Mist, one of the first projects from the Ethereum Foundation, is shutting down. The Mist browser, also known as the Ethereum DApp Browser, allowed users to access Ethereum applications and projects. The Mist wallet, designed to be downloaded and run on a computer, allowed users to store, send and receive crypto.

In a farewell post, developer Alex Van de Sande outlines a number of the project’s technical problems, and names Samsung, Opera and Brave as projects that are better suited to move the tech forward.

“While I’m proud of all the accomplishments we achieved in this time advancing the usability of Ethereum and sharing a vision for web3, we feel Mist, the browser has outlived it’s usefulness: the ecosystem has matured so much that now the user has tons of great options of wallets and browsers on both mobile and desktop.”

This is a bitter post to announce, but we are discontinuing Mist. You can read the full post here but for your convenience I will try to summarize in a few tweets: https://t.co/eqw5yWacsa

There are mainly two reasons a good and a bad one: ecosystem and security

— alex van de sande (@avsa) March 22, 2019

Litecoin

Jon Moore aka ‘Johnny Litecoin’, the vice president of Nationwide Merchant Solutions, is showing off Litecoin’s integration with the payment system Clover.

Checkout the Clover Flex device!! #Clover devices can easily display a #Litecoin Payment button with QR code printing on receipt for easy payment. Clover also integrates with @ecwid which allows for LTC/BTC Payments to come in from online and the data connects to Clover!! pic.twitter.com/WNVRG3BYKP

— Jon Moore (@jonnylitecoin) March 20, 2019

The Clover platform offers free open-source code allowing merchants to implement custom third-party payment options.

Stellar

The foreign exchange company Currency Matters says it’s joining IBM’s World Wire remittance platform, which is powered by the Stellar blockchain.

“By connecting to the World Wire network, Currency Matters now has access to a single unified network for foreign exchange and cross-border payments clearing and settlement built on blockchain technology and the Stellar public protocol. This will allow Currency Matters to offer clients the ability to conduct transactions across additional currency corridors and provide access to new digital assets including stable coins using Stellar Lumens (XLM).”

So far, IBM says six banks have signed letters of intent to issue their own stablecoins on the platform.

Tron

The Tron community site Tron.Live is giving crypto enthusiasts an inside look at Tron’s headquarters in Beijing. It occupies two floors with modern flair, lime green accents, wall art, smiling stuffed animals, a circular resting area, a tatami room and a rainbow-colored entertainment lounge. Source: Tron.Live

Tron currently has offices in San Francisco, Singapore and Beijing.

IOTA

IOTA just released the latest edition of the Untangled podcast. The episode explores the platform’s push for smart city adoption, focusing on the energy sector and what the cities of the near future may look like.

Source: https://dailyhodl.com/2019/03/25/crypto-trader-datadash-says-bitcoin-is-bottoming-plus-ripple-and-xrp-ethereum-tron-litecoin-iota-stellar/

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Tartisan Nickel $TN.ca – Nickel has comeback whiff as EVs fuel demand forecasts $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:15 PM on Sunday, March 24th, 2019

SPONSOR: Tartisan Nickel (TN:CSE)  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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Nickel has comeback whiff as EVs fuel demand forecasts

Despite its recent run, the nickel price remains some way from the “excitement levels” of yesteryear. But as this week’s BHP-Mincor deal shows, there is a buzz about what could be around the corner, with inventories falling and demand forecast to soar thanks to nickel’s key role in lithium batteries.

Barry FitzGerald

  • The swagger of the nickel companies at a battery metals conference in Perth during the week was palpable.
  • Nickel brigade is confident that excitement-inducing prices are on the way, hence their swagger

After a heroic run to $US7/lb in the middle of last year, the price got beaten up something shocking in the second half with just about everything else on US-China trade war fears.

The price has since climbed off the December lows of under $US5/lb to get back to just under $US6/lb in recent days, leaving it well short of the $US9/lb pricing that historically starts to get everyone excited about the metal.

But the nickel brigade is confident that excitement-inducing prices are on the way, hence their swagger.

They point to the ongoing drawdown in LME/SHFE stocks needed to meet demand from the stainless steel sector in the here-and-now, let alone the demand tsunami coming from the electric vehicle/battery storage revolution.

Nickel – particularly the almost boutique, in terms of supply, nickel sulphide type – is not ready for the revolution, unlike some of the other key battery materials such as lithium and graphite.

Under-investment has led to a dearth of new discoveries and new developments, leaving forecasters wondering where the new supply is going to come from to meet the expected growth in demand from the EV/battery revolution.

That assumes there is no breakthrough anytime time soon in making the world’s more abundant laterite nickel ores more competitive in the supply of high-grade nickel product suitable for use in battery manufacturing.

There was no fear at the conference of that happening anytime soon.

In broad terms, the nickel boys and girls reckon nickel demand from the EV/battery sectors could well match that of the (also growing) stainless sector (73% of the current 2.2mtpa market compared with 5% for batteries) sometime in the 2020s/early 2030s.

All that explains the renaissance of Australia’s Western Australian-centric nickel industry.

BHP (ASX:BHP) is spending up big on its pivot to the supply of nickel sulphate to battery makers and it is again investing in sustaining production at its Nickel West unit out to at least 2040.

Other miners that eventually shut down when the nickel price got ugly post-2008/2009 are plotting their return, and nickel-focussed explorers are again getting a good hearing.

Then there are the private equity groups sniffing around the WA scene for exposure to the nickel thematic before the potentially-manic rush to secure supplies by end-users – as already witnessed in the lithium sector – takes hold of the metal.

Some of that was reflected in the move by US private equity group Black Mountain on to the Poseidon Nickel (ASX:POS) register in a big way last year and its acquisition of the mothballed Lanfranchi mine from Panoramic (ASX:PAN).

Now it has to be said that there is no boom in nickel equities just yet.

But stand back if the EV/battery thematic unfolds, as most suspect it will. Nickel can be the most volatile of metals (small market and slow response times) and a sharp and lasting price spike could be upon us before we know it.

Mincor Resources

Mincor’s (ASX:MCR) new managing director of six weeks David Southam looks sharp in a cuff-linked suit but he is not one to swagger.

Nevertheless, he is set to be as upbeat as they come on the nickel market and his production revitalisation plans for the group’s Kambalda operations when he hits the Eastern States next week on an investor roadshow.

Southam called time on eight years as an executive director at the $615m nickel producer Western Areas (ASX:WSA) to take on the role at Mincor. And why wouldn’t he? Western Areas stands to benefit from the suggested nickel upturn more than most, but there is greater leverage to the upside at the $90m Mincor.

That is reflected in the fact that back in 2007/2008 when nickel shot to more than $US20/lb, Mincor was a $1 billion company sitting comfortably inside the ASX 200, with peak production of 16,500t of nickel-in-concentrates.

Then the nickel price rot set in (due to the rise of Chinese NPI production and the absence of the EV/battery thematic), forcing Mincor to first curtail its nickel operations and then shut them altogether by early 2016, pending the now unfolding upturn for the metal.

The mines were put on care and maintenance and in the meantime, Mincor got a handy little gold open-cut gold mining operation going which continues to help pay the bills.

But the main game has always been plotting a return to nickel production from existing mines (Ken/McMahon and Durkin North), and a development of the Cassini discovery.

For that to happen four things are needed. The first is a supportive nickel price. Thanks to the lower US exchange rate, the Australian dollar nickel price is just about there to mount an economic case for a restart.

The second requirement is to avoid the capex slug of having to build its own nickel concentrator by securing a new agreement to replace the 20-year-old one that recently expired with BHP’s Nickel West.

That was ticked off earlier this week when Southam’s experience with offtake negotiations at Western Areas came to the fore, with Mincor securing a “modern” agreement on “substantially” better terms, again with the logical offtake partner, BHP.

The third requirement is to ensure enough mining inventory to underpin an initial five-year mine life. Mincor is getting close to those numbers already but will nevertheless be ramping up its resource extension drilling.

With one, two and three locked in, attention will turn to funding the return to production, expected to cost about $50-$60m.

That looks to be very do-able, given a re-start pitched towards achieving annual production of 12,000-14,000t of nickel-in-concentrate (not far off what used to support a $1bn market cap in the heady days of 2008) is the plan.

Source: https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/nickel-has-comeback-whiff-as-evs-fuel-demand-forecasts



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Tartisan Nickel Corp. $TN.ca – Chinese electric vehicle #EV makers are gorging on #nickel $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 10:00 AM on Friday, March 22nd, 2019

Tartisan Nickel (TN:CSE) 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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Chinese electric vehicle makers are gorging on nickel


  • Battery metals tracker Adamas Intelligence says Chinese electric vehicle manufacturers deployed 253% more nickel in passenger EV batteries in January this year compared to 2018.

Frik Els

The Dutch-Canadian research company, which tracks EV registrations and battery chemistries in more than 80 countries says the jump is due to an ongoing shift from lithium iron phosphate (LFP) to nickel-cobalt-manganese (NCM) cathodes. The average EV registered in China in January 2019 contained nearly double the mass of battery metals/materials as the year prior

First generation NCM batteries contained around a third cobalt with a chemical composition of 111 – 1 part nickel, 1 part cobalt and 1 part manganese, but NCM batteries with higher nickel content (622 and 523 chemistries) have become standard in China.

According to Adamas, China is now the the largest market for passenger EV battery nickel, ahead of Japan and the US, which were the two largest markets in January 2018. Nickel used in car batteries jumped 88% in Germany and 54% in the US year-on-year.

The EV boom in China is only accelerating, and Adamas says despite being a seasonally slow month in January 2019, 3.27 GWh of passenger EV battery capacity was deployed in the world’s largest car market, an increase of 439% over January 2018 levels:

Even more remarkable, from January 2018 through January 2019, the sales-weighted average passenger EV battery capacity in China increased by a staggering 95%, from 14.9 kWh to 29.1 kWh, meaning that the average EV registered in China in January 2019 contained nearly double the mass of battery metals/materials as the year prior.

The price of nickel is up more than 20% in 2019 as stocks held in warehouses around the world registered with the London Metal Exchange fall to multi-year lows.

Source: http://www.mining.com/chinese-electric-vehicle-makers-gorging-nickel/

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Good Life Networks $GOOD.ca – Identity and Advanced TV Have Reshaped Video Advertising $TTD $RUBI $AT.ca $TRMR $FUEL

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 3:12 PM on Thursday, March 21st, 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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It used to be about cutting time off content, but that’s changed

By Victor Wong

Using longer videos in strategies may be the future of this sect of the industry.

Just when creatives wrapped their heads around data and programmatic, new technology is about to reshape storytelling again. While those first disruptive trends changed display and rich media ads, video ads remained largely unaffected. In fact, video ads haven’t actually changed in decades, aside from getting shorter and running on different types of screens.

Whereas innovation used to be measured in the seconds shaved—from 60-second to 30-second to 15-second to 6-second—now we’re seeing the actual video ad formats evolve as two new trends converge: advance TV and identity. These powerful forces have already reshaped media buying as more ad dollars shift from offline to digital formats, but now they are in the midst of transforming the creative experience. Here’s how:

Pause-vertising

Creative agencies now need to begin thinking about longer form videos and know they can break up the content into mini-episodes of ads.

As more video is viewed on advance TV media formats, such as CTV and OTT services that run on computers or phones, new possibilities have emerged. Whereas linear television ads were built around filling scheduled commercial breaks, CTV and OTT experiences have built-in, widely-used pausing functionality, creating a new form of commercial break and screen layout. Imagine seeing an ad for your favorite brand appear quickly when you hit pause (or unpause) for quick breaks to respond to a message or grab a snack. Hulu and AT&T’s Xandr advertising business both plan to introduce a form of this “pause-vertising” this year.

Second screen

Another idea is second screen ads where a brand wants to take advantage of the fact that viewers are often watching TV while using another device. Nowadays, many devices can be connected through an identity graph (from a telco, a data provider, etc.) that links registration information like billing addresses for different signed in services on different devices. The possibilities now include using addressable television media buying to target TVs registered to households that have been shown to have the brand’s app so that you can run TV ads that encourage specific interaction with apps or drive users to the app for info rather than trying to cram everything into a TV spot.

Ad episodes

Perhaps an even more powerful application of identity is creating episodic ads where, rather than trying to cram all the content into one spot, you can tell a story over several ad episodes across different screens and time. Historically with TV ads and even digital video ads, brands had no idea whether a viewer had already seen an ad or not. Now with cross-device IDs, brands can keep track of whether a viewer or household had been served an episode already, and if so, to move on to the next episode in the sequence even if the user is switching between devices. Without a people-based identity graph, message sequencing would be a nightmare of repeat instances of the first ad episode because the advertiser wouldn’t realize it’s the same household or viewer.

To make these ideas possible, brands will need to work with creative agencies and video media inventory owners that have invested in addressable television, OTT and identity. Creative agencies will need to adapt creative for the new pause-vertising formats, knowing that it could be on loop until a user returns, or focus messaging around what to do during this explicit viewing break. Platform owners will need to identify what percentage of a brand’s app users it can reach with TV media so that the brand can determine if TV campaigns should be for app acquisition or designed to drive second screen usage or execute addressable buys for both. Creative agencies now need to begin thinking about longer form videos and know they can break up the content into mini-episodes of ads.

Executing these new forms of creative don’t change what makes a good story, but they do give brands new ways of telling a good story beyond the standard 30-second one-size-fits-all spots. As more video watching moves from pure linear to more digital, the industry is at a pivotal moment to reinvent the ad experience and make it fit more natively in the new technology. Only then can video ads reach their full new potential.

Source: https://www.adweek.com/tv-video/identity-and-advanced-tv-have-reshaped-video-advertising/

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BetterU Education Corp. $BTRU.ca – How online education #edtech is leveraging #AI to offer greater benefits? $ARCL $CPLA $BPI $FC.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 9:00 AM on Thursday, March 21st, 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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How online education is leveraging AI to offer greater benefits?

  • Online education has managed to reform classrooms and teaching methods.
  • Artificial Intelligence has proven its role in various industries including manufacturing, healthcare and education. AI can bring unimaginable transformation.

By : Ashok Pandey

Online education has managed to reform classrooms and teaching methods. Yet expecting to see true disruption of education. Artificial Intelligence has proven its role in various industries including manufacturing, healthcare and education. AI can bring unimaginable transformation.

The online education model simply paved over the older methods with technology, utilizing AI with advanced algorithms, provide adaptive learning. CiOL spoke to Diwakar Chittora, CEO & Founder, Intellipat to understand the education sector and how AI is helping students to gain most knowledge possible.

How AI adoption can change online education?

AI has automated the industry to a great extent, helping both students and teachers in gaining the most out the immense opportunity, all while democratizing education amongst all. While they focus the learning outcome of the student, helping students gain the most knowledge possible, for teachers, they provide an in-depth analysis on how to improve their learning delivery and ways, thereby empowering educators to maximize their skill set.

What are the key security hurdles for online education Industry?

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Online education was initially, in dire needs of security awareness because of the very nature of its structure. Being entirely online encompasses the administration process, making it liable to sensitive information. Now, with the addition of AI into the system, the security gaps are being bridged and the framework is being bolstered with quality protection.

Which online certification has higher interest? And its future scope?

In the current job scenario where the value of a candidate depends upon an impactful CV, a relevant certification can add the much required USP into a lifeless resume. In our endless interaction with students, we have seen the trio of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligent being the high points of interest.

Also cloud certifications such as AWS, DevOps, Azure and for programming languages, Python are high in demand by both learners and recruiting organization. This interest is not unfounded- Data Science, along with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, has become crucial, owing to its role in improving business and decision makings, while providing the biggest edge over the competitors.

Predictions for online education industry

The whole market is improving year by year, with a CAGR increase of approximately 10-15 % boost and an upcoming boost 15-20% to be seen. Now, the present year will see a further rise in the demand of Data scientists, in integral positions of the business framework.

Apart from being the leading software producer of the world, India has risen to become the leading generator and provider of IT- empowered engineers, who creating an impact on how the world conducts business. All this, coming together will empower the system creating ripples in the framework of education.

Source: https://www.ciol.com/online-education-leveraging-ai-offer-greater-benefits/

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CardioComm Solutions $EKG.ca Leverages the GEMS(TM) Mobile ECG App to Bring a Third FDA Cleared HeartCheck(TM) Branded ECG Device to the US Consumer Markets $ATE.ca $TLT.ca $OGI.ca $ACST.ca $IPA.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 8:43 AM on Thursday, March 21st, 2019


  • Confirms the start of an OEM co-marketing agreement for the HeartCheck™ Palm handheld ECG device, the Company’s newest GEMS™ Mobile ECG app (“GEMSTM Mobile“) enabled ECG device
  • The HeartCheck™ Palm will be the Company’s third US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA“) cleared HeartCheck™ branded handheld ECG device for over-the-counter (“OTC”) sales.

ECG Device Manufacturer Partnerships Grow as FDA Cleared GEMS(TM) Mobile Smartphone ECG App Expands Device Access to Consumer and Telemedicine Cardiac Monitoring Solutions

Toronto, Ontario–(March 21, 2019) – CardioComm Solutions, Inc. (TSXV: EKG) (“CardioComm” or the “Company“), a leading global provider of consumer heart monitoring and electrocardiogram (“ECG“) acquisition and management software solutions, confirms the start of an OEM co-marketing agreement for the HeartCheck™ Palm handheld ECG device, the Company’s newest GEMS™ Mobile ECG app (“GEMSTM Mobile“) enabled ECG device. The HeartCheck™ Palm will be the Company’s third US Food and Drug Administration (“FDA“) cleared HeartCheck™ branded handheld ECG device for over-the-counter (“OTC”) sales.

The HeartCheckTM Palm has a colour display and can record and save medical grade ECGs of 10 to 30 seconds in duration which are controlled through GEMSTM Mobile. Saved ECGs can be reviewed on the device and then transferred to a Smartphone. The ECG trace colour will change from red, to yellow, to green, to confirm the ECG recording quality. Recording time starts once the ECG waveform is green.

GEMSTM Mobile is a slimmed down version of the Company’s hospital-based Global ECG Management System (GEMSTM) software and holds a unique market position as the only FDA cleared ECG management Smartphone app that supports multiple manufacturers’ ECG monitoring devices.

GEMS™ Mobile provides HeartCheck™ ECG device users the ability to generate free, medical-grade ECG PDFs in near-real-time. GEMS™ Mobile users also have access to CardioComm’s SMART Monitoring ECG reading service through which they can request a professional review of their ECG to confirm the presence or absence of arrhythmias.

CardioComm will continue to develop ECG device manufacturer partnerships to expand the medical usability of these third party devices and to bring cost effective, innovative and credible cardiac monitoring solutions to the remote patient monitoring, consumer and clinical trials markets. CardioComm acknowledges the cooperation of Contec Medical Systems and BORSAM Biomedical Instruments as the original device manufacturers of the HeartCheck™ Palm and HeartCheck™ CardiBeat respectively.

GEMS™ Mobile is now available on the App Store and Google Play. The Company is pleased to announce that it has already received expressions of interest in the new devices from several prospective customers.

To learn about pre-orders for the HeartCheck™ device with free ECG reviewing packages included and for further updates regarding GEMSTM Mobile ECG device partnerships please see the Company’s websites at www.theheartcheck.com and www.cardiocommsolutions.com.

About CardioComm Solutions

CardioComm Solutions‘ patented and proprietary technology is used in products for recording, viewing, analyzing and storing electrocardiograms for diagnosis and management of cardiac patients. Products are sold worldwide through a combination of an external distribution network and a North American-based sales team. CardioComm Solutions has earned the ISO 13485 certification, is HIPAA compliant and holds clearances from the European Union (CE Mark), the USA (FDA) and Canada (Health Canada).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Etienne Grima, Chief Executive Officer
1-877-977-9425 x227
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Forward-looking statements

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information with respect to the financial condition, results of operations and business of CardioComm Solutions and certain of the plans and objectives of CardioComm Solutions with respect to these items. Such statements and information reflect management’s current beliefs and are based on information currently available to management. By their nature, forward-looking statements and forward-looking information involve risk and uncertainty because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that will occur in the future and there are many factors that could cause actual results and developments to differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements and forward-looking information.

In evaluating these statements, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking information. The Company does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements and forward-looking information contained in this release other than as required by applicable laws, including without limitation, Section 5.8(2) of National Instrument 51-102 (Continuous Disclosure Obligations).

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

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CLIENT FEATURE: Tartisan Nickel $TN.ca Kenbridge Property Hosts M&I Resource of 7.14 Million Tonnes at 0.62% Nickel, 0.33% Copper $ROX.ca $FF.ca $EDG.ca $AGL.ca $ANZ.ca

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 3:21 PM on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

Investment Highlights

  • Kenbridge property has a measured and indicated resource of 7.14 million tonnes at 0.62% nickel, 0.33% copper
  • 17.5 (21.8 fully diluted) percent equity stake in Eloro Resources and 2 percent NSR in their La Victoria property

Kenbridge Ni Project (ON, Canada)

  • Advanced  stage  deposit  remains open  in  three  directions,  is  equipped with a 623m  deep  shaft  and  has  never  been  mined. 
  • Preliminary  Economic Assessment completed and updated returned robust project 
    economics and operating costs including  a  NPV  of  C$253M  and  cash costs of US$3.47/lb of nickel net of  
    copper credits.
  • Plans for Kenbridge include updating PEA, advancing the project through to feasibility and exploring the open mineralization at depth

FULL DISCLOSURE: Tartisan Nickel Corp. is an advertising client of AGORA Internet Relations Corp.

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New Age Metals Inc. $NAM.ca – Record-Setting Palladium Outshines Gold, Other Precious Metals $WG.ca $XTM.ca $WM.ca $PDL.ca $GLEN

Posted by AGORACOM-JC at 11:20 AM on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019

SPONSOR: New Age Metals Inc. (TSX-V: NAM) owns one of North America’s largest primary platinum group metals deposit in Sudbury, Canada. Learn More.

NAM: TSX-V

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  • Palladium prices hit yet another fresh record high Tuesday, topping $1,600 an ounce for the first time, and traders are looking for still more gains in a market described as tight.
  • “Palladium has rapidly run on a broad supply shortage, seeing prices rise almost 90% since the bull run accelerated from August last year,” said a research note from commodities brokerage SP Angel.

Palladium, historically the cheapest of the precious metals, has raced to large price premiums over both gold and platinum. As of 10:08 a.m. EDT, spot palladium was trading up $14.20 to $1,590.55 an ounce after peaking overnight at $1,601.45.

“Palladium has rapidly run on a broad supply shortage, seeing prices rise almost 90% since the bull run accelerated from August last year,” said a research note from commodities brokerage SP Angel.

One of the most recent drivers of higher prices is news reports that Russia is planning to stop exports of scrap precious metals from May to November. Along with South Africa, Russia is one of two largest producers of palladium in the world.

The worries about supplies come at a time when automotive demand for palladium in catalytic converters has been robust. Even when car sales weaken, analysts point out that yet another factor is boosting demand – increased loadings of metal in each vehicle in order to meet more stringent anti-emissions regulations in a number of key nations.

One U.S. desk trader commented that time will tell whether the Russia development will have a meaningful impact on palladium, but nevertheless said that “nerves are fragile,” and thus market participants feel most comfortable holding long, or bullish positions.

“Availability of metal is very scarce,” Afshin Nabavi, head of trading at trading house MKS (Switzerland) SA., told Kitco News.

Still, he added, the continued backwardation is not as dramatic as it was a month ago. Backwardation in any commodity occurs when nearby prices are more expensive than deferred contracts, showing that users are willing to pay a premium in their efforts to get the commodity right away.

“In addition to the growing supply angst, large automakers have announced price cuts to their vehicles sold in China after the nation announced that it will reduce the VAT [value-added] tax by three points — spurring hopes that car sales in the Middle Kingdom, which have been horrible of late, could see a path towards recovery,” said a research note from TD Securities.

Analysts with Commerzbank attribute much of palladium’s strength to speculative buying interest.

Johnson Matthey last month issued a report saying that the market remained in a supply/demand deficit in 2018. The firm reported record demand of 8.66 million ounces for the metal in automotive catalysts and also strong consumption by the chemicals industry.

Some of the demand was met by disinvestment from exchange-traded funds, Johnson Matthey said. However, with ETFs holding only 730,000 at the end of 2018, compared to nearly 3 million at their peak in 2014, there is not enough metal to bridge the gap between industrial demand and supplies, Johnson Matthey said. Thus, the deficit in the palladium market is likely to “widen dramatically in 2019,” the firm said.

“Excluding investment, the underlying ‘structural’ deficit in palladium is forecast to approach 1 million ounces in 2019; even if all remaining ETF holdings were liquidated, this would not be sufficient to fill the shortfall,” Johnson Matthey said.

Gero and Nabavi are among those who look for more gains.

Nabavi commented that the $1,600 area might act as resistance for a while. But if this is breached, “we could head to much higher levels,” he said. This especially will be the case as long as there are not new sources of supply, but demand remains robust, he added.

Some analysts have even suggested that $2,000 an ounce is possible, Nabavi said, but he added that this will “take a bit of time.” He described the price rise as having order on the charts, with prices coming back to fill any chart gaps that get left behind.

“I expect more of the same,” Gero told Kitco News. “I expect tightness. I expect continued higher prices as we see less bars coming to the [New York Mercantile) Exchange for delivery.”

Palladium tends to end up in “sponge,” a powdery/grainy form that can be used by industry, he explained. And, he continued, strong demand is coming from China for both batteries and automobiles.

By Allen Sykora

For Kitco News

Source: https://www.kitco.com/news/2019-03-19/Record-Setting-Palladium-Outshines-Gold-Other-Precious-Metals.html

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Follow The Money – Why Investment In Blockchain Has Never Been Higher

  • It’s a cliché, but true– data is the new oil. That’s one of the many takeaways from a 2018 survey conducted by New Vantage Partners.
  • C-level executives at almost 60 firms (including giants such as Morgan Stanley, GlaxoSmithKline, and IBM) were asked about their views on Big Data.

Gina Clarke Contributor 

Blockchain and investment in financial technology continue to grow

It’s a cliché, but true– data is the new oil. That’s one of the many takeaways from a 2018 survey conducted by New Vantage Partners. C-level executives at almost 60 firms (including giants such as Morgan Stanley, GlaxoSmithKline, and IBM) were asked about their views on Big Data. Over 97% of respondents reported deploying Big Data or AI solutions to achieve objectives such as improved analytics and decision-making, cost reduction, and shorter time to market.

Fortune 1000 companies are not the only ones taking advantage of savvy data deployment. Small businesses are also using databases to manage inventory and cash flow, market to customers, and carry out countless other tasks.

With most businesses reliant on databases, staying ahead of the data-technology curve has become a central issue for executives. According to the New Vantage study, almost 80% of executives surveyed expressed concern about disruption or displacement from competitors due to data-technology advantages. And well over half identified inability to compete on data, lack of agility, and data-driven competitors as the primary data-related threats to their organization.

The promise of blockchain

Most people don’t think of data management when they hear the word “blockchain.” The word tends to evoke cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin’s attention-grabbing price swings. However, blockchain technology is currently being adopted at all levels of the business environment.

Blockchain solutions are showing up in the fields of utilities, healthcare, payments, supply-chain management, government, agriculture, and more. A mid-2018 PwC survey found that fully 84% of responding companies actively used blockchain, in areas such as research programs and live deployment.

That’s why investment in the field is still at an all-time high by private investment funds like the New Global Capital Investor Fund, founded in 2017 and still one of the largest institutional investors of blockchain technologies. They have been a key contributor to a number of leading projects including Zilliqa, Ontology, NKN, Oasis, Mainframe, Certik, Bluzelle, and Iotex.

Roger Lim, Founding Partner at NGC said, “We’ve been concentrating on low hanging fruits in blockchain for a while, anyone who can potentially solve a problem. But now we’re interested to hear from good projects where the total metrics make sense, the team makes sense and they have a great strategy.”

Right now, forty per cent of investment in blockchain by NGC is heading to Greater China where blockchain is booming, but they are still open to all with a good idea. Open to lending from as little as $200,000 to $10million, the company wants to spread the word that there are still great funding opportunities out there. Lim added, “We go off to where the talent is, not just because it’s in Silicon Valley, we don’t portion off our funds. We look globally and we go after the talent.” 

Profile rising fast, but not enough

Despite the interest of investors, blockchain is still relatively young in the mainstream market and actual deployment of blockchain solutions is not yet widespread. This relatively young technology has come a long way since its inception in 2008, but only about a quarter of the companies PwC surveyed had up-and-running blockchain projects.

Though blockchain’s profile is rising fast, the technical expertise needed to create blockchain platforms and smart contracts is still hard to come by in enterprise business settings. Travis Reeder, CTO of blockchain firm GoChain, sees this lack of expertise as a significant obstacle. 

He said, “If you’re an IBM or a JP Morgan, you might have the resources to develop the kind of in-house expertise needed to compete with the startups going after your industry in Silicon Valley. But there’s a huge group of companies who can’t just set up a dedicated blockchain division. These businesses understand what blockchain could do for them, but don’t have access to the tools and knowledge they need to build actual solutions. A lot of companies encounter the related problem that there are many options to choose from, but they don’t know which to choose or where to start.”

Now Reeder hopes to remove obstacles to participation in the blockchain revolution by investing in widespread knowledge. They offer partner companies blockchain-based training, workshops, platform design, and other services. Their aim is to provide the human capital that is as essential to the technology’s success as the technical infrastructure. These cost-effective consulting services are popular for companies to develop and maintain tailor-made blockchain business strategies and tools. With their own public blockchain that anyone can use to build smart contracts and applications, as well as GoChain private installation, it allows for all possibilities. 

Still, a few common concerns when it comes to blockchain are slow transactions and vast amounts of energy needed, but with 1300 transactions per second GoChain is certainly holding its own against the big guns. It’s 100 times faster than Ethereum for example.

A market for loans

And while the money is flowing freely into the blockchain, there are also possibilities to dole it out from firms such as Forest Park Advisors. They are creating the first tradeable syndicated loan market via security token issuances. The firm is the brainchild of Steve Shaw, investment manager at Clear Harbor Asset Management, who was previously a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston, co-heading the firm’s trading and distribution franchise. Steve originated some of the earliest Credit Default Swaps at Credit Suisse product prior to the recession. Combined with the rest of the team, Forest Park Advisors has over 60 years of Wall Street experience and are intent on using their decades of experience to issue the first generation of real estate backed structured debt security tokens. With up to $200million for a single loan, this is a wealthy market.

If the public could be convinced, then there are plenty of opportunities to spread the wealth.

See more on what I’m writing here or say hi on Twitter @ginadav

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Monarch Gold $MQR.ca Intersects 12.60 g/t Au over 1.35 metres, including 55.90 g/t Au over 0.3 metres, at its Mckenzie Break Gold Project $GDX.ca $ECR.ca $MZZ.ca $QMX.ca $IMG.ca $IAG $MUX

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  • 2018 drilling program a total success, expanding the size of the McKenzie Break deposit and confirming its high-grade potential.
  • Visible gold found in 17 of the 61 holes, including hole MK-18-196, which intersected 265.00 g/t Au over 0.6 metres, and hole MK-18-216 with 93.80 g/t Au over 0.5 metres
  • Highlights of the third and last set of results for the 13,945-metre 2018 diamond drilling program:
    • Hole MK-18-236: 12.60 g/t Au over 1.35 metres, incl. 55.90 g/t Au over 0.3 metres, and 13.40 g/t Au over 2.0 metres, incl. 26.40 g/t Au over 1.0 metre
    • Hole MK-18-231: 15.74 g/t Au over 1.5 metres
    • Hole MK-18-222: 13.95 g/t Au over 1.0 metre
    • Hole MK-18-232: 6.84 g/t Au over 2.0 metres, incl. 13.65 g/t Au over 1.0 metre

MONTREAL, March 20, 2019 – MONARCH GOLD CORPORATION (“Monarch” or the “Corporation”) (TSX: MQR) (OTCMKTS: MRQRF) (FRANKFURT: MR7) is pleased to report the third and last set of assay results from the 2018 diamond drilling program at its wholly owned McKenzie Break gold project 25 kilometres north of Val-d’Or, near its Camflo and Beacon mills. The program started in September 2018 and ended in December 2018, with a total of 13,945 metres drilled in 61 holes. The purpose of the program was to explore below the known lenses and on the periphery of the multi-vein Green and Orange zones. Assays have been received for the last 20 holes totalling 5,052 metres of core (see table below and press releases dated February 28, 2019  and March 13, 2019 for a compilation of the 2018 assay results).

“With the solid high-grade results obtained from our 2018 drilling program, we have upgraded the status of McKenzie Break as one of our prime advanced exploration projects,” said Jean-Marc Lacoste, President and Chief Executive Officer of Monarch. “The program delivered beyond our expectations, enabling us to establish that the deposit remains open to the west, east, north and at depth and continues to hold excellent high-grade gold potential (see plan view and longitudinal). In fact, the next resource estimate has the potential to expand the underground deposit by 250 metres to the east, 100 metres to the north and 50 metres to the west. There is still a lot of exploration work to be done to fully assess the size and magnitude of this deposit, which remains largely underexplored. We are presently analyzing the results of the 2018 drilling and planning the follow-up program for 2019.”  

Hole MK-18-236 returned 12.60 g/t Au over 1.35 metres, including 55.90 g/t Au over 0.3 metre at 80 metres below surface. This interval is 65 metres southeast of hole MK-18-210, which returned a grade of 12.50 g/t Au over half a metre from the same horizon as hole MK-18-236, thereby extending the lens to the east and showing that it is still open. Hole MK-18-236 also intersected another lens, at a depth of 145 metres from surface, with values of 13.40 g/t Au over 2.0 metres, including 26.40 g/t Au over 1.0 metre, and 75 metres north, on the same horizon, hole MK-18-232 returned values of 6.84 g/t Au over 2.0 metres, including 13.65 g/t Au over 1.0 metre. These two intersections are connected by hole MK-18-211, 100 metres northwest of hole MK-18-236. The combination of these three holes on the same horizon will increase the underground resource in this sector. 

Hole MK-18-231, which returned a grade of 15.74 g/t Au over 1.5 metres, is to the north of the planned Green Zone open pit, in the middle of a triangle of three holes drilled by Monarch in 2018. These four holes are interpreted as being connected and are on the same horizon, creating a new lens. The three other holes are an average of 65 metres from hole MK-18-231 and grade an average of 5.42 g/t Au. The lens lies 200 metres below surface.

Hole MK-18-222 returned a grade of 13.95 g/t Au over 1.0 metre from 68 metres below surface. This intersection is 70 metres northwest of the Green Zone open pit and will help to increase the underground resource.

Third set of drill results for the McKenzie Break property:

Hole Length From To Width* Grade Au
number (m) (m) (m) (m) (g/t)
MK-18-222 177 64.1 65.0 0.9 5.14
68.0 69.0 1.0 13.95
102.0 103.0 1.0 4.68
141.0 142.5 1.5 5.40
Including 141.0 141.5 0.5 14.00
MK-18-223 150 20.7 22.6 1.9 6.18
Including 21.6 22.1 0.5 8.99
65.4 66.3 0.9 2.03
69.6 70.6 1.0 3.69
100.5 105.1 4.6 2.18
Including 102.8 103.9 1.1 3.95
122.8 125.3 2.5 2.19
Including 124.0 125.3 1.3 3.17
MK-18-224 210 174.0 178.0 4.0 2.75
Including 177.0 178.0 1.0 6.11
MK-18-225 210 68.0 68.5 0.5 8.11
175.0 176.3 1.3 2.42
MK-18-226 276 244.55 246.5 1.95 3.09
Including 246.0 246.5 0.5 9.58
274.1 275.0 0.9 2.70
MK-18-227 228 101.0 101.5 0.5 3.86
168.7 171.8 3.1 0.89
Including 170.5 171.1 0.6 2.74
MK-18-228 216 34.0 37.0 3.0 2.42
88.0 89.0 1.0 9.37
MK-18-229 243 103.0 104.0 1.0 2.79
196.0 198.0 2.0 1.61
Including 197.0 198.0 1.0 2.39
MK-18-230 270 152.0 153.0 1.0 3.54
175.5 176.2 0.7 2.59
198.0 200.0 2.0 3.84
Including 199.0 200.0 1.0 6.20
MK-18-231 258 197.0 198.5 1.5 17.45
197.0 211.0 14.0 2.38
MK-18-232 252 158.0 160.0 2.0 6.84
Including 159.0 160.0 1.0 13.65
188.0 189.0 1.0 3.25
MK-18-233 247 137.75 138.5 0.75 1.36
MK-18-234 276 234.0 235.8 1.8 7.80
Including 235.0 235.8 0.8 17.30
MK-18-235 269 138.0 139.0 1.0 2.19
244.65 248.0 3.35 3.83
Including 244.65 245.4 0.75 10.60
MK-18-236 288 77.65 79.0 1.35 12.6
Including 77.65 77.95 0.3 55.9
143.0 145.0 2.0 13.40
Including 143.0 144.0 1.0 26.40
236.0 236.55 0.55 3.10
277.0 279.0 2.0 2.36
281.0 282.0 1.0 2.05
MK-18-237 300 249.7 250.7 1.0 2.42
261.7 262.25 0.55 2.67
MK-18-238 300 172.6 173.3 0.7 2.26
228.0 228.5 0.5 2.19
259.8 261.0 1.2 2.72
MK-18-239 306 199.0 200.0 1.0 3.57
204.4 205.5 1.1 2.10
MK-18-240 324 176.8 178.3 1.5 5.90
Including 176.8 177.3 0.5 17.5
182.8 183.7 0.9 4.09
MK-18-245 252 123.4 125.3 1.9 1.07
*The width shown is the core length. True width is estimated to be 90-100% of the core length.

McKenzie Break is a high-grade, multiple-narrow-vein gold deposit hosted in the dioritic Pascalis batholith and underlain by porphyritic diorite and mafic and felsic volcanic rocks. On June 14, 2018, the Corporation reported an NI 43-101 pit-constrained resource of 48,133 ounces in the Indicated category and 14,897 ounces in the Inferred category on the property, as well as an underground resource of 53,448 ounces in the Indicated category and 49,130 ounces in the Inferred category, for a total of 165,608 ounces of gold (Source: NI 43-101 Technical Report on the McKenzie Break Project, April 17, 2018, Alain-Jean Beauregard, P.Geo., and Daniel Gaudreault, Eng., of Geologica Groupe-Conseil Inc., and Christian D’Amours, P.Geo., of GeoPointCom Inc.).

Sampling normally consists of sawing the core into equal halves along its main axis and shipping one of the halves to the ALS Minerals laboratory in Val-d’Or, Quebec for assaying. The samples are crushed, pulverized and assayed by fire assay, with atomic absorption finish. Results exceeding 3.0 g/t Au are re-assayed using the gravity method, and samples containing visible gold grains are assayed using the metallic sieve method. Monarch uses a comprehensive QA/QC protocol, including the insertion of standards, blanks and duplicates.

The technical and scientific content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by Ronald G. Leber, P.Geo., the Corporation’s qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.

ABOUT MONARCH GOLD CORPORATION

Monarch Gold Corporation (TSX: MQR) is an emerging gold mining company focused on pursuing growth through its large portfolio of high-quality projects in the Abitibi mining camp in Quebec, Canada. The Corporation currently owns close to 300 km² of gold properties (see map), including the Wasamac deposit (measured and indicated resource of 2.6 million ounces of gold), the Beaufor Mine, the Croinor Gold (see video), McKenzie Break and Swanson advanced projects and the Camflo and Beacon mills, as well as other promising exploration projects. It also offers custom milling services out of its 1,600 tonne-per-day Camflo mill.

Forward-Looking Statements
The forward-looking statements in this press release involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause Monarch’s actual results, performance and achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements expressed or implied therein. Neither TSX nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this press release.

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Jean-Marc Lacoste, 1-888-994-4465, President and Chief Executive Officer, [email protected]; Mathieu Séguin, 1-888-994-4465, Vice President, Corporate Development, [email protected]; Elisabeth Tremblay, 1-888-994-4465, Senior Geologist – Communications Specialist, [email protected]; www.monarquesgold.comCopyright CNW Group 2019

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