Thor Energy (ASX:THR,LSE:THR,OTCQB:THORF) has finalized a binding agreement with US-based DISA Technologies to treat abandoned uranium mine waste in Colorado to recover saleable uranium and other critical minerals as well.
Under the agreement, DISA will deploy its patented High-Pressure Slurry Ablation (HPSA) technology at Thor’s Colorado uranium projects, which are held through its US subsidiary, Standard Minerals. The company owns 25 percent of the uranium mineral rights, while the remaining 75 percent is held by London-listed Metals One (LSE:MET1).
Thor said it will receive a share of gross revenues generated from the sale of uranium and critical mineral concentrates recovered from the sites, with no capital or operating expenditures required on its part.
“This agreement finalises the details under which Thor will potentially generate revenue from the recovery of uranium and critical metals from its Colorado projects,” said Andrew Hume, Thor’s managing director and CEO.
“It is also fantastic to report that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted DISA a Service Provider’s License to remediate abandoned uranium mine waste. DISA is now the first company in the US to receive such approvals.”
DISA’s newly granted Service Providers License (SPL) from the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) allows it to proceed with remediation of legacy uranium waste sites across the country.
The license, secured after a multi-year review process that began in 2021, enables DISA to operate modular mobile treatment plants using HPSA technology, a process designed to recover valuable resources from waste while mitigating environmental hazards.
Under the agreement, DISA will act as the project operator, responsible for all costs related to evaluation, permitting, treatment, and remediation.
Meanwhile, Thor, through Standard Minerals, will receive between 2.5 and 4 percent of gross product sales, depending on market conditions.
Beyond resource recovery, the process is expected to deliver environmental benefits by improving water quality and restoring legacy mine sites to productive use.
The project aligns closely with recent US policy efforts to unlock domestic mineral supplies from legacy sites. The Department of the Interior’s Secretarial Order No. 3436, issued earlier this year, directs agencies to accelerate recovery of critical and strategic minerals from mine waste and streamline permitting processes.
Next steps for Thor and DISA include conducting a detailed characterization program using assays and gamma probes to determine the quantity of recoverable minerals in the waste dumps.
Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
1911 Gold Corporation (TSXV: AUMB,OTC:AUMBF) (OTCQB: AUMF) (FSE: 2KY) (‘1911 Gold’ or the ‘Company’) is pleased to announce that it will be participating in the 51st Annual New Orleans Investment Conference at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside November 2 – 5, 2025. Shaun Heinrichs, President & CEO, will be presenting on Wednesday, November 5th, and is looking forward to networking with investors during the Conference.
The New Orleans Investment Conference gathers some of the world’s brightest and most successful analysts, newsletter writers and investors. This year’s event will highlight all major asset classes, including Gold.
Don’t miss out. Register for the 51st Annual New Orleans Investment Conference by clicking here.
About 1911 Gold Corporation
1911 Gold is a junior developer with a highly prospective, consolidated land package totaling more than 61,647 hectares within and adjacent to the Archean Rice Lake greenstone belt in Manitoba, Canada. The Company also owns the True North mine and mill complex in Bissett, Manitoba. 1911 Gold believes its land package represents a prime exploration opportunity, with the potential to develop a mining district centred on the True North complex.
In addition, the Company holds the Apex project near Snow Lake, Manitoba and the Denton-Keefer project near Timmins, Ontario, and remains focused on advancing organic growth while pursuing accretive acquisition opportunities across North America.
1911 Gold’s True North complex is located within the traditional territory of the Hollow Water First Nation, signatory to Treaty No. 5 (1875-76). 1911 Gold looks forward to maintaining open, co-operative and respectful communication with the Hollow Water First Nation, and all local stakeholders, in order to build mutually beneficial working relationships.
About The New Orleans Investment Conference
The New Orleans Investment Conference is the one place where the world’s most sophisticated investors gather every year to discover new opportunities and strategies, exchange ideas, plan for the coming year and enjoy the camaraderie of like-minded individuals in America’s most fascinating and entertaining city.
Headliners at the New Orleans Conference over the last 50 years have included Lady Margaret Thatcher, former President Gerald Ford, novelist Ayn Rand, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Nobel Prize-winning economists Milton Friedman and F.A. Hayek, Dr. Henry Kissinger, Senator Barry Goldwater, Admiral Hyman Rickover, Louis Rukeyser, Sir John Templeton, Lord William Rees-Mogg, Charlton Heston, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Bleiberg, Jack Kemp, William F. Buckley, General Colin Powell, Ron Paul and J. Peter Grace, among hundreds of other notables.
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Duane Nelson, President and Chief Executive Officer, Torchlight Innovations Inc. (TSXV: RZL) (‘Company’), and its executive management team, joined Omar Khafagy, Head Client Success, Toronto Stock Exchange (‘TSX’), to open the market and celebrate the Company’s new listing on TSX Venture Exchange.
Torchlight Innovations Inc., doing business as RZOLV Technologies (‘RZOLV’), is a Canadian clean-technology company redefining the $240 billion global gold mining sector. Their proprietary RZOLV formula provides a safer, more eco-friendly alternative to the $2B of cyanide used annually. RZOLV delivers similar leach kinetics and recoveries—at similar costs on ores, concentrates, and tailings. The Company is transitioning from pilot to commercial rollout with strong industry partnerships and recurring-revenue potential from reagent sales and licensing agreements. As the mining sector accelerates toward ESG-aligned operations, RZOLV stands at the intersection of profit and sustainability—offering investors scalable exposure to one of the most transformative shifts in modern resource extraction.
MEDIA CONTACT: Duane Nelson President & CEO 604-512-8118
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GRANDE PRAIRIE, ALBERTA TheNewswire – October 24, 2025 – Angkor Resources Corp. (TSXV: ANK,OTC:ANKOF) (‘ANGKOR’ OR ‘THE COMPANY’) announces it has finalized the sale of all mineral rights on Oyadao North license to Almighty Natural Resources (‘Almighty’).
Angkor negotiated a sale of mineral rights of the Oyadao North license to Almighty Natural Resources and announced on June 26, 2024. After delays from Almighty, the Company received $325,000 US as the final cash component in the transfer of license to Almighty and signed a 4% Net Smelter Royalty for Angkor to receive on production revenue from any mineral recovered and produced from the Oyadao North license. The Company provided written confirmation to the Ministry of Mines and Energy of its agreement to transfer mineral rights.
Hommy Resources Ltd., holding a 30% interest in the property, chose to receive shares for their entire interest in the sale of the license, and participated in the shares for debt announced on Sept 23, 2025 receiving a total of 542,857 common shares of Angkor.
With final documentation completed on the disposition, Angkor continues with its priority projects of Block VIII onshore oil and gas, and its two remaining mineral licenses, Andong Meas in Ratanakiri and Andong Bor, which straddles Oddar Meanchey and Banteay Meanchey provinces in northwest Cambodia.
Angkor Resources Corp. is a public company, listed on the TSX-Venture Exchange, and is a leading resource optimizer in Cambodia working towards mineral and energy solutions across Canada and Cambodia. Since 2022, Angkor’s Canadian subsidiary, EnerCam Exploration Ltd., has been involved in gas/carbon capture and oil and gas production in Saskatchewan, Canada. ANGKOR’s carbon capture and gas conservation project is part of its long-term commitment to Environmental and Social projects and cleaner energy solutions across jurisdictions.
The company’s mineral subsidiary, Angkor Gold Corp. in Cambodia holds two mineral exploration licenses in Cambodia with multiple prospects in copper and gold.
Its Cambodian energy subsidiary, EnerCam Resources, was granted an onshore oil and gas license of 7300 square kilometers in the southwest quadrant of Cambodia called Block VIII. The company then removed all parks and protected areas and added 220 square kilometers, making the just over 4095 square kilometers. EnerCam is actively advancing oil and gas exploration onshore Cambodia to meet its mission of discovering and proving commercial oil and gas in Cambodia.
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Card-reading contact lenses, X-ray poker tables, trays of poker chips that read cards, hacked shuffling machines that predict hands. The technology alleged to have been used to execute a multistate, rigged poker operation sounds like it’s straight out of Hollywood.
And those were only some of the gadgets that authorities say were used to swindle millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims through rigged, high-dollar, underground poker games over more than five years.
A sprawling indictment unsealed Thursday by the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York charged Chauncey Billups, the head coach of the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers, and Damon Jones, a former NBA player, along with members of the Mafia and dozens of other defendants, with being part of a conspiracy.
The victims were “at the mercy of concealed technology, including rigged shuffling machines and specially designed contacts lenses and sunglasses to read the backs of playing cards, which ensured that the victims would lose big,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella of Brooklyn said in a statement.
Cheating at poker is as old as poker itself. But today, wearable tech and nano-cameras are putting even upstanding poker players on their guard.
The defendants used “special contact lenses or eyeglasses that could read pre-marked cards,” Nocella said at a news conference announcing the indictments.
He also showed a photo of an X-ray table that “could read cards face down on the table … because of the X-ray technology.”
An X-ray poker table in an image from defendant Robert Stroud’s iCloud account.U.S. Justice Department
“Defendants used other cheating technologies, such as poker chip tray analyzers, which is a poker chip tray that secretly reads cards using a hidden camera,” he said.
And while marking poker cards so they are visible only with special eyewear is an old trick, new radio-frequency identification and infrared technologies have ramped up the sophistication levels.
Technically speaking, many of the devices involved in the alleged scam authorities detailed Thursday are relatively cheap to manufacture, said Sal Piacente, a gaming security consultant.
By the time they reach their customers, however, the cost of industrial shufflers or tables can easily approach $100,000, once distributors and middlemen are factored in.
“You could make a lucrative career buying this stuff,” Piacente said.
Casino and gaming security consultants told NBC News that the alleged scheme was possible only because the games were underground. In backrooms, there was none of the surveillance tech that reputable casinos use to catch players cheating.
“A lot of the features which made this scheme so successful would have been ID’d a lot sooner, or very quickly, in a traditional regulated gaming environment,” said Ian Messenger, a former U.K. law enforcement officer and founder and CEO of the Association of Certified Gaming Compliance Specialists.
More than any other tech, it was the reprogramming of the industrial card shufflers — identified in charging documents as Deckmate-brand machines — that authorities said was key to the alleged game rigging.
A DeckMate 2 shuffler taken apart on a table in an image from defendant Shane Hennen’s iCloud account. U.S. Justice Department
Deckmates are not sold directly to the public — though many used ones can be found for sale online. The ones at the high-dollar games cited in the indictment could read cards and predict which player had the best hand. Neither Deckmate nor its parent company, Light & Wonder, were implicated in any way in Thursday’s indictments.
A spokesman for Light & Wonder told NBC News in a statement that the company was aware of reports about the charges against people but said they were not affiliated with the company.
“We sell and lease our automatic card shufflers and other gaming products and services only to licensed casinos and other licensed gaming establishments,” said Andy Fouché, the company’s vice president of communications. “We will cooperate in any law enforcement investigation related to this indictment.”
Reprogramming shufflers is not a new trick. In 2023, hackers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas presented research showing how to hack a Deckmate shuffler and use it to cheat.
The rigged shuffler machines would transmit information about the players’ hands to an off-site “operator,” according to prosecutors.
The computer program showing information transmitted by the rigged shuffling machine in an image from defendant Shane Hennen’s iCloud account. U.S. Justice Department
The operator would then communicate the information to someone else at the table, dubbed the “quarterback.” The victim was known as the “fish.”
Here, the high-tech gadgets met the low-tech of a card game.
The quarterback might touch the $1,000 poker chip or tap his chin or touch his black chips to indicate who at the table had the best hand.
Text messages obtained by prosecutors also appear to show defendants concerned that a fish would leave the table if he lost too many hands.
“Guys please let him win a hand he’s in for 40k in 40 minutes he will leave if he gets no traction,” read one text message released by authorities.
But according to Messenger, the consultant, it was not the tech that made the alleged scheme so successful for so long. What set it apart was the level of communication.
For example, he said, the card information had to be seamlessly passed from the dealing machines to an off-site operator and back to a person back at the table, all without alerting the fish.
“The piece that made this so successful was the coordination, not the technology,” he said.
A group that includes activist investor Jana Partners and NFL player Travis Kelce says it has accumulated one of the largest ownership stakes in Six Flags Entertainment and intends to press the company’s leadership on ways to improve the struggling amusement park operator’s business.
Jana said Tuesday that the investor group now owns an economic interest of approximately 9% in Six Flags. The group plans to ‘engage’ with Six Flags’ management and board of directors to discuss ways to enhance shareholder value and improve visitors’ experience.
Shares in the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Six Flags surged 17.7% on the news. The shares added another 5.1% gain in after-hours trading. Even with Tuesday’s rally, the company’s shares are down about 47% so far this year.
Six Flags reported a loss of $319.4 million for the first half of the year. The company said attendance fell 9% in the three months that ended June 29, due partly to bad weather and a ‘challenged consumer’ in most of the markets it operates in.
The investor group also includes consumer executive Glenn Murphy and technology executive Dave Habiger.
Kelce, tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, said in a statement that he grew up going to Six Flags amusement parks.
‘The chance to help make Six Flags special for the next generation is one I couldn’t pass up,’ he said.
The American cattle ranching industry is blasting President Donald Trump’s proposal to purchase beef from Argentina in an effort to lower supermarket beef prices.
“This plan only creates chaos at a critical time of the year for American cattle producers, while doing nothing to lower grocery store prices,” Colin Woodall, CEO of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, said in a statement Monday.
Wyoming-based cattle operation Meriwether Farms addressed Trump directly in a social media post Monday.
“We love you and support you — but your suggestion to buy beef from Argentina to stabilize beef prices would be an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher,” the farm wrote on X.
By midday Tuesday, the post had already received 4 million views. A representative for Meriwether Farms did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump floated purchasing beef from the South American nation Sunday aboard Air Force One to push down U.S. beef prices by increasing the overall supply.
‘We would buy some beef from Argentina,’ he told reporters, ‘If we do that, that will bring our beef prices down.’
Beef prices have hit record highs this year, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,fueled in part by depleted herd counts and steady demand from U.S. consumers.
Vice President JD Vance slammed former White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s ‘disgraceful’ remarks implying that second lady Usha Vance is afraid of her husband.
‘I think it’s disgraceful, but of course the second lady can speak for herself,’ Vance told reporters in Israel on Thursday.
He remarked that he is ‘very lucky to have a wonderful wife’ and that he was honored to have her by his side during his recent trip to Israel.
Psaki made remarks about the second lady during an appearance on the ‘I’ve Had It’ podcast and suggested that the vice president is ‘scarier’ than President Donald Trump.
‘I think the little Manchurian candidate, JD Vance, wants to be president more than anything else,’ Psaki said. ‘I always wonder what’s going on in the mind of his wife. Like, are you OK? Please blink four times. We’ll come over here. We’ll save you.’
‘And that he’s willing to do anything to get there. And your whole iteration you just outlined, I mean, he’s scarier in certain ways in some ways. And he’s young and ambitious and agile in the sense that he’s a chameleon who makes himself whatever he thinks the audience wants to hear from him,’ she added.
Social media exploded with criticism of Psaki’s remarks as the clip of her podcast appearance went viral.
Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, accused Psaki of ‘transferring her own personal issues onto others’ and said she ‘has to overcompensate for her lack of talent by saying untrue things.’
Fox News contributor Joe Concha also chimed in, saying that Psaki is, ‘Not a good person. At all.’
Usha Vance met her husband while attending Yale Law School. The White House notes in its biography of the second lady that she ‘is an experienced litigator whose work involved complex civil litigation and appeals in a wide variety of industries.’ Additionally, she clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and for then-Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who was serving on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
In his memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy,’ which was originally published in June 2016, the now-vice president called Usha his ‘Yale spirit guide’ and said that, ‘In a place that always seemed a little foreign, Usha’s presence made me feel at home,’ according to PBS.
The Vances welcomed their first son, Ewan, in June 2017, according to People magazine. Their second son, Vivek, was born in February 2020, and their daughter, Mirabel, was born in December 2021.
Fox News Digital’s Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump maintains he’s steering clear of Virginia politics, but his in-flight remarks about Winsome Earle-Sears are prompting questions about whether he’s backing her after all.
The president has issued a full-throated endorsement for Attorney General Jason Miyares’ re-election bid but has stopped short of doing so for Earle-Sears or lieutenant governor nominee John Reid.
He has notably endorsed New Jersey Republican gubernatorial nominee Jack Ciattarelli as a ‘winner’ with a ‘complete and total endorsement’ – and that ‘after getting to know and understand MAGA, [Ciattarelli] has gone all-in.’
At a White House event in which he hosted outgoing Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Trump wished him ‘good luck with the upcoming election’ and said the fellow former business executive has been ‘working very hard’ for the candidates.
‘He wants to see that young woman win,’ Trump said of Youngkin, appearing to refer to Earle-Sears.
‘And the attorney general who I endorsed.’
After the Jay Jones murder-texts scandal broke, Trump called on the Norfolk Democrat to drop out ‘immediately’ and said Virginia must ‘continue to have a GREAT (sic) attorney general in Jason Miyares who by the way has my complete and total endorsement.’
‘Jason will never let you down,’ Trump said.
When asked in June about appealing to moderate voters while running in Trump’s party, Reid told the Hampton Roads’ ABC affiliate that he is running his own race.
‘Donald Trump’s in D.C. John Reid’s in Richmond, and I’m looking to help Virginia, and so, if you love Donald Trump, awesome. If you hate Donald Trump, I really don’t intend to argue with you. I want to save Virginia and that’s why I’m running,’ Reid said.
This week, Trump again obliquely complimented Earle-Sears while speaking to reporters on Air Force One – but declined again to issue a Miyares-type ‘total endorsement.’
‘I haven’t been too much involved in Virginia — I love the state; I did very well in the state … I think the Republican candidate is very good, and she should win because the Democrat candidate is a disaster,’ he said.
He warned that both Virginia gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger and Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J. – the Democratic nominee in the Garden State – will preeminently be bad for the current U.S. energy dominance agenda.
‘Both the Democrats are going to drive the energy prices through the roof,’ he said.
Trump also faulted Spanberger for refusing to directly call for Jones’ ouster.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for clarity on whether Trump’s comments thus far have equated to an endorsement or whether he plans to offer one in the closing days, but did not receive a response.
When reached as well, the Republican National Committee indicated they were not at liberty to discuss the presidential prerogative in endorsements.
Earle-Sears, however, said she looks forward to working with Trump as governor to continue Republican policies focused on public safety, energy costs to Virginians and conservative values – and that Trump has indeed been supportive of her bid.
‘I am deeply grateful for President Trump’s support and his direct encouragement to voters in Virginia to vote Republican,’ she said.
‘We must ensure Virginia is the best place to live, work and raise a family and, with President Trump, I’ll fight to keep energy costs low, keep our families safe and defend our commonsense values.’
Sources have pointed to Youngkin’s own success brought on by keeping Trump at arm’s length during his own hard-fought campaign against Terry McAuliffe in a closely-divided state.
Youngkin’s messaging in predominantly Democratic northern Virginia and the I-95 corridor focused on issues like biological males in girls sports and parents’ rights that could and did draw crossover votes from Virginia voters not inclined to support someone associated with Trump.
Meanwhile, on the other end of the state, Youngkin campaigned on broader conservative or Trumpian tenets and successfully ran up the score in friendlier southside and southwest Virginia, where turnout in those less-populated counties was elevated.
Vice President JD Vance said it was an ‘amazing blessing’ Thursday to visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, where Christians believe Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected.
The visit came as Vance was visiting Israel to build upon the Trump administration’s ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
‘I am immensely grateful to the Greek, Armenian, and Catholic priests who care for this most sacred of places,’ Vance wrote on X on Thursday, sharing photos of his visit to the church. ‘May the Prince of Peace have mercy on us, and bless our efforts for peace.’
‘I am also grateful to the Franciscan monks who celebrated a private mass for my family and many of the Americans working for peace. They are a great credit to the Christian faith, and they were kind enough to take the time to minister to us at a very special moment,’ Vance added.
Vance previewed his church visit in remarks to reporters on Wednesday.
‘I hope to go to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which Christians believe is the site that Jesus Christ was crucified in,’ Vance said. ‘And I know that Christians have many titles for Jesus Christ, and one of them is the Prince of Peace. And I’d ask all people of faith, in particular my fellow Christians, to pray that the Prince of Peace can continue to work a miracle in this region of the world.’
‘I think that we have made incredible strides over the past week,’ he added. ‘We’re going to have to make a lot more. But I think with your prayers, with God’s providence, and with a very good team behind me, I think we’re going to get it done.’
The church was founded in 326 A.D., though the original fourth-century structure was destroyed by Islamic ruler al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah in 1009 A.D.
The site was taken over by Christian crusaders nearly a century later, and Francesca Stasolla, an archaeology professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, told Fox News Digital earlier this year that the still-standing church is largely the work of the crusaders.
‘The site of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is identified as the place of both the crucifixion and the tomb of Jesus of Nazareth,’ the church’s website says. ‘The church has long been a major pilgrimage center for Christians worldwide.’
Before departing the country on Thursday, Vance categorized his trip to Israel as ‘productive,’ adding that so far, the ceasefire has seemed to hold for the most part.
‘The whole purpose of this trip was really to try to understand how to make the peace stick, how to move on to phase two successfully, and a big part of that is just understanding what would be necessary to police and secure Gaza so that on the one hand,’ Vance said. ‘We can provide stability and hopefully some humanitarian assistance to the Gazans, but on the other hand, ensure that Hamas is unable to threaten Israel. So it was a productive trip.’
Speaking alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, Vance said that the ‘very, very tough task’ ahead is to ‘disarm Hamas but rebuild Gaza to make life better for the people in Gaza, but also to ensure that Hamas is no longer a threat to our friends in Israel.’
Fox News Digital’s Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.
