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Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Affinity Metals Corp. Completes $180,000 Non-Brokered Private Placement
Cardston, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - May 16, 2025) - Affinity Metals Corp. (CSE: AFF) (the "Company" or "Affinity Metals") is pleased to announce that it has closed its non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") previously announced on May 9, 2025. Under the Offering, the Company has issued 12,000,000 units at a price of $0.015 per unit for gross proceeds of $180,000. Please see the May 9, 2025 news release for further information on the Offering. All securities issued under the Offering are subject to a hold period expiring September 17, 2025, in accordance with applicable securities laws and the policies of the Canadian Securities Exchange. Certain directors and officers of the Company (the "Insiders") participated in the Offering and purchased an aggregate of 6,200,000 units for aggregate gross proceeds of $93,000. Participation by Insiders in the Offering is considered a "related party transaction" within the meaning of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 - Protection of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions ("MI 61-101"). The Company is exempt from the requirements to obtain a formal valuation and minority shareholder approval in connection with the Insiders' participation in the Offering in reliance of sections 5.5(a) and 5.7(a) of MI 61-101, respectively, on the basis that participation in the Offering by the Insiders did not exceed 25% of the fair market value of the Company's market capitalization The Company did not file a material change report at least 21 days prior to the closing of the Offering as participation of the Insiders had not been confirmed at that time. About Affinity Metals Corp.: Affinity Metals is focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of strategic metal deposits within North America. The Company presently holds the Regal Property near Revelstoke, British Columbia and the Windfall North Property located adjacent to Osisko's Windfall project in Quebec. ON BEHALF OF AFFINITY METALS CORP. "Robert Edwards"Robert Edwards, President & CEO The Company can be contacted at: info@ Further information about Affinity Metals can be found on its website at: Neither the Canadian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This news release may contain forward-looking statements (within the meaning of applicable securities laws) which reflect the Company's current expectations regarding future events. Forward-looking statements are identified by words such as "believe", "anticipate", "project", "expect", "intend", "plan", "will", "may", "estimate" and other similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this news release are based on a number of key expectations and assumptions made by the Company as of the date hereof. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based on what the Company's management believes to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure investors that actual results will be consistent with such statements. The forward-looking statements in this news release are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that are difficult to control or predict. Several factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements, including those identified in the Company's most recent Management's Discussion and Analysis, which is available on SEDAR+ at Readers, therefore, should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and, except as expressly required by applicable law, The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES To view the source version of this press release, please visit Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Business Wire
15-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Lifezone Metals Announces Voting Results from its 2025 Annual General Meeting
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lifezone Metals Limited (NYSE: LZM) (the 'Company' or 'Lifezone Metals') announces the results of voting by shareholders at its 2025 Annual General Meeting (the 'AGM') held today in the Isle of Man. The ordinary resolutions below were passed by shareholders, with voting results as follows: Ordinary Resolutions For % For Against % Against Abstained % Abstained To receive the Company's accounts for the financial year ended December 31, 2024 57,260,294 99.98% 1,587 0.00% 10,585 0.02% To ratify the appointment of the auditor 57,265,845 99.99% 6,563 0.01% 58 0.00% To re-elect Robert Edwards as a Class II Director of the Company 57,255,674 99.97% 15,148 0.03% 1,644 0.00% To re-elect Jennifer Houghton as a Class II Director of the Company 57,256,491 99.97% 15,350 0.03% 625 0.00% To re-elect Beatriz Orrantia as a Class II Director of the Company 57,255,885 99.97% 15,956 0.03% 625 0.00% Expand A total of 57,272,466 or 72.39% of Lifezone Metals Ordinary Shares outstanding were represented at the AGM. If you would like to sign up for Lifezone Metals news alerts, please register here. Social Media LinkedIn | X | YouTube About Lifezone Metals Lifezone Metals (NYSE: LZM) is committed to delivering cleaner and more responsible metals production and recycling. Through the application of our Hydromet Technology, we offer the potential for lower energy consumption, lower emissions and lower cost metals production compared to traditional smelting. Our Kabanga Nickel Project in Tanzania is believed to be one of the world's largest and highest-grade undeveloped nickel sulfide deposits. By pairing it with our Hydromet Technology, we are working to unlock a new source of LME-grade nickel, copper and cobalt for the global battery metals markets, to empower Tanzania to achieve full in-country value creation and become the next premier source of Class 1 nickel. Through our US-based recycling partnership, we are working to demonstrate that our Hydromet Technology can process and recover platinum, palladium and rhodium from responsibly sourced spent automotive catalytic converters. Our process is expected to be cleaner and more efficient than conventional smelting and refining methods, enabling the circular economy for precious metals.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Lifezone Metals Announces Voting Results from its 2025 Annual General Meeting
DOUGLAS, Isle of Man, May 15, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Lifezone Metals Limited (NYSE: LZM) (the "Company" or "Lifezone Metals") announces the results of voting by shareholders at its 2025 Annual General Meeting (the "AGM") held today in the Isle of Man. The ordinary resolutions below were passed by shareholders, with voting results as follows: Ordinary Resolutions For %For Against %Against Abstained %Abstained To receive the Company's accounts for the financial year ended December 31, 2024 57,260,294 99.98% 1,587 0.00% 10,585 0.02% To ratify the appointment of the auditor 57,265,845 99.99% 6,563 0.01% 58 0.00% To re-elect Robert Edwards as a Class II Director of the Company 57,255,674 99.97% 15,148 0.03% 1,644 0.00% To re-elect Jennifer Houghton as a Class II Director of the Company 57,256,491 99.97% 15,350 0.03% 625 0.00% To re-elect Beatriz Orrantia as a Class II Director of the Company 57,255,885 99.97% 15,956 0.03% 625 0.00% A total of 57,272,466 or 72.39% of Lifezone Metals Ordinary Shares outstanding were represented at the AGM. If you would like to sign up for Lifezone Metals news alerts, please register here. Social Media LinkedIn | X | YouTube About Lifezone Metals Lifezone Metals (NYSE: LZM) is committed to delivering cleaner and more responsible metals production and recycling. Through the application of our Hydromet Technology, we offer the potential for lower energy consumption, lower emissions and lower cost metals production compared to traditional smelting. Our Kabanga Nickel Project in Tanzania is believed to be one of the world's largest and highest-grade undeveloped nickel sulfide deposits. By pairing it with our Hydromet Technology, we are working to unlock a new source of LME-grade nickel, copper and cobalt for the global battery metals markets, to empower Tanzania to achieve full in-country value creation and become the next premier source of Class 1 nickel. Through our US-based recycling partnership, we are working to demonstrate that our Hydromet Technology can process and recover platinum, palladium and rhodium from responsibly sourced spent automotive catalytic converters. Our process is expected to be cleaner and more efficient than conventional smelting and refining methods, enabling the circular economy for precious metals. View source version on Contacts Investor Relations – North America Evan YoungSVP: Investor Relations & Capital Investor Relations – Europe Ingo HofmaierChief Financial
The Hindu
03-05-2025
- Health
- The Hindu
IVF is expensive. Can recent cost-cutting technologies make a difference?
The year was 2004, the date was August 4, when our article, 'Inside the tube and closer to nature', was published as a letter to the editor, in the journal Reproductive Biomedicine, online. The founder-editor of the journal was the late Robert Edwards, Nobel prize winner in physiology and more famously known for being a pioneer in the field of IVF (in vitro fertilisation), credited for the birth of the world's first test tube baby. The article spoke of our experience with performing tubal procedures in IVF and their efficacy in successful pregnancy rates. The concept being: retrieval and transfer of the female oocytes into the ampullary portion of the fallopian tube, in its natural environment. Either these oocytes were loaded with sperms, or an intrauterine insemination was performed so that the sperms swam naturally towards their destination to fertilise with the oocyte. The concept of performing this was to reliably place gametes in their natural environment to enable fertilisation. Mimicking nature is the intention of IVF, be it temperature control or the well-fortified culture media used and their growth periodically monitored in CO2 incubators. Now, tubal procedures have become obsolete. Advances in cell culture methods and the expense of anaesthesia and it being a laparoscopic procedure, sealed their fate. Cutting costs in conventional IVF But then again, we feel the urge to cut costs in conventional IVF. This compels us to research techniques that could possibly reduce the number of injections that are taken by women, known as controlled ovarian hyperstimulation, to yield more than just a few mature follicles in their ovaries. When these follicles, which are monitored by ultrasounds on alternate days, reach a mature size, we surgically aspirate them to retrieve oocytes. The first method of cost cutting was to either perform a natural cycle IVF, or use minimal stimulation protocols with a combination of more tablets than injections. Depending on the individual's age, diagnosis and ovarian reserve, stimulation protocols are tailor-made for their needs. The other method, which is not new in the market is, invitro maturation of oocytes (IVM). In this method, we retrieve oocytes from follicles that are not fully mature (1.4 x 1.4 cm) and culture them in media, to which are added specific proportions of follicle-stimulating and luteinising hormones along with serum-derived protein and growth factors. This method cut short nearly half the cost of injections and also reduced risks of a potential complication called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. (OHSS). However, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine only recently, in 2021, declared it as non-experimental and its usage around the globe is much lower in comparison to conventional IVF. The reason being, lower success rates. Also, there is a learning curve in lab preparations for this process and it does remain challenging for regular use. New learnings The same year as IVM was gaining popularity as the new kid on the block, I was doing my Master's in clinical embryology (2004-2006) at the Jones Institute of Reproductive Medicine in Virginia, U.S.. For my final thesis, I decided to perform in vitro maturation on a select group of PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) patients who were ideal, as they required more injections, and so were also at risk of OHSS. However, I soon realised the nuances of culturing immature oocytes outside of the body not only depended on stringent culture conditions but also the basic quality of oocytes. PCOS patients are a tricky group where quality is concerned. I had to abandon my research and convert it to a literature review instead. Recently, a U.S.-based biotechnology company that works in reproductive health Gameto, grabbed headlines, with the introduction of 'Fertilo', which utilised ovarian support cells derived from stem cells, to literally recreate the ovarian environment, in vitro. These ovarian support cells are derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (HIPSC) that overexpress a variety of transcription and growth factors. Not only that, they behave like the nourishing granulosa cells that respond to exogenous hormones and feed the oocyte in vivo. So instead of supplementing the hormones as discussed earlier, the ovarian stem cells formed the elixir in culture in which immature oocytes were incubated for 30 hours, following which a maturity check was performed and fertilisation was enabled by conventional methods such as IVF and ICSI. To test safety and efficacy, 20 patients were recruited. Once cleared, the remaining 20 patients were randomised to two groups, one using fertile and the other using conventional IVM. The success rates projected as maturation rate, ongoing pregnancies and live births is double in the Fertilo group in comparison to the IVM group. The bias in the study however, is that the population was less than 37 years old and also had normal ovarian reserves. The success of this remains to be seen in a variety of diagnoses like older women, PCOS patients, those with low ovarian reserves etc. In this subset of patients, the current refined stimulation protocols have actually yielded much better results than a decade ago, including a reduction in OHSS. Proceeding with caution There are many factors that need to be considered before plucking a gamete out of its natural environment and subjecting it to in vitro conditions. The oocyte maturation process requires an intact meiotic spindle, proper nuclear maturation whereby there is resumption of meiosis (cell reduction division) and cytoplasmic maturation that enables accumulation of growth factors, leading to normal fertilisation and growth in vitro. Apart from these processes, disruption of epigenetic events from maternally expressed genes could result in poor integrity of embryos post fertilisation. In conclusion, newer culture methods and research methodologies that cut costs and complications are most welcome; however, elaborate multicentre studies and a follow-up of the pregnancies and births are required to ensure that results are on par, or better than conventional and time-tested IVF methods. The real test of IVF is not merely pregnancy rates, but how well the babies are doing 20 years into the future. (Dr. Priya Selvaraj is Director, GG Hospital, Fertility Research and Women's Specialty Centre, Chennai. She can be reached at drpriya@
NBC Sports
07-04-2025
- Sport
- NBC Sports
League office, owners at odds over player participation in Olympic flag football
In three years, football will finally land in the Olympics. Flag football, but still. Various NFL players have expressed interest in playing. The league office, as we understand, wants that to happen. The owners, however, are being more cautious. Which has created tension between the NFL and the people who own the NFL's teams. We got a sense of the push and pull during last week's annual meeting in Florida. The league sees an opportunity to market the brand on a global scale. The owners see an chance to have key players suffer injuries. And even if they don't, they'll miss time in preparation for the 2028 season. The Olympics run from July 14 through July 30, 2028. Any NFL players who participate will likely miss part of training camp. They could miss some of the offseason program, too, depending on the trials process — if the United State Olympic Committee opts to use a tournament to determine membership on the national team. While there's a collective upside for Big Shield, the NFL teams that surrender players to the effort could end up experiencing a very real downside. Yes, flag football isn't as intense as tackle football. But tell that one to former NFL running back Robert Edwards, who suffered a very serious knee injury while playing non-contact knee injury. So serious that amputation was a potential option at some point. Really, why would any owner agree to surrender a clear term from Paragraph 3 of the Standard Player Contract? Here's what it says: 'Without prior written consent of the Club, Player will not play football or engage in activities related to football otherwise than for Club or engage in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury. Player represents that he has special, exceptional and unique knowledge, skill, ability, and experience as a football player, the loss of which cannot be estimated with any certainty and cannot be fairly or adequately compensated by damages. Player therefore agrees that Club will have the right, in addition to any other right which Club may possess, to enjoin Player by appropriate proceedings from playing football or engaging in football-related activities other than for Club or from engaging in any activity other than football which may involve a significant risk of personal injury.' In English, that provision means a team can sue a player who tries to play football of any kind for any team other than his NFL team, or from engaging in any other activity that entails a significant risk of personal injury. In 2007, for example, the Titans successfully blocked cornerback Pacman Jones from wrestling during his one-year suspension under the Personal Conduct Policy. Why would any owner want to risk losing a key player for the full season? It makes no sense. Here's what does make sense. By 2028, there will be a crop of freshly-retired NFL players. Let the best of them do it. Winning the no-brainer gold medal becomes the icing on the cake of an NFL career. And that would be the standard practice, for as long as the Olympics continue to recognize flag football. However it plays out, the clock is ticking. The league hopes to finalize a decision in the next 60 days. For most owners, the final decision should be obvious: 'You're not getting our players.'
