It's 1:15 p.m. on a sunny Friday afternoon in Vancouver and I arrive a little early for a downtown meeting with Westhaven Ventures (WHN-V) chairman Gren Thomas. A short elevator ride at Granville and West Hastings takes me to Westhaven's modest offices on the 10th floor, where I let myself in and drop by CFO Shaun Pollard's office.Inside, Pollard and veteran geologist Ed Balon - Westhaven's techni...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) has launched a proposalcontest aimed at the millennials, promising a free trip toBotswana for the winning couple. The competition - named "Real Stories. Real Diamonds. RealImpact". - aims to educate the public about positive aspects of diamonds, theDEF said last week. Entrants must submit a 60-second video about their proposal storyand what their dia...Read More
RAPAPORT... Firestone Diamonds has recovered a 326-carat, near-gem-qualityrough - the largest diamond the miner has found to date. The company unearthed the stone at its Liqhobong mine inLesotho in October, it reported last week. "[The 326-caratdiamond] provides further evidence of Liqhobong's large-stone potential, and,importantly, the ability of the treatment plant to recover larger stonesintac...Read More
RAPAPORT... US polished-diamond imports rose 16%in August, continuing an upward trend for the year. The August growth reflectedhigher volumes (up 22% to 894,066 carats), with the average price slipping 5%to $2,016 per carat. A higher average price for the first eight months drove a 6% increase in imports for that period.US Diamond Trade Data for August 2018 Millions unless stated otherwiseRead More
RAPAPORT... Birks Group is launching its first Canadian store dedicated toGraff Diamonds jewelry. Birks will open the boutique this month on WestGeorgia Street in downtown Vancouver, solely offering Graff's high-end jewelryand watches, the Canadian retailer said last week. Birks describes itself as Graff's exclusive retailer in Canada,and currently houses the London-based brand's jewelry at...Read More
Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurds upgraded their oil export pipeline to accommodate future production growth from their region as well as from the contested Kirkuk area controlled by the central government in Baghdad.The Kurdistan Regional Government completed improvements to the pipeline to the Mediterranean port of Ceyhan, Turkey, by installing another pumping station in the Shaikhan area, the KRG's...Read More
So stocks dropped a little in October. Ok they actually dropped a lot and all of a sudden the S&P 500 was miles away from the all those optimistic 3,000+ year end targets. And what happens when...Read full newsRead More
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With the Basic Materials sector poised to log strong growth in the third quarter, it will be interesting to see how miners Alamos Gold and First Majestic Silver fare when they report quarterly results.Read full newsRead More
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Brazil's mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE), the world's No.1 iron ore and nickel producer, signed a four-year contract with Emirates Steel, the largest steel producer in the United Arab Emirates, to supply iron ore pellets for the Arabian company's steel production in Abu Dhabi.Such production requires inputs of around 6 million tonnes of iron ore pellets per year, which Vale can easily supply thanks...Read More
Secretary of State Michael Pompeo defended the temporary waivers granted to eight countries to continue buying Iranian crude oil for now against Congressional critics and others who say the U.S. is being too lenient on the Islamic Republic.The comments on "Fox News Sunday" come a day before U.S. sanctions on Iran's energy and shipping are due to snap back following President Donald Trump's decisio...Read More
Researchers from The University of Western Australia, Universit?(C) Laval and McGill University applied a first-of-its-kind technique that measures the long-term life cycle of sulphur, which helps explain the preferential location of high-value mineral deposits at the edges of ancient continents.In a paper published in Nature Communications, the scientists explain how they charted the life cycle o...Read More
Mr. Vishal Gupta reports CALIFORNIA GOLD ANNOUNCES NEW HIGH-GRADE ASSAYS FROM QUEEN SPECIMEN ZONE - INTERSECTS 27.64 G/T AU ACROSS 1.2M, INCLUDED WITHIN 10.64 G/T OVER 3.4M AND 3.27 G/T AU ACROSS 10.1MCalifornia Gold Mining Inc. has released new assay results from the continuing resource drilling program at the Queen Specimen zone at its flagship Fremont property in Mariposa county, California. As...Read More
A rough-and-tumble October for investors was good for the spot price of gold, which finished the choppy month in the black. It broke off a period of stagnation for the yellow metal that had extended into the fall. Prices have suffered since the late spring on positive economic data and the continued strength of the U.S. dollar.In a rare month, gold equities recorded solid gains. However, there wer...Read More
Mr. Anthony Makuch reportsKIRKLAND LAKE GOLD REPORTS CONTINUED EXPLORATION SUCCESS IN NORTHERN TERRITORY, NEW MINERALIZATION IDENTIFIED AT UNION REEFSKirkland Lake Gold Ltd. has had further exploration success at Union Reefs (UR) and the continued development advance into the Lantern deposit at Cosmo mine. UR is the location of the company's processing plant in the Northern Territory.Mining at the...Read More
President Trump is sending thousands of troops to the U.S./Mexico border in an effort to deter a caravan of migrants seeking asylum in America.I could get political here, and tell you one of two things:1) This caravan of migrants is part of a humanitarian crisis and the president is savagely exploiting it to incite his conservative base ahead of Tuesday's midterm election.Or...2) This caravan is a...Read More