RAPAPORT... The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has enacted aresolution calling for reforms to increase the effectiveness of the KimberleyProcess (KP), the World Diamond Council (WDC) said. The European Union proposed the resolution at the assembly's73rd session on March 1, with all 193 UNGA members agreeing to it. "We are most heartened by the adoption of the resolution bythe UNGA, not on...Read More

RAPAPORT... Phillips has hired Geoffrey Hess as a consultant for itswatch department, to support the division's collaborations, events, sourcingand new business initiatives. Hess - an aficionado of vintage sports watches - was previously the CEOof vintage-timepiece platform Analog/Shift, the auction house said Monday. He was also CEO of Ivanka TrumpFine Jewelry and senior adviser to former New Yor...Read More

RAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, March 5, 2019, Las Vegas ... Diamond dealers remained cautious in February amid excess supply and selective demand. Suppliers had low expectations for the important Hong Kong International Diamond, Gem & Pearl Show as economic and political factors have impacted sentiment in China. There was stable demand at the show for 0.70- to 1.99-carat, F-J, VS2-SI2 diamonds, with...Read More

The prices for hot-rolled coil imported into the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia have fallen over the past week, with the prices for other flat steel products moving in the opposite direction, but buying activity for all such materials has remained limited, Fastmarkets heard on Tuesday March 5.Deals were scarce because end-user demand was still weak, sources told Fastmarkets.In addition, sto...Read More

Resource development, a principal economic driver of the Northwest Territories' (NWT) economy, is getting a $5.1 million boost in federal funding.The Government of Canada is investing in two projects that will support resource development in the Slave Geological Province (SGP), an area where the territory's three operating diamond mines are located.New mining projects are expected to inject n...Read More

RAPAPORT... Star Diamond Corporation has noted a large quantity of high-valueand large rough stones at its two exploration sites in Canada, sending itsstock price shooting upward. Nearly 27% of diamonds at its Star project are type IIa, acategory that represents less than 2% of all rough diamonds mined fromkimberlites, the company reported Monday. The proportion of that category at its OrionSouth...Read More

Price assessments for steel rebar and billet imported into the United Arab Emirates have decreased slightly this week because of lower prices in agreed deals, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday March 5.Demand for rebar in the country remained only moderate.Rebar importsOman sold rebar to its northern neighbor state at $530 per tonne cpt UAE.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for UAE rebar impor...Read More

China's domestic rebar prices lost their upward momentum on Tuesday March 5 amid declining futures, while trading activity also thinned. Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,800-3,840 yuan ($567-573) per tonne, narrowed downward by 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,800-3,830 yuan per tonne, down 20-30 yuan per tonneDeclining futures led sellers to lower their prices in the morning. The...Read More

China's domestic prices for hot-rolled coil moved down slightly on Tuesday March 5 amid falling futures, but mills raised their export offers on optimism for demand to pick up in both locally and abroad.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,850-3,880 yuan ($574-579) per tonne, down 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,780-3,800 yuan per tonne, down 10-20 yuan per tonne Losses in the futures...Read More

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil, hot-dipped galvanized coil, pre-painted galvanized iron, steel plate, steel sheet and other flat steel products. ...Read More

The Canadian federal government has announced an investment of C$5.1-million in two projects to support resource development in the mineral-rich Slave Geological Province (SGP) – an area in the eastern Northwest Territories and western Nunavut.The two projects entail planning for the development of an all-season access corridor and an exploration development initiative.AdvertisementA lack of...Read More

Export offers for Chinese cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized coil continued to rise over the past week despite thin trading, with the strengthening domestic market in China encouraging mills to ask for higher prices.Cold-rolled coilFastmarkets MB's weekly export price assessment for Chinese SPCC 1.0mm CRC was $547-558 per tonne fob on Tuesday March 5, up $2-3 per tonne from $545-555 per to...Read More

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, steel beams and other long steel products. ...Read More

Diamond miner De Beers on Tuesday reported that the value of its rough diamond sales for cycle two of the year was $490-million, compared with $500-million in cycle one and $563-million in cycle two of 2018.This brings the provisional total for rough diamond sales to date this year to $990-million.AdvertisementDe Beers sold about $5.39-billion of rough diamonds in 2018, and about $5.31-billion of...Read More

The Orion South diamond project, in central Saskatchewan, has been confirmed to contain a high proportion of rare type diamonds – Type IIa – which account for less than 2% of all natural diamonds mined from kimberlites.A recent study has confirmed that “unusually high” proportions of Type IIa diamonds are present in the Star (26.5%) and Orion South (12.5%) kimberlites, Star...Read More

Iron ore prices corrected on Tuesday March 5 despite the addition of further production restrictions for steelmakers in China, sources told Fastmarkets.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $87.03 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $86.43 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $89.20 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.68 pe...Read More

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for iron ore, pig iron, direct-reduced iron and other steelmaking raw materials. Latest transaction: iron oreIron oreVale, Global Ore, 65,000 tonnes of 65% Fe Iron Ore Carajas, traded at $99 per tonne cfr China, laycan February 27-March 8.BHP,...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsIts portfolio already has more than a billion tonnes of mineralisation with 636 million tonnes grading 0.45% copper equivalent at Mocoa in Colombia and 711Mt grading 0.Read More

Domestic iron ore supply in China has limited capacity to ramp up after smaller and higher cost miners exited the market over the past few years, a local miner said.China's domestic run-of-mine (ROM) iron ore production was estimated at 763 million tonnes in 2018, down 37.9% from a year earlier, chief executive officer and vice chairman Greg Pan of Hanking Industrial Group said in his keynote spee...Read More

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