The major gold minersare grinding higher in a solid upleg, fueling growing interest in this small contrariansector.  They’ve mostly finished reportingtheir fourth-quarter results, revealing how they are really faring fundamentally.  Collectively the world’s biggest gold minerscontinue to face serious challenges, which often stem from declining production.  That makes sto...Read More

Steel billet prices showed a slight increase in most regions in the week ended Friday March 15, with scrap costs remaining high, but demand in many buying outlets was weak.The exception was Southeast Asia, where trading activity was strong, despite increased costs.Scrap prices remained at high levels, with Fastmarkets' daily index for Northern European HMS 1&2 (80:20) scrap material at $318.37 per...Read More

By: DAVID Chapman"The most important of these rules is the first one: the eternal law of reversion to the mean (RTM) in the financial markets." John C. Bogle, The Clash of Cultures: Investment vs. Speculation - investor, business magnate, philanthropist, founder CEO Vanguard Group, 1929-2019 "No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the ob...Read More

By: Gary TanashianOne problem for the gold stock sector was highlighted here and here evidently a little too obnoxiously for the liking of some bugs. The problem was the aggressive bullhorn sounds emanating from every orifice of the gold community the minute the charts broke upward into an obviously bullish technical state.But while the HUI/Gold ratio has been a distinctly positive technic...Read More

Theories and Realities Valuation Matters Why Average Rarely Happens New York, Cleveland, Austin, and DallasLast week, I described the enormous challenges retirees face. One reason for that, aside from insufficient savings, is that markets haven't delivered the returns many experts said we could plan on.Back in the late 1990s, we were told that the long-term average return (~10%) was a reasonable...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 15 that are worth another look.Import tariffs on steel products in the United States created under Section 232 are likely to remain in place at least until the end of 2019, the chief executive officer of Gerdau, Gustavo Werneck, said during an event at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday March 13. The Singapore Ex...Read More

While gold miners have been making substantial profits in recent quarters thanks to rising gold prices and better operational and financial discipline, they continue to seek new ounces via the drill bit to fill their production pipeline. A look at eight majors and juniors exploring for gold worldwide.BARRICK GOLDThe world's largest gold miner Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) is also heavily inv...Read More

Researchers with the University of Aberdeen and the University of Glasgow published a study where they state that an abundance of copper played an equally crucial role to oxygen in helping the rise and spread of the earliest animals 700 million years ago.By analyzing a series of geological records, the scientists were able to prove that the level of copper in the environment increased dramatically...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday March 15 that are worth another look.Import tariffs on steel products in the United States created under Section 232 are likely to remain in place at least until the end of 2019, the chief executive officer of Gerdau, Gustavo Werneck, said during an event at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday March 13. The Singapore Ex...Read More

RAPAPORT... Angola's national diamond-trading company, Sodiam, has agreed tohold its first rough tender in Israel. Representatives from Israel's government and diamond industry reached the deal with Angolan officials during a recent visit to the African country, the Israel Diamond Exchange said last week."Israel and Angola have many commoninterests, and we see a real opportunity to stren...Read More

RAPAPORT... The World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) has specified theneed to disclose treatments to both natural and lab-grown diamonds. Sellers must make the disclosure clearly, both at the time of sale and before, the organization noted in guidelines it released last week. The same instructions apply to natural and synthetic colored gemstones, CIBJO said. The guidelines apply to any ston...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Asian Institute of Gemological Sciences (AIGS) haslaunched a mobile app that can verify its gemstone reports, following a recent slew of counterfeiting cases. "This new app is necessary in order to protect ourcustomers," AIGS chairman Kennedy Ho said last week. "This is the most secureway to verify our reports from now on." The app - which AIGS says is the first of itskind -a...Read More

The world's top diamond producer by output, Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), published this week an updated estimate of its Joint Ore Reserves Committee or JORC reserves and resources."The JORC Code-compliant report from Micon's independent experts estimated Alrosa's diamond resources and reserves as of 1 July 2018 at 1,064 million carats and 628 million carats, respectively," the miner said in a press release....Read More

RAPAPORT... Sales of higher-quality stones and an increased average price drove a spike in Alrosa's profit and revenue in 2018.Profit increased 15% to RUB 90.4 billion ($1.39 billion),while revenue climbed 9% to RUB 299.7 billion ($4.62 billion), the miner saidlast week. The company's diamond sales jumped 12% to RUB 278 billion ($4.29billion), despite a 12% decrease in sales volume to 26.4 mi...Read More

Cryptojacking describes the creation of cryptocurrencies by a website that executes background mining software on a visitor's computer. Since mining is a very computing-intensive process, this can lead to reduced battery life on mobile devices. The cryptojacked computer runs at full speed, the battery drains quickly, and the profit goes to the attackers. The St. P??lten UAS has now developed the f...Read More

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Eleven years ago, Cloud Peak Energy Inc. (NYSE:CLD) made an all-or-nothing bet its rivals were unwilling to match: that coal would remain indispensable to the U.S. power sector.That gamble has now pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.The company anchored its operations on Wyoming and Montana strip mines, brimming with easy-to-access coal that it sold to electricity plants. For a time, Cloud Peak t...Read More

"Precious Metals Weekly Round-Up: Gold Rallies on Softer US Dollar and Last Week's Other Top Precious Metals Stories. https://t.co/4jr1DbYVUC #preciousmetals #gold"Read full newsRead More

"We asked resource industry experts what trends in mining investors may be overlooking. Here's what they said. https://t.co/EMQjLAJfVb @the_PDAC #INNatPDAC #PDAC #mining"Read full newsRead More