RAPAPORT... De Beers has increased its production forecasts for 2018 and the coming years, as the miner anticipates solid consumer demand. The diamond company expects output for the current year to reach 35 million to 36 million carats, the highest level since 2008, whereas it recovered 33.5 million carats in 2017, parent company Anglo American said Tuesday. Recovery levels will dip to betwee...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers has raised its forecast for output for this year to 35 million to 36 million carats, the highest level in a decade since demand was battered by the global financial crisis of 2008. The figure was revised upwards from 34 million to 36 million carats.   The updated figure compares with production of 33.5 million carats in 2017, according to a press statement from Anglo...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A little more than a month before the start of the winter edition of the Vicenzaoro show, which takes place from January 18th to 23, the Italian Exhibition Group S.p.A. (IEG) has unveiled the new brand identity of the exhibition which is to be officially launched at the fair.   FutureBrand, a brand consultancy company, was selected by IEG to rebrand the show and has done so al...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Canadian Jewellers Association (CJA) has announced changes to its management personnel, with Executive Director, Brian Land leaving the role and the Association following the completion of his scheduled 18-month contract.   He will continue to be involved with the CJA as a freelance writer, while Carla Adams, currently a manager in the Association office, will discharge t...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Online diamond bridal jewelry retailer JamesAllen.com has officially opened its new brick and mortar retail store in Georgetown, Washington DC.   The firm said the store offers an OmniChannel experience by providing a new, complementary way for JamesAllen.com customers to explore, research, and purchase its products.   JamesAllen.com was acquired last year by Signet Jewe...Read More

(IDEX Online) - In the third departure of a senior figure in less than a year, Dominion Diamond Corp Chief Executive Officer Patrick Evans left the company last week.   Evans left on December 5, but will remain as an adviser to the Canadian miner until the end of next year. He is being replaced by COO Shane Durgin.   Evans was named as CEO 13 months ago following the company's acqui...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedCEO Mark Cutifani told a briefing for investors and analysts Tuesday he was confident about the company's outlook, with Anglo's production expected to be 2% higher than the full-year 2018 guidan...Read More

Waterton bought 912,763 Hudbay common shares on the open market at C$6.4973 for a total investment of $5.93 million.It previously expressed opposition to Hudbay's commitment to any further mergers and acquisitions, saying the company had enough quality projects to create significant shareholder value.Waterton had requisitioned a special meeting of shareholders on October 23, to have sharehold...Read More

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part firmer this morning, Wednesday December 12, with average gains of 0.3%. This after the complex climbed by an average of 0.4% on Tuesday, which followed Monday’s test of support levels – that held. This morning’s gains were fairly tightly bunched with prices rising between 0.2% for aluminium and 0...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 23 points in pre-opening trade.Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the November Consumer Price Index at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was unchanged versus an increase of 0.3% in October. Actual was unchanged. Excluding food and energy, consensus for the November Consumer Price Index was an increase of...Read More

Today we trample sacred ground... trumpet a message of heresy... and offend the wrathful gods.In 2001, academic Hans-Hermann Hoppe scribbled a book bearing the soaring title Democracy: The God That Failed. Hoppe's work is a sharpened spear levelled against that holiest of secular divinities.Hoppe's primary tort against democracy?It wastes. It exhausts its capital. It forever takes the short view....Read More

The buck stops here, said Truman.But Trump says it stops with the next fellow in line. Let it be the next president's toothache.Last year administration bean counters unfurled a worrisome chart before the president…It revealed an approaching "hockey stick"-pattern spike in the national debt - but only after a possible second Trump term had concluded.Came the president's response, according t...Read More

Even more than our education, our habits reflect our lives. Habits are very easy to develop and very hard to break, and once they’re developed, they control our behavior-sometimes in ways that we don’t even recognize. Often these bad habits lead to other bad habits. It’s a vicious cycle.For instance, many people want to be in shape. In fact, we're only a few weeks away from that...Read More

Calgary, Alberta (December 12, 2018) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Company") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) is pleased to report results from the Phase I and II diamond drill programs from the Kena Gold Project, located in the highly prospective Kootenay Boundary region near Nelson, British Columbia and provide a corporate update relating to the company's other activi...Read More

December 12, 2018 - Vancouver, BC - ATAC Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:ATC) (“ATAC”) announces that Barrick Gold Corporation (“Barrick”) has terminated its option to acquire an interest in the Orion Project, located within ATAC’s 100% owned Rackla Gold Property, Yukon. “We would like to thank Barrick for its exceptional collaboration and sharing its extensive knowledge...Read More

An improved pair of noise-canceling headphones designed specifically for a former state trooper who suffered a traumatic brain injury in the line of duty was awarded first place in the Fall 2018 Capstone Design Showcase on Dec. 4. The Hypersensitive Hearing Project worked with nonprofit organization Quality of Life Plus to assist the former North Carolina trooper, who has had to deal with hyperse...Read More

ALAMOS, MEXICO - Thanks to a late rain, it's unusually green on the Sierra de Alamos as we drive onto Minaurum Gold's (TSXV: MGG; US-OTC: MMRGF) Alamos silver property in late November 2018. We enter via the small town of La Aduana - an old mining town, where the Spanish settled when they came to the region in the 1600s.The Alamos project is in the southern part of Mexico's Sonora State. Minaurum...Read More

Sustained investment in people a big plus for consultancySPONSOREDbyrnecutMahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsIt is that time of year again where we all put our brains on idle and suspend belief for a bit - and it is most relaxin...Read More

Why did Barrick walk away from Orion?Guest's website:https://secure.kaiserresearch.comProduced by https://www.HoweStreet.comDon't miss out - Stay Informed!Receive the HoweStreet.com Weekly Recap with thought provoking podcasts, radio and articles delivered to your inbox.Sign up for the HoweStreet.com Weekly Recap on the homepage at https://www.HoweStreet.com#Gold #JuniorMiners #JohnKaiserRead More

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 423RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/...Mainstream Forecasts Incorporating Recession - We are in the early stages of this bubble popping. That's why, if you look now at a lot of the mainstream forecasts, all of a sudden, they're all incorporating recession. The probability of recession is now very high over the n...Read More