(IDEX Online) -  A long-lost emerald, salvaged from a 400-year-old shipwreck is to be auctioned by Sotheby's New York.The octagonal step-cut 6.25 carat emerald ring will be sold with a $50,000 to $70,000 estimate and all proceeds will go to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.The gemstone was lost for 363 years after the galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank during the hurricane season in th...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Bharat Diamond Bourse (BDB), in Mumbai, India, has celebrated 12 years of operations.   Vice president Mehul Shah thanked the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE), in Ramat Gan, saying it had served as inspiration for the venture.   The BDB complex (pictured), covering 2m sq ft, was designed in the shape of a diamond and, like IDE, it has interconnected high-rise buildings....Read More

Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limited  &nbs...Read More

BHP will acquire a 19.9% stake in Brixton Metals at C$0.18 a share in deal which potentially totals C$13.4 million.Read More

"The Pentwater parties have agreed to withhold their votes at the special meeting and have delivered notices of the exercise of their dissent rights in respect of the arrangement," Pentwater CapitalRead More

Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedIt comes af...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 2 points in pre-opening trade. Focus today is the FOMC announcement on monetary policy at 2:00 PM EDT. Consensus calls for an increase in the Fed Fund Rate by 0.75% to 3.75%-4.00% and a $95 billion asset purchase.Advanced Micro Devices $AMD added $2.41 to $62.07 after the company offered positive fourth quarter revenu...Read More

Doug Casey's Take, Released on 11/2/22If you're an action oriented individual looking to thrive in the coming chaos, you might be a perfect fit for our new premium service: Doug Casey's Phyle. https://phyle.coDoug Casey is an American-born libertarian economist and advocate of the free market. He is a bestselling financial author, international investor, entrepreneur, and the founder and chairman...Read More

Lara Logan - Twitter, Released on 11/2/22pic.twitter.com/EfGzrCpQaH- Lara Logan (@laralogan) November 2, 2022 U.N. "experts" have been warning of catastrophic global warming for the last 33 years added by Herman James on 11/03/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

Of Two Minds (via Dollar Collapse), Released on 11/2/22The era of all-powerful central banks is over for a simple reason: they failed: they failed their citizensContinue... Charles Hugh Smith: The Era of All-Powerful Central Banks Is Over added by Herman James on 11/03/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

News from Underground by Mark Crispin Miller, Released on 11/2/22Food writer Julie Powell; cardiologist Lauren Gray Gilstrap; Dead Kennedys drummer D.H. Peligro; "Schitt's Creek" producer Ben Feigin; actor Tim Roth's son Cormac; urban theorist Mike Davis; and moreContinue... In memory of those who "died suddenly" in the United States, October 24-October 31 added by Herman James on 11/03/2022View a...Read More

Benny Johnson - Twitter, Released on 11/2/22Biden: Paul Pelosi's attack is literally J6 pic.twitter.com/kIDHgB5wr4- Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 2, 2022Biden: Paul Pelosi's attack is literally J6 added by Herman James on 11/03/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More

"...that's where we're headed, before the end of the year..."by Bix Weir of Road to RootaThe Physical COMEX Silver Inventories are being drained at such a rate that there will be NOTHING LEFT by the end of the year! This is ALL part of the JPM to BofA to Warren Buffett derivatives debacle that was set up in February 2021 and comes to fulfillment on December 31, 2022. If you haven't bought silver y...Read More

Wait for it...Wait for it...Waaaaaaaaaaaaait for it...(by Half Dollar) The Fed has officially just concluded its most recent 2-day FOMC meeting.Here's the Fed's statement, posted in its entirety (bold added for emphasis and commentary):Recent indicators point to modest growth in spending and production. Job gains have been robust in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflat...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Botswana government has refuted a report that the country might scale back its sales partnership with De Beers.The local Sunday Standard claimed Botswana was expected to offer most of its large stones through parastatal Okavango Diamond Company to a partnership between Lucara Diamond Corp. and Belgian manufacturer HB Antwerp.President Mokgweetsi Masisi "publicly and forcefully...Read More

Just as I predicted, the Fed raised the fed funds target rate (also called the policy rate) today by 0.75%.The new target rate is a range of 3.75-4.00%, the highest since 2008. This is the sixth rate hike this year and the fourth consecutive 0.75% rate hike.That's the steepest, fastest series of Fed rate hikes since the Paul Volcker days in the early 1980s.Today's hike demonstrates that the Fed is...Read More

The federal government has been getting tough with some Chinese companies, forcing some foreign owners of Canadian critical mineral projects to divest their holdings in the name of national security. On a Wednesday list of forced divestitures were Sinomine Rare Metals Resources's holdings in Vancouver-based Power Metals (CVE: PWM); Chengze Lithium International's investment in Calgary-based Lithi...Read More

Canada's top potash producer Nutrien (TSX: NTR) has guided for lower full-year headline profit as September-quarter sales volumes and prices slid lower than expected.The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based crop nutrient producer, distributor and retailer now guides for adjusted earnings per share of US$13.25 to US$14.50, below average analyst forecasts calling for US$14.45, and down from its prior Aug....Read More

Arizona Sonoran Copper's (TSX: ASCU) ongoing 32,000-metre infill drill program at its Parks-Salyer (P/S) porphyry copper deposit has delivered an intercept of 217.7 metres grading 1.01% copper.The robust intersection comes from an additional three drill holes drilled at P/S, following the initial Inferred resource in September of 143.6 million tonnes grading 1% copper for 2.92 million lb. of conta...Read More

The latest assay results from New Found Gold (TSX-V: NFG; NYSE-A: NFGC) show near-surface, high-grade mineralization at its Lotto zone in northeast Newfoundland.The drilling shows that Lotto North is in fact a new, shallow and brittle fault zone north of Lotto proper, which hosts high-grade, epizonal-style gold mineralization in a north-south striking open-ended structure.Highlights from recent dr...Read More