RAPAPORT... Growth at the retail division of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway slowed in the third quarter as supply-chain issues led to an inventory shortage.The unit - which includes jewelry chains Borsheims, Helzberg Diamonds and Ben Bridge Jeweler - saw sales increase 5% year on year to $4.8 billion, the company reported Saturday. That represented a gentler rise than the 8% gain the company...Read More
"Our diversified portfolio performed well in the quarter with declines in precious metal prices partially offset by strong oil and gas prices", said Franco-Nevada's chief executive Paul Brink.Read More
Sheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumExcitement as Alma Metals raises funds for more copper exploration SPONSOREDalma metalsStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedCanada's industry minister François-Phil...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Canadian Jewellers Association (CJA) has elected a new board of directors, to be chaired by Angela Betteridge.Betteridge, president of her eponymous jewelry company in British Columbia, will serve a two-year term from 2023 to 2025, the CJA said last week. Her career spans multiple facets of the industry, including diamond exploration, mining, rough and polished sales, advertising a...Read More
RAPAPORT... Israel's diamond shipments slumped in October as religious holidays compounded the negative impact of geopolitical and economic trends.Polished exports fell 24% year on year to $432.8 million for the month, after returns of unsold goods, the Economy and Industry Ministry reported Sunday. Export volume dropped 31% to 109,512 carats, with the average price up 9% at $3,952 per carat,...Read More
PolarX following up promising results at Nevada gold-silver projectSPONSOREDpolarx limitedSaudi to lead mining super regionSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAura picks up the pace on its pathway to uranium production at TirisSPONSOREDaura energy Last week's US$50 an ounce jump in the gold price could have been caused by a number of factors but one of them looks to have...Read More
RAPAPORT... The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will become chair of the Kimberley Process (KP) in 2024, trade leaders in Dubai announced following the organization's plenary meeting.The UAE will assume the role of vice chair for 2023 and take the helm the following year, in line with KP procedures, the Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) said Sunday. The KP, which aims to keep conflict diamonds...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The growth in sales of US jewelry and watches in September hit its lowest level since the Covid lockdowns of 2020. It was down to just 1.3 per cent. The figure for August, originally given as 3.7 per cent, has now been revised down, based on actual rather than estimated sales to 3.0 per cent. This paints a grim picture. The last time sales growth reached a low p...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The IDEX Polished Price Index continued its near-straight line decline for a seventh consecutive month in October. It fell by 1.86 per cent, slightly less than September's 2.34 per cent, but still the second biggest drop since April. The Index started falling early in March. It was down 2.1 per cent in April, 0.69 per cent in May, 1.18 per cent in June and 2.05...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 8 points in pre-opening trade.DoorDash gained $1.36 to 52.93 after Oppenheimer raised its rating from Perform to Outperform. Apple dropped $2.39 to $135.99 after announcing a reduction in iPhone 14 shipments.First Solar added $0.95 to $154.57 after Raymond James raised its target price from $145 to $175.Meta Platform a...Read More
Red Cloud Toronto's Fall Mining Showcase 2022, November 9-102022 Precious Metals Summit Zurich, November 14-15Mines and Money London, November 29-December 1CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 7, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. ("U.S. Gold," the "Company," "we," "our" or "us") (NASDAQ: USAU), a gold exploration and development company, today announced that its management team will participate in three upcom...Read More
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Americans know that gasoline prices are higher, home heating fuel prices are higher and that there's an emerging diesel fuel shortage in the United States.Higher fuel costs translate into higher costs for everything because trucks, trains, planes and cargo vessels all run on fuel (mostly diesel) so those higher fuel costs get passed along as higher prices for the goods being shipped including food...Read More
With a project focused on one of the hottest commodities tied to mass adoption of EVs, Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) is working towards completing a resource update and prefeasibility study for its PAK project in northwestern Ontario by the first quarter of 2023. The prospective lithium pegmatite project is 170 km north of the famed Red Lake gold camp in an emerging lithium mineral d...Read More
Our TNM Drill Down feature highlights the top gold assays of the past week. Drill holes are ranked by gold grade x width, as identified by our sister company Mining Intelligence (www.miningintelligence.com). Donlin Gold LLC, the equal partnership in Alaska of Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and NovaGold Resources (TSX: NG; NYSE: NG), had the top-rated assays of the past week followed by i-8...Read More
The Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 trading week saw the S&P/TSX Composite Index close 21.4 points or 0.1% lower, at 19,449.81. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index lost 4.3 points or 4.6% to 95.88 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index fell 12.7 points or 8% to 170.3. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell by 3.5 points or 1.4% to 239, and spot gold ended the week US$26.4 per oz. or 1.6% higher, at US$1,674.40 per...Read More
U.S. markets fell last week after the U.S. Federal Reserve increased its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points and Fed chairman Jerome Powell said talk of a pause in rate hikes to control decades-high inflation was "very premature." The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 458.58 points or 1.4% to 32,403.22 and the S&P 500 dropped 130.51 points or 3.35% over the week to 3,770.55. Potash prod...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index ended the Oct. 31-Nov. 4 trading session at 593.70 points, just 3.23 points or 0.5% lower. Critical Elements Lithium shares rose by 31 ? to $4.75 after the company announced it had received its last major environmental approval for its Rose lithium-tantalum project in Quebec. The certificate of authorization granted by the province follows a federal environmen...Read More