RAPAPORT... It's official: Guinness World Records has verified the 7,525-carat Chipembele as the largest uncut emerald on record. The agency presented Israel-based Eshed-Gemstar with its sought-after certificate in April, after the company bought the stone from Gemfields last December for an undisclosed amount. Gemfields recovered the emerald a month earlier from its Kagem mine in Zambia, claiming...Read More
RAPAPORT... Rio Tinto has lowered its output forecast for the full year following challenges arising from Covid-19.The miner now expects production from the Diavik mine in Canada to be between 4.5 million and 5 million carats, it said last week. That compares with the 5 million to 6 million carats it predicted at the beginning of the year.Diamond production climbed 35% year on year to 1.1 million...Read More
Alma Metals targets resource expansion at copper project in QueenslandSPONSOREDalma metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net: Mongolia Country SupplementSPONSOREDRumble in the outback, "zinc elephant sighted"SPONSOREDrumble resourcesRed Dirt Metals: unexpected lithium starSPONSOREDred dirt metalsIn the latest twist to the global energy crisis there has been a dawning in China that it made...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Canadian junior miner Diamcor achieved an average of US$246.62 per carat at its rough tender from the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project, in South Africa.That's down over a fifth on the $330 per carat it achieved in February, when it sold 3,063 carats for $1,010,406.It sold a total of 1,939.81 carats sold earlier this month, generating gross revenues of USD $478,3...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A criminal investigation has reportedly been opened in Israel against "Tinder Swindler" Shimon Hayut, following a complaint from the Leviev family, owners of Leviev Diamonds.It follows Netflix's true-crime documentary which told how Hayut, 31, seduced numerous women over the Tinder dating app with his jet set lifestyle, then persuaded them to hand over money with claims that h...Read More
Protests by the Fuerabamba and Huancuire communities at Las Bamas started in mid-April this year and continued until June when the firm signed a 30-day truce with protestors that allowed mineRead More
"The intention of this programme was to increase the amount of resources in the Indicated category for the White Rock deposit, which stood at 4.7 million tonnes, or 79% prior to commencing the drilling," Anglesey's CEO Jo Battershill said.The company listed the following intersections:9.0 metres at 4.9% Zn, 3.1% Pb, 0.2% Cu, 24g/t Ag & 0.3g/t Au (WD-20 from 133.5 metres) including 6.0 metres a...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 28 points in pre-opening trade. Goldman Sachs advanced $9.42 to $303.29 after reporting higher than consensus second quarter results. The company also increased its dividend by 255.Bank of America slipped $0.12 to $32.13 after reporting less than consensus second quarter earnings. Boeing added $6.19 to $153.93 after De...Read More
IsoEnergy (TSXV: ISO; OTC: ISENF) has announced an initial mineral resource estimate for the Hurricane uranium deposit, part of its 100% owned Larocque East project in the eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatchewan. The resource estimate was conducted by SLR Consulting, using assays from 52 diamond drill holes totaling 20,387 metres and 785 samples.Indicated mineral resources totalled 48.61 milli...Read More
Australia's Vital Metals (ASX: VML) has in less than three months progressed from shipping out its first load of mixed rare earth carbonate to receiving positive results on the first processing pass at its new facility in Saskatoon, Sask. Vital is the first rare earth producer in Canada and the second in North America, after MP Materials' (NYSE: MP) Mountain Pass mine in California.The dense medi...Read More
Over the July 11-15 trading week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 113.23 points, or 0.36%, to 31,451.38, and the S&P 500 fell 8.27 points or 0.21% to 3,891.11.Shares in coal miner Arch Resources gained US$1.26 during the week to US$140.06. The company has scheduled a highly anticipated second-quarter conference call for July 28. The market is bullish on coal against an apparent pause, or e...Read More
Over the July 11-15 trading week, the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index fell 21.95 points or 3.7% to end at 584.43. Shares of IsoEnergy rose 21 ? to $3.03 during the trading week as the company provided an update on its winter exploration results and announced summer exploration plans for its eastern Athabasca Basin uranium properties. Highlights of drill results from the Larocque East project incl...Read More
July 11-15 was another painful week for metals markets and equities. The S&P/TSX Composite Index slid 628.41 points, or 3.3% to 18,394.45; the S&P/TSX Global Mining Index lost 5.44 points or 5.8% of its value; and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index dropped 9.85 points or 6.6% to 139.75. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index gave up 14.45 points or 5.6% to 245.45, while spot gold finished the week at US$...Read More
Gold streaming company Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV) has committed US$352.5 million to a finance package totalling US$481 million for the Tocantinzinho project located in Par?? state, Brazil, currently held by G Mining Ventures (TSXV: GMIN). The project is construction-ready, and first production is expected in the second half of 2024.Located 200 km southwest of the city of Itaituba, Tocanti...Read More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) said on Monday it's close to a final framework agreement with the Pakistan government to develop the giant Reko Diq copper-gold deposit, close to the borders of Iran and Afghanistan.The project, which hosts one of the world's largest undeveloped open pit copper-gold deposits, has been on hold since 2011 due to a dispute over the legality of its licensing proces...Read More
George Gammon, Released on 7/18/22Ronald-Peter St??ferle is Managing Partner and Fund manager at Incrementum AG, based in the Principality of Liechtenstein. The company focusses on asset management and wealth management and is one hundred percent owned by its partners. Ronald manages a fund that invests based on the principles of the Austrian School of Economics.George Edward Gammon is an American...Read More
ABC 7 Los Angeles (via MSN), Released on 7/18/22"To have a robbery like this occur with that amount of money, possibly upwards of $150 million in losses, is just incredible," Continue... Brinks Armored Truck Robbed of $150 Million Worth of Jewelry added by Herman James on 07/19/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Bloomberg (via Yahoo Finance), Released on 7/18/22"Nobody ever said boo about doing it. No one ever said it was legal or illegal. It was common practice."Continue... Spoofing Gold Price Was A 'Common Practice' at Bear Stearns, Ex-Trader Says added by Herman James on 07/19/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
(IDEX Online) - Thieves who broke into an unattended Brink's security trailer in Southern California, USA, may have escaped with up to $150m in jewelry, gems, high-end watches, according to exhibitors.The vehicle was on its way from the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo, south of San Francisco, to an event at the Pasadena Convention Center, northeast of Los Angeles. Guards who h...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Four Canadian men have been charged at a court in Ohio, USA, with a pink diamond and jewelry investment fraud following an FBI probe.They are alleged to have cold-called potential investors in the US and Canada and persuaded them to make small investments in pink diamonds, which, they claimed, would increase in value. The defendants claimed to work for Paragon Int...Read More