Codelco said potentially interested companies must have the economic capacity and technology to undertake exploration and their future development.Read More
Its 90% stake in Chirano will be sold for a total consideration of US$225 million in cash and shares to Vancouver-headquartered Asante Gold Corporation.Read More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Chile's Environmental Assessment Service (SEA) has recommended rejecting Anglo American's permitting application on...Read More
RAPAPORT... The UK has imposed heavy tariffs on Russian diamonds as it attempts to up the pressure on President Vladimir Putin following the country's invasion of Ukraine.The government has increased import duties by 35 percentage points on a range of precious and semiprecious stones and metals from Russia and Belarus, it announced last week. These include rough and polished diamonds - whethe...Read More
Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Investors, if not their advisers, sense the longer-term challenges by selling sector leaders even as most investment...Read More
RAPAPORT... Dubai's Stargems Group has acquired two South African mines in an effort to expand its presence across the diamond supply chain.The diamond-sourcing and supply company recently purchased Jagersfontein Holdings, which runs a site dedicated to processing old tailings and was one of the first diamond mines in South Africa, Stargems chairman Shailesh Javeri told Rapaport News Sunday. It ha...Read More
RAPAPORT... Gem Diamonds reported a rise in first-quarter sales amid strong demand and the sale of high-value rough from its Let??eng mine in Lesotho.Revenue climbed 19% to $52.1 million during the three months ending March 31, the company said last week. Sales volume grew 6% to 28,461 carats, while the average price increased 12% to $1,831 per carat.Prices were higher on a like-for-like basis tha...Read More
(IDEX Online) - India's polished diamond exports rose by almost a half during the year to the end of March 2021.Total gross sales were $24.2bn, up from $16.3bn year on year, according to the GJEPC (Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council), a dollar rise of 48.8 per cent. Rough imports for the same period were up by almost 74 per cent, from $10.9bn to $18.9bn, though the volume in cara...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Thousands of men, women and children in Sierra Leone are being paid as little as $0.65 a day to dig for diamonds.They're employed by "supporters" to seek out gems in opencast mines of the eastern Koidu region, using nothing more than shovels and sieves.Many turn to artisanal diamond mining in desperation, according to an Aljazeera news report, but face exploitation and human r...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Gem Diamonds reports a slight increase in quarterly revenue, up four per cent on Q4 2021 to $52.1m, and says it is confident about future prices.Revenue for the three months to the end of March 2022 was up 19 per cent on the same quarter last year.The UK-based miner sold 28,461 carats in Q1 2022, according to a trading update, compared to 24,790 carats in the previous quarter. ...Read More
Base metals prices on the LME and SHFE were down across the board on Monday April 25, amid continuing concerns over slower growth in China, because of Covid-19 lockdowns, and due to rising interest rates, inflation and energy costs everywhere else.* China’s renminbi yuan continues to slide to 6.5475, after trading either side of 6.3400 through the first quarter* China’s mass Covid-19 loc...Read More
Canadian national producer price inflation surged by 4% in March from the previous month, the country's statistics agency reported.Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 28 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures responded to overnight weakness in world equity indices including a 5% drop by the Shanghai Composite Index.Twitter gained $2.72 to $51.65 on news that Elon Musk met with board members over the weekend to discuss Musk's $54.20 per share cash offer.Coca Cola added $0.25 to...Read More
Rising geopolitical risks ever since Russia launched its attack on Ukraine, combined with a massive digital transformation in the mining sector in recent years to boost efficiency, has vastly increased the need for companies to update and invest in their cybersecurity systems, analysts and mining executives say. Victoria Gold (TSXV: GCX) warned investors in its annual report last month that the m...Read More
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index tumbled by 51.58 points or 5.8% over the Apr. 18-22 trading session to end at 836.63. The week's most actively traded stock was Alphamin Resources, which advanced 24 ? or 21.2% to end at $1.37 per share, on trading volume of 22.1 million shares. The company operates the world's highest-grade tin mine, Mpapa North, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Nort...Read More
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 600.29 points or 1.77% to 33,811.40 and the S&P 500 fell 119.91 points or 2.8% over the week to 4,271.78. Shares of Endeavour Silver fell 20.3% to US$4.44 as the price of silver fell by 6.4% to US$24.34 per oz. during the week. On Apr. 13, the company reported high-grade drill results from its ongoing exploration program at the Guanacevi mine in Mexico's Dura...Read More
Over the Apr. 18-22 trading period, the S&P/TSX Composite Index fell 692.03 points or 3.2% to 21,186.38. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index decreased 15.14 points or 12.85% to 117.82 and the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index fell 30.71 points or 15.41% to 199.25. The S&P/TSX Global Gold Index fell 31.02 points or 9.07% to 341.86 and spot gold ended the week down 1%, or US$22.45 per oz. lower, at US$1,...Read More
Russia's state-owned nuclear power supplier Rosatom and Nornickel, the world's largest producer of refined nickel, are fine-tuning details of a plan to develop a lithium deposit in the country's northwest, Sputnik radio reported.The announcement comes about two weeks after Chile and Argentina suspended raw lithium shipments to Russia amid increasing global sanctions to Moscow linked to the invasio...Read More
Palladium One Mining (TSXV: PDM; OTC: NKORF) has released a resource update on its 100% owned L??ntinen Koillismaa (LK) PGE-copper-nickel project in north-central Finland that increases tonnage in the indicated category by 250%, and inferred tonnage by 14%.The new resource encompasses three open-pits in the Kaukua area, including an initial resource for Kaukua South and Murtolampi, and one at Hauk...Read More
Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) is selling its 90% interest in the Chirano mine in Ghana to fellow Canadian Asante Gold (CSE: ASE) in a cash and shares deal worth $225 million.The open-pit and underground mining operation in southwestern Ghana produced 154,668 gold-equivalent ounces in 2021, compared to 166,590 oz. in 2020 and is located immediately south of Asante's Bibiani gold mine. The govern...Read More