Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

The decline in gold prices will not last forever, and we just witnessed a double bottom and now heard Central Banks are buying at a record pace. Newmont mining is expert Ron Struthers' go-to stock when gold prices start to move, and he believes it currently offers great value with an over 5% dividend yield.I fared well, getting stopped out of most gold producers in June. I also suggested selling N...Read More

LONDON, 31 October 2022 - Comment from BullionVault today leads the latest gold-price report from leading US finance news-site MarketWatch."Gold remains a prisoner of the dollar ahead of Wednesday's Fed decision, and then the non-farm jobs data on Friday," the report quotes Adrian Ash, director of research at BullionVault.Read the full story, widely syndicated around the world, at MarketWatch here...Read More

LONDON, 4 October 2022 - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the 3rd best-selling daily paper in Germany, today quotes BullionVault analysis and comment in a report on changing tax treatment of silver coins in the Eurozone's largest economy."The Treasury wants to ban the use of differential taxation for silver coins minted in non-EU countries," says the report.Held VAT-free in London, stockpiles of la...Read More

The Fed's policy, along with the supply and demand fundamentals of the silver market, have left the...by Chris Marcus of Arcadia EconomicsIt's been an interesting year in the silver market, where demand for physical metal has grown throughout 2022, while the price has spent a lot of time below the $20 mark.Obviously, the Fed's rate hikes and quantitative tightening have had a lot to do with that,...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

The separation will establish two companies: •            An Argentina-focused lithium company (Lithium International) owning LithiumRead More

"We are excited with the drill results received to-date and are increasingly optimistic for the results to be collected from the ongoing drilling campaign in progress with SGS Lakefield," said SnowRead 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 limitedGold produc...Read More

"We continue to make good progress on the transaction," Gold Fields said in a Q3 operational update.Read More

Denison completed a prefeasibility study for the project in 2018, which forecast that the flagship Phoenix deposit would produce 6 million lbs uranium oxide (U3O8) at 19.1% U3O8 across a 10-year mine life. Wheeler River also contains a second deposit called Gryphon, which-although regarded as a first-tier deposit by Denison-is expected to trail the development of Phoenix as part of a staged develo...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 limitedAfter its e...Read More

News: Diamond trade uncertain as polished prices decline. 1 ct. RAPI -3.6% in Nov. Midstream inventory high due to weak demand after bullish 1H manufacturing. Surat factories closed for Diwali. De Beers eases buyer terms and keeps prices stable at Nov. sight. Boxes offered at deep discounts on secondary market. Let??eng 3Q average price +28% to $2,028/ct. Lucara Diamond 3Q sales -36% to $47M. Ris...Read More

RAPAPORT... Gemfields will sell a cluster containing 187,775 carats of emeralds at an upcoming rough tender, expecting it to garner a company record price for a single emerald piece.The miner recovered the Kafubu Cluster in March 2020, it said Wednesday. It is named for the river that forms the natural boundary of its Kagem emerald mine in Zambia. The mass contains only a very small amount of ore...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lucara Diamond Corp.'s sales dropped in the third quarter as the company supplied fewer large and expensive stones from its lucrative Karowe mine in Botswana.Revenue fell 31% year on year to $49.9 million, while net profit slumped 86% to $1.8 million, Lucara reported Wednesday.Sales of rough from Karowe declined 36% to $46.5 million, with volume down 15% at 99,301 carats and the a...Read More

RAPAPORT... Revenue at Gem Diamonds rose 20% year on year to $56.6 million in the third quarter, reflecting solid pricing and an increase in sales of high-value stones."Tenders in Antwerp, together with a Dubai tender viewing in September 2022, were well attended and contributed positively to the prices achieved during the period," the operator of the lucrative Let??eng mine in Lesotho said W...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Debswana's rough diamond sales rose by 37.5 per cent in the first nine months of this year, according to the Bank of Botswana. The 50-50 partnership between De Beers and the Botswana government sold $3.578 billion, an increase from $2.602 billion, as demand remained steady.Diamond revenue accounts for a fifth of Botswana's GDP and 70 per cent of its foreign revenue.T...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A colossal emerald cluster, weighing 187,775 carats (37,555-grams) is to be sold later this month by Gemfields.The UK-based miner says the so-called Kafubu Cluster could well be the most expensive single emerald piece it has ever sold.It was discovered at the Kagem emerald mine in Lufwanyama, Zambia, in March 2020. Gemfields has a 75 per cent stake in the mine and the Zambian gover...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

(IDEX Online) - The Kimberley Process is expected to go ahead with discussions on re-defining conflict diamonds for the first time since it was founded almost 20 years ago."We were unable to reach consensus in the previous Review and Reform cycle about how it may be possible to reference violations of human rights in the conflict diamonds definition," the WDC president Edward Asscher said on Tuesd...Read More