Steel producers in Turkey expect output to increase in the last quarter of 2019, the Turkish Steel Producers' Association (T???oeD) said on Wednesday November 13.Turkey produced 25.29 million tonnes of crude steel in January-September 2019, down by 10.09% from 28.12 million tonnes in the corresponding nine-month period of last year.This meant that Turkey recorded the highest rate of decrease among...Read More

The price of steel rebar in the Southern Europe domestic market was unchanged this week but market participants expect increases in the near future because of significantly higher ferrous scrap costs, they told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 13. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe, was ?,?455-465 ($501-512) per tonne on Wed...Read More

The price of steel rebar in the Northern Europe domestic market continued to move up this week with mills seeking to reflect rising scrap costs in their rebar sales, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 13. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Northern Europe was ?,?475-485 ($523-535) per tonne on Wednesday, up by ?,?10 per tonne wee...Read More

Export billet prices from Iran have surged in the week to Wednesday November 13 with mills starting sales of their January-rolling material, Fastmarkets has learnt.Last week, several cargoes of January-rolling billet were reported sold to traders within the range of $360-365 per tonne fob for further sale to Asian markets."There is very little tonnage left now from the January allocation,"...Read More

RAPAPORT... Australian jeweler Michael Hill has launched a line oflab-grown diamond engagement rings priced at up to AUD 15,999 ($10,920), in aneffort to appeal to a larger consumer base. "We understand that our customers appreciate having genuineoptions when it comes to diamond jewelry - so now...customers will have anadditional choice in diamonds," the company said. The collection, which c...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers' November sales totalled $390 million, the highest for five months, as the roughmarket stabilized and the miner reduced prices to trigger demand.Proceeds from the ninth sales cycle fell 12% compared with the equivalent period last year, the company reported Wednesday. The figure includes lastweek's sight in Gaborone, Botswana, as well as auction sales.The slowdown was less pro...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Gemological Institute of America (GIA) has appointed Jeffrey Post and Tammy Storino as governors to its board, to help steer the organization's mission andstrategic initiatives. Post, a research geologist at the SmithsonianNational Museum of Natural History, is also the curator-in-charge for themuseum's National Gem and Mineral Collection, the GIA said Tuesday. He hasserved as...Read More

RAPAPORT... In a jam-packed program, the Dubai Diamond Conference set the stage well for its main bout: finally, a match-up between the lab-grown and mined diamond producers. At its core, the debate among panelists in the discussion titled "Market Disruption - the Advent of Lab-Grown Diamonds," boiled down to one fundamental question: What makes a diamond valuable? In one corner, representing the...Read More

(IDEX Online) - GIA (Gemological Institute of America) has welcomed two new members to its Board of Governors. They are Dr. Jeffrey Post and Tammy Storino.Dr. Post is a research geologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and is also the curator-in-charge of the museum's National Gem and Mineral Collection.He has also served as chairman of the department of mineral science...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers today said it provisionally sold $390 million worth of rough diamonds at its ninth Sight of the year, which took place earlier this month.This compares to sales of $442 million in 2018. Sight 1Sight 2Sight 3Sight 4Sight 5Sight 6Sight 7Sight 8Sight 92019$500 M$496 M$581 M$416 M$391 M$250 M$287 M$297 M $390 M (provisional)2018$672 M$563 M$524 M$554 M$581 M$533 M$50...Read More

RAPAPORT... A fancy-deep-blue diamond ring by Moussaieff fetched nearly$12 million at Christie's Geneva auction Tuesday, becoming the most expensivepiece of jewelry sold this season, the company said. The rectangular-cut, 7.03-carat, VVS2-clarity stone sold toa private collector for $11.6 million, against a presale estimate of $10million to $14 million. In total, Christie's garnered $55.3 mil...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Diamond explorer Botswana Diamonds PLC has announced the recovery of the first diamonds from diamond-bearing gravels and unprocessed stockpiles surrounding the Marsfontein Mine. The stockpiles are believed to contain commercial-grade diamonds."I am delighted with the rapid progress the team has made on-site and it is noteworthy that the first diamonds were recovered within two...Read More

RAPAPORT... A rare fancy-deep-grayish-blue diamond ring with a highestimate of $8 million is set to lead Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels sale in NewYork next month.The cushion-cut, 7.55-carat, type IIb, SI2-clarity stone,called the Indian Blue, is valued at $6 million to $8 million, and displays ared phosphorescence typically found in diamonds from the Golconda mine inIndia, or from South Africa...Read More

HARARE – Zimbabwe will vigorously enforce a policy to force companies to develop their mining assets and not keep the land for speculative purposes, mines minister Winston Chitando said on Wednesday.Chitando said some investors had not developed gold and platinum assets that they had held dating back to the 1960s and the mines ministry had asked some companies to justify why they should keep...Read More

Diamond miner De Beers’ rough diamond sales value for the ninth sales cycle of this year increased to $390-million, compared with the $297-million reported for the eighth sales cycle.Sales were, however, lower than the $442-million recorded for the ninth sales cycle of 2018.AdvertisementCEO Bruce Cleaver commented that with signs of increasing polished price stability, the ninth sales cycle...Read More

London-listed Botswana Diamonds (BOD) has recovered the first diamonds from its plant commissioning activities at the Marsfontein mining permit.The company’s 40%-owned associate Vutomi Mining was last month granted a mining permit for the diamond-bearing gravels and residual unprocessed stockpiles around the iconic mine, in South Africa.AdvertisementBOD reports that plant commissioning is we...Read More

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The stainless steel scrap market in the United States resumed its downward trek this week due to lower nickel prices, a weakening chrome market and slack demand, although the latter seems to have stabilized at least for now, sources said."We continue to be as conservative as possible with our buying prices because we have no confidence in the direction prices are heading," one domestic dealer sour...Read More

Poster South Africa mine regeneration on trackSPONSOREDorion mineralsNevada Copper's US$200 million Pumpkin Hollow project near Reno in Nevada is one of the first new mines established and in operation at "what looks to be the start of a new commodity cycle", theRead More

Turkish steel producers have continued their deep-sea scrap purchases for December deliveries at steady prices, sources said on Wednesday November 13.A steel mill in the Marmara region booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $262 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $272 per tonne cfr.A Monday booking from...Read More