RAPAPORT... Belgium's polished-diamond exports increased 5% in the thirdquarter as the average price hit a record high of $2,542 per carat. TheSeptember rate of $2,727 per carat was also the country's loftiest result forany month, according to Rapaport archives based on data from the Antwerp WorldDiamond Centre. That upturn reflected the relative strength of the large-stonemarket versus small...Read More
RAPAPORT... Trans Atlantic Gem Sales (TAGS) sold $30.6 million worth ofrough diamonds during a tender it held in Dubai in late September and earlyOctober, it said Wednesday. The company sold 41,335 carats of high-quality stones frommines in South Africa and Angola for an average price of $741 per carat. "Despite what is currently a slightly softer rough market,the level of interest, number o...Read More
RAPAPORT...The World Jewellery Confederation (CIBJO) is likely tokeep the word "natural" in its definition of diamonds for the time being,according to the organization's president.The Switzerland-based group will probably not amend theentry in its Blue Book before the next scheduled review in two years, GaetanoCavalieri told Rapaport News ahead of the upcoming CIBJO Congress inColombia. That's des...Read More
RAPAPORT... Chow Tai Fook will debut a new bridal-jewelry collection inpartnership with designer Vera Wang, it said Thursday. The Hong Kong-based retailer will launch the line - calledVera Wang Love - in mainland China on October 19. It will target the "modernChinese bride," the jeweler noted. The collection includes 18-karat-gold and platinum engagementrings and wedding bands, as well as fi...Read More
(IDEX Online) - ALROSA, the world's largest diamond miner, announced rough diamond sales by value amounted to $331.6 million in September, and January- September sales of $3.588 billion. In September, ALROSA's sales of rough and polished diamonds increased by 9% yoy to $338.7 million, with polished diamond sales of $7.1 million. ALROSA's total diamond sales in January-...Read More
(IDEX Online) - With the 2018 CIBJO Congress set to open in Bogot??, Colombia, on Monday, agendas and related documentation for the sessions and meetings that will take place during the event are now available online. The schedule of the CIBJO Congress includes a series of meetings of different working groups, called sectors and commissions, each of which focuses on a different sector or f...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 3 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved sharply higher following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus for Weekly Jobless Claims was an increase to 210,000 from 207,000 last week. Actual was 214,000. Consensus for the September Consumer Price Index was a gain of 0.2% versus an increase of 0.2% i...Read More
News headlines proclaimed a strange anomaly in the financial markets this week as both stocks and bonds fell together. Typically, when stocks crash, money moves into the bond market and other safe-haven assets to protect capital, but that's not what we've seen since earlier this year.Jim Bianco, founder of Bianco Research, says investors are switching from a deflationary to an inflationary mindset...Read More
Last month I was in a series of high-level meetings with members of Congress and the Senate in Washington.While there's been major news about the Supreme Court, my discussions were on something that both sides of the aisle are coming to consensus over.You see, issues that impact your own bottom line are way more about economics than they are about politics. On Capitol Hill, leaders know that. They...Read More
In the U.S. we are obsessed with football-the American kind.Every year, each of the 32 professional teams perform a draft where they pick the best player from college teams across the country and pay them extraordinary amounts of money. The National Football League Commissioner stands at the podium in front of a live and nationally televised audience and announces their name along with the team th...Read More
October 11, 2018 - Brixton Metals Corporation (TSXV: BBB) (the "Company" or "Brixton") is pleased to announce it has successfully completed the acceleration (the "Acceleration") of 7,250,000 share purchase warrants (the "Warrants") issued pursuant to a private placement of units that closed in April 2016. On completion of the Acceleration, 4,044,000 Warrants were exercised (of which 1,340,000 Warr...Read More
A Colorado School of Mines professor has secured National Science Foundation funding for a state-of-the-art instrument that will allow researchers to gain a three-dimensional view of the shape, composition and bonding of a wide variety of materials.David Diercks, research assistant professor of metallurgical and materials engineering, was recently awarded $999,700 from the NSF Major Research Instr...Read More
Orla hits 147.7m at 1.25% copperResource definitionNew thinking carves out strong zinc position for Europa MetalsSPONSOREDeuropa metalsStoried past, future potential for Sierra RutileSPONSOREDsierra leoneAMC Consultants: San Sebastian Mining Method Case StudySPONSOREDamc consultantsThere is hardly an investment pitch from a miner these days, or so it seems, without a reference to an imminent metal...Read More
U.K.-based Pembridge Resources (LON: PERE) has been unable to secure funds to complete its acquisition of Capstone Mining's (TSX: CS) Minto copper-gold-silver mine in Yukon under an agreement first forged in February 2018 and initially expected to close in April. As a result, Capstone is putting the mine on care and maintenance and says it is exploring its options.The original acquisition terms ha...Read More
In 2019, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame will welcome five new inductees: Kate Carmack, James M. Franklin, James W. Gill, A. M. (Sandy) Laird and Brian K. G. Meikle. The thirtieth annual induction dinner is set for the evening of Jan. 10, 2019, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in downtown Toronto.The Northern Miner is a co-founding sponsor of the Hall of Fame, along with the Canadian Insti...Read More
Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) predicts it will miss its 2018 production guidance by 5% due to delayed commercial production at its El Compas silver mine, lower gold grades at its Bolanitos silver-gold mine, and lower output at its Guanacevi silver-gold mine. The company added it also may not meet its 2018 cost guidance as a result.The company suspended the plant at El Compas in August to...Read More
PolarX points to upsideSPONSOREDpolarx ltd The Toronto-based miner reported strong performance at its Chelopech mine, in Bulgaria, which produced 3% more gold year-on-year at 49,600 ounces, while copper output rose 21% to 10.3 million pounds.The Tsumeb smelter, in Namibia, treated 68,431 metric tonnes of complex concentrate in the period, setting a new quarterly record that bested the previous re...Read More
Edinburgh Comedy Award-winner Scott Gibson is back on the road with his brand new show!Delivered in his breathlessly inimitable style, Scott Gibson takes you on an epic odyssey that charts the choppy waters of youth.Join Scott for a blisteringly funny hour on the escapism and hedonism that travel promises, a story about friendship, love, pool parties, travel insurance and the Greek third-choice go...Read More
The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 399JOIN PETER at the New Orleans Investment Conferencehttps://neworleansconference.com/conf...RATE AND REVIEW this podcast on Facebook.https://www.facebook.com/PeterSchiff/...A Very Volatile and Technically Weak Trading Day for the Dow - Here I am for the third day in a row doing a podcast. It's market volatility that has brought me to the mic yet again. The...Read More
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