RAPAPORT... The National Museum in Prague has discovered a number of fakestones, including diamonds, sapphires and rubies, it saidlast week.The stones were found during an audit of the gemcollection while the museum was undergoing renovations. The Czech museum is remodelingin honor of the country's 100th anniversary, and will reopen inOctober, deputy director Michal Stehlik said in an interview wi...Read More
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada said 2018's convention attendance hit 25,606, the best turn out since 2013.Attendance was still marginally better than last year, just up six percent from 24,161.The PDAC Convention in Toronto, arguably the world's largest annual mining convention, is a bellwether of the industry's health. Participants from 125 countries attend.Organizers said...Read More
Reactions continue to pour in following U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on steel imports and 10 per cent for aluminium for almost every country but Mexico and Canada.Today, German Economy Minister Brigitte Zypries told Reuters that the decision will cost jobs and growth. According to Zypries, Trump does not want to understand the architecture of a free global econom...Read More
Researchers from Fudan University and the University of Science and Technology of China tried curing blindness using gold and titanium.In a study published in Nature Communications, the researchers explain how they replaced mice's deteriorated photoreceptors - sensory structures in eyes that respond to light - with artificial ones made with titanium dioxide and gold nanowires.To prove what at the...Read More
Asection of the northern dam wall at the Cadia mine, located in the eastern Australian state of New South Wales, collapsed into the southern tailings dam on Friday releasing a slurry of finely ground rock, water and a low level of benign processing reagents.The information was provided by owner and operator Newcrest Mining (ASX:NCM), whose management issued a statement on Saturday saying that expe...Read More
Full description and comments at: https://www.peakprosperity.com/podcas...Author and commentator James Howard Kunstler returns as our podcast guest this week for an update on where we are in The Long Emergency timeline.In this wide-raging discussion ranging from the pervasiveness of propaganda in today's media to the risk of nuclear war, Kunstler also re-news his warnings of a current secular econ...Read More
We've just wrapped the Strategic Investment Conference, which in many ways is the best week of my year. Seeing so many old friends, making new ones, and having countless fascinating conversations is my idea of heaven.Continue...Read More
RAPAPORT... Dominion Diamond Mines will integrate the Sarine DiamondJourney into its CanadaMark website, enabling consumers to track thedevelopment of their diamonds from mine to retail, Sarine Technologies saidrecently.The system was launched on the miner's website atthe Hong Kong International Jewellery Show earlier in March, providing imagesof the diamond through its journey along the supply ch...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) has received a $100,000grant for its "Diamonds Do Good" initiative, the group said last week. The JCK Industry Fund - which helped launch theprogram three years ago - has again provided funding for the campaign, aimed atinforming consumers about the industry's contributions to society. "Putting forward a positive narrative surrounding diamondsis esse...Read More
A branch of journalism that might be called, "don't worry, be happy, because this time is different" tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is actua...Read More
A branch of journalism that might be called, "don't worry, be happy, because this time is different" tends to pop up at the peak of cycles when imbalances that caused past crashes start to reemerge. Eager to keep the gravy train going, business publications send reporters out to interview industry experts (who are making fortunes from the ongoing expansion) on why this batch of imbalances is actua...Read More
Important development pieces have come together at the Silver Sand project in Bolivia. New Pacific Metals Silver SandNews Update: On March 12, New Pacific Metals Corp. began trading on the OTCQX Best Market under the symbol NUPMF.New Pacific Metals Corp. (NUAG:TSX.V, NUPMF:OTCQX) recently announced several key developments. Two major ones were obtaining exploration permits from the Bolivian gover...Read More
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Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett CollectionScared about inflation? Don't worry. Prices are rising, but slowly. How quickly things change in a month: The "great inflation scare of 2018" has died down after the latest U.S. jobs report showed a smaller increase in how much workers are paid. And now a milder uptick in consumer prices will offer more comfort to anxious investors. Aver...Read More
BHP Billiton's Saskatchewan potash mine remains in a holding pattern.The Jansen Lake operation, about 135 kilometers east of Saskatoon, has been under development for several years.In a question and answer session Friday in Australia, Chief Financial Officer Peter Beaven said potash remains an attractive investment because there's more people, they need to eat, and the amount of arable land will e...Read More
By Jacob Bunge and Dana Mattioli This article is being republished as part of our daily reproduction of WSJ.com articles that also appeared in the U.S. print edition of The Wall Street Journal (March 10, 2018). Takeover talks between Bunge Ltd. and Archer Daniels Midland Co. have stalled, people familiar with the matter said, throwing into question a combination that could have formed one of the...Read More
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