Dutch journalist Bram Ebus has just published an entire website dedicated to Venezuela's Mining Arc, a mega project that is at the centre of a national controversy given the devastation to both the natural environment and local communities that it is causing, as well as the innumerable allegations of rampant corruption surrounding it.Ebus spent three months investigating the many different aspects...Read More
Canada's Gran Colombia Gold (TSX:GCM) announced today that its total gold production for 2017 was 173,821 ounces, up 16% over 2016 and surpassing its guidance for the current year which was estimated between 150,000 and 160,000 ounces of gold.Only in the fourth quarter of 2017, the company produced 51,699 ounces of gold, up 26% over the fourth quarter of the previous year.Despite the fact that it...Read More
https://www.bloomberg.com/Two years of belt-tightening by the world's biggest gold miners have allowed bondholders to reap greater rewards for less risk, leaving equity investors — at least comparatively — in the dust.The collapse of the commodities super cycle left companies struggling to repair debt-ridden balance sheets. But since 2015, the top three North American gold producers &#...Read More
All four steam generators have been installed at unit 2 of the nuclear power plant under construction in Ostrovets in Belarus, the plant owner, Belarus NPP, announced today. The large items of equipment have been placed in their designated positions inside the reactor building, it said.One of the four steam generators being lifted into place at second Belarus unit(Image: Belarus NPP)Each 330-tonne...Read More
Are there going to be mass arrests and prosecutions of the elite? Dr. Dave Janda, a radio host and a patriot who is a Washington outsider with insider contacts, says, "I believe that it's going to happen, and I know people are saying that it's pure fantasy and that it's just not going to happen. One of most effect control mechanisms is the human trafficking pedophile situation. The media won't rep...Read More
Rob Kirby is a financial commentator and former broker who worked on an institutional trading desk for most of the 1980s and right up until 1996. He also worked for 11 years at Prebon Yamane, an international inter-dealer broker of foreign exchange and interest rate products. He spent an additional year at another money/bond broker called Freedom Bond Brokers, then spent two years at Garban Inc.,...Read More
Continue...Bill Holter is currently a writer for Miles Franklin and Jim Sinclair's Mineset where he posts weekly commentaries on gold and financial markets. Prior to joining Miles Franklin in 2012, Bill Holter Worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 years as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. Later, he left Wall Street to avoid potential liabilities related to management of paper...Read More
By Ira EpsteinGold higher but looks in need of some consolidation.https://www.iraepstein.com/ Read More
By this point in time you've most likely heard of the controversies surrounding 'blood diamonds,' but are you aware of the gold issuesContinue...Read More
Rio Tinto shipped 330.10 million tonnes of iron ore (on a 100% basis) from its Pilbara operations in Australia in 2017, in line with its guidance of 330 million tonnes.The total is up 1% from its 2016 total of 327.60 million tonnes, it said in its latest production results statement on Tuesday January 16.The increase was helped by the October-December quarter when it shipped 90 mill...Read More
Summary of Rio Tinto's fourth-quarter production results for the three months ended December 31: (Rio Tinto share unless otherwise indicated, year-on-year change)Iron ore shipments (100% basis) 90 million tonnes, +3% Iron ore...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The Women's Jewellery Network, which supports women in the UK jewelry industry, has launched a viral social media campaign to celebrate the ambition and drive of both the organization and its members. The bold image stating #NoGlassCeiling has been shared widely by those working in the UK jewelry trade, through social channels such as Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, the bod...Read More
JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – While the local November mining production statistics showed a relatively solid increase of 6.5% year-on-year, bolstered by platinum-group metals (PGMs), iron-ore and coal, the longer-term prospects for the industry remain less certain, owing to a difficult operating environment and policy uncertainty, according to Nedbank economists Busisiwe Radebe and Denn...Read More
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RAPAPORT... Sotheby's has hired Sam Hines as worldwide head of its watchdivision - the auction house's second senior appointment for its jewelry andtimepiece department in less than two months. Based in Hong Kong, Hines (pictured) will oversee the unit and workwith the existing team on its major sales in Geneva, New York, Hong Kong andLondon, Sotheby's said Monday. He has 20 years of experie...Read More
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