Two months ago Gold Miners ETF GDX created its first bearish reversal pattern (bearish wick) while testing falling resistance. A couple of weeks later it created another bearish reversal pattern (Bearish wick) and then selling pressure took over and GDX fell 10% quickly.The decline of late now has GDX testing rising support, where GDX created a bullish reversal pattern (Bullish wick) to close out...Read More

RAPAPORT... Belgium saw a decline in its imports and exports of rough diamondsin the first quarter, as mining companies' sales dropped.Shipments into thecountry slid 33% to $2.09 billion for the period, reflecting a 38% slump inrough sales at Alrosa, for which Belgium is the biggest market. De Beers'revenues also fell 19% at its first two sales cycles of 2019, which tookplace during the quart...Read More

RAPAPORT... The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) has unveiled theMaendeleo Diamond Standards (MDS), a program that helps artisanal miners receive certification showing their diamonds are conflict-free. The system, named after the Swahili word for development,was created together with various stakeholders. Those include government entities,local civil-society organizations, and artisanal and sm...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers is broadening a pilot project aimed at creating a secure and transparent route to market for artisanally mined diamonds with ethical sourcing. The miner introduced GemFair in April 2018 in Sierra Leone, whereit worked with 16 mine sites to improve ethical standards and workingconditions for miners, while enabling them to sell roughthrough De Beers' main distribution channel....Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers' sales volume fell 15% to 7.5 million carats in thefirst quarter, as overall demand for lower-value rough goods remained soft.Production for the three months ending March 31 dropped 8%to 7.9 million carats due to lower output from the company's South Africanoperations. Total carat recovery in the country plunged 65% to 382,000, with thecompany transitioning its Venetia project...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lucara Diamond Corp. has recovered the largest diamond unearthed in Botswana. The 1,758-carat stone, from the Karowe mine, has been characterized as near-gem, with its quality varying throughout the diamond, Lucara said last week. Portions of it arehigh-quality white gem, the miner explained. The company extracted the stone in an unbroken state using technology that it commissioned in...Read More

Lucara Diamond Corp.  mined a 1,758 carat diamond) at its Karowe Diamond Mine in Botswana.  One of the largest diamonds in recorded history, the largest diamond recovered in Botswana, and the largest diamond to be mined at Karowe to date, the unbroken 1,758 carat stone was recovered through Lucara's XRT circuit. Weighing close to 352 grams and measuring 83mm x 62mm x 46mm, the diamo...Read More

Alrosa, the world's leading producer of diamonds, told Reuters that the company expects a drop in its sales in 2019 due to weaker demand for polished diamonds from China. "We will not reach last year's sales numbers," Evgeniy Agureev, director of sales for Alrosa, said.   In 2018, sales rose 6 percent from the previous year to $4.5 billion but the trend has changed, he said. Aguree...Read More

Women's Wear Daily (WWD), the influential online fashion business, trend and info hub, said that data from Coresight Research had tallied store closures of more than 8,000 in 2017 in the US. In 2018, there were more than 5,500 units that shuttered. And at current levels, store closures this year will exceed last year's numbers, WDD reported. WWD quoted a report from David Bassuk and Joel...Read More

Christie's is to auction the "Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence" collection in New York, June 19th. Speaking about this collection, Rahul Kadakia, Christie's International Head of Jewellery, said that the collection was made up of royal jewels and jeweled objects that date back nearly 500 years to the early part of the Mughal dynasty, which ruled in India from 1526 to 1857. The collect...Read More

The Angolan government has forcefully expelled more than 40,000 foreign citizens, arguing they were illegally dwelling in Angola. The foreigners were deported from the country since last January to date, under the ongoing Operation Transparency. At a press briefing on Thursday in Saurimo City, eastern Lunda Sul Province, given by the spokesman of Operation Transparency, Antonio Bernardo, Angola�...Read More

Zimbabwe's Sunday Times reported that the Zim government will, in the next few weeks, announce at least two more investors that are expected to deploy huge foreign capital in the country's platinum sector as scores of local and foreign investors fall in love with the government's "Zimbabwe is Open for Business" mantra. The platinum sector is one of the few sectors in the economy that is...Read More

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Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) is the world's leading gold company and a producer of copper, silver, zinc and lead. The Company's unmatched portfolio of world-class assets, prospects and talent is anchored in favorable mining jurisdictions in North America, South America, Australia and Africa. Newmont Goldcorp is the only gold producer listed in the S&P 500 Index and is widely...Read More

Jason talks about how hedge funds are now record short the Cboe Volatility Index or (VIX) betting on Fed rate cuts, QE4 and the Powell put.After rising for many months, the VIX got to 36.07 on December 24, 2018 (Christmas Eve) before crashing since then to as low as 12.73 on the day of today's show. Hedge Funds Are Shorting the VIX at a Rate Never Seen Before https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl....Read More

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RAPAPORT... A new program by the Diamond Development Initiative (DDI) aims to help artisanal miners receive certification to show their diamonds are conflict-free. The Maendeleo Diamond Standards (MDS), named after the Swahili word for development, was created together with various stakeholders. Those include government entities,local civil-society organizations, and artisanal and small-scale mine...Read More

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