Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More
The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More
Glenn Greenwald - Substack, Released on 5/10/22Tens of billions, soon to be much more, are flying out of U.S. coffers to Ukraine as Americans suffer, showing who runs the U.S. Government, and for whose benefit.Continue... Biden Wanted $33B More For Ukraine. Congress Quickly Raised it to $40B. Who Benefits? added by Herman James on 05/10/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Stalingrad & Poorski - Twitter, Released on 5/11/22This is Janet Yellen exactly a year ago. These are the people in charge. She has never worked a real job in her life. pic.twitter.com/w6Hm88QKYb- Stalingrad & Poorski (@Stalingrad_Poor) May 11, 2022 This is Janet Yellen exactly a year ago. These are the people in charge. added by Herman James on 05/11/2022View all posts by Herman James ?+'Read More
Endeavour Silver Corp.'s shares traded 9% higher after the Vancouver-based precious metals company reported Q1/22 financial results highlighting a 25% YoY increase in silver production.Vancouver-based precious metals company Endeavour Silver Corp. (EDR:TSX; EXK:NYSE; EJD:FSE), which is focused on the discovery and mining of silver in the U.S., Mexico, and Chile, today announced financial and opera...Read More
More than just a few people are buying silver because “it protects them from inflation” – or something to that effect. Ever wonder if that argument holds up? The chart (source) below indicates otherwise… Silver Prices (inflation-adjusted) – 50 Year Historical Chart (1)According to the chart, it appears that silver cont...Read More
While the USDX rushes up withoutlooking back, gold is running... out of power. What could the next dollar highsmean for the precious metals market?In short, practically everything that Iwrote in yesterday’sanalysis remains up-to-date. Based on the relative valuations andpre-market price movement, I wrote that junior miners were likely to declinebelow their rising support line, and I moved th...Read More
Prices on "all items", with the exception of gold & silver, continue to skyrocket...(by Half Dollar) The Bureau of Lying Sadists Labor Statistics has just released the official inflation report, the Consumer Price Index, for April of 2022.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics:Prices are up 0.3% from last month.Prices are up 8.3% over the last 12 months.Uh, sure they are.Gold & silver were "s...Read More
In preparation for the development, the company has consolidated full ownership of the project having bought the stakes in the project previously owned by Peruvian miner Buenaventura and Japan'sRead More
The former minnow has been transformed into a A$1.2 billion gold miner in the last two years, first through the US$28.Read More
"Considering the issue of social conflicts we are going to pass a decentralized investment package in mining zones," Graham said at the biennial Gold, Silver and Copper Symposium in Lima organised byRead More
The bad news continued with the company's results for the quarter to March 31 as production plummeted 37.5% to 25,100 gold equivalent ounces at an all-in sustaining cost of $2,146 per ounce, from 40,150oz in the December 2021 quarter.The fall in production saw the company report a net loss of US$19.3 million on revenue of $25.5 million in the quarter compared with a net loss of $21 million in the...Read More
Predictive Discovery to forge a golden future in GuineaSPONSOREDpredictive discoveryOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsArtisanal and small scale mining (ASM) is often treated as something of a dirty secret in the min...Read More
RAPAPORT... Israel's diamond trade grew at a slower pace in April as the Russian conflict reduced global market sentiment.Polished exports for the month rose 38% year on year to $443.7 million after returns of unsold items, compared with a 58% jump in March, the Ministry of Economy and Industry reported last week. Export volume slumped 55% to 60,836 carats, with the average price more than tr...Read More
RAPAPORT... Sotheby's garnered $36.4 million from its most recent Geneva sale, even as several top lots failed to find buyers.A 7.17-carat, fancy-intense-purple-pink, VVS2-clarity diamond ring was the top seller at the May 10 Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels auction. The cut-cornered rectangular modified brilliant-cut stone brought in $5.6 million, or $790,464 per carat, within its price estima...Read More
RAPAPORT... Gem Diamonds' sale of its Ghaghoo mine in Botswana has broken down for the third time in five years.Okwa Diamonds, owned by Vast Resources and Botswana Diamonds, struck a deal with Gem Diamonds last year to purchase the deposit for $4 million. That sale was dependent on Botswana Diamonds securing a funding partner after Vast dropped out, which it failed to do by the May 10 deadline, Ge...Read More
RAPAPORT... The word "metaverse" is suddenly on everyone's lips, but what does it mean and why is it important for the diamond industry? That was the topic for the second episode of "Fast-Tracking the Future," a webinar series sponsored by Sarine Technologies.Titled "Diamonds in the Metaverse," the session explored non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their potential benefits for the market. The pa...Read More
RAPAPORT... The recent geopolitical storm pushed De Beers to accelerate the expansion of its blockchain platform, chief brand officer David Prager told Rapaport News.The miner recently launched a scaled-up version of Tracr, enabling the industry to trace all De Beers diamonds through to the jewelry store. The business-to-business (B2B) tool lets retailers see a stone's entire path through the supp...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A small-time farmer in the the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh recovered an 11.88-carat diamond, which has been valued at $65,000.Pratap Singh Yadav said he'd use proceeds from the sale of the stone to set up a business and pay for his children's education.He struck lucky while digging a small patch of land leased from the authorities in the diamond-rich Panna dist...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Overall prices of fancy color diamonds rose by 1.0 per cent in the last three months, double the increase of the previous quarter.Pinks led the price gains, up by 1.3 per cent, during Q1 2022, according to the Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI). Yellows were up 0.7 per cent and blues by 0.1 per cent.The New York-based Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) tracks pricing data for fan...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The average spend on a diamond engagement ring in the US last year was $7,011, up 6.1 per cent on 2020, as couples opted for bigger stones, and more lab growns.The size of the center stone diamond size rose, on average, from 1.20 carats to 1.32 carats.And almost a quarter of couple are choosing a lab grown stone, according to research for BriteCo, an insurance technology company. T...Read More
Predictive Discovery to forge a golden future in GuineaSPONSOREDpredictive discoveryOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsPeru failed to meet its March 31 reporting deadline for its 2019 EITI report. The suspension can...Read More