CMC is expected to be created in the near future, with European hoping to complete its A$750 million merger with the NASDAQ-listed special purpose acquisition company Sizzle.Read More

Japan has long been associated with platinum innovation and investment, from platinum-based hydrogen fuel cells for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to platinum accumulation plans for investors.Read More

The Chilean producer, which has 50% of the Mount Holland project and a lithium hydroxide refinery at Kwinana, has been gradually entering smaller farm-ins across Australia with the likes of AzureRead More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsIn a report on the net zero transition, McKinsey said that in order to accelerate mining to meet the demand from energ...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A one-off Tiffany "Bird on A Rock" pendant watch is to feature in the Only Watch charity auction to raise funds for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.The watch case features a faceted aquamarine crystal of over 34 carats, and a dial set with 461 snow-set diamonds of over 1 total carat. It has an estimate of $390,000 to $556,000 (CHF 350,000 - 500,000).The bird is fashioned from plat...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A bright orange sapphire has been recovered from a ruby mine in Greenland, in what's been described a one-in-a-million discovery.Sapphire is most commonly found as a blue gemstone, although trace elements can result in a wide variety of colors.The Aappaluttoq ruby deposit, operated by Greenland Ruby, has previously unearthed pink to orangy pink sapphires, but to find a bright...Read More

Can you expect continued inflation or a trend toward disinflation and possibly even deflation?That's probably the most important question in economics today.This is more than a matter of competing narratives. The question goes to the heart of modern economics (the so-called Neo-Keynesian consensus) and the models used in economic forecasting.In truth, it goes to the heart of economics generally...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucapa has recovered a 180.87-carat Type IIa white diamond at its Lulo alluvial mine, in Angola.It's the second +100 carat diamond of the year so far. In February it found a 150-carat Type IIa D-color white diamond.And it's the 37th +100 carat since since the Australian miner began commercial production at Lulo in 2015.Last November the 170.2-carat Lulo Rose, believed to...Read More

Happy Thursday from sunny Sicily!It's been blazing brightness all week here on the Mediterranean's largest island. We've had a great time so far.But I'm so sunburnt, it's great to be inside typing away.When I started writing the Rude Awakening two years ago, we had far fewer readers than we do now. We also have a different interest rate environment.So I thought I'd revisit a piece I wrote when rat...Read More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedFerrexpo, which produces high-grade iron ore in central Ukraine, reported pellet production of 1.066Bt in the three mo...Read More

Saturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThe benchmark S&P/ASX 200 resources index appreciated 1.5% over the last six months.  With dividends, the tot...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The government of Namibia could seek an increased share in its sales agreement with De Beers, after the mining giant agreed a phased move to a 50/50 split with Botswana.Namdia, the state-owned diamond company currently receives 15 per cent of the diamonds produced by Namdeb, the 50/50 joint venture between the government and De Beers.The 10-year agreement expires in May 2026. Namib...Read More

This compares to 93,603t of copper in concentrate in the first quarter of this year, evidencing that the project is successfully ramping up.Read More

Mali's military leader Assimi Goita, appointed Amadou Keita, former minister of higher education, as minister of mines in a government reshuffle.Read More

Saturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDAfter all, this is a company that is preparing for the safer, smarter, more automated and less manual mine. It is cons...Read More

(IDEX Online) - New technology will calculate the carbon footprint of each individual natural diamond, from mine to polisher, and certify that figure on a blockchain.CarbonVero will provide an exact measure of the greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption of any stone over 0.25 carats that can be passed to the end consumer.The groundbreaking new system is a collaboration between diamond tech...Read More

The railway will provide faster trade routes to Europe and the Americas from the copper and cobalt-rich areas of Congo and Zambia, according to a statement from Angolans transport minister RicardoRead More

(IDEX Online) - Vladimir Malakhov, editor-in-chief of the Rough & Polished website, has died aged 76 after battling cancer.He soldiered on to until the end, posting diamond news stories on a platform that appeared in Russian, English, Chinese and Portuguese.The website went offline shortly after his death, on 17 June."I had a special relationship with Vladimir, and he was one of my close confi...Read More

After all, this is a company that is preparing for the safer, smarter, more automated and less manual mine. It is considering approaches for which the technology does not even exist.Read More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metals"China's CATL grew by 59.6% compared to the same period last year, becoming the only battery supplier in the world wit...Read More