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Nickel 28's board hands resignations to new member...

June 19, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Wanted: new mining jurisdictions to help achieve net-zeroSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesVanadium Resources eyes 180-year mine in South AfricaSPONSOREDvanadium resourcesNova retains laser focus on qualitySPONSOREDnova royaltySaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsThe board has spent the past week considering its next move after the bulk of Read More

Albemarle expands in Western Australia

June 19, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Wanted: new mining jurisdictions to help achieve net-zeroSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsNova retains laser focus on qualitySPONSOREDnova royaltyVanadium Resources eyes 180-year mine in South AfricaSPONSOREDvanadium resourcesLPI Read More

$40B needed for Ukrainian green recover of iron and...

June 19, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Wanted: new mining jurisdictions to help achieve net-zeroSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsNova retains laser focus on qualitySPONSOREDnova royaltyVanadium Resources eyes 180-year mine in South AfricaSPONSOREDvanadium resourcesRostyslav Shurma, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine is visiting London th...Read More

Passenger "Smuggled $100,000 of Diamonds in Modified Underpants"

June 19, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - An Indian national was arrested after a flight to Indonesia after he was found with diamonds worth $100,000 sewn into his underpants.Customs officers at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, in Jakarta, arrested the 25-year-old man (on 14 June) after spotting "a notable nudge in the bottom half of his wardrobe".They found that pouches stitched into his underpants contained plastic...Read More

Don't Skip!

June 19, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

In a leak to The Wall Street Journal earlier this month, the Federal Reserve no doubt believed they were adding clarity to the market situation. But in true Fed tradition, all they did was add confusion that will trouble markets for months to come, if not longer.Let's untangle the Fed's latest web of miscommunication...The leak appeared on May 31, under the byline of Nick Timiraos. He's a good rep...Read More

Fortescue to expand UK battery, electric train production...

June 19, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company's green power arm Fortescue Future Industries said that the new Banbury facility will operate alongside Fortescue's other Oxfordshire facilities including the Kidlington factory which willRead More

It Sounds Crazy, but Federal Legalization Is Coming

June 19, 2023 / www.outsiderclub.com

When President Biden took office in January 2021, he made a lot of big promises.One of those promises, which can still be found on his campaign website, was to decriminalize cannabis use at the federal level:Biden will work with Congress to reform federal sentencing and provide incentives to state and local systems to do the same. He will end, once and for all, the federal crack and powder cocaine...Read More

Panama mining chamber set out support for Cobre Panama...

June 19, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The contract has yet to be ratified, but when it will be it will inform future agreements as the country moves to develop its copper and gold sector.Read More

Surat Dealers "Smuggling Diamonds from Sierra Leone"

June 19, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Diamond dealers from Surat are routinely flying to Sierra Leone, buying uncertified rough diamonds from artisanal mines and smuggling them home, according to an investigation by The Blunt Times.Many of the stones are reportedly stolen by workers and sold for dollars at "throwaway" prices.One diamond dealer, who said he was a frequent visitor, told the Surat-based news website: "We...Read More

Lightbox Selling First Range of Engagement Rings

June 18, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Lightbox, the De Beers lab grown division, is expanding into the bridal market, with a range of 16 engagement rings.It's a significant step for a company that launched in May 2018, saying it would supply "high-quality, fashion jewelry" for "less serious occasions".Lightbox has clearly changed direction and has launched its first range of engagement rings with the tag line "Bec...Read More

Three Diamond Suicides in a Week in Surat

June 18, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Three diamond workers have taken their own lives in Surat within a week because of the industry slowdown, according to news reports.The Indian Express says the most recent was Paresh Mahadik, 40, a diamond polisher for 15 years who lost his job two months ago.Another diamond polisher, Veenu Moradiya, 53, and his family - wife Shardaben, 50, and children Krish, 20, and Senita, 15 -...Read More

Gin Company Giving Away "Heirloom" Lab Grown Diamonds

June 18, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - A British gin company is giving away diamonds to customers who buy a bottle with a lucky cork.Whitley Neill says it wants to "reignite the age-old tradition of handing down heirlooms".It's doing so by presenting winners with what it describes as "lab-created round cut diamond of D, E, F or G clarity with a minimum carat size of 0.4 mm".The 15 prizes have a combined value of $3...Read More

You CAN Handle the Truth

June 17, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

If you're wondering why our country is lost in lunatic raptures of lawless Lawfare and futile MAGAry, it's because our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy.It has already happened. Maybe you don't know it.The business model is broken. We're a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a...Read More

Glencore sells Australian copper mine

June 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Metals Acquisition Corp will purchase Glencore's 100% interest in Cobar, for US$775 million in cash and US$100 million in shares (effective immediately. Glencore will retain a 1.Read More

US goes on the critical minerals charm offensive

June 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The Minerals Security Partnership, a US-led international group, has reportedly shortlisted some 15 large-scale critical mineral projects to develop.Read More

Odds stacked against South Africa gold exploration...

June 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The deal, under which Lexington Gold would buy a majority stake in Creasy's White Rivers project, was announced in May.Read More

England 1. Australia 0. The other (Pot) ashes

June 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Wanted: new mining jurisdictions to help achieve net-zeroSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesVanadium Resources eyes 180-year mine in South AfricaSPONSOREDvanadium resourcesNova retains laser focus on qualitySPONSOREDnova royaltySaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsWith the five test Ashes cricket series starting later today (Friday) at Edgbaston in Birming...Read More

Invest in the Robots That WON'T Destroy Us

June 16, 2023 / www.outsiderclub.com

I know AI is the hottest investment trend since they legalized pot, but I think we're all a little unnerved by it. The deepfakes AI-generated photos and videos that feel uncomfortably real...The notion that it could end up doing our thinking and creating for us, effectively making us the robots... Even the people developing it say it could lead to our extinction. I don't want that. I don't think...Read More

First Quantum shares rise on reports of Barrick offer

June 16, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Barrick's approach, which comes as the miner pursues ways to expand in copper, was met with First Quantum indicating it wasn't keen on a combination and declining to enter any substantive talks,Read More

Orford Mining up 14% on lithium exploration news

June 16, 2023 / www.canadianinvestor.com

Share this article VANCOUVER - Orford Mining Corp. [ORM-TSXV] shares rallied in active trading Friday after the company said it has identified over 50 high priority targets with lithium pegmatite potential on exploration properties in Nunavik, Que.The announcement comes days after Orford said it has raised $1.92 million, marking the first tranche of a previously announced $6.2 million non-brokered...Read More

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