The project would yield an after-tax net present value of C$1.Read More
(IDEX Online) - Rio Tinto reported a small drop in first quarter diamond production at its Diavik mine in Northwest Territories, Canada. It recovered 954,000 carats, down four per cent from 991,000 carats in Q1 2022, and down 27 per cent on Q4 2022.Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest metals and mining corporation, said the lower production was because of temporary restrictions accessin...Read More
The company bought the asset for an initial US$10 million - or $30 million with milestone payments - and will focus on the high-grade core of the deposit, where previous operators were looking at anRead More
(IDEX Online) - Antwerp's Diamantkring has become the first bourse to partner with the Natural Diamond Council (NDC).The New York-based NDC (known as the Diamond Producers' Association until June 2020) promotes the industry and educates consumers.Its members include miners De Beers Group, Lucara Diamond, Petra Diamonds, RZM Murowa, and Rio Tinto - representing about three quarters of the...Read More
GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelRead More
GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelThe prize in this scenario is an unloved base metal which is destined to be one of the big winners in the...Read More
On Friday Joe Biden signed an executive order directing every federal agency to work toward “environmental justice for all.”The executive order even establishes a new Office of Environmental Justice within the White House.If that sounds kind of Orwellian, there's a reason for that - it is."It’s only about the future of our planet,” Biden said.If "the future of our planet" i...Read More
Anglo American reported copper production of 178,000t in the first three months of 2023. This is up by 28% year-on-year but still came in 9% below consensus estimates from analysts.Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers produced 8.9m carats in Q1 of this year, exactly the same as Q1 last year, according to figures released today by parent company Anglo American.Production was up almost 10 per cent on Q4 2022 (8.2m carats). Production in Q3 2022 was 9.6m carats.Overall output was impacted by the transition from open pit to underground mining at Venetia, in South Africa, where production wa...Read More
(IDEX Online) - One of the world's largest tsavorite garnets has gone on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, in Washington DC, USA.The 116.76-carat, 177-facet Lion of Merelani is the largest precision-cut tsavorite in the world, and the largest tsavorite gem ever cut in the US.Tsavorite is a precious gemstone first discovered by famed geologist Campbell Bridg...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Diamonds were strewn across the floor of a shopping mall, when a raider was grabbed by security guards outside a jewelry store in New Zealand.He was one of six masked robbers, armed with hammers and knives, who smashed glass cabinets at Michael Hill Jeweller, in Chartwell Shopping Centre, Hamilton. The other five escaped.The New Zealand Herald newspaper reports that "the shop...Read More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - i-80 Gold Corp.'s [IAU-TSX; IAUX-NYSE American] drilling has discovered new lenses of high-grade polymetallic carbonate-replacement-deposit-type (CRD) and skarn mineralization along the Hilltop fault structure and continues to expand mineralization in the Hilltop zones and at the 100%-owned Ruby Hill property, located in Eureka County, Nevada.Highlight results from in...Read More
The universe's most incredible material just became the "world's best" according to yet another scientific metric. It might not sound as exciting as the "heart tattoo" that my fellow editor Alex Koyfman reported on last week, but stay with me. Researchers can hardly even grasp the full ramifications of this discovery. The "strange-metal regime" is a phrase coined by Lancaster University phy...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers has created a "modern tiara" using 40 carats of diamond from its own mines, with an 8.49-carat pear-shaped gem at the center.It's part the new Metamorphosis high jewelry collection, described as "the most creative and technically challenging collection to date".The four-stranded tiara is crafted from colored titanium and platinum and features a set of six additional f...Read More
GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelOne firm rumoured to have tabled a bid is Freeport McMoRan based in Phoenix, Arizona.Read More
Venus, which is the company's Cypriot venture, includes the Magellan Project and Mariner Project as well as other targeted exploration projects - Klimata, West Skouriotissa and North Alestos.Read More
Shanta reported that the ramp-up at Singida is progressing well including 2,200 oz produced in the first 22 days of April 2023.Read More
ING is seeking US$170 million in damages from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, based on allegations that it released export documents for copper transactions without collecting payment -Read More
Last week, the company announced an investment decision on its US$230 million Terronera silver and gold project in Jalisco, Mexico, which is due to produce 4Mozpa of silver and 38,000ozpa of gold forRead More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers has filled the decommissioned Victor diamond mine, in northern Ontario, Canada, with almost 12 billion gallons of water and turned it into a lake.Virtually nothing now remains of the mine, which opened in 2008 and closed in May 2019.Over its life, more than 8.2 million carats of diamonds were recovered at Victor. It was identified in 1987 as Canada's first economicall...Read More