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Hong Kong firm develops tech to detect lab-grown yellow diamonds

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Diamond Services, a Hong Kong-based developer of tech systems for detecting lab-grown, imitation and treated diamonds, has created a new device aimed at amplifying the range of detectable merchandise to include all rough and polished stones in the lower yellowish-to-light-brown colour ranges.According to the developer, this is the first device capable of identifying the yellowish gems together wit...Read More

Pancontinental acquiresbattery and energy metals project in Ontario

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Pancontinental Resources (TSXV: PUC) announced this week the acquisition of the St. Laurent project, located in the eastern Canadian province of Ontario.Pancontinental is purchasing the property from 2681891 Ontario Inc., with whom the company entered into an option agreement. To earn a 100% interest, the Toronto-based miner has to pay a total of $145,000 in cash and issue 1,850,000 common shares...Read More

Pancontinental acquiresbattery and energy metals project in Ontario

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Pancontinental Resources (TSXV: PUC) announced this week the acquisition of the St. Laurent project, located in the eastern Canadian province of Ontario.Pancontinental is purchasing the property from 2681891 Ontario Inc., with whom the company entered into an option agreement. To earn a 100% interest, the Toronto-based miner has to pay a total of $145,000 in cash and issue 1,850,000 common shares...Read More

Pancontinental acquiresbattery and energy metals project in Ontario

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Pancontinental Resources (TSXV: PUC) announced this week the acquisition of the St. Laurent project, located in the eastern Canadian province of Ontario.Pancontinental is purchasing the property from 2681891 Ontario Inc., with whom the company entered into an option agreement. To earn a 100% interest, the Toronto-based miner has to pay a total of $145,000 in cash and issue 1,850,000 common shares...Read More

Positive progress towards gold production at the Santa Elena mine

March 26, 2019 / dlvr.it

CABORCA, Mexico, Mar 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mexus Gold US (otcqb:MXSG) (Read full newsRead More

Galantas to increase gold processing at its Northern Ireland mine

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Dual-listed Galantas Gold (TSX, LON:GAL) is expanding capacity of the processing plant at its Omagh mine in Northern Ireland, with the goal of producing 2,000-2,5000 ounces of concentrate per month in the 2020-21 financial year.The company, which is already running an extended dayshift, plans to add a second milling shift late in the June quarter. More shifts will be added in the September quarter...Read More

Galantas to increase gold processing at its Northern Ireland mine

March 26, 2019 / www.mining.com

Dual-listed Galantas Gold (TSX, LON:GAL) is expanding capacity of the processing plant at its Omagh mine in Northern Ireland, with the goal of producing 2,000-2,5000 ounces of concentrate per month in the 2020-21 financial year.The company, which is already running an extended dayshift, plans to add a second milling shift late in the June quarter. More shifts will be added in the September quarter...Read More

Junior Gold Miners, Egyptian Stocks And E-Sports: Exotic Investing For Everyone

March 26, 2019 / dlvr.it

Jan van Eck's strategy is to find a twilight zone midway between active and passive management. The result: hot funds that dare to be different.Read full newsRead More

Positive progress towards gold production at the Santa Elena mine

March 26, 2019 / dlvr.it

CABORCA, Mexico, Mar 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Mexus Gold US (otcqb:MXSG) (Read full newsRead More

Gold Prices Gain as Recession Fear Sparks Safe-Haven Demand

March 26, 2019 / www.investing.com

Investing.com - Gold prices gained on Monday in Asia as recession fear sparked safe-haven demand.Gold futures traded up 0.3% at $1322.05 on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange by 1:25 AM ET (05:25 GMT). The precious metal last week posted its third consecutive weekly gain and rose 1%, the most since early February.On Friday, the spread between 3-month Treasury bills and 10-year...Read More

BCI opposes Goldcorp's US$12M retirement bonus for Ian Telfer

March 26, 2019 / www.northernminer.com

British Columbia Investment Management Corporation says it will vote against the proposed merger of Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and Newmont Mining (NYSE: NEM) due to Goldcorp's decision to award its chairman, Ian Telfer, a US$12 million retirement allowance.BCI, which provides investment management services to B.C.'s public sector and has about $145.6 billion under management, says the retirement...Read More

Berkeley Energia awaiting final appr. to kick off const. of Salamanca uranium mine

March 26, 2019 / tinyurl.com

Looking to develop world-class uranium project in SpainSalamanca Project has near surface, high-grade depositsStrong financial position with A$100mln in cash on balance sheet at end-December What Berkeley Energia does:Berkeley Energia Limited (LON:BKY) (ASX:BKY) is developing a world-class uranium project in a historic mining area in western Spain, about three hours west of Madrid.F...Read More

Peninsula Energy on track for comm.-scale low-pH uranium at Lance prjts in 2019

March 26, 2019 / tinyurl.com

One of two key regulatory approvals for low-pH uranium extraction has been receivedA pilot phase is in progress and is expected to continue in the June quarterCommercial-scale low-pH uranium extraction will reduce Peninsula's per-pound costs, pushing the uranium group down the cost curveWhat does Peninsula Energy do?Peninsula Energy Ltd (ASX:PEN) specialises in uranium production in the US state o...Read More

Kazakh vanadium miner to list in London

March 26, 2019 / www.mining-journal.com

This is the second major Kazakh listing of the past five months, after Kazatomprom joined the LSE with a 15% float in November.Read More

RNC raising $12 million for Aussie mill purchase

March 26, 2019 / resourceworld.com

A 76-kg gold-rich specimen from the Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia. Source: RNC Minerals.RNC Minerals [RNX-TSX; RNKLF-OTCQX], aka Royal Nickel Corp., shares were active Tuesday March 26 after the company announced a $12 million bought deal financing, and a purchase option on a gold processing facility in Australia.RNC said the potential purchase of the Higginsville mill and mining operation...Read More

Fortune hit with battery metals setback

March 26, 2019 / resourceworld.com

Underground test mining at the Fortune Minerals NICO Project, Northwest Territories. Photo courtesy Fortune Minerals Ltd.Fortune Minerals Ltd.'s [FT-TSX; FTMDF-OTCQX] previously announced plan to build a metals processing facility in Saskatchewan has been hit with a setback after the company's application to change the zoning on the project site was rejected by the local municipality.The rezoning...Read More

AWDC and Ali Baba's "Shape of Antwerp" project gathers speed

March 26, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) and the Alibaba Group are selling Antwerp-sourced diamonds  in an online flagship store called "Shape of Antwerp" Tmall. As the world's second-largest market for polished diamonds, China is generating tremendous opportunities for the diamond consumer market as a whole.  T-Mall, Alibaba's B2C marketplace, reportedly is the largest B2C platform in Ch...Read More

ALROSA presented the results of its own research of 2018's global luxury and jewelry market.

March 26, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

Alrosa, a world leader in diamond mining, reported that global sales of diamond jewelry had grown four percent 2018 compared to the previous year, reaching $85.9 billion. In 2017, the global jewelry market grew with five percent, compared to 2016. The firm said that the lower numbers for 2018 growth were a result "of a slowdown in key consumption markets in the second half of 2018." While in the f...Read More

Diamond Services introduces new lab-grown diamond identification system

March 26, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

Diamond Services, the Hong Kong-headquartered developer of technological systems and services for detecting treated diamonds, laboratory grown diamonds (LGDs) and simulants is introducing a new device which widens the range of detectable merchandise to include all rough and polished stones in the lower yellowish-to-light-brown colour ranges. Like other detection apparatus developed by Diamond Ser...Read More

Gold exploration firm strikes gold as tree-sampling technology yields results

March 26, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

South Australian drilling company Marmota Limited has identified new gold deposits in Goshawk territory and outside the discovery zone based on the biogeochemical testing of tree leaves for minerals. Recent results surrounding a December assay test at the Aurora Tank in the far north of South Australia has yielded levels of high-grade gold intersections - 88 grams per tonne of gold in existing are...Read More

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