(IDEX Online) - The Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC) appointed seven directors at its AGM, but has yet to find a permanent replacement for executive director Iris Van der Veken.She quit at the end of March over the council's failure to take a tougher stance against Alrosa, the miner that is one-third owned by the Russian government.The London-based watchdog was also rocked by the departure...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A huge 1kg platinum coin, set with 6.5-carats of Argyle pink diamonds, smashed estimates when it sold at auction for just over US$1m.The one-off creation is the highlight of the Royal Canadian Mint's Opulence Collection, featuring gems from the iconic Australian mine that closed in November 2020.The rose gold-plated, platinum coin, known as The Ultimate, was hand set with 462...Read More

Graphite One (GPH: TSXV; US-OTC: GPHOF) has reported high-grade results from its 2021 drill program at the Graphite Creek project in Alaska as it looks to complete a prefeasibility study towards the end of July. Highlights from the 2,150 metres of drilling include 5.8 metres grading 35.78% graphitic carbon starting from 61.6 metres in hole 21GC0624800; and 16 metres grading 6.9% graphitic carb...Read More

Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ) has inked a binding Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire a 100% interest in the Mactung Tungsten Project in Yukon and the Northwest Territories, the company said in a news release Tuesday.The Mactung site, which straddles the border of the two territories contains one of the largest and highest-grade tungsten deposits in the world and is among the few potential sizable sourc...Read More

Montage Gold (TSXV: MAU; OTC: MAUTF) has entered into an agreement with Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) and Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; LSE: EDV) to acquire a 100% interest in the Mankono-Siss?(C)dougou joint venture project in C??te d'Ivoire.The JV project consists of three properties - Siss?(C)dougou, Gbongogo and Siss?(C)pl?(C) - that lie within the perimeter of the company's Kon?(C) gold pr...Read More

The board of Russian diamond major Alrosa (MCX: ALRS) has suggested shareholders vote to receive no dividend for 2021 during the upcoming general meeting.Alrosa reported a net profit of 91.32 billion rubles ($1.89 billion) in 2021, nearly triple the 32.25 billion rubles ($662.87 million) profit in 2020. Dividends for the first half of 2021 amounted to 64.7 billion rubles ($1.3 billion), topping 70...Read More

Amid the frenzied analyses of supply, demand and spiking prices for green metals and critical minerals, another metal may be preparing to steal the spotlight: gold. While the price of gold spiked earlier this year to US$2,068 per oz. (just shy of its August 2020 all-time high) on Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it hasn't stayed at those elevated levels. At press time, the yellow metal was at a rela...Read More

Canada's Hudbay Minerals (TSX: HBM; NYSE: HBM) unveiled Wednesday a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) for its Copper World Complex in Arizona, which includes recently discovered deposits at the property as well as the Rosemont asset.The document comes only two weeks after a U.S. court cleared the path for the company to proceed with its planned Copper World mine.Hudbay's other major copper...Read More

Savannah Resources (AIM: SAV), the company building western Europe's largest lithium mine, said on Wednesday it sympathized with shareholders' frustration regarding the time Portugal has taken to review its application, but noted it was a political process beyond the company's control.Chairman Matthew King said the company expected to make further progress at the Mina do Barroso project this year,...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Uranium stocks surged Tuesday, on the news, reported by Bloomberg, that the Biden Administration is seeking $4.3 billion in funds to purchase enriched uranium, a move aimed at spurring the development of the US uranium industry.The US has long been largely dependent on Russian uranium imports to meet demand for the nuclear reactor fuel. The proposed plan, which would...Read More

Imagine living in a world where, at any moment, and without much warning, you and everyone around you could die in a nuclear armageddon - an instant flash of blinding white silence, then darkness forever.For Americans over 60 years old, that world was once a reality during the Cold War. And that nuclear armageddon never came closer than it did in the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.That Time the Worl...Read More

You may say it is cynical. You may say it is cancerous - and you would be correct.Yet can you say it is fully false?The “people” give the orders in democracy, say the civics books.Yet deeper probing reveals the American people wield limited influence over their governing affairs.Unelected and unaccountable judges, bureaucrats, pettifoggers, understrappers and jacks-in-office do the pri...Read More

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Share this article VANCOUVER - Bell Copper Corp. [BCU-TSXV; BCUFF-OTCQB] received complete assay results from drill hole BS-3 at its 100%-owned Big Sandy Project. Big Sandy is a large, truncated porphyry copper-molybdenum target located in northwestern Arizona, approximately 30 km south of the optioned Perseverance Project.Highlights include inclined drillhole BS-3 that cut 200 metres grading 0...Read More

Vaca said that while the pre-feasibility study (PFS) delivered in April featured a net present value (NPV) of US$2.9 billion, "our aim is to get that to $3.9-4.7 billion with the feasibility.Read More

The agreement is a formal recognition of the Tahltan Nation's right to manage resource development decisions within their Territory and honours Tahltan's jurisdiction in land-management decisions inRead More

The mine encountered operational and geotechnical challenges in the latter part of May that are expected to delay stope mining in the East South mining area and result in reduced concentrateRead More

The minister said the government is seeking to resolve certain issues around consultations in order to be able to receive concession applications again as it seeks to develop a robust mining sector.Read More

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