(IDEX Online) - Luxury brands including LVMH, Richemont, Chanel, Kering and Hermes are suspending their operations in Russia, in response to its invasion of Ukraine.LVMH, which owns Christian Dior, Tiffany & Co, Givenchy, Kenzo, TAG Heuer and Bulgari closed all 124 of its outlets on Sunday in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, but said it will keep on paying its 3,500 employees.Richemon...Read More

The London-listed equities of Alba Minerals (LSE: ALBA) and GreenRoc Mining (AIM: GROC) rose on Tuesday following a maiden graphite resource for the Greenland-based Amitsoq project.GreenRoc has compiled a Joint Ore Reserves Committee- (JORC) compliant indicated and inferred resources of 8.28 million tonnes at an average grade of 19.75% graphitic carbon, giving a total graphite content of 1.63 mill...Read More

Russia's invasion of Ukraine, already pushing up prices for an array of commodities rapidly higher since it began on Feb. 24 - including adding a record 250% to the price of nickel over the past two days - will have longer-lasting structural effects on metals and mining markets and supply, said BMO Metals and Mining in a report released on Monday. The report "Ukraine & Russia: Identifying Exposur...Read More

Women working across the resource industry continue to face challenges around bullying, discrimination and inequitable treatment, a new report by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) shows.According to the document, which is based on the responses of 550 people polled for the organization's fourth annual Women in Mining Survey, 70% of female respondents said bullying is com...Read More

This week's episode features Integra Resources president and CEO George Salamis in conversation with Northern Miner Podcast host Adrian Pocobelli. George discusses the recent BMO conference in Florida, supply concerns ("We're short on everything"), and how North America can streamline its metal production with faster permitting timelines.This week's CEO Spotlight features Lomiko Metals chief execu...Read More

The London Metal Exchange (LME) cancelled nickel trading on Tuesday after a first-time 250% price spike triggered by Western sanctions against major producer Russia, which left brokers struggling to pay margin calls against unprofitable short positions.Prices for the metal, key ingredient in batteries that power electric cars and high-tech devices, soared to a record above US$100,000 a tonne amid...Read More

Mkango Resources (TSXV: MKA) says that it has produced neodymium and praseodymium enriched rare earth carbonate on a pilot basis from raw materials taken from its Songwe Hill Rare Earths project in Malawi in east Africa. The company's CEO William Dawes told The Northern Miner that the hydrometallurgical piloting, which took place at Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, was a...Read More

Companies working in the mining sector in Chile see little chance that the proposal will prosper and make it to the final draft constitution given that it has already been rejected once for inclusion by the plenary session of the Constitutional Convention. A second rejection by the plenary session will see the proposal be dropped for good."The environment committee is one of several committee's ma...Read More

There's no doubt that the financial sanctions put on Russia by the U.S., the U.K., EU members and others are the most severe ever imposed. The U.S. Treasury has announced 15 separate sanctions programs in recent days and no doubt more are on the way.The targets of these sanctions include Russian banks, Russian stocks and bonds and various payment channels. Most significantly, the U.S. froze the ac...Read More

Some 80 years ago, some poor young man on the HMS Sheffield, clearly not willing to smile for reasons probably related to the conditions depicted, was captured on film in a God-forsaken corner of the world:The U.S. was swirling around the maelstrom that was World War II as it sent rickety cargo ships to sleepy ports few Americans knew about - some worse than others.Welcome to the "Murmansk Run."Pa...Read More

Geodrill hopes that a strong gold price and new contracts will see the good results continue through 2022. The Q4 net income stood at US$2.8 million, or $0.06 per share, which saw 2021 net income rise 88% year-on-year to $14.1 million, or $0.31 per share. The West Africa-based company's revenue hit $26.7 million in Q4, having risen by 8% year-on-year.For 2021, the company's revenue was $...Read More

Norilsk Nickel is a key supplier of nickel and palladium, two metals that are key for electric-vehicle batteries and semiconductors.Read full newsRead More

London nickel prices soared as much as 30.7% on Monday, their biggest daily percentage gain on record, as supply disruption fears gripped markets amid an escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict and mounting sanctions against Moscow.Read full newsRead More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Copper Fox Metals Inc. [CUU-TSXV; CPFXF-OTC] reported analytical results from the 2021 metallurgical drilling program for the Schaft Creek copper-gold-molybdenum-silver project in northwestern British Columbia. The Schaft Creek project is managed through the Schaft Creek Joint Venture, formed in 2013 between Teck Resources Limited [TECK.A, TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE], 75...Read More

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(IDEX Online) - Alrosa has suspended its membership Natural Diamond Council (NDC) and relinquished its position as as vice chair of the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC), following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.It said it hoped the industry would stand strong during "this tough time" and that the situation would soon stabilize.The NDC, an alliance of the world's leading diamond producer...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Christian Dior yesterday unveiled an 88.88-carat cushion-cut yellow diamond - worth an estimated $50m - at the re-opening of its flagship store in Paris.The fancy intense VVS2 stone was recovered as a 150-carat rough gem at the Kimberley mine, South Africa, owned by Ekapa.Dior acquired it for an undisclosed sum and insisted on cutting it to exactly 88.88-carats, reflecting its beli...Read More

The Ministry of Mines and Energy authorised the restart after it completed a consultation process with the indigenous Maya Q'eqchi' people, which was ordered by the Constitutional Court in June 2020.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Two former employees have been cleared by a court in Namibia of stealing marine diamonds worth $420,000 from a Debmarine vessel.   The main prosecution witness against Emmanuel Shikololo and Rodney Klim, both aged 48, did not give a credible account, said the judge at Windhoek High Court.   Klim was alleged to have reported a blockage in the vessel's vacuum air trans...Read More

The motion received 13 votes in favour with three against and three abstentions.Read More