The story of China's explosive growth from 1978 to 2008 is well-known.China's GDP surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to over $3 trillion by 2008. China's average annual growth rate exceeded 10% from 1978 to 2005. During this period, over 600 million people escaped poverty to obtain at least a stable if low-income standard of living.Between 2000 and 2008, China became the factory to the wor...Read More

Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumLodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals The area has seen eight coups since 2020: Mali in both 2020 and 2021, Guinea and Chad in 2021, Burkina Faso, twice, in 2022, and Gabon and Niger this year. The stakes are high in mineral terms.Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipLodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uranium"We've elevated our cooperation directly to the Vietnamese's highest tier of partnership, re...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (FM-TSX) has avoided a strike at its key copper mining operation in Panama after striking a deal with the mine workers' union."The Panamanian unit of Canada's First Quantum Minerals and a workers union at the company's key copper mine in Panama have reached an agreement," according to a Reuters report that was posted by Scotiabank. The de...Read More

A joint statement between the US and the EU, released at the G20 forum in India, welcomed the project and promised support.Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers say it's confident it can avert strike action by 1,500 workers at its Venetia mine, in South Africa.The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is threatening an indefinite walkout to support its demand for a nine per cent wage increase. De Beers has offered six per cent.Four months of wage talks have broken down, but De Beers is now offering a five-year salary deal. It h...Read More

Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumLodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Twin Metals Read More

"History is written by victors." Attributed to Winston ChurchillDear Outsider,The blockbuster hit Oppenheimer has a lot of people thinking about all things nuclear these days.Nuclear power was originally conceived to create energy.It's unfortunate that it intersected with a tumultuous and violent time that led to even more death and destruction.But recent events have brought nuclear power back t...Read More

(IDEX Online) - US watch and jewelry sales remained in negative growth for a sixth consecutive month during July, according to the latest Department of Commerce figures.But the year-on-year drop for the month - 2.4 per cent - was half the figure for June, which has been revised down to 4.8 per cent, based on actual rather than estimated transactions.March and April saw sales drop by 8.8 per cent a...Read More

Lodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumImproving data generation, aggregation, and synthesis facilitates everything from compliance reporting, the generation of product premia, identification of points of concern, liability management,Read More

Lodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumEllis will also make the $30 million contingent payment payable to Pan American Silver should the Deep Carbonates Project ever be put into production.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa says work is now under way on a huge, new $1.26bn mine to replace Mir, which closed after the 2017 flooding disaster that claimed eight lives.The Russian miner's general director Pavel Marinychev told the website of the Yakutia region, where the mine is located, that production is expected to start in 2032.Mir opened in 1957 as the first diamond mine in what was then th...Read More

(IDEX Online) - GIA has laid off around a fifth of the workforce at its HQ in Carlsbad, California, amid a significant drop in the number of diamonds submitted for grading.In total 151 workers will leave their positions at Gemological Institute of America (GIA) later this month. Most are laboratory workers, a few hold corporate positions. "We receive stones generally from either the companies...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Polished diamond prices suffered yet another blow in August, as the IDEX Polished Price Index fell by 2.87 per cent to its lowest point since January 2008. It has now lost 26.6 per cent of its value since its post-Covid peak in March 2022, just before we began to feel the full impact of Russia invading Ukraine.The combined effects of the war, spiraling inflation and interest rate h...Read More

Labor Day is over, so it's back to work this week. In the days ahead, I expect the zeitgeist to darken and events to pound the shore like so many waves of hurricane surf.Further inland, where the Swamp lies burbling and gurgling, unseen hands work overtime to falsify reality in a leaderless nation. Everybody, or at least a lot of people, feels the unbearable tension of things as yet unhappened.I k...Read More

Ghana's MIIF has agreed to invest US$32.9 million into Atlantic and its Ghanaian subsidiaries, to support the development of the lithium project and the broader Cape Coast lithium portfolio in Ghana.Read More

Weir Minerals - Don't Wa$te on WasteSPONSOREDweir mineralsLodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumFirst part of these unusual events was aired here last week when Mining Journal reported that the Read More

The common refrain from the mainstream media is that Ukraine's effort to repel Russia's invasion has stalled. But that's simply not true. Ukraine makes gains every day. It's withering Russian forces with cascades of artillery fire, mortars, and medium-range missiles.It's conducting nighttime river raids behind enemy lines.It's pestering Crimea and Moscow with swarms of drones.And it...Read More

Elevate Uranium buoyed by discoveries and beneficiation processSPONSOREDelevate uraniumLodestar focused on polymetallic potential at flagship Earaheedy projectSPONSOREDlodestar minerals Weir Minerals - Don't Wa$te on WasteSPONSOREDweir mineralsThe two leaders discussed strengthening the ties between the two countries at a meeting during the 43rd Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) s...Read More

The production of copper was up 19.8%, zinc 5.3%, lead 3.7%, iron 15.6%, and molybdenum 2.8%, according to data from Peru's Mining Statistical Bulletin.Read More