The challenge the company has - and one managing director Alex Dorsch admits is a tough problem to have - is how to define economics for a project that continues to get bigger.Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsPYX Resources produces and exports zircon from its operations...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The US has reportedly blocked $26m of payments made by Indian businesses attempting to buy rough diamonds from Russia.OFAC, the Office of Foreign Assets Control, is said to have instructed banks in recent months to halt the transfer of funds, mostly from UAE subsidiaries of Indian companies.Neither India nor the UAE has sanctioned rough diamonds from Russia.  The US has, altho...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lab growns are the biggest threat to Namibia's diamond industry, according to Namdia, the state-owned trading company.Lelly Usiku, executive market development, sales and brand says they are increasingly popular in China, the biggest retail market after the US.Lab growns are filling a gap left by Alrosa's reduced production, following its invasion of Ukraine, she said, ac...Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsAlso, while the Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsDespite a poor record, the latest mining + oil experiment is u...Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsElsewhere, Australia is the world's largest producer of lithiu...Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsAccording to MEF, another $10.5 billion in new investments hav...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Two men have been arrested after a bag containing $9.3m of jewelry was stolen from passengers checking in for an Emirates flight from Barcelona's El Prat airport.The stolen Hermes Birkin Bag contained a 47 carat diamond ring valued at $4.93m, a Chanel brooch ($822,000), diamond earrings ($548,000), a Bvlgari watch ($986,000) and $11,000 in cash.The bag belonged to a Russian co...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Demand for larger diamonds - 3.0-cts and above - is strong, say traders at the IIJS Premiere (India International Jewellery Show), currently taking place in Mumbai, India.Ovals, emeralds, pears, marquise and other fancy shapes are also popular. Fancy prices have held up better than rounds - down 25 per cent drop since February, compared to 30 or 35 per cent for rounds.Organizers of...Read More

When I talk about the war on cash and a cashless society, some people think I'm exaggerating the threat or they don't take it seriously.But I'm not exaggerating the threat. It's here, it's growing and it'll only get worse. Just look at a nation like Australia, a Western-style democracy similar in many ways to the U.S.It provides a cautionary tale to Americans about where the war on cash is heading...Read More

The funding would address the supply gap identified in January, when Liontown revealed a Read More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsFemales account for only 12% of the global mining workforce, a...Read More

The removal of Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum in a military coup has unsettled uranium markets, and signals continued risk in the Sahel region.Read More

Also, while the Read More

PYX Resources produces and exports zircon from its operations in Kalimantan, Indonesia, but has so far been stockpiling ilmenite and rutile, the key feedstocks for titanium dioxide, which is used inRead More

Okane supports integrated mine closure planning involving all stakeholdersSPONSOREDokane consultantsArdea set for 40 years plus of nickel, cobalt productionSPONSOREDardea resourcesMassive resource increase as De Grey's Hemi heads for DFSSPONSOREDde grey miningAndover lithium potentially Australia's biggestSPONSOREDazure mineralsThe removal of Niger's president Mohamed Bazoum in a military...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Direct flights between Surat and Dubai and Hong could begin as early as December.The Indian government has been under increasing pressure to open up the skies as the city opens its vast new bourse.Dinesh Navadia, a member of the Surat Diamond Bourse (SDB) committee, said a delegation had met civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia."He assured us that from December or in Januar...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Thirteen miners who were illegally digging for diamonds at Kleinzee, in South Africa's Northern Cape, have died after tunnels collapsed The so-called "zama zamas" were trapped underground as they tried to recover diamonds along the coastline where De Beers had an open cast mine from 1942 to 2009. There is speculation that recent heavy rains may have made the ground unstable. M...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Botswana's state diamond company is to introduce alternative sales channels, beyond auctions.It follows a new deal, agreed last month, under which the state-owned Okavango Diamond Company (ODC) will see its rough allocation double over a decade to 50 per cent."ODC auctions are too big and need to be optimized," ODC managing director Mmetla Masire told Reuters."We also need to...Read More