Researchers at Sweden's Chalmers University of Technology have developed the first hydrogen sensors ever to meet the future performance targets for use in hydrogen-powered vehicles. The device is capable of detecting 0.1 percent hydrogen in the air in less than a second.In a study published in the scientific journal Nature Materials, physicists Ferry Nugroho, Christoph Langhammer and other colleag...Read More
April 12th, 2019(S14-E691)Featured GuestsMartin Armstrong & Dr. Douglas VogtPlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say GoldSeek Radio sent you!).The head of The Diehold Foundation, Dr. Douglas Vogt makes his show debut in Part I of the discussion.The Diehold message could be the most important message of the...Read More
By: PlungerHaving trouble making sense of the market? Do you feel like you are living in some sort of a parallel universe where almost everything happening in the market seems to be the opposite of what you have learned should happen? You are not alone so let's try to make some sense of it. This weekend I will present two possible outcomes for the stock market and the rational behind them....Read More
By: Ira EpstienMonthly-Gold has been stuck in a range for 2-years. Weekly gold chart, bearish pattern. Momentum and bias is down. GDX chart is different..Read More
Billet prices in the major global markets continued to soften over the week ended Friday April 12 due to the lack of demand and the continuing falls in the price of scrap, notably in Turkey.The exception to this was the Chinese market, where active demand from re-rolling mills resulted in reduced billet inventories, pushing prices upward.The spot inventory was 577,000 tonnes on Thursday in Tangsha...Read More
April 12th, 2019(S14-E691)Featured GuestsMartin Armstrong & Dr. Douglas VogtPlease Listen HereLIMITED OFFER - FREE $5 IN ONEGOLD DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN EXCLUSIVELY TO GOLDSEEK.COM PATRONS! (Remember to say GoldSeek Radio sent you!).The head of The Diehold Foundation, Dr. Douglas Vogt makes his show debut in Part I of the discussion.The Diehold message could be the most important message of the...Read More
Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Central banks get away with the flaming hypocrisy illustrated below because mainstream news organizations don't dare to put a critical question to them.Here, if David Lawder and Leika Kihara of Reuters were serious journalists, and their editor, Paul Simao, had the wit for his job, someone from Reuters would have asked the managing director of the International Monet...Read More
By: Ira EpstienMonthly-Gold has been stuck in a range for 2-years. Weekly gold chart, bearish pattern. Momentum and bias is down. GDX chart is different..Read More
Losing DecadesToo Much, Too FastA $6 trillion $10 Trillion Federal Reserve Balance SheetMastering Private MarketsLiving on Puerto Rico TimeRegular readers may have noticed me slowly losing confidence in the economy. Your impression is correct and there's a good reason for it, as I will explain today. The facts have changed so my conclusions are changing, too.I still think the economy is okay for...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday April 12 that are worth another look.Sentiment was unusually bearish at this year's Cesco week in Santiago, Chile, with copper market participants increasingly concerned that sluggish demand in China will limit the upside potential of the red metal price. Steel market participants in the United Kingdom and Europe renewe...Read More
For a few hours on Sunday, some 40 people from the farming community of Tacrara, located in the Cusco department in southern Peru, blockaded a road used by Canadian miner Hudbay Minerals (TSX, NYSE: HBM) to transport copper from its Constancia project to the Port of Matarani.Local media report that about 60 trucks carrying mineral were being prevented from leaving Cusco's Espinar province. The pro...Read More
Following a blockade that lasted for over two months, Peru's national highway CU-135, known as Corredor Minero del Sur, was reopened this weekend and trucks carrying copper concentrate from Las Bambas mine started running through it again.A 12-kilometre section of the runway in the southern Cusco department had been blocked for 68 days by protesters from the Nueva Fuerabamba community, whose farml...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Friday April 12 that are worth another look.Sentiment was unusually bearish at this year's Cesco week in Santiago, Chile, with copper market participants increasingly concerned that sluggish demand in China will limit the upside potential of the red metal price. Steel market participants in the United Kingdom and Europe renewe...Read More
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RAPAPORT... Diamond resources at Mountain Province's explorationproject in Canada's Northwest Territories are 74% higher than the company originallyestimated, according to a revised evaluation. The Faraday 2 deposit, one of three pipes in the miner'sKennady North project, has 5.5 million carats of diamonds, a recent study byexternal consulting companies Aurora Geosciences and SRK Consulting f...Read More
RAPAPORT... The Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) has launched its firsteducational grants for young people in Canada's Northwest Territories (NWT). "Creating education and employment opportunities for youthwho live in areas where natural diamonds are found is at the heart of the DEF'smission," Anna Martin, DEF president and senior vice president of the GIA, saidlast week. The scholarships are...Read More
RAPAPORT... Trans Atlantic Gem Sales (TAGS) sold $38.4 million worth ofrough diamonds at a tender in Dubai earlier this month. A total of 41,347 carats of high-quality stones from minesin South Africa, Angola and Namibia yielded an average price of $928 per carat.The sale included a number of large, single stones and exceptional specials,the company said Wednesday. "This month saw a 5% incre...Read More
RAPAPORT... Bonhams has appointed former Christie's executive LeslieRoskind as senior jewelry specialist to help build its presence in the US. Roskind, who will be based at the company's New York office,has worked in the industry for more than 25 years, the auction house said lastweek. Most recently, she was responsible for the acquisition and sale of jewelsto private clients and at trade sh...Read More
RAPAPORT... Stornoway Diamonds will halt open-pit mining atits Renard deposit in an effort to cut costs. The Canada-based miner temporarily suspended activities and shut down aportion of its equipment starting this month, it said last week. Open-pit mining is conducted at only one of the three ore bodies currently in operation at Renard. The other two are both underground pipes, which p...Read More
Stornoway Diamonds published a clarification in response to recent media articles, stating that its Renard Mine will continue to operate. The company emphasized it did not announce the closure of its Renard Mine, but rather the temporary suspension of open pit mining operations at its Renard 65 ore body, one of the 3 ore bodies currently in operation at the Renard Mine, and the only ore body curre...Read More