Alrosa, the world's leading producer of diamonds, told Reuters that the company expects a drop in its sales in 2019 due to weaker demand for polished diamonds from China. "We will not reach last year's sales numbers," Evgeniy Agureev, director of sales for Alrosa, said. In 2018, sales rose 6 percent from the previous year to $4.5 billion but the trend has changed, he said. Aguree...Read More
Women's Wear Daily (WWD), the influential online fashion business, trend and info hub, said that data from Coresight Research had tallied store closures of more than 8,000 in 2017 in the US. In 2018, there were more than 5,500 units that shuttered. And at current levels, store closures this year will exceed last year's numbers, WDD reported. WWD quoted a report from David Bassuk and Joel...Read More
Christie's is to auction the "Maharajas & Mughal Magnificence" collection in New York, June 19th. Speaking about this collection, Rahul Kadakia, Christie's International Head of Jewellery, said that the collection was made up of royal jewels and jeweled objects that date back nearly 500 years to the early part of the Mughal dynasty, which ruled in India from 1526 to 1857. The collect...Read More
The Angolan government has forcefully expelled more than 40,000 foreign citizens, arguing they were illegally dwelling in Angola. The foreigners were deported from the country since last January to date, under the ongoing Operation Transparency. At a press briefing on Thursday in Saurimo City, eastern Lunda Sul Province, given by the spokesman of Operation Transparency, Antonio Bernardo, Angola�...Read More
Zimbabwe's Sunday Times reported that the Zim government will, in the next few weeks, announce at least two more investors that are expected to deploy huge foreign capital in the country's platinum sector as scores of local and foreign investors fall in love with the government's "Zimbabwe is Open for Business" mantra. The platinum sector is one of the few sectors in the economy that is...Read More
Following the gender session held this at this year's PDAC, where gender balance in the industry and the #MeTooMining initiative were discussed, the Responsible Mining Foundation issued a summary report related to the topic.The summary is based on a chapter of RMF's 2018 Responsible Mining Index and it presents an assessment on the performance of 30 of the most important mining companies in the wo...Read More
An ominous trend, indicating US consumers are in far worse shape than assumed by conventional wisdom, has re-emerged.Read full newsRead More
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A Canadian company is moving ahead with plans to reopen a gold mine in the heart of California's Castle Mountains National Monument, just across the state line from Searchlight.Read full newsRead More
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Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology succeeded in creating light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, on a graphene surface.According to a brief that explains their research, professors Helge Weman and Bj?,rn-Ove Fimland, and Ph.D. candidates Ida Marie H?,iaas and Andreas Liudi Mulyo were able to create a new electronic component that has the potential to become a commercial prod...Read More
The opaque diamond trade may be ripe for disruption.Lucara Diamond, which recently found the second-largest diamond in history in Botswana, is taking on industry giants such as De Beers and Alrosa PJSC with an online platform to replace the current physical auctions.The service allows Lucara to match buyers' requirements, not only saving jewelers the trouble of traveling to Botswana but also endin...Read More
North American Palladium of Toronto has expanded the platinum group metals zone at the Sunday Lake property, 25 km northeast of Thunder Bay and 60 km south of NAP's Lac des Iles mill. The current campaign is focused on a large PGM zone and copper-nickel sulphide mineralization in the deeper portions of the Sunday Lake mafic-ultramafic intrusion.NAP is the operator and earning a 75% interest at Sun...Read More
"Get down on your knees like you used to!"Those were the words shouted at Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook.They're racist and vile, and they won't just get you thrown out of a basketball game...They'll get you banned from the stadium.Fighting will, too. And so will throwing objects onto the field or court.Furthermore, the NFL extends bans to ALL of its stadiums. So, if you get k...Read More