South Africa's Petra Diamonds (LON:PDL) has sold its 425-carat "Legacy of the Cullinan Diamond Mine" diamond to Belgium-based Stargems Group for $15 million.The exceptional D colour Type IIa gem was recovered in March from the company's iconic Cullinan mine, the same that yielded the Cullinan diamond - at 3,106 carats the largest rough diamond ever found and which today is part of the British C...Read More
The Queensland Resources Council has welcomed the State Government's decision to grant Resolute Mining nine new mining leases as part of a $150 million project to extend the life of its Ravenswood gold mine operations in north Queensland.QRC Chief Executive Ian Macfarlane said the announcement by Natural Resources, Mines and Energy Minister Dr Anthony Lynham would secure the 280 existing jobs and...Read More
A large proportion of the minority shareholders in Rio Tinto Plc-controlled Turquoise Hill Resources voted against the re-election of the company's independent directors on Tuesday.While all seven directors were re-elected to the board, according to a Turquoise Hill filing, over 40% of Turquoise Hill's minority shareholders, including its second-biggest investor, Sailingstone Capital Partners, vot...Read More
White Metal Resources (TSXV: WHM) announced that it entered into two binding letters of intent to purchase a 95% interest in certain prospective copper properties in Namibia.In a press release, the miner said that the two LOIs refer to four Exclusive Prospecting Licences that cover historical copper-silver resources in the Kalahari Copper Belt and the Kaoko Belt, and prospective targets for furthe...Read More
The U.S. stock markets sure feel inflectiony, at a major juncture. After achieving new all-time record highs, sentiment was euphoric heading into this week. But those latest heights could be a massive triple top that formed over 15 months. Then heavy selling erupted in recent days as the U.S.-China trade war suddenly went hostile. The big U.S. stocks just-reported Q1'19 fundamentals will help dete...Read More
While gold undeniably has a place in just about any portfolio at the moment, there are two metals in particular that may be even more defensive for new investors: palladium and copper. Palladium is sometimes overlooked as an investment, but its ubiquity in the electronics industry makes it a sound choice; copper, meanwhile, shows all the signs of being a quintessential metal to add to a mining por...Read More
Image by Brad Holt on FlickrElon Musk has no shortage of detractors - and judging by the tone struck by some of them, that's not nearly a strong enough word.Neither does the Tesla CEO have a shortage of short sellers and every so often long sellers get in on the action too. Bears turn bulls with gusto and bulls turn bears with alacrity.Musk frequently muddies the waters himself, making...Read More
Nicaragua-focused Condor Gold (LON:CNR) saw losses narrow in the first three months of the year as administrative expenses almost halved in relation to the same period in 2018.The miner logged a pre-tax loss for the period of ?352,553, compared to a ?602,678 loss a year before. This was almost entirely due to lower administrative expenses, which shrank to ?352,989 from ?602,915.In the quarter,...Read More
Azimut Exploration and SOQUEM, a subsidiary of Ressources Qu?(C)bec, have signed the final agreement of their expanded strategic alliance, previously announced on Feb. 25.The alliance comprises nine gold and copper-gold major properties totalling 7,149 claims with a surface area of 3,277 sq. km. The properties are located in the prospective Eeyou Istchee James Bay and Nunavik regions of Quebec. Th...Read More
For many people who've made their careers in the space industry, the classic science fiction series Star Trek is often named as inspiration. It was a fact that came up often at a recent pop culture convention I attended, which had its own series of panels dedicated solely to the intersection of science, sci-fi, and pop culture.One of these panels featured NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. He s...Read More
Test results from Marathon Gold's (TSX: MOZ) Leprechaun and Marathon deposits at the company's Valentine Lake gold camp in Newfoundland and Labrador demonstrate they are amenable to heap leaching.Selected intervals of mineralized material were shipped to SGS Canada last fall and highlights from the tests released today show a 72% gold extraction average for -25 mm crush size from the Leprechaun de...Read More
Wallbridge Mining has released the final results from a 33,200-tonne bulk sample at its Fenelon gold project in northwestern Quebec.Highlights from the campaign at the past-producing project follow:The bulk sample established Fenelon could be mined at good grades using the relatively low cost bulk mining methods;Stope grades ranged from 10.94 to 38.33 g/t gold;33,233 tonnes of ore with a reconcile...Read More
May 15, 2019 Guest(s): Gary Wagner As the trade war between the U.S. and China escalates, all eyes are on how the economy will respond, and one expert said that gold will come out as a beneficiary. Gary Wagner, editor of TheGoldForecast.com, said that as the U.S. prepares to enact 25% tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods, gold could rally in the long-term due to the tariffs' inflation...Read More
The U.S. stock markets sure feel inflectiony, at a major juncture. After achieving new all-time record highs, sentiment was euphoric heading into this week. But those latest heights could be a massive triple top that formed over 15 months. Then heavy selling erupted in recent days as the U.S.-China trade war suddenly went hostile. The big U.S. stocks just-reported Q1'19 fundamentals will help dete...Read More
Here Are 3 Hot Things to Know About Stocks Right Now The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended higher for a second day Wednesday on a report that said the Trump administration will delay new auto tariffs for six months. Shares of Alibaba (BABA - Get Report) rose after the online commerce company posted stronger-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings. Disney (DIS - Get Rep...Read More
European nickel premiums universally declined on Tuesday May 14 after weak regional demand for material manifested in depressed premiums across the board. Elsewhere, the cif Shanghai premium rose to a renewed 14-month high on fresh arbitrage profit opportunities on the back of a newly-opened import window. The European briquette premium remained on a three-week downward trajectory on weak de...Read More
Nickel's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange recovered at the close of trading on Wednesday May 15, climbing back above $12,000 per tonne while the metal's cash/three-month spread moved into backwardation for the first time since 2015.The metal's cash/three-month spread differential was recently seen in a backwardation of $9 per tonne, while its nearby June-July spread was now trading i...Read More
Garry Jones, former chief executive officer of the London Metal Exchange, has been appointed as independent non-executive director and remuneration committee chair at ICBC Standard Bank, Fastmarkets understands. Jones was appointed as CEO of the LME after its acquisition by the Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX) in 2012 and fulfilled the role until 2017, when current CEO Matthew Chamberlain...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday May 15 that are worth another look.Rising inventories of manganese ore at Chinese ports amid soaring import volumes were being fueled by changes to alloy smelters' purchasing habits, offset by low stocks at plants, market participants told Fastmarkets.Trafigura has consolidated its leadership team in the non-ferrous...Read More
Perhaps the perma-bullish Wall Street analysts should contribute to retail sales by stocking up on Depends - like the Merrill Lynch analyst who forecast retail sales to climb 0.7% ex-autos. Retail sales, preliminarily, were said to have declined 0.2% from March. The "core" retail sales group - retail sales not including autos and gasoline - were flat. Wall Street's finest expected a consensus...Read More