RAPAPORT... Sotheby's garnered $59.9 million at its Geneva auction lastweek as a 21.19-carat pink diamond smashed its estimate with a final price of $7.4million. The cushion-shaped, fancy-light-pink, VVS2-clarity, type IIadiamond fetched $347,601 per carat, Sotheby's reported following the Thursdaysale. It had a presale valuation of $4.5 million to $6.5 million. The Magnificent Jewels & Noble...Read More
An institution with money-printing powers should have no difficulty keeping the lights on. But could it continue to act effectively after depleting its net worth?Former Bank of England policymaker Willem Buiter posed that question in early 2008, and it's currently the biggest challenge facing his long-time research collaborator Urjit Patel, the Reserve Bank of India governor.Under pressure to retu...Read More
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Barrick Gold, soon to become the world's largest bullion miner, is interested in adding more copper assets as long as the red metal is accompanied by bullion, executives said on Friday.Barrick, which expects to complete its $6.1-billion takeover of Randgold Resources January 1, outlined plans for exploration, expansion, streamlining and asset sales at an investor presentation in London.Read f...Read More
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Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. (HMY) is trading cheaply because, following a 12% drop on the New York Stock Exchange for the 52 weeks through Nov. 14, the closing share price of $1.61 on Wednesday was below the 200-, 100- and 50-day simple moving average lines.The closing share price was 12.6% off theRead full newsRead More
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Montana Resources, a unit of The Washington Companies that operates the Continental open-pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, Montana, recently partnered with Fairweather IT to bring high-tech to its bird hazing program.Since the mid-1990s, the company has run a waterfowl observation and hazing program at its 182-hectare Berkeley Pit but in late 2016, several thousand snow geese died at the to...Read More
Iran Minerals Production and Supply Company, a subsidiary of state-owned Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization, announced through the country's public broadcaster that it has signed a memorandum of understanding with industry group Iran Mine House and a private company with the idea of developing six small-scale gold and copper mines.With this deal, the Hassan...Read More
Researchers at Ruhr-Universit??t Bochum and the University of Wuppertal in Germany have come up with a new fabrication process for transparent ultra-thin silver films. The new process produces a material capable of increasing the efficiency of solar cells and light-emitting diodes.Up till now, traditional chemical methods have not been able to produce ultra-thin and pure silver films, the scientis...Read More
Through its representative in Argentina, Mario Hern??ndez, Canada's Yamana Gold Inc. (TSX: YRI) (NYSE: AUY) said that, despite having sold the Gualcamayo gold mine to Colombia's Mineros (BVC: MINEROS), it will continue to invest in exploration in different regions of the country.Earlier this year, Yamana announced a hike in its exploration budget to $11.2 million from the $9 million allocated in t...Read More
Nearly two months ago, Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:ABX) announced it was acquiring Randgold Resources in a massive deal to become the largest gold company on the planet, with a diversified portfolio of mines that straddles the globe, which includes owning half of the top 10 producing mines on the planet.In the period since then, Barrick provided a less-than-stellar quarterly update and floated di...Read More
RNC Minerals (TSX:RNX), formerly known as Royal Nickel has been mired in relative obscurity. That is until, the company made a significant gold find. Fool contributor Neha Chamaria published a good breakdown on what the find means for the company.To recap briefly, the company found a major gold deposit at its Beta Hunt mine in Western Australia. Ironically, it was also a mine that the company had...Read More
(Kitco News) - Despite bitcoin falling below $5,000 on Monday, Ron Paul’s Twitter followers once again chose the popular cryptocurrency over gold in the former Republican Congressman’s annual Twitter poll.The conditions of the poll remained the same as last year: “A wealthy person gifts you $10,000. You get to choose in which form you’ll accept the gift.”The catch was...Read More
I've been pounding the table pretty hard on vanadium.And rightly so.The vanadium price has increased by more than 1,000% since 2016 - from $2.50 to nearly $34.00 per pound. Vanadium stocks are making people wealthy.In two weeks, my pounding will come to an end. As I explain in the report I've been circulating, there is a specific Chinese catalyst that is driving the current frenzy.This month, th...Read More
ILLINOIS - Komatsu America announced on Nov. 15 that the FrontRunner autonomous haulage system (AHS) has achieved the unprecedented milestone of more than 2.0 billion tonnes of material moved autonomously.Since its first commercial deployment in 2008 at Codelco's Gabriela Mistral (Gaby) copper mine in Chile, the FrontRunner AHS has experienced exponential growth in cumulative production, breaking...Read More
Following the election, the press has been in search of common ground.The problem is it is looking for it in the wrong way.There is a lot of talk about infrastructure being a prime target for bipartisan compromise.I don't buy it. At least not the way it is being presented, and not the infrastructure being talked about.Here is why: Infrastructure is being discussed by both parties, and the end goal...Read More