Physical iron ore prices plummeted on Monday November 26 following a slump in futures and steel markets, with Chinese steelmakers fearing losses. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $64.25 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $5.88 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $63.52 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $5.80 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $68.97 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $4.10 per tonn...Read More
Clashes between tourism and mining are not rare in Peru, a country peppered with historic and touristic sites that's also the world's second-largest producer of copper, zinc and silver. But in the case of Rainbow Mountain, those in favor of conservation appear to have won out.Late Friday, the Peruvian government blocked all mining exploration licenses on Rainbow Mountain, a rising South American t...Read More
A maiden resource estimate on Eldorado Gold's (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) Bolcana copper-gold project in Romania, about six km from the company's Certej project, has delivered 6.5 million inferred ounces of gold.The inferred resource of 381 million tonnes grading 0.53 gram gold per tonne and 0.18% copper for 6.5 million ounces of contained gold and 686,000 tonnes of copper, was based on 98 diamond drill...Read More
Pilot study for a major vehicle manufacturerCollaboration with University of Liege that produces concentrates from recovered magnetsMontreal - Geomega Resources Inc. ("G?(C)oM?(C)gA" or the "Corporation") (TSX.V: GMA) is pleased to announce that Innord Inc. ("Innord"), a private subsidiary controlled by G?(C)oM?(C)gA, has entered into a collaboration agreement with University of Liege who is condu...Read More
MEXICO CITY - Former workers of Mexican miner Grupo Mexico plan to block access to the giant Buenavista copper mine on Dec. 1 to pressure the company and the country's incoming leftist government to give them back their collective labor contracts.The planned industrial action is part of a longstanding dispute after Grupo Mexico fired the mine's workforce and reopened it in 2010, following a federa...Read More
MELBOURNE - A hive of mine exploration activity is underway in a remote corner of Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, led by Rio Tinto Ltd , which has boosted its holdings 10-fold in the little explored Paterson province in the past year.Rio's interest in the area - flagged by its application for nearly 30 exploration licenses - has sparked a stampede into adjacent lots by other explorers, who...Read More
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
Canada's Capstone Mining (TSX:CS) is considering selling a portion of its large scale 70%-ownedSanto Domingo copper-iron project in Chile, as part of a strategic process kicked off today after the release of a positive technical report.The Vancouver-based company said the project, is located 50 km southwest of Codelco's El Salvador copper mine, said the report reveals that Santo Domingo has an aft...Read More
* Prices rebound from Friday when hit lowest since October 2017 U.S. equity market rally boosts oil prices* Saudi Arabia pumps record amount of oil in Nov - source* Hedge funds raise U.S. crude oil net longs -CFTC (Updates with CFTC data)By Stephanie KellyNEW YORK, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Oil prices rose nearly 3 percent on Monday, clawing back some of last week's steep losses, but gains were capped by...Read More
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Jet Airways Ltd JET.NS , the biggest full-service carrier in India, has been under dark clouds for the past few months.While intense pricing competition, weak rupee and rising fuel costs have hurt Indian airlines like IndiGo owned by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd INGL.NS and SpiceJet Ltd SPJT.BO , Jet Airways is in a league of its own.Saddled with a debt of about 80.52 billion rupees...Read More
Nov 26 (Reuters) - Indian shares rose about 1 percent on Monday in volatile trading, led by gains in index heavyweights HDFC Bank Ltd HDBK.NS and consumer goods giants Hindustan Unilever Ltd HLL.NS and ITC Ltd ITC.NS .The benchmark BSE index .BSESN ended 1.07 percent higher at 35,354.08, while the broader NSE index .NSEI climbed 0.97 percent higher to 10,628.60.Hindustan Unilever jumped near...Read More
CAIRO - Saudi Arabia aims to raise the kingdom's mining revenues to $64 billion from $17 billion by 2030, Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday.Mining vast untapped reserves of bauxite, phosphate, gold, copper and uranium is key to the Saudi Arabia's efforts to diversify its economy away from hydrocarbons.Studies indicate that the level of the likely geological reserves in the kingdom exc...Read More
Mining giant Rio Tinto, (ASX, LON:RIO) has agreed to sell its controlling stake in R??ssing Uranium in Namibia to a state-backed Chinese company, in a deal that could bring up to $106.5 million to the world's second largest miner's coffers.The Anglo-Australian miner will initially receive $6.5 million for its almost 69% stake in R??ssing Uranium Limited, which owns the namesake mine, from China Na...Read More
RAPAPORT... Will the holiday season bring joy to wholesalers andmanufacturers? Traditionally, the industry looks to the fourth quarter to turna profit, but some are taking a longer view in hopes of making the holidayspart of a 12-month business."All barometers point to a strong holiday season," saysRonnie VanderLinden, president of New York-based diamond manufacturer Diamex,as well as of the Diamo...Read More
RAPAPORT... Polished-diamond imports to the US grew in September,according to government data.Shipments into the country increased 10% year on year to$1.95 billion, the third consecutive monthly rise, even as import volume dropped19% to 902,000 carats, figures showed. The average price jumped 35% to $2,157per carat. Polished exports slid 3% to $1.66 billion, while netpolished imports - repres...Read More
RAPAPORT... Birks Group's sales grew in the six months to September 29as the retailer opened its renovated flagship store in Montreal, Canada.Sales rose 6% to CAD 68.7 million ($51.9 million) in thefiscal first half at the jeweler's continuing operations, which exclude theMayors division it sold to Aurum Holdings in August 2017. Comparable-storesales - which further eliminate branch openings such...Read More
News flow out of the diamond industry in 2018 has been dominated by the progression of lab-created diamond production, distribution and pricing dynamics. Numerous new players have entered the space, production capabilities have improved and supply has been scaled. This year alone, the price differential of a generic 1-carat lab-created diamond has fallen by almost 50% relative to the price a compa...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Despite an increase in sales and profit in the first half of this year, Hong Kong's Tse Sui Luen Jewellery fears the impact of the US-China trade war on business. There has been rising retail sentiment in Hong Kong since September last year boosted by higher numbers of mainland tourists and growing sales to local customers, said Chairwoman Annie Yau. "However, t...Read More
Chile's state development agency Corfo plans to file an arbitration suit against US lithium miner Albemarle in two weeks, claiming the world's No.1 producer of the white commodity has failed to adhere to the terms of a contract dating back to 2016.Such document says Albemarle must provide as much as 25% of its annual production at a discount (or "preferential price") to companies seeking to produc...Read More
CULLINAN, Gauteng (miningweekly.com) – A R200-million electrical infrastructure project has been impressively completed at the Cullinan diamond mine of the London-listed Petra Diamonds through the combined effort of four Zest WEG Group companies. The companies adopted an integrated solutions approach in providing multiple and diverse energy packages on surface and underground to power the c...Read More