RAPAPORT... Gemfields has recovered a 5,655-carat emerald at itsKagem mine in Zambia, it said Monday. "The discovery of this exceptional gemstone is such animportant moment both for us and for the emerald world in general," said ElenaBasaglia, a gemologist at Gemfields in London. "We are experiencing strikinglyincreased demand for high-quality Zambian emeralds from the major brands,particularly in...Read More
Africa-focused Gem Diamonds (LON:GEMD) said Wednesday it's on track to meet its long-term targets, as third-quarter production rose 27% in the three months to Sep. 30, when compared to the same period last year.The company, which has found over a dozen of huge precious rocks at its flagship Let??eng mine in Lesotho this year, now expects to recover 120,000 carats to 124,000 carats of diamonds...Read More
Swedish engineering company Epiroc announced today that it will be supporting the work of Kimberley Ekapa Mining to help digitize the company's Kimberley underground mine, located South Africa's Kimberley town and whose yearly production reached 755,645 carats in June 2018.In detail, Kimberley Ekapa wants to implement Epiroc's Mobilaris Mining Intelligence, known as MMI, to enable situational awar...Read More
RAPAPORT... Source-verification programs are poised to become a standard feature of diamond sales, with early adopters set to gain market share.The question of whether a diamond could be traced throughout the distribution chain initially met with some skepticism. Back in 2011, as rough production from Zimbabwe's controversial Marange fields was being cleared for export by the Kimberley Proces...Read More
RAPAPORT... Sears Holdings Corp. must pay suppliers for consignmentgoods its customers buy during the bankrupt retailer's closing-down sales,according to a court filing last week. Vendors, including diamond manufacturer Rosy Blue andjewelry supplier Vijay Gold Designs, had objected to the department store's previousclosure plans, as they feared Sears would sell off products they had shipped toit o...Read More
The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Thursday November 1.Base metal prices on the London Metal Exchange ended mostly lower on Wednesday October 31, pressured by a fresh 2018 high in the United States' dollar index. Read more in our live futures report.Here are how prices looked at the close of trading:Ternium chief executive officer M??ximo Vedoya expects steel slab...Read More
In line with its strategy of the early detection of large diamonds and reducing diamond damage, LSE-listed Gem Diamonds has approved the construction of a $3-million pilot plant, at Letšeng, in Lesotho, that will use innovative technology to identify diamonds within kimberlite ore and nonmechanical means of liberating the encapsulated diamonds.The pilot plant will be commissioned in the sec...Read More
Spot copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TCs/RCs) remained almost unchanged and at high levels toward the end of October, with a rapidly widening backwardation reducing the market liquidity.Fastmarkets' assessment of the TC/RC index dipped by $1.60 per tonne/0.16 cents per lb to $87.40 per tonne/8.74 cents per lb on October 31. The previous assessment of $89.00 per tonne/8.90 cents...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Gemfields said it has discovered a 5,655-carat emerald crystal which it says has "remarkable clarity and a perfectly balanced golden green hue" which it has named the 'Inkalamu', the Lion Emerald. Inkalamu was discovered at Kagem, the world's largest emerald mine, which is 75% owned by Gemfields and 25% by the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia which belongs to the...Read More
Petra Diamonds has appointed former Diamond Trading Company CEO Varda Shine as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1 January 2019. The mining firm also appointed Bernard Pryor to the same position, saying that the appointments were made in accordance with the Nomination Committee's three year Succession Plan which is in line with Petra's development "from a phase of inten...Read More
World's top diamond producer by output Alrosa (MCX:ALRS) said Wednesday it had begun production at its new Verkhne-Munskoye diamond field in eastern Siberia, which Russian President Vladimir Putin said would reinforce the state-controlled firm's position as a world leader.The Verkhne-Munskoye deposit, which has a 20-year productive life, will partly substitute suspended output at Alrosa's undergr...Read More
Aim-listed Firestone Diamonds recovered 240 733 ct of diamonds at a grade of 23.8 carats per hundred tonnes (cpht) from its Liqhobong mine, in Lesotho, during the quarter ended September 30 – the first quarter of its 2019 financial yearThis compares with the 263 512 ct recovered at a grade of 25.7 cpht in the fourth quarter of the 2018 financial year, ended June 30.AdvertisementDiamond sales...Read More
Comex copper prices recovered from a mid-September low in early morning trading on Wednesday in the United States, with a stronger dollar and modest Chinese growth preventing a major rebound.The copper price for December settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange inched up 0.05 cents to $2.6645 per lb. Overnight, China's October PMI for the manufacturing industry was reco...Read More
China's lead production is estimated to moderately decrease by 2020 due to the stringent environmental regulations, a spokesperson of the China Non-ferrous Industry Association (CNIA) told delegates at the 21st China International Lead and Zinc Conference on October 31.Peng Tao, the general secretary of CNIA, forecast China's lead production to retreat to 4.65 million tonnes in two years' time, sl...Read More
Xiana Mining will acquire Glencore's Minera Altos De Punitaqui copper mine in Peru for $25 million, after sealing a financing package with Swiss trading firm Bluequest. Vancouver-headquartered Xiana agreed to buy the mine after signing terms in May, when London Metal Exchange three-month copper prices rose above $7,000 per tonne. But a combination of trade-war fears and diminishing mine supply ris...Read More
Amerigo MVC plant ramp-up on courseSPONSOREDamerigo resources Hudbay has offered Mason shareholders C$0.40 in cash for each share held, valuing Mason at $31 million. Net of Mason's cash and Hudbay's current 14% ownership in the company, Masno's enterprise value is about US$15 million.Hudbay CEO Alan Hair said the acquisition of the Ann Mason project was "another step in Hudbay's consistent strate...Read More
Latin American steelmaker Ternium, based in Luxembourg, said it believes it can take back market share held by imports in Mexico, chief executive officer M??ximo Vedoya told analysts on Wednesday October 31. The company is expanding a plant there."Mexico is a more competitive market than the United States to produce steel and we believe we can do that, taking market share back from imports," the e...Read More
Amerigo MVC plant ramp-up on courseSPONSOREDamerigo resources The company reported a headline loss for the three-months period of C$8.3 million, or 4c a share, which were below average analyst forecasts that called for nil per share, on expected revenue of $72.1 million.Revenue fell 21.3% year-over-year to $60.72 million. Amerigo MVC plant ramp-up on courseSPONSOREDamerigo resources Copper Mount...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedGalan Lithium scores coup in Argentina's 'Pilbara of lithium'SPONSOREDgalan lithiumWhite Rock sets cracking Alaska pace in first field seasonSPONSOREDwhite rock minerals The combined sector helped push the real gross domestic product (GDP) up for a seventh consecutive month, edging up 0.1% in August.StatsCan said growt...Read More
Slab prices are due to recover at any time, with production stoppages expected and an inflationary trend in the prices of raw materials used to make steel, the chief executive officer of Ternium, M??ximo Vedoya, told analysts today.Ternium has produced slab that is sold to third parties in Brazil, since buying Companhia Sider??rgica do Atl??ntico (CSA), from Thyssenkrupp. The mill, which has 5 mil...Read More