GABORONE - Botswana's Debswana Diamond Mining, a joint venture between De Beers and the southern Africa country's government, aims to keep production at around 24 million carats this year, its managing director said on Friday.Debswana lifted diamond output by 6 percent to a four-year high of 24.1 million carats in 2018, buoyed by strong demand from the United States, China and India."I see the yea...Read More
MOSCOW - Russian state-controlled diamond producer Alrosa said on Friday its 2018 net profit rose 15% to 90.4 billion roubles ($1.4 billion), as a fall in sales volume was offset by stronger global prices.Though sales volume fell by 8% year-on-year, stronger pricing, particularly in the first half of 2018, meant sales by value increased by 6 percent to $4.4 billion, Alrosa said.This helped to lift...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX:LOM) has recovered an 83.9 carat diamond from its recently commissioned Mothae mine in Lesotho, Africa.The stone is the fourth diamond over 50 carats the company has recovered to date at its 70%-owned Mothae operation.While the find was not gem-quality, Lucapa says it continues to underline the large-stone nature of the kimberlite resource.Commercial production at...Read More
MOSCOW – Russian State-controlled diamond producer Alrosa said on Friday its 2018 net profit rose 15% to 90.4 billion roubles, as a fall in sales volume was offset by stronger global prices.Though sales volume fell by 8% year-on-year, stronger pricing, particularly in the first half of 2018, meant sales by value increased by 6% to $4.4-billion, Alrosa said.AdvertisementThis helped to lift re...Read More
Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds on Friday said it was finalising preparations for the move to continuous operations at its Kareevlei diamond mine, in Kimberley, South Africa.The company said that although this was later than had initially been anticipated, it would not have any material impact on the published production guidance of 35 000 t to 45 000 t for the first quarter.AdvertisementBlueRock exp...Read More
GABORONE – Botswana's Debswana Diamond Mining, a joint venture between De Beers and the southern Africa country's government, aims to keep production at around 24-million carats this year, its managing director said on Friday.Debswana lifted diamond output by 6 percent to a four-year high of 24.1-million carats in 2018, buoyed by strong demand from the United States, China and India....Read More
PERTH (miningweekly.com) – An 83 ct diamond has been recovered from the Mothae kimberlite project, in Lesotho.ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company on Friday said that the diamond was the fourth stone measuring larger than 50 ct to be recovered from Mothae to date, and while the 83.9 ct diamond was not considered gem-quality, it continued to underline the large-stone nature of the resource.Adver...Read More
LSE-listed Gem Diamonds on Thursday announced the sale of a 13.33 ct pink diamond on tender in Antwerp for $8.75-million.The diamond was recovered from the Letšeng mine, in Lesotho, in which Gem Diamonds holds a 70% stake, in February.AdvertisementThe sale represents a record dollar per carat price of $656 933 for a Letšeng diamond.To watch Creamer Media's latest video reports, click...Read More
UK prices for alloy steel scrap moved up slightly over the past week despite higher costs for nickel, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday March 15.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for domestic UK 18/8 stainless steel scrap solids was ?840-880 ($1,113-1,266) per tonne delivered on March 15. This was up from ?830-870 per tonne delivered a week earlier, reflecting transactions heard in the...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsAlara, which has been active in the Middle East since last decade, said the debt funding was from Doha-headquartered SAMA Global Investment.Read More
The Turkish steel mills continued to book deep-sea scrap at steady prices at the end of the current week but prices are likely to fall in the next bookings, sources said on Friday March 15.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked a European cargo, comprising 13,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (75:25) at $318 per tonne, 6,000 tonnes of bonus at $331 per tonne and 6,000 tonnes of busheling at $334 per tonne cf...Read More
Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAltech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsThe Montana Department of Environmental Quality this week released the draft environmental impact statement, which outlines the final permitting steps required.Read More
The price of shredded ferrous scrap continued to recover this week with prices moving up for the second consecutive week, sources said on Friday March 15.Fastmarkets MB's weekly index for containerized imports of shredded scrap into India was $335.29 per tonne cfr on March 15, up from $331.38 per tonne cfr on March 8.The recovery comes after the index had fallen by $11.11 per tonne week on week to...Read More
Domestic prices for E8 grade ferrous scrap in Italy have picked up slightly in February following the positive trend settled in the international scrap markets, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday March 15.Fastmarkets' monthly price assessment for Italian grade E8 scrap was ?,?285-295 ($322-334) per tonne delivered on March 15, up compared with ?,?280-290 per tonne delivered in the previous month.T...Read More
Prices for light iron steel scrap in the United Kingdom have slipped at the top end of the current range amid steady trading, with the market buoyed by a recovery in export prices so far this month, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday March 8.The inter-merchant light iron scrap price, which dropped ?5 ($6.60) per tonne last week, has been reacting to a fall in export prices in late February, altho...Read More
The market for pig iron exports from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) has strengthened on resumed sales to the United States, which is the key outlet, Fastmarkets was told on Thursday March 14.Fastmarkets' price assessment for CIS exports of high-manganese pig iron was $340-350 per tonne fob Black Sea on March 14, widening upward from $340-345 per tonne fob a week before.One deal was h...Read More
Forward cargoes of seaborne coking coal continued to fetch lower prices on Friday March 15 while those for April-laycan shipments held steady.On the Global Coal trading platform, a July-laycan cargo in the branded segment was traded at $196 per tonne fob Australia, while a bid for an April-laycan cargo in the same segment was made at $212.50 per tonne, up $0.50 per tonne from the last bid. The tra...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed this morning, Friday March 15, with copper, aluminium and nickel up by an average of 0.6%, while zinc, lead and tin were down by an average 0.6%. Three-month copper was recently quoted at $6,449 per tonne, up by 1% compared with Thursday’s close at $6,385 per tonne. Volume was significantly above average, with 19,661 lots...Read More
Participants in China's rebar market reacted differently to the impending reduction of value-added tax in the country, resulting in a widening of domestic prices on Friday March 15.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,800-3,860 yuan ($565-574) per tonne, widened by 10 yuan per tonne on both ends Northern China (Beijing): 3,790-3,850 yuan per tonne, widened upward by 20 yuan per tonneChina's value-...Read More
China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices moved down on Friday March 15 due to inactivity and declining futures following the announcement of cuts to the country's value-added tax. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,790-3,810 yuan ($564-567) per tonne, down 40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,750-3,770 yuan per tonne, down 10 yuan per tonneTrading activity was lower than that on Thursday w...Read More