Acid mine drainage from coal mines in Ohio. (Reference image by Jack Pearce, Wikimedia Commons). Researchers at Penn State University developed a two-stage treatment process for acid mine drainage that enabled them to recover higher concentrations of rare earth elements using smaller amounts of chemicals than previously possible.In a paper published in the Chemical Engineering Journal, the scient...Read More

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Barrick Gold is due to release its second quarter results today.The gold price has softened but remains above the US$2,000 per ounce mark, reached for the first time last week.It was about $2,208/oz on the spot market at the time of writing.China's iron ore imports in July surged to a record, up 24% from a year earlier, Reuters reported, driven by shipments from miners and resilient demand as the...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 7 that are worth another look....Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 7 that are worth another look....Read More

Pini Althaus, who is CEO of USA Rare Earth LLC., tells us that USA Rare Earth LLC. Pre-IPO, with facilities based in the USA, plans to be the first Mine-to-Magnet operation outside of China. The Round Top deposit has lithium and 16 of the 17 rare earths (REE's), with a high concentration of heavy rare earths like Dysprosium and Terbium. Pini plans to make USA Rare Earths the second largest lithium...Read More

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The COVID-19 pandemic came as an external shock, almost unprecedented. How can we navigate the uncertainty of the post-pandemic future? We talked to the author of bestselling books 'The Black Swan', 'Antifragile', and 'Skin in the Game', risk analyst Nassim Nicholas Taleb.Nassim Taleb spent 20 years as a derivatives trader and, after closing 650,000 option transactions and examining 200,000 risk r...Read More

John Rubino is the founder and manager of the popular financial website DollarCollapse.com. Mr. Rubino is the co-author, with GoldMoney's James Turk, of The Money Bubble and The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from It. He spent the 1980's on Wall Street as a Eurodollar trader, equity analyst and junk bond analyst. During the 1990's he was a featured columnist with TheStreet.com and a freq...Read More

Gold is up for 9th consecutive week.Gold stocks scaling a wall of worry.Clock is ticking on TikTok and WeChat.Trump acting more like a king than a president.US government more dangerous to Americans than China's government is.Jim Rickards is wrong on inflation.Peter Schiff is an internationally recognized economist specializing in the foreign equity, currency and gold markets. Mr. Schiff made his...Read More

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"If I'm victorious on November 3rd, I plan to forgive these taxes and make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. I'm going to make them all permanent."Continue...Read More

Researchers say new studies and anecdotal reports imply kids are more vulnerable to carrying and spreading the virus than initially suspected.Continue...Read More

Pretium Resources reported Q2/20 financial results that included a 47% increase in YoY revenue driven by higher gold prices and strong production at its Brucejack Mine in British Columbia. Pretium's Brucejack MinePretium Resources Inc. (PVG:TSX; PVG:NYSE) in a news release announced second quarter and first-half 2020 operating and financial results for the period ended June 30, 2020.The company's...Read More

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Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday August 7 that are worth another look....Read More

RAPAPORT... Polished-diamond imports into Hong slumped in the second quarter as the Covid-19 pandemic damaged local demand. Shipments into the municipality fell 45% year on year to $2.24 billion, the weakest for any quarter since 2009 - outstripping the first quarter's low of $2.33 billion.Diamond imports into Hong Kong reflect the local retail market, as well as that of China, for which the...Read More

RAPAPORT... Revenue from the retail division of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway fell 16% to $3.37 billion in the second quarter, the company reported Saturday.The division, which includes jewelry chains Borsheims, Helzberg Diamonds and Ben Bridge Jeweler, was hit by shutdowns affecting many of the company's retail outlets. Pretax earnings for the entire retail unit dropped 39% to $148 million....Read More

RAPAPORT... Sarine Technologies ended the first half of 2020 in the black as deep cost cuts offset the effects of Covid-19.The supplier of diamond-polishing equipment made a profit of $1.2 million for the period, compared with a loss of $2.8 million a year earlier, it reported Thursday. The company brought its expenses down by around 20% year on year in response to the unprecedented situation...Read More