RAPAPORT... The Diamond Development Initiative (DDI), which has worked to improve conditions for small-scale diamond miners for more than a decade, has merged with Resolve, an organization engaged in tackling social, health and environmental challenges.DDI will become a division within Resolve, called DDI@Resolve, with DDI executive director Ian Rowe serving as its director. DDI chairman and...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers is embarking on a huge modernization program that will affect all aspects of the business, CEO Bruce Cleaver said in a letter to staff.The move, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, will include reviewing the way it sells rough stones, according to a report on the Bloomberg news website.It raises the possibility that the company's long-held tradition of holding Sight...Read More

(IDEX Online)- Troubled Petra Diamonds has blamed the coronavirus pandemic for a 36 per cent drop in sales.The UK-listed miner is currently seeking a buyer as it faces mounting debts and says it's been dealt a significant extra blow by the combination of COVD-19, an already weak market and a series of power cuts affecting its mines in South Africa."The unprecedented impact of COVID-19 has sig...Read More

It's a sign of the remarkable times we're living through that a monthly drop in watch and jewelry sales of "only" 29.9 per cent sounds like good news.The year-on-year figure for May follows a devastating decline of 51.6 per cent* last month, and as such it hopefully indicates that recovery has begun and the worst of the coronavirus crisis is behind us.  Lockdowns have been eased, st...Read More

Mark Mobius, an emerging-markets investing pioneer, shared his view on gold in a Friday interview with Bloomberg TV as the asset is the asset is set to mark...Read full newsRead More

China's crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia rose 15% in June from a year ago, as refiners ordered record volumes of the fuel in March and April when oil prices tumbled, cementing the kingdom's position as the top oil supplier to China.Read full newsRead More

Gold is receiving support from the coronavirus spike, ultra-low interest rates, a weak dollar and other factors.Read full newsRead More

Mark Mobius, an emerging-markets investing pioneer, shared his view on gold in a Friday interview with Bloomberg TV as the asset is the asset is set to mark...Read full newsRead More

Despite the recent rally in stock markets since the crash back in March, the global economy is still in poor shape. Many are still unemployed, and businesses are still operating at reduced capacity.This makes it almost guaranteed that we will see economic output far below capacity for some time.The stock market has largely been unattached to economics lately. With almost all negative news seemingl...Read More

Gold hit an all-time high today for the first time since 2011. That is big news, albeit more for what it signals than the actual event. For a long time now, gold bugs have argued that gold would rise sharply in response to money printing from the American Federal Reserve. This event is now a reality due to unprecedented money printing.What is amazing is the lack of coverage of this event. I did a...Read More

Last September, I’d discussed why the spot price of gold could hit $2,000 in 2020. At the time, I’d pointed to economic and geopolitical factors that were bullish for the yellow metal. Gold looked good coming into this year, but no one could have predicted the incredible events that have shaken the world in 2020. Are fears of a second market crash and a global recession pushing gold to...Read More

Hammerdown project. Image from Maritime Resources. Infill drilling at Maritime Resources' Hammerdown gold project in Newfoundland and Labrador has intersected high gold and silver grades within the footprint of the Hammerdown open pit outlined in this year's preliminary economic assessment (PEA).Drill highlights include 2.5 metres of 22.66 g/t gold and 24.86 g/t silver starting at 39.5 metres,...Read More

One simple word could change the entire world of cannabis investing...Allow me to explain. You see, the main hurdle keeping cannabis from becoming one of the United States' biggest cash crops is the federal government. Currently, the government considers cannabis a Schedule 1 drug, which means even if states legalize it, the government can still swoop in and shut businesses down. They have done so...Read More

The price of gold just topped US$1,900 and is on track to carve out a new record high. Bitcoin, meanwhile, has doubled off the March low.Momentum investors want to know if gold or the digital currency is the better way to go today. Let’s take a look at the current situation to see why this might be a good time to get out of Bitcoin and shift funds to gold stocks.Gold vs. BitcoinIn 2017, Bitc...Read More

One of the hottest assets the last week has been silver, and it appears that there’s no slowing down. Silver stocks have followed suit of many gold stocks, up to 52-week highs just in the last week.Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been clear that precious metals would be an excellent investment. Not only would investors be seeking a safe haven, but with so much monetar...Read More

Hovermap scanner Credit: Emesent Emesent, a global technology company, and Deswik, a software developer, have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate their respective solutions to provide a more comprehensive mine data capture and analysis offering.The two companies would work together to allow mining companies to incorporate high-quality data captured in inaccessible locations into th...Read More

The pandemic has hit many companies. Several companies trading on the TSX are expected to report a decline in revenue and profit for 2020. We see a lot of volatility in the stock market due to uncertainty about earnings. But there are a few companies that are expected to remain profitable throughout the pandemic.Here are two quality, profitable stocks that can act as a defence against market volat...Read More

Bathopele mine in South Africa (Image: Anglo American Platinum) Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) posted a 7% fall in half-year profit on lower output due to shutdowns caused by covid-19.The company reported headline earnings per share of 26.27 rand, compared to 28.15 rand in H1 2019.Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) rose 6% to 13.1 billion rand ($800 millio...Read More

Jul 27, 2020 Guest(s): Peter Grosskopf CEO, Sprott The U.S. senate is on its way to filling vacant seats on the Federal Reserve's board of governors and although one pick has been plagued with controversy, one fund manager does not expect the new members to derail the central bank's current plan to pump massive levels of liquidity to stabilize financial markets and the global economy.In an inter...Read More

Golden Bull Mountain Ridge Park. Photo by Anna Frodesiak, Wikimedia Commons. As the gold price breaks through $1,900 per oz., Refinitiv has released its review of the gold sector in the second quarter, providing insight into where the demand is coming from - and where it's actually falling.The review shows that as uncertainty around the covid-19 pandemic has boosted investor demand for gold in so...Read More