Managing director Ian Bamborough says Saturn Metals is gaining momentum, as it goes "full throttle" on a scoping study for its recently updated 1.47 million ounce Apollo Hill gold resource and continues to explore the plus-1,000sq.km project in Western Australia for complementary gold deposits.Read More
RAPAPORT... LVMH saw revenue from jewelry and watches jump 22% in the first half of 2022, boosted by an "excellent" performance in the US from Tiffany & Co.Revenues in the category grew to EUR 4.91 billion ($5 billion) in the six months ending June 30, LVMH reported Tuesday. Profit for the division rose 26% to EUR 987 million ($1.01 billion).The debut of Tiffany's new Knot collection saw susta...Read More
RAPAPORT... De Beers brought in $630 million at its latest sales cycle as the miner benefited from solid demand for its rough amid shortages of Russian goods.Proceeds from the July sight and auctions were 23% higher than for the equivalent period a year ago, the miner reported Monday. Sales were down 4% compared with the previous cycle in June, which grossed $657 million."Following a period o...Read More
RAPAPORT... Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered one of the largest pink diamonds in history: a 170-carat stone from the Lulo mine in Angola.The type IIa rough, named the Lulo Rose, is "believed to be the largest pink diamond recovered in the last 300 years," Lucapa said Wednesday. It is also the fifth-largest diamond from Lulo, and the deposit's 27th over 100 carats since commercial producti...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers today said it sold $630m (provisional) of rough during Cycle 6, a year-on-year increase of almost 23 per cent as demand remained "robust".The figure is a light drop on Cycle 5's $657m (up a third year-on-year). Rough sales during Cycle 4 were $604m.Bruce Cleaver, CEO, De Beers Group, said: "Following a period of consistently robust demand in the first half, we continu...Read More
IDEX Online) - A huge pink diamond weighing 170 carats has been recovered at the Lulo mine, in Angola.Australia-based miner Lucapa describes it as "an historic recovery" and says it is believed to be the largest pink diamond found in the last 300 years.The stone, named The Lulo Rose, will be sold at international tender by Sodiam E.P, the Angolan state diamond marketing company.Tobias Kormind, man...Read More
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"Teck will have the mining sector talking tomorrow morning with a slew of press releases tonight," BMO Capital Markets analyst Jackie Przybylowski said.Read More
"While global inflationary pressures were present in the first quarter of this year, second quarter costs were further impacted by higher energy and commodity prices resulting from the conflict in Ukraine," First Quantum said in its Q2 results, which were released after market close on July 26."Costs for fuel, explosives, freight, mill balls, reagents and other consumables represent almost half of...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 32 points in pre-opening trade. Investors are waiting for an update on monetary policy by the Federal Reserve to be released at 2:00 PM EDT.Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of the June Durable Goods Orders report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was a slip of 0.4% versus a gain of 0.8% in May. Actual w...Read More
Shares in Canada's uranium major, Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ), gained nearly 10% on Wednesday after the company reported higher core profit than expected amid an uptick in uranium prices.The Saskatoon, Sask.-based company said headline profit per share more than doubled to 18 ?, compared with analyst forecasts calling for a loss of 1 ?.Revenue for the three months ended June increased 55% year-on...Read More
NorthWest Copper Corp. (TSXV: NWST; US-OTCQX: NWCCF) has released a new mineral resource estimate on the Lorraine project, about 40 km. from the company's Kwanika-Stardust project in Central B.C.The June 30 technical report draws on drilling completed between 1949 and 2009 and calculates an indicated resource of 12.9 million tonnes for 156,093 lb. of copper, grading at 0.55% copper and 0.66% coppe...Read More
Mining financier and entrepreneur Lukas H. Lundin has died in Geneva at the age of 64, following a two-year battle with brain cancer. The Swedish-Canadian Lundin, known for his shrewd business sense and willingness to take risks, was born in 1958 in Stockholm. Lundin learned the natural resource business from his father, the late Swedish resource magnate Adolf H. Lundin and founder of the Lundin...Read More
Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A/TECK.B; NYSE: TECK), Canada's largest diversified miner, has announced its chief executive officer, Don Lindsay, will step down after 17 years in the role.Lindsay, who will leave by the end of September, will be replaced by two executives in what the company calls "the culmination of a multiyear succession process." Chief financial officer Jonathan Price will take over...Read More
Australia's Lucapa Diamond (ASX: LOM) has recovered a rare 170-carat pink diamond at its prolific Lulo mine, believed to be the largest of its kind found in Angola in the last 300 years.The massive pink stone named the "Lulo Rose" will be sold later this year through an international tender conducted by Angolan state-owned diamond trading firm Sodiam.Lucapa has a 40% stake in the Lulo mine, whic...Read More
Anglo American posted underlying earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) of US$8.7 billion, down 28% from $12.Read More
Share this article VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. (TECK.B-TSX, TECK.A-TSX, TECK-NYSE) President and CEO Don Lindsay has informed the company of his intention to retire, effective September 30, 2022, following 17 years in the role. In a press release, the Vancouver mining giant said Jonathan Price will succeed Lindsay as CEO, and Harry "Red" Conger will become President and Chief Operating Offi...Read More
$1.02 billion...That's now the amount of the total Mega Millions jackpot after no one won on Tuesday.If you were to play now and win and you took the entire amount in one lump sum, you would actually end up with $602.5 million. And depending upon where you live, the taxes on that could get as high as 48%, which would leave you with about $313 million.That's a bit frustrating to be sure, but s...Read More
We spoke with Belinda Labatte, who is CEO of Lomiko Metals Inc. (TSX.V: LMR), a graphite and lithium exploration and development Company in Quebec, on a mission to build a major new energy platform in Canada. Lomiko holds a 100% interest, in its La Loutre graphite development, in southern Quebec, located within the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg (KZA) First Nations territory, close to infrastructure, wi...Read More
Aclara Resources is a development-stage, rare earth, mineral resources Company, located in Chile, with an objective to become a strategic supplier of the critical Heavy Rare Earth Elements (HREE), while also supplying key magnet, Light Rare Earth Elements (LREE), in order to support the widespread use of renewable energy technologies and the increased adoption of EVs, globally. Aclara is initiatin...Read More