Sun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsEmerging SA gold developer Barton Gold breaks the mouldSPONSOREDbarton gold holdings limitedMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDSky the limit for AuTECO in CanadaSPONSOREDauteco minerals ltdEndeavour Mining has long been touted as the new Randgold, but bearish sentiment has depressed the stock price since it listed in...Read More
RAPAPORT... Watches of Switzerland warned of a "potentially more challenging trading environment" for the rest of the year despite reporting strong growth in the past three months.Group sales jumped 31% year on year to GBP 391 million ($460.2 million) in the first fiscal quarter, which ended July 31, the UK-based company reported last week. Revenue in the UK and Europe rose 8% to GBP 239 mill...Read More
RAPAPORT... US brand David Webb's first in-house exhibition will highlight the animal-themed pieces that established it as a groundbreaking jewelry house.Titled "A Walk in the Woods: David Webb's Artful Animals," the show will take place at the high-jewelry company's Madison Avenue headquarters from September 19 to October 2. It was postponed from its original spring 2020 date because of Covi...Read More
Sun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDEmerging SA gold developer Barton Gold breaks the mouldSPONSOREDbarton gold holdings limitedSky the limit for AuTECO in CanadaSPONSOREDauteco minerals ltdSerpentinite-hosted nickel deposits are presently the exploration target for many projects by numerous companies.Read More
RAPAPORT... Sotheby's will auction three vintage Rolex watches owned by stuntman Stan Barrett at its next timepiece sale in New York.Barrett's colorful life has also included stints as a boxing champion and NASCAR driver, yet it was his Hollywood career that cemented a lifelong friendship with Paul Newman, the most famous owner of Rolex watches. The three pieces will headline the auction hous...Read More
Sun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsEmerging SA gold developer Barton Gold breaks the mouldSPONSOREDbarton gold holdings limitedMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDSky the limit for AuTECO in CanadaSPONSOREDauteco minerals ltd"The successful global transition to clean energy is reliant on a considerable increase in supply of critical materials such as Nd...Read More
(IDEX Online) - India's polished diamond exports fell by over 13 per cent last month (in dollars) as consumer demand was hit by the war in Ukraine and US inflation.Total foreign sales for July were $1.93bn, according to figures released by the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), down year-on-year from $2.23bn. The drop was just over 7.5 per cent in rupee.Exports for the...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Couples are trading in the mined diamond from their engagement ring for a larger lab grown, says a CNN report. They're taking advantage of lower prices to get a bigger sparkle for their buck, according to US jewelers. "Just last week we had three or four couples who've been married for a few years come to us to upgrade the diamond on the engagement ring," said Joel Klein,...Read More
(IDEX Online) - India's exports of polished lab-grown diamonds could double this year, amid a surge in US demand. Sales last year were $1.3bn, around five per cent of the country's total polished exports, but Vipul Shah, vice chairman of the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council, expects that figure to double in the financial year from April 2022. "We have a huge potential to grow...Read More
Sun shines on Saturn MetalsSPONSOREDsaturn metalsEmerging SA gold developer Barton Gold breaks the mouldSPONSOREDbarton gold holdings limitedMining Journal and MiningNews.Net Critical Minerals reportSPONSOREDSky the limit for AuTECO in CanadaSPONSOREDauteco minerals ltdThe mining industry has benefited from a period of belt tightening, as the industry shows clean balance sheets and good cash flows...Read More
(Updates paragraph 9 to say VW's ID4 will qualify for a $7,500tax credit in 2022) FRANKFURT, Aug 23 (Reuters) - German carmakers Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz struck battery materialscooperation agreements with mineral-rich Canada on Tuesday,intensifying efforts to secure access to lithium, nickel andcobalt. The move comes as automakers roll out their electric-vehicleexpansion strategies globally i...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures advanced 2 points in pre-opening trade. Palo Alto Networks $PANW gained $43.85 to $552.00 after the company reported higher than consensus fiscal fourth quarter revenues and earnings. The company also announced a three for one stock split. Stifel raised its target price from $600 to $645. Zoom $ZM dropped $6.64 to $88.74 after...Read More
Markets got hammered today, with the Dow losing 643 points, the S&P losing 90 and the Nasdaq losing 323. What happened?Here's CNBC's explanation:The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply Monday... as the summer rally fizzled out and fears of aggressive interest rate hikes returned to Wall Street...Investors are anticipating what could be a volatile week of trading ahead of Federal Reserve...Read More
All week the CDC has been walking back one "guidance" after another. No more compulsory testing, no more contact tracing, no more social distancing, no more treating the unvaxxed differently than the vaxxed (though the "Joe Biden" regime still won't allow unvaxxed travelers into the USA), no more vax mandates (except, apparently, for the U.S. military).The CDC seems to think nobody will notice its...Read More
Mr. George Bee, President and CEO, to provide an update on the Company's advanced gold and copper asset, the CK Gold Project, in Southeast WyomingMr. Travis Deti, Executive Director of the Wyoming Mining Association, discusses the benefits of the CK Gold Project for WyomingCHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. (NASDAQ: USAU) (the "Company" or "U.S. Gold"), a gold explorat...Read More
To be governed - observed 19th-century philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - is to be:Watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded... registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, correc...Read More
But whence will growth originate?Since the Great Financial Crisis the monetary and fiscal authorities have conjured over $43 trillion from the great void of nothingness.Within the past 24 months alone, the Federal Reserve has plucked - from the same vast void - 50% more dollars than all dollars that ever existed in 256 previous years of American history.Each of these dollars are representations of...Read More
Why do they keep trying to redefine the meaning of words?In June 2022, U.S. inflation was 9.1%, the highest in over 40 years. In July 2022, the inflation rate was 8.5%, a decline from the June rate but still one of the highest inflation readings since the early 1980s.Joe Biden might have claimed a little credit for bringing inflation down a little in July. Instead, he jumped the shark and claimed...Read More
The war in Ukraine has dragged on for six months and will likely last for many more months or possibly years if the U.S. doesn't end its policy of "fighting to the last Ukrainian."Attention spans have waned. Americans have adjusted to the energy price shocks (in fact, energy prices have come down a lot in the past month). Complacency about the war has set in.But that's a huge mistake.In reality, t...Read More
The strangest thing happened this week.On Monday evening, Aug. 8, news broke that earlier in the day the FBI had sent a large, armed raiding party to the Florida home of former President Donald Trump. News accounts reported at least 30 agents on site. Photos showed several G-men slinging automatic rifles.Then the next morning, Tuesday, Aug. 9, the price of gold barely moved from a recent trading l...Read More