With battery metals in short supply and prices for some platinum group metals approaching record highs, one junior is developing a unique project in Montana that would bring these metals and others to market. It would also provide America with many of the critical minerals necessary in an unstable world.A 14-hole drill program completed in 2021 by Vancouver-based Group Ten Metals Inc. (PGE:TSX; PG...Read More
Chile produces more copper than any country in the world. But what about gold? One Vancouver-based junior explorer is seeking Chile's next company-maker gold deposit, and it's already finding similarities with another long-time gold and silver producing mine.Hole PPRC-22-36 proved to be the highlight among 18 reverse-circulation drill holes published by Astra Exploration Inc. (ASTR.TSX.V) followin...Read More
The draft report, and accompanying draft conditions for environmental assessment release, will be available for 30 days for public review and comment following which the Minister of Environment andRead More
Based on a $1600 an ounce gold price, Tower Gold had the potential to produce 200,000-350,000 ounces a year over an initial 15 year mine life.Read More
The company said that due to extensive underground development, there is a significant amount of stockpiled ore on surface to allow for a more measured ramp-up of underground mining over the first fewRead More
Kumtor deal paves way for ChaaratSPONSOREDchaarat gold holdings ltd.IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixKropz set to fly after false startSPONSOREDkropzBMG returns eye-catching high-grade gold at Abercromby in WASPONSOREDbmgRosedale will acquire a portfolio of royalties from Equinox for $28.4 million in stock and from Sandstorm for $65 million comprising $32.1 million in...Read More
B2Gold is offering 0.0206 of a share for every Oklo share and 5.25c cash. The implied value of 17.25c per share represents a 127% premium to Oklo's closing price of 7.6c yesterday.Read More
The company expects to add to its $10.5 million of cash and equivalents as its revenue profile ramps-up this year from a 1% net smelter returns (NSR) royalty on Monarch Mining's Beaufor development project and a 2-3% NSR on the Canadian Malartic mine, both in Quebec, Canada.The company reported record revenue of $600,000 in the quarter to March 31, and despite posting a net loss of $2.4 million, d...Read More
Kumtor deal paves way for ChaaratSPONSOREDchaarat gold holdings ltd.IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixKropz set to fly after false startSPONSOREDkropzBMG returns eye-catching high-grade gold at Abercromby in WASPONSOREDbmgThe agreement has been reached with three of the four recognised unions among South African workforce, representing 90% of unionised employees.The de...Read More
Kumtor deal paves way for ChaaratSPONSOREDchaarat gold holdings ltd.IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixKropz set to fly after false startSPONSOREDkropzBMG returns eye-catching high-grade gold at Abercromby in WASPONSOREDbmg"The initial stage of the growth plan and our current priority is a feasibility phase," a spokeswoman for the Saskatchewan-based firm said.Read More
News: Polished trading sluggish but suppliers to large jewelry retail brands doing well. Expectations rising for June 8-13 Las Vegas shows with dealers relying on US market to stimulate growth. Chinese buyers cautious amid slow retail sales. High inflation, Russia supply constraints and Chinese Covid-19 restrictions fueling uncertainty. Melee hot as lack of Alrosa supply creating shortages. India...Read More
RAPAPORT... Macy's reported strong sales of luxury products and raised its profit forecast as the US retail sector weathered the challenges facing the market.Revenue rose 14% year on year to $5.35 billion in the first fiscal quarter, which ended April 30, the department-store chain said Thursday. Comparable-store sales - at branches open for a least a year - rose 13% at Macy's-owned shops and...Read More
RAPAPORT... An Art Deco Cartier bracelet set with 101 carats of Colombian emeralds sold for nearly three times its presale estimate at the New York Jewels Sale at Bonhams, garnering $3.2 million.The piece, designed in 1926, came from the collection of American heiress H?(C)l??ne Irwin Crocker Fagan, daughter of sugar baron William Irwin, Bonhams said Wednesday. It was originally expected to fetch...Read More
Kumtor deal paves way for ChaaratSPONSOREDchaarat gold holdings ltd.IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixKropz set to fly after false startSPONSOREDkropzBMG returns eye-catching high-grade gold at Abercromby in WASPONSOREDbmgForty or so years ago, at the onset of the third Fraser ministry, the Australian government's natural resources portfolio was held by Doug Anthony, t...Read More
RAPAPORT... A jadeite necklace was the top seller at the most recent Christie's sale in Hong Kong, achieving nearly $9 million.The piece features 33 jadeite beads and a clasp set with an 11-carat Burmese ruby surrounded by oval-cut diamonds. It fetched $8.8 million, within its estimate, following spirited competition at Wednesday's Magnificent Jewels auction, the company said. In total, the sale b...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Two diamonds over 100-carats lead a Sotheby's New York auction next month - a 101.41-carat Type IIa pear-shaped D-color IF stone, which is expected to sell for over $10m.And a 111.59-carat pear-shaped fancy deep orange-brown diamond, on the market for the first time in nearly 40 years, with an estimate of $1.5m to $2.5m.Sotheby's says it is "pleased to present not one, bu...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A robber convicted of an $800,000 raid on a US jewelry store has been jailed for 10 years, and ordered to pay $500,000 in restitution.Kenneth Jones, 41, stole an estimated 700 pieces of vintage and designer jewelry, valued at $800,000, from Pretty in Patina, in Omaha, Nebraska, in February 2018.Fingerprints found on a garbage bag he left behind at the scene led detectives to his la...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Jewelry retailers in the US are insisting on declarations from manufacturers in India that they will not use rough stones from Russia."A number of units have received mails from the US buyers. They are worried over the matter," Dinesh Navadiya, regional chairman, Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC), Gujarat, told India's Economic Times.An estimated 250,000 dia...Read More
TAM, which is 3km north of the Alpala deposit, now hosts a measured and indicated resource of 528.5 million tonnes grading 0.36% copper equivalent for 1.27Mt of contained copper and 3.Read More
Peter Akerley, a founder of Erdene Resource Development Corp., first became aware of Mongolia's mineral riches in the mid-1990s as exploration manager for one of the largest western financed programmes in the country. As a geologist, with 35-years of experience, he describes himself as being "awed" by the country's geological potential ('Erdene' is the Mongolian word for treasure, or jewel).Akerle...Read More