The $6.02 million water rights transaction entered into in September 2018 is now closed. Quaterra Resources Inc. (QTA:TSX.V; QTRRF:OTCQX) announced in a news release its subsidiary Singatse Peak Services LLC closed the sale to an agricultural company of certain primary groundwater rights tied to its Yerington, Nev., property for $6.02 million, a transaction that is nondilutive to shareholders.Af...Read More

Jay Taylor of J. Taylor's Gold, Energy & Tech Stocks discusses a royalty generator company with a large number of projects in Nevada. This is a very easy and straightforward story to tell. Not only does Ely Gold Royalties Inc. (ELY:TSX.V; ELYGF:OTCQB) have 77 Nevada properties in play but it is already enjoying one royalty and expects a second royalty to start kicking in by June of this year. Wit...Read More

As Lion One moves forward with getting its low-cost, fully permitted Fiji gold mine into production, Dr. Quinton Hennigh joins the team as an advisor. Lion One's Tuvatu Gold ProjectThe mention of Fiji conjures pictures of pristine tropical beaches and pristine water. Fiji Water has become one of the top selling brands of imported water in the United States, and is intertwined, unexpectedly, with...Read More

The recent rally showed quite a bit of promise.Gold stocks surged past their long-term moving averages while breadth indicators surpassed all prior bear market peaks (excluding 2016). 71% of the HUI and 81% of GDXJ closed above the 200-day moving average.GDX and GDXJ looked to be on their way to $25 and $37, with Gold approaching $1360/oz and those breadth figures on the way to hitting 90%. Howeve...Read More

The $22 trillion official national debt is a much discussed problem, even as politicians exhibit zero motivation to do anything about it. But as big an economic overhang as it is, government debt isn't likely to trigger the next financial crisis.Yes, servicing the growing federal debt bubble will depress GDP growth, cause the value of the dollar to drop, and raise inflation risks. But the bubble...Read More

By: Ira EpsteinApril Gold - continuation of thrust to the downside. Some big dumping of positions in this market. Where the market is looking to gain traction is near its 100DMA and..Read More

By: Jordan Roy-Byrne CMT, MFTAThe recent rally showed quite a bit of promise.Gold stocks surged past their long-term moving averages while breadth indicators surpassed all prior bear market peaks (excluding 2016). 71% of the HUI and 81% of GDXJ closed above the 200-day moving average.GDX and GDXJ looked to be on their way to $25 and $37, with Gold approaching $1360/oz and those breadth figures...Read More

By Avi GilburtWhile there is some religious significance in Roman culture, the Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC at a meeting of the Roman Senate.At the time, a seer named Plutarch (some claim that the seer was named Spurinna) had warned that something would happen to Caesar by that date. For those that know their Shakespeare, on his way to...Read More

It could be the beginning of the global "currency war" after the so called the end of the "trade war". The reason is in the paragraph below. Indirectly nations fight currency war day in and day out. Trump is making it open. Currency war induced by Trump will only speed up the decline in the purchasing power of the US dollar. Trump is the US president for less than two years. By then nations will...Read More

Introducing the 2019 Roaring Lion Silver Coin, the Lowest Price, Newly Minted Silver Coin in the World... In 2018, SD Bullion released their first-ever, exclusive silver coin, The 2018 Roaring Lion. With a limited mintage of only 50,000 coins, micro-engraving security and a very detailed design, the coin was well received by the silver community, and the coin sold out within a few months. Later i...Read More

What is behind the most recent price decline in silver, and how far below $15 is there stronger price support? Here's Clive to explain...by Clive Maund of Streetwise ReportsSilver fell sharply on Friday after dropping on Wednesday and Thursday, and the reason it fell so sharply can be seen on its latest 6-month chart below which shows that it breached its parabolic uptrend, which had become too st...Read More

RAPAPORT... Graff has bought the New York property that has housed itsflagship boutique for nearly 20 years, the London-based jeweler said Tuesday. The building, at 710 Madison Avenue on the corner of 63rd Street, was designed by celebrated US architect Peter Marino, who has alsocreated stores for other high-profile clients, including Calvin Klein, Chanel, ChristianDior and Louis Vuitton. Gr...Read More

RAPAPORT... HRD Antwerp has changed the language it uses in itslab-grown-diamond certificates to match its reports for natural stones. The grading lab, which has issued documents for loose synthetics since 2013, has expanded its color categories for lab-grown diamonds, andhas updated its 4Cs terminology to correspond with the certificates it issuesfor mined diamonds. While the old lab-grown-...Read More

RAPAPORT... Russian diamond manufacturer Kristall Smolensk is selling areplica of the Great Imperial Crown of the Russian Empire on RapNet's newjewelry platform for $15.5 million. The crown, which weighs 2.3 kilograms, comprises more than11,000 round, oval and pear-shaped white diamonds, weighing 1,928 carats andset in white gold. The stones were sourced from Russian miner Alrosa, certifiedby...Read More

RAPAPORT... De Beers' sales fell for the second consecutive month, ashigh rough prices and slim midstream profits softened demand from buyers,sightholders reported. Sales of $490 million in February were 13% below ayear ago amid weak interest in lower-value goods, the miner said Tuesday. De Beers mainlykept prices steady, prompting concerns from clients, many of whom had beenhoping the company wou...Read More

De Beers Group Industry Services on Tuesday announced that all four of its diamond verification instruments (DVIs) submitted for testing as part of the Assure programme had received “outstanding” results.The Assure programme is a joint collaboration between the Diamond Producers Association (DPA) and Signet Jewelers, with input provided by other participants in the diamond industry and...Read More

De Beers Group today announced the value of rough diamond sales (Global Sightholder Sales and Auction Sales) for the second sales cycle of 2019.  Sales of De Beers' second "cycle " stood at $490 , a drop of 13 percent compared to the sales figure of De Beers' second sight in 2018, which generated $563 million. "Demand for rough diamonds remained consistent during the second sales cycle of 20...Read More

Standard & Poors (S&P) issued a report saying that 2019 will be yet another year of elevated retail defaults, above the levels that were seen during the great recession of a decade ago. It noted that a significant number of retailers struggle to operate successfully in the current competitive landscape. While the United States' economy seems to be in reasonably good shape, S&P predicts...Read More

GIA's second annual GIA (Gemological Institute of America) London Jewellery Career Fair will be held on April 5, 11:30 am to 4:15 pm, at the Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN, for an opportunity to meet gem and jewelry industry recruiters from all over Europe. The event is free and open to the public. "The GIA Jewellery Career Fair is back in London for a second year, and is eve...Read More

The World Diamond Council has welcomed the adoption of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on March 1, which calls for a strengthening of the Kimberley Process (KP), to more effectively sever the link between the illicit transaction of rough diamonds and armed conflict, thereby contributing to the maintenance of international peace and, in particular, security and sustainabl...Read More