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As The US Mint Sells-Out: American Silver Eagle Sales Up 45% In First 2 Months Of 2019

February 25, 2019 / www.silverdoctors.com

SRSrocco says, "while it has been a long and frustrating road for precious metals investors, I can assure you; we will have the last laugh". Here's an update...by Steve St Angelo of SRSrocco ReportSales of Silver Eagles continue to be strong as demand for the official coins surged in February. Moreover, as the Authorized purchases of Silver Eagles jumped by 775,000 oz this past Thursday, the U.S...Read More

Gold Bugs Index Facing Multi-Year Breakout Attempt!

February 25, 2019 / kimblechartingsolutions.com

Mining stocks are facing an opportunity they haven't seen many times in the past 8-years!This 2-pack looks at the Gold Bugs Index (HUI) and the Gold & Silver Miners (XAU) Index over the past 12-years. Since the highs in 2011, both have created a series of lower highs and lower lows along each (1) line. The counter-trend rally the past couple of months has each mining index facing long-term fallin...Read More

Challenging Market Leads to Sarine Profit Drop

February 25, 2019 / www.diamonds.net

RAPAPORT... Profit at Sarine Technologies plunged sharply in the fourthquarter, amid weaker industry sentiment that impacted consumer spending, theequipment maker said Sunday. Profit dropped 85% year on year to $93,000 for the threemonths ending December 31, as uncertainties in China and tightening bank creditto India's manufacturing sector resulted in lower capital-equipment sales andreduced...Read More

Lady Gaga Wears 129ct. Tiffany Diamondto Oscars

February 25, 2019 / www.diamonds.net

RAPAPORT... Actress and singer Lady Gaga sported a 128.54-carat yellowdiamond and platinum Tiffany necklace at the 91st Academy Awardsshow Sunday night. The Oscar winner wore the 141-year-old cushion-cut TiffanyDiamond - which originated  in the Kimberley mines in South Africa - was last seen on Audrey Hepburn at the publicity shoot for the 1961 movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. It's th...Read More

Signet Offers Employees Voluntary Exit Packages

February 25, 2019 / www.diamonds.net

RAPAPORT... Signet Jewelers is offering employees at its Ohioheadquarters benefits and assistance to leave the company voluntarily, in aneffort to reduce costs. The Voluntary Transition Program (VTP) is available tosupport-center and field team members at the district-manager level or above,who have been with the company for more than two years, chief people officerMary Liz Finn told employee...Read More

Steinmetz' BSG Resources settles dispute over Simandou iron-ore project with Guinea

February 25, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

Bloomberg reports that Beny Steinmetz has ended a seven-year-old dispute with Guinea, a mineral rich country in West Africa. Reportedly, the settlement was brokered by former French President Nicolas Sarkozy. As a result of the agreement, Steinmetz-controlled BSG Resources Ltd. and Guinean President Alpha Conde have both withdrawn allegations of corruption and agreed to drop a two-year-old arbitra...Read More

IDE to stage Israel Diamond Week in Shenzhen

February 25, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

The Shanghai Diamond Exchange (SDE), Guangdong Land Holding Ltd (GDLand) and Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) are to hold a first China-Israel Diamond Week in Shenzhen, April 2 - 4, 2019. The highlight of the event will be a China-Israel Diamond Sales Meet, where Israeli exhibitors will present their goods to Chinese diamond buyers. A large number of Chinese buyers is expected at the event. The even...Read More

De Beers says LGD prices have dropped 60 percent

February 25, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

In an interview, Bruce Cleaver, CEO of De Beers, contended that the prices of lab-grown diamonds (LGDs) have dropped as much as 60 percent since De Beers stared marketing its Lightbox LGD-set jewelry line in the last quarter of 2018.  The De Beers CEO said that wholesale prices of LGDs would continue to fall due to technological developments and advancements will continue to lower the cost o...Read More

GSI to offer diamond testing and screening at HKTDC Show

February 25, 2019 / www.idexonline.com

GSI (Gemological Science International) will provide diamond testing and screening for jewelry manufacturers and retailers at its booth during the Hong Kong International Jewellery Show. The booth's mini-lab will showcase GSI's testing and screening capabilities now available at its new Hong Kong facility, which utilizes the latest equipment for testing and screening undisclosed lab grown diamond...Read More

Lawsuit against Northern Dynasty dismissed

February 25, 2019 / www.mining-journal.com

Bezant buzz builds around big projectsSPONSOREDbezant resourcesWhite Gold Corp a major force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithium"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftThe case was one of three class actions filed agains...Read More

Metals prices pulled higher by low copper stocks, trade optimism

February 25, 2019 / www.metalbulletinresearch.com

Last Thursday’s brief correction in metals prices was just a pause in what is turning into a strong rally, with the three-month base metals prices traded on the London Metal Exchange up by an average of 0.6% on the morning of Monday February 25.Copper and tin prices are extending into fresh highs for the year, while the other base metals are rallying. Copper prices were up by 0.4% this m...Read More

Tech Talk for Monday February 25th 2019

February 25, 2019 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 13 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures responded to a 5.6% increase in the Shanghai Composite Index to 2961.28 in overnight trading on news that the Trump Administration plans to delay tariff increases on Chinese imports beyond the self-imposed March 1st deadline. Newmont Mining added $0.12 to 36.60 after Barric...Read More

PRIZE MINING ANNOUNCES THE REAPPOINTMENT OFDALLAS PRETTY TO THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

February 25, 2019 / prizemining.com

Vancouver, British Columbia (February 25, 2019) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Company") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) is pleased to announce that the Company has reappointed Mr. Dallas Pretty, B.Comm., CA to the Company's Board of Directors."Dallas brings over twenty years of experience in accounting, finance, capital and public markets to Prize and we are very pleas...Read More

Osgood interviewed about Cold War, Radio Free Europe on C-SPAN

February 25, 2019 / www.minesnewsroom.com

Kenneth Osgood, a historian and professor of humanities, arts and social sciences at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured on C-SPAN discussing the CIA, the Cold War and Radio Free Europe. The author of the book "Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad," Osgood's research interests include the history of propaganda and intelligence, the history of media,...Read More

Denise Burgess appointed to Mines Board of Trustees

February 25, 2019 / www.minesnewsroom.com

Denise Burgess has been appointed to the Colorado School of Mines Board of Trustees by Gov. Jared Polis.Burgess, president and CEO of Burgess Services Inc., a Denver-based construction management firm, will serve a four-year term through December 2022.A graduate of the University of Northern Colorado, Burgess joined her family's business in 1994 after launching her own career in advertising sales...Read More

Interview: NWT Minister Schumann on new minerals act, road building

February 25, 2019 / www.northernminer.com

Although the Northwest Territories is deep in the grip of winter, there have been several major mining-related developments in the last two months in the areas of new mining legislation and infrastructure.The Northern Miner sat down with the Northwest Territories Minister of Infrastructure and Industry, Tourism and Investment, Wally Schumann, at the Association of Mineral Exploration's (AME) annua...Read More

JV Article: Yorbeau Refocuses on Consolidation and Positive Partnerships in Quebec

February 25, 2019 / www.northernminer.com

In December 2018, Yorbeau Resources Inc. (TSX: YRB; US-OTC: YRBAF) optioned its Rouyn gold property in Quebec to IAMGOLD Corporation (TSX: IMG; NYSE: IAG) and a month later, the two companies began drilling the property.The Rouyn property is located roughly 4 km south of Rouyn-Noranda and covers a 12 km stretch of the gold-rich Cadillac-Larder Lake Break.The companies now have two drill rigs turni...Read More

OceanaGold tables resource at WKP prospect in New Zealand

February 25, 2019 / www.northernminer.com

OceanaGold (TSX: OGC; US-OTC: OCANF) has tabled a maiden resource at its WKP gold prospect, 10 km north of its Waihi gold mine in New Zealand.WKP's East Graben vein contains 410,000 indicated tonnes grading 18 grams gold and 22.7 grams silver for 234,000 oz. gold and 296,000 oz. silver. Its East Graben vein and T-Stream veins also contain 1.05 million inferred tonnes at 11.9 grams gold and 16.8 gr...Read More

Rio Tinto a one-trick pony

February 25, 2019 / www.mining-journal.com

Bezant buzz builds around big projectsSPONSOREDbezant resourcesWhite Gold Corp a major force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithium"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftTo even suggest the world's second-biggest mining co...Read More

#Panodrama - An Expos?(C) of the Fake News BBC!

February 25, 2019 / www.youtube.com

Sign up at http://www.globalaim.co.uk so I can contact you when I eventually get deleted.-Taxpayer-funded BBC working alongside a radical far left organisation for Panorama to 'take down Tommy Robinson'- Blackmailing my former employees to invent stories- Hope not Hate on set with the BBC, calling the shots and intimidating my ex-employees during interview- BBC caught on camera telling an ex-emplo...Read More

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