By: Avi GilburtMany investors maintain beliefs about the stock market which often have them looking the wrong way at the market turns. In fact, I can no longer count how many comments I see about how the Fed is what directs our stock market action, and it just makes me scratch my head.The main argument by Fed watchers is that the Fed's easy money drives the stock market. Yet, the Fed's balance s...Read More
The broad averages have rallied from their Christmas lows almost as steeply as they got there in the fourth quarter. The first 2,000 points of the Dow's trampoline bounce took just seven trading days. At the time, we wrote that the trend would continue until even hardcore skeptics were convinced that new all-time highs were likely. That is what bear rallies are supposed to do. Well, another 1100...Read More
Louis joins Sean on SGTreport for a wide-ranging update on the economy, the markets, gold, silver, the US dollar, and a whole lot more...Louis Cammarosano interviewed by Sean on SGTreportLouis joins Sean on SGTreport for a wide-ranging update including the economy, the markets, gold, silver, the US dollar, and a whole lot more!Thanks for tuning-in to this wide ranging update in its entirety below...Read More
RAPAPORT... Debswana, De Beers' Botswana joint venture, has launched a new project set toextend the life of its Jwaneng mine until 2035. The Cut-9 expansion, which will cost Debswana approximately$2 billion, is expected to produce an estimated 53 million carats of roughdiamonds, the company said Monday. "With global consumer demand for diamonds reaching recordlevels in 2018, the extension wi...Read More
RAPAPORT... A pink diamond from Namibia's offshore drilling programfetched $17,000 per carat at a tender in Antwerp. The 5.71-carat stone fetched $97,076 at the sale, the firstDiamond Fields Resources has held since resuming mining in 2018, it said lastweek. The company also sold 47,298 carats of high-quality whiteand colored rough stones for $1.1 million, it noted. It sold all the diamonds...Read More
RAPAPORT... Mining operations at Alrosa's Mir deposit won't resume until at least 2030, as the company carries out work on the site that could take up to 13 years. It will take approximately five years for the miner to conduct deep-levelexploration and designwork that will enable it to open the site safely. That will costthe company RUB 2 billion ($30.9 million), Alrosa said Monday. Alr...Read More
Albert Milton, the managing director of Botswana's Debswana Diamond Mining, announced that Debswana aims to keep production at around 24 million carats this year, Reuters reported. Debswana is a joint venture between De Beers and Botswana's government. In 2018, Debswana's production increased with six percent, reaching 24.1 million carats, its highest output in the past four years. Th...Read More
Alrosa reported last week that net profit had risen with some 15 percent to reach $1.4 billion in 2018. The announcement followed earlier reports that the company's sales volume had dropped with eight percent compared to 2017. Higher price levels for goods sold, however, caused sales to rise $4.4 billion, a value increase of six percent, the leading diamond miner said. "The key financial d...Read More
LONDON – Russian State-controlled miner Alrosa will assess the quality of Zimbabwe's diamond reserves over the next six months but would only start mining if it can take a majority stake in such a project, the company's chief executive said on Monday.Zimbabwe is seeking to attract investment and has scrapped legislation that restricts foreign participation for some commodities. It ha...Read More
More than 450 students, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) alumni, job seekers and industry professionals connected with 56 companies looking to hire and 23 career coaches offering expert advice at GIA's New York Jewelry Career Fair on Friday, March 8. The annual event paved the way for new talent and those looking to enter the gem and jewelry industry with a unique opportunity to network dire...Read More
JOHANNESBURG – A deadly mine collapse in Angola has left at least 30 people dead. The incident occurred in Chipindo municipality in Angola’s south-west Huila Province as illegal gold miners mined for gold, the state media reported on Sunday.AdvertisementRadio Nacional de Angola (RNA) reports said the mine collapsed due to ground humidity.Huíla Province, about 904 km south o...Read More
Mine restoration at the Mir diamond mine, which flooded about a year-and-a-half ago, is only expected to start after 2024, Russian miner Alrosa reported on Monday, detailing the timelines for the potential restart of the Siberian underground operation.To decide on the mine’s fate, Alrosa would start on exploration down to 1 300 m to confirm the operation’s reserves. Budgeted to co...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part little changed this morning, Monday March 18, the exception being copper, whose price was up by 0.7% at $6,474 per tonne, compared with $6,431.50 per tonne at Friday’s close. Volume was average, with 6,328 lots traded on LME Select as at 7.23am London time, compared with 19,661 lots at a similar time on Fr...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 2 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures responded partially to a 2.47% gain by the Shanghai Composite Index in overnight trade.WTI Crude Oil added $0.15 to $58.72 after OPEC cancelled its April meeting implying extension of output cuts to its next meeting in June.Boeing dropped $8.99 to $370.00 after Federal prose...Read More
Let's begin with a few basics about IRAs...Traditional IRAs generally provide a tax deduction for the amount you contribute. The money grows tax-deferred until you withdraw it. Then it is taxed at your ordinary income tax rate. You must begin required minimum distributions (RMDs) by April 1 following the year you turn 70 1/2 and do so every year thereafter. And if you die before removing all the...Read More
"Colorado School of Mines engineers turn their talents from the terrestrial to the celestial" - that's the headline of a recent feature in The Denver Post highlighting Mines' first-of-its-kind space resources graduate program.Interviewed for the article were Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center for Space Resources at Mines; space resources professors George Sowers and Christopher Dreyer, s...Read More
Researchers at Colorado School of Mines have shown that protonic ceramic fuel cells can be used reversibly, both to efficiently generate electricity and to store that power in the form of chemical fuel at times of lower demand. The breakthrough findings, "Highly efficient reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells for power generation and fuel production," were published this past week in...Read More
Since the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference wrapped up in early March, Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR; US-OTC: MRQRF) has fielded calls from three mining companies about possible joint ventures to explore its Croinor gold project, 55 km east of Val-d'Or in Quebec.The project has a fully permitted past-producing mine that is open at depth, and the junior has already found...Read More
Toachi Mining (TSXV: TIM) is trenching its Guatuza copper-gold target at its La Plata gold-copper, zinc and silver volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) project in Ecuador. It plans to drill Guataza in the second half of the year, beginning with 5,000 metres exploring exposed VMS slabs to determine how far they extend underground.Before that though, the company will finish a preliminary economic ass...Read More
BMO Capital Markets has cut Vale's (NYSE: VALE) iron ore production estimate this year by a further 30 million tonnes due to the continued suspension of the miner's Brucutu mine, and the recent suspension of the Timbopeba mine.A Brazilian court on March 15 ordered Vale to stop production at Timbopeba and the Doutor dam, which stores tailings from the mine in Minas Gerais state.Production at its Br...Read More