(IDEX Online) - Blue Nile, Inc. the largest online retailer of certified diamonds and fine jewelry, has opened a new facility for its Diamond and Jewelry Consultants, continuing the brand's commitment to providing the industry's most advanced service.   At the forefront of innovation, the facility was designed to increase productivity and continue the award-winning customer service...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Yoram Dvash, President of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE), has been appointed to head a new committee of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) to undertake strategic initiatives to advance the global industry, the IDE said in a statement.   The new appointment was announced during the World Diamond Congress in Mumbai, which concluded last week.   IDE President...Read More

The Star Diamond Corporation has received environmental approval from the Saskatchewan government for its Star-Orion South project, near Prince Albert.The project already has a positive federal environmental assessment decision in the bag.AdvertisementThe company recently announced the positive results of the independent preliminary economic assessment on the project, which estimates that 66-milli...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The GIA announced that Alrosa, the world's largest producer of rough diamonds, is piloting the Institute's M2M program.   "The M2M program is a way to share with the consumer the story of our diamonds," said Sergey Ivanov, CEO of Alrosa. "The creation of tracing systems is an important step in confirming diamond provenance, which will have benefits for industry participants, r...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucapa Diamond Company and the government of Lesotho have received an approved Term Sheet from the Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa Limited (IDC) for a ZAR100 million (US$7 million) development facility for the Mothae diamond mine in Lesotho.   Lucapa owns 70% of the operation, while the government of Lesotho owns the remainder.   The financing agreement...Read More

White Rock sets cracking Alaska pace in first field seasonSPONSOREDwhite rock minerals Bezant was a bona fide market darling back in 2007, with the company's share price peaking at £120 on the strength of the company's ownership of the Mankayan deposit, in a long-established mining district about 250km by road north of Manila.The excitement was justified. A nine-hole drill program by Bezant...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures gained 26 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus for September Personal Income was an increase of 0.3% versus an upwardly revised gain of 0.4% in August. Actual was an increase of 0.2%. Consensus for September Personal Spending was an inc...Read More

When will the strong dollar weaken? Ultimately, the answer is whenever the Treasury wants.When the Treasury is not overly concerned with the dollar, market forces can prevail to raise or lower the exchange rate compared with euros, Swiss francs, yen or any other currency.Sometimes, other central banks intervene to raise or lower their currencies relative to the dollar and the U.S. does not seem to...Read More

The great Chinese growth slowdown has been proceeding in stages for the past two years. The reason is simple. Much of China's "growth" (about 25% of the total) has consisted of wasted infrastructure investment in ghost cities and white elephant transportation infrastructure.That investment was financed with debt that now cannot be repaid. This was fine for creating short-term jobs and providing bu...Read More

As retirement nears for millions of Baby Boomers, they are scrambling for deck chairs on the Titanic.For about 40 years now I have been watching a major financial disaster developing. Its contributing factors include the shaky financial foundations of Social Security and Medicare, compounded by most Americans’ lack of financial education and entitlement mentality.When President Franklin D. R...Read More

Calgary, Alberta (October 29, 2018) - PRIZE MINING CORPORATION ("Prize" or the "Company") (TSXV:PRZ) (OTCQB:PRZFF) (MQSP:GR:FRANKFURT) is pleased to announce that it has retained the engineering and geological consulting firm, Stantec Consulting Ltd. to complete a regional and property-scale data compilation. This project will include such datasets as regional magnetics, gravity, property-scal...Read More

A pair of Colorado School of Mines-led teams have been awarded more than $2 million by the U.S. Department of Energy for research that could lower the cost of solar electricity.Greg Jackson, professor of mechanical engineering, and Xerxes Steirer, research assistant professor of physics, are the lead investigators on the two projects, which are part of a $53 million investment by DOE's Solar Energ...Read More

Not well-known outside his backyard of Western Australia, Ellison is founder and third-largest shareholder in Mineral Resources, a company with a diverse portfolio of iron ore and lithium-mini...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedGalan Lithium scores coup in Argentina's 'Pilbara of lithium'SPONSOREDgalan lithiumWhite Rock sets cracking Alaska pace in first field seasonSPONSOREDwhite rock minerals Burns spoke with Mining Journal in a series of interviews for the title's Mining Disrupted series of reports."There are so many sexy technologies," sh...Read More

MINING.com editor Frik Els gives a speech on battery metals at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining JournalRead More

Araguaia, one of the largest undeveloped ferro-nickel projects in the world, could produce about 52,000 tonnes of ferronickel a year over a mine life of 28 years, Horizonte Minerals (TSX: HZM; LON: HZM) says.A feasibility study of the open-pit nickel laterite mining project, in northern Brazil's Para state, estimates life-of-mine cash flows, after tax, of US$1.6 billion, using a base case nickel p...Read More

Industry players tackle clean mining at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Moderator: Richard Quarisa, The Northern Miner staff writer.Panellists (from left): Cory McPhee, Vale's VP of corporate affairs, communications and sustainability; Carl Weatherell, Canada Mining Innovation Council CEO; Nathan Stubina, McEwen Mining's manag...Read More

After a year and a half of exploration at its Ivorian Fetekro gold property in north-central Cote d'Ivoire, Endeavour Mining (TSX: EDV; US-OTC: EDVMF) has tabled a maiden resource for the property's Lafigue target. It also identified 14 other targets for follow-up investigation.Since 2017, the company has drilled nearly 32,000 metres at the property, mostly at Lafigue. The target contains 6.8 mil...Read More

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast - Episode 406JOIN PETER at the New Orleans Investment Conferencehttps://neworleansconference.com/conf...Rate and Review This Podcast on iTuneshttps://www.branddrivendigital.com/ho...Dow Swings More Than 900 Points - Well we didn't have a Black Monday today, but we did have a pretty big selloff, especially if you measure the decline from the early morning pop to the la...Read More

True North's Andrew Lawton was in London, UK to cover the trial of Tommy Robinson. In this 1-on-1 interview, Andrew sits down with Tommy Robinson to get his take on the story. Tommy is working furiously to expose the harmful effects of political correctness and turning a blind eye to cultural violence originating in immigrant communities.Read More