Michael Jones, CFO at Tharisa Plc (LON:THS), talks Proactive's Andrew Scott through their second-quarter production performance.Platinum group metal (PGM) recoveries measured 82.2% for the three month period ended March 31, compared to a target of 80% and the company produced some 38,200 ounces of PGMs.Similarly, chrome recoveries improved to 66.3% which was better than the targeted 65% and the co...Read More

(Kitco News)- Extremevolatility and lower equity markets will drive investors into gold throughoutthe rest of the year, according to one of the top gold fund managers.Formany analysts, the roaring gains of the equity markets were gold’s biggestcompetition in 2017 but John Hathaway, senior portfolio manager at TocquevilleAsset Management, said in his first quarter letter to investors that the...Read More

MOSCOW, April 10 (Reuters) - Russia's diamond miner Alrosa said on Tuesday that its sales of rough and polished diamonds totalled $559.5 million in March."There was a slight seasonal cooling off in demand in March," Alrosa Deputy CEO Yury Okoemov said, according to a company statement.Alrosa's total diamond sales in the first quarter 2018 amounted to $1.606 billion, the company said.(Reporting by...Read More

BENGALURU, April 10 (Reuters) - Vedanta Resources Plc said on Tuesday its application for renewal of consent to operate its copper smelting plant, one of India's biggest, in the South Indian town of Thootukudi was rejected by the state pollution regulator.The rejection comes amid almost daily protests against a proposed expansion of the smelter by the people of Thootukudi, who have thronged the st...Read More

BENGALURU, April 10 (Reuters) - Vedanta Resources Plc said on Tuesday its application for renewal of consent to operate its copper smelting plant, one of India's biggest, in the South Indian town of Thootukudi was rejected by the state pollution regulator.The rejection comes amid almost daily protests against a proposed expansion of the smelter by the people of Thootukudi, who have thronged the st...Read More

VETAS, Colombia April 10 (Reuters) - Jose Alberto Gamboa, whose smile flashes the gold he has spent his life digging from Colombia's frosty Andean mountains, says he will do whatever it takes to protect his town's only industry: mining."We would get guns and go to war," the grizzled 67-year-old miner said during his break at the Queen of Gold mine, near Vetas, on the steep slopes of Santander prov...Read More

Michael Masterman, chairman at W Resources PLC (LON:WRES), updates Proactive Investors on developments with their flagship La Parrilla tungsten mine in Spain.Masterman also discusses last week's ?1.5mln raise aimed at  accelerating development of their Portuguese projects.  Meet360 Blockchain Inc at our event,New York, 18 April 2018.Register here >>Read More

By Scott Patterson and Oliver Griffin Glencore PLC Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg has resigned as a director of United Co. Rusal PLC, as fresh U.S. sanctions against Russia ensnarl one of the world's largest multinationals. The Swiss commodities giant said Tuesday it was committed to complying with all sanctions and taking steps to mitigate risks to its business. Its moves come after aluminum p...Read More

Put options have become quite popular with BBBYEarnings season is ready to start back up, and retail name Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ:BBBY) will get the ball rolling this week, as it's scheduled to fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the close tomorrow. If past is precedent, though, BBBY stock could be headed for a volatile post-earnings move. BBBY stock has had a double-digit negative earnin...Read More

Can stocks avoid another late-day slide?The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is extending its early gains, as investors continue to cheer Chinese President Xi Jinping's call for free trade. A sharp rise in shares of potential tariff targets Caterpillar (CAT) and Boeing (BA) has the blue-chip index up over 350 points at last check. However, almost all sectors are joining in on the rally, with ene...Read More

Copper demand will surpass supply earlier than expected, with the first clear signs coming as early as next year, experts attending the 17th World's Copper Conference being held this week in Santiago, Chile, said.According to Arnaud Soirat, chef executive for copper and diamonds at Rio Tinto, increased consumption from new technologies, including electric vehicles, will drive demand for the meta...Read More

Copper demand will surpass supply earlier than expected, with the first clear signs coming as early as next year, experts attending the 17th World's Copper Conference being held this week in Santiago, Chile, said.According to Arnaud Soirat, chef executive for copper and diamonds at Rio Tinto, increased consumption from new technologies, including electric vehicles, will drive demand for the meta...Read More

Copper demand will surpass supply earlier than expected, with the first clear signs coming as early as next year, experts attending the 17th World's Copper Conference being held this week in Santiago, Chile, said.According to Arnaud Soirat, chef executive for copper and diamonds at Rio Tinto, increased consumption from new technologies, including electric vehicles, will drive demand for the meta...Read More

SANTIAGO, April 10 (Reuters) - Chilean miner Mantos Copper will go ahead with expansions at two existing copper mines beginning later this year in an effort to grow ahead of rising costs, Chief Executive John Mackenzie told Reuters on Tuesday.Mantos Copper, which in 2015 bought the Mantos Blancos and Mantoverde copper mines from global miner Anglo American , obtained environmental permits for the...Read More

SANTIAGO, April 10 (Reuters) - Chilean miner Collahuasi said on Tuesday it expected to slash production costs to under $1 per pound of copper this year as it makes use of new technology and optimizes its operations.Collahuasi, owned by Anglo American Plc and Glencore Plc, is located in northern Chile and is among the world's largest copper mines."We've decreased our costs to $1.14 (per pound), and...Read More

(Reuters) - Boeing Co’s (BA.N) aircraft deliveries rose about 9 percent year-over-year in the first quarter as the world’s biggest planemaker benefited from higher demand for its best-selling single-aisle 737 jetliners.Chicago-based Boeing delivered 184 commercial aircraft in the quarter ended March, it said on Tuesday.Boeing booked 221 net new aircraft orders in the first quarter, wel...Read More

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Speculators are targeting calls in the weekly 4/13 seriesShares of Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) are up 5.6% to trade at $227.36, after Morgan Stanley upgraded the chip stock to "overweight" from "equal weight. The brokerage firm -- which also chimed in on Netflix (NFLX) -- said the stock's recent pullback could be a buying opportunity and that gaming growth will likely offset declining cryptoc...Read More

DUBAI/SYDNEY (Reuters) - In Dubai’s decades-old Gold Souk, customers from around the world haggle over bangles and necklaces. Elsewhere in the emirate, the region’s top center for gold trade, bullion is playing a new role in financial engineering.A local start-up company founded last year, OneGram, is issuing a gold-backed cryptocurrency - part of efforts to convince Muslims that inves...Read More

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet on Tuesday with his cabinet ministers to discuss Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd’s (KML.TO) threat to walk away from a troubled pipeline expansion as various levels of government signal interest in spending public funds to ensure the project proceeds.The company, losing patience with moves by politicians and activists to block plans to almo...Read More