JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Russian miner Alrosa’s diamond sales fell to $4.27-billion in 2017, from $4.45-billion in the previous year, as the average price of its rough diamonds dipped.Reporting on the group’s 2017 sales figures, VP Yury Okoemov explained on Thursday that the average price of rough diamonds sold by Alrosa was “a little lower than a year ago”,...Read More
Published on: Jan 11, 2018 | by finfeedNorthern Cobalt (ASX:N27) has provided an update from its Stanton Cobalt Deposit in the Northern Territory. The company commenced its scoping study of the promising region on 2 January this year, with drill core samples from its diamond drilling program at the deposit arriving in Adelaide on 22 December 2017.Core inspection by the scoping study team commenced...Read More
RAPAPORT... Shmuel Shnitzer has left his post as chairman of the IsraelDiamond Institute (IDI). The IDI board appointed Boaz Moldawsky acting chairman,the institute announced Thursday. Shnitzer (pictured) has served in numerous industry positions over the past 30 years, including as president of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) and cofounder of the WorldDiamond Council. He began his term as...Read More
Mid-tier Canadian miner B2Gold (TSX, NYSE:BTO) said Thursday it had achieved record fourth quarter and full-year output in 2017, thanks mainly to the start of commercial production at its Fekola mine, in south-western Mali.The Vancouver-based company, which poured its first gold at Fekola in November, produced 630,565 ounces of the yellow metal last year, a figure that includes the 79,243 ounces...Read More
Global miner Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is said to have ditched plans to own a stake in Chile's Chemical and Mining Society (SQM), the world's largest lithium producer, due to a mix of tricky politics and the fact that such miner is currently the target of several claims.Chilean authorities accuse SQM of underpaying royalties, environmental violations and illicit political financing, which have ma...Read More
Russian miner Alrosa (MCX:ALRS), the world's top diamond producer by output, saw 2017 sales fall to $4.3 billion, from $4.5 billion in the previous year, as the average price of its rough rocks declined.Alrosa's vice president Yury Okoemov said that despite the dip last year was a good one for the company with demand being fairly stable, and market activity in line with the seasonality and the fi...Read More
A recent study published in the journal California History reveals that, together with hundreds of people, exotic animals arrived in California during the Gold Rush of the 1850s.According to the study's author, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology at The University of New Mexico Cyler Conrad, the men and women who landed in the northwestern state with the dream of striking it rich car...Read More
Klondex Mines Ltd. (KDX:TSX) announced this week the immediate reduction of underground mining operations and workforce at its True North mine, located about 165 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg, in the Canadian province of Manitoba.Although Klondex had big hopes for the 43,000-hectare complex when it acquired it in January 2016, the mine didn't make as much money as it was supposed to in 2017. Pr...Read More
Together with Ecuador's Ministry of Mines, Canadian Lundin Gold (TSE:LUG) officially inaugurated two tunnels at its Fruta del Norte gold-silver project, located in the southeastern province of Zamora Chinchipe. The tunnels were named Kuri, which means gold in the Indigenous language Shuar, and K'isa, which means fruit in Quechua.Following the completion of soft tunneling in December 2017, mine dev...Read More
US Army Corps of Engineers' acceptance of wholly-owned Pebble Limited Partnership's Clean Water Act 404 permitting documentation in January 2018 for Pebble, provides a basis for the Alaska copper-gold company to move into a long-awaited objective and transparent Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) phase for an actual project in the state's Bristol Bay region - a process under which it can d...Read More
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Thursday, January 11, 2018 - Canada Zinc Metals Corp. (TSX Venture Exchange: CZX) is pleased to announce that Teck Resources Limited (“Teck” TSX: TECK.B) and Korea Zinc Co. Ltd. (“Korea Zinc”) (collectively, the “Optionees”) have delivered to the Company an exercise notice regarding the Optionees’ First Option on the P...Read More
While Elon Musk and Tesla fight to dominate the lithium battery-powered vehicle market, Hyundai is still placing bets on hydrogen.The South Korean carmaker unveiled its latest generation of hydrogen fuel cell EVs (FCEVs), called the Nexo, at CES in Las Vegas this week. The Nexo is Hyundai's latest evolution of its ix35 FCEV, which first began very limited production in 2013.The Nexo is one of the...Read More
Marshall Swing has been spot-on with all of his calls lately, and if Marshall is correct with his latest call, we have very little time to prepare...by Marshall Swing of The Church Of ActsSilver Moving Laterally, Gearing Up For RaidOn a side bar chat with SilverDoctors, Sunday, I indicated having been stopped out and repositioned shorts at higher level after seeing a huge Commercial Repositioning...Read More
To subscribe to our newsletter and get notified of new shows, please visit http://palisaderadio.comFrank discusses gold and Hive Blockchain a company where he is chairman. They have partnered with Genesis. Hive is a cryptocurrency mining and investing company. He became interested in the space when found out that the CEO of Fidelity a company with two trillion in funds has been discussing bitcoin....Read More
Center Postdoc Fellow James Fraser from Hebrew University of Jerusalem chats about scientific realism and philosophy of physics.Read More
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Subscribe to stay up to date with the latest videos ?-? https://www.sbry.co/suBiHEpisode 34 - Why Gold Will Outperform Bitcoin in 2018Porter and Buck are back from holiday break to give you their boldest predictions for 2018. The first one's a doozy for regular listeners as Porter provides granular detail on how the stage is set for gold and other commodities to have a massive stealth bull market...Read More
President Donald Trump said he wishes the United States would tap hydroelectric power. It already generates about 6.5 percent of U.S. power.Read full newsRead More
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Ed Hammond is joined by Matt Monks to discuss the latest merger trends in America's power and utility industry after Dominion Energy agreed a $14.6 billion takeover of South Carolina electricity supplier Scana Corp. The two also look at why so many power companies have been sold in the latest merger boom, and how local politics can dictate the terms of even the largest deals in the sector. Finally...Read More