Arcadia Economics, Released on 11/3/22The Federal Reserve had its latest meeting on Wednesday, and as expected, raised interest rates by 75 basis points. Which was followed by a brief spike up in gold and silver, before an even bigger plunge lower. Yet as the market digests the latest tea leaves out of the Fed and tries to extrapolate what it might do next, the underlying conditions in the preciou...Read More
The Fed's policy, along with the supply and demand fundamentals of the silver market, have left the...by Chris Marcus of Arcadia EconomicsIt's been an interesting year in the silver market, where demand for physical metal has grown throughout 2022, while the price has spent a lot of time below the $20 mark.Obviously, the Fed's rate hikes and quantitative tightening have had a lot to do with that,...Read More
The separation will establish two companies: • An Argentina-focused lithium company (Lithium International) owning LithiumRead More
"We are excited with the drill results received to-date and are increasingly optimistic for the results to be collected from the ongoing drilling campaign in progress with SGS Lakefield," said SnowRead More
Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedGold produc...Read More
"We continue to make good progress on the transaction," Gold Fields said in a Q3 operational update.Read More
Denison completed a prefeasibility study for the project in 2018, which forecast that the flagship Phoenix deposit would produce 6 million lbs uranium oxide (U3O8) at 19.1% U3O8 across a 10-year mine life. Wheeler River also contains a second deposit called Gryphon, which-although regarded as a first-tier deposit by Denison-is expected to trail the development of Phoenix as part of a staged develo...Read More
Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedAfter its e...Read More
News: Diamond trade uncertain as polished prices decline. 1 ct. RAPI -3.6% in Nov. Midstream inventory high due to weak demand after bullish 1H manufacturing. Surat factories closed for Diwali. De Beers eases buyer terms and keeps prices stable at Nov. sight. Boxes offered at deep discounts on secondary market. Let??eng 3Q average price +28% to $2,028/ct. Lucara Diamond 3Q sales -36% to $47M. Ris...Read More
RAPAPORT... Gemfields will sell a cluster containing 187,775 carats of emeralds at an upcoming rough tender, expecting it to garner a company record price for a single emerald piece.The miner recovered the Kafubu Cluster in March 2020, it said Wednesday. It is named for the river that forms the natural boundary of its Kagem emerald mine in Zambia. The mass contains only a very small amount of ore...Read More
RAPAPORT... Lucara Diamond Corp.'s sales dropped in the third quarter as the company supplied fewer large and expensive stones from its lucrative Karowe mine in Botswana.Revenue fell 31% year on year to $49.9 million, while net profit slumped 86% to $1.8 million, Lucara reported Wednesday.Sales of rough from Karowe declined 36% to $46.5 million, with volume down 15% at 99,301 carats and the a...Read More
RAPAPORT... Revenue at Gem Diamonds rose 20% year on year to $56.6 million in the third quarter, reflecting solid pricing and an increase in sales of high-value stones."Tenders in Antwerp, together with a Dubai tender viewing in September 2022, were well attended and contributed positively to the prices achieved during the period," the operator of the lucrative Let??eng mine in Lesotho said W...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Debswana's rough diamond sales rose by 37.5 per cent in the first nine months of this year, according to the Bank of Botswana. The 50-50 partnership between De Beers and the Botswana government sold $3.578 billion, an increase from $2.602 billion, as demand remained steady.Diamond revenue accounts for a fifth of Botswana's GDP and 70 per cent of its foreign revenue.T...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A colossal emerald cluster, weighing 187,775 carats (37,555-grams) is to be sold later this month by Gemfields.The UK-based miner says the so-called Kafubu Cluster could well be the most expensive single emerald piece it has ever sold.It was discovered at the Kagem emerald mine in Lufwanyama, Zambia, in March 2020. Gemfields has a 75 per cent stake in the mine and the Zambian gover...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The Kimberley Process is expected to go ahead with discussions on re-defining conflict diamonds for the first time since it was founded almost 20 years ago."We were unable to reach consensus in the previous Review and Reform cycle about how it may be possible to reference violations of human rights in the conflict diamonds definition," the WDC president Edward Asscher said on Tuesd...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 26 at 7:30 AM EDT.Responses in currency markets to the Federal Reserve's decision released yesterday are continuing this morning. The U.S. Dollar Index has strengthened relative to all developed world currencies. The Canadian Dollar is down another 0.27 to US72.54 cents.The Canadian government is scheduled to release...Read More
Canada's number-one gold producer Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has reported a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings as lower production and higher costs weighed on its September-quarter financial results.The Toronto-headquartered major reported headline earnings of US$224 million in the September quarter, compared with $419 million in the previous and corresponding quarters. Adjusted net ear...Read More
Lithium Americas (TSX: LAC; NYSE: LAC) plans to separate its North American and Argentine businesses into two independent public companies by the end of the year, it said on Thursday.The new Lithium Americas company will own the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada and investments in Green Technology Metals (ASX: GT1) and Ascend Elements, according to a company statement. Lithium Americas' presi...Read More
AbraSilver Resource (TSXV: ABRA) has updated a September 2021 resource estimate for its Diablillos project in Argentina's Salta province, significantly expanding the high-grade Tesoro zone, which is the highest-grade area in the Oculto deposit.The company says it expects to complete a pre-feasibility study on the project in the first half of 2023.The project, about 160 km southwest of the city of...Read More
Secretariat won the Triple Crown that year, NASA launched Skylab and Watergate intensified.It was 1973, the same year Esso Minerals and Cuvier Mines began developing the Gays River underground zinc and lead project in Nova Scotia, 60 km northeast of Halifax.The Gays River mill began processing 900 tonnes per day in 1979 before underground flooding hampered mining for the joint venture and subseque...Read More