Castillo, which is already listed on the ASX and is seeking to capitalise on growing demand for copper, is looking to progress exploration projects in Australia and Zambia.Read More

Equipment, parts and service revenue was down a hefty 30%, year-on-year, in the June quarter, to DKK3,846 million (US$608 million), while orders slumped 32% yoy to DKK3,348 million (US$529 million) and EBITA fell 73% yoy to DKK131 million (US$20.7 million).While the company said it dedicated "a lot of attention [during the quarter] to assessing and managing the pandemic's impact on our business &h...Read More

My cousin started out on a hard road. He was in the middle of a pack of nine siblings with an absent father and a single mom who worked as a secretary at the local Macy's. They never had enough money, and I remember my grandfather converted the single garage of their duplex into a bedroom for the three boys.After dropping out of college and washing out of Ranger training, my cousin started working...Read More

Fremont's Griffon project in Nevada's prolific Cortez Trend is being drilled for the first time since the 1990s. Drilling at GriffonFremont Gold Ltd. (FRE:TSX.V; FRERF:OTCQB; FR2:FSE) went public in 2017 with the goal of making a new gold discovery in Nevada. Founded by geologists that have a track record of making multi-million-ounce gold discoveries, Fremont believes that the drill program unde...Read More

Omineca Mining & Metals aims to locate the bedrock sources of placer gold it encountered on bulk sampling in 2012. In a news release, Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. (OMM:TSX.V; OMMSF:OTCMKTS) (OMM:TSX.V; OMMSF:OTCMKTS) provided an update on its flagship Wingdam gold project in British Columbia's Cariboo, a historical mining district.The Saskatchewan-based mining company noted it is completing wor...Read More

The gold miners’ stockshave rocketed higher this summer, smashing out of their usual summer-doldrumssideways grind.  That atypical strengthhas been driven by gold steadily marching to major new secular highs, fueled bystrong investment demand.  This hascarried gold stocks and the metal they mine back to their traditional strongseason, which begins with robust autumn rallies usually...Read More

Our hard working miner here (we’ll call him Huey) has been pushing his cart of rocks, first gently downhill from 2016 to 2018 and then uphill to a bull market since May 2019.As tracked in NFTRH, in 2019 the macro backdrop became positive for the gold stock sector as gold entered a bull market by taking out the 1378 level and its ratios to stock markets began to rise. Gold/SPX is among the mo...Read More

RAPAPORT... Chow Sang Sang is expecting profit to plummet for the first half of the year amid store closures and a sharp decline in tourism to Hong Kong.Profit will fall between 65% and 70% year on year to an estimated HKD 200 million ($25.8 million) in the six months ending June 30, compared with HKD 615 million ($78.4 million) a year ago, the company warned last week. The jeweler was forced to s...Read More

RAPAPORT... The American Gem Society (AGS) will resume grading synthetic diamonds after an eight-year pause.The group will offer digital reports for lab-grown stones as part of its Only My Diamond (OMD) platform, an online service to help the user understand the different grading elements, it said Monday. The reports will feature unique color and clarity terminology, laser inscriptions that clearl...Read More

RAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, August 4, 2020, Las Vegas... Polished diamond prices firmed in July due to supply shortages for select categories. Sentiment remained weak and trading levels low amid new Covid-19 restrictions.The RapNet Diamond Index (RAPI?,,?) for 1-carat polished diamonds rose 1.9% during the month, buoyed by improving investment demand and scarcity of D, IF diamonds. The index has falle...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Christie's has sold a pendant necklace with a 116-carat diamond for $6,290,500 in its first "live" auction in New York since coronavirus.The pear-shaped brilliant-cut diamond (pictured) is 115.83 carats, F color, VVS1 clarity and the platinum necklace includes more than 50 other diamonds, of up to 5.50 carats. The price was shy of its $7m high estimate.The auction house said i...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Dubai is halving business set-up fees to attract new diamond companies and offering 12-months' free membership its diamond exchange. It launched the campaign by lighting up its message on the world's tallest building, the 830-meter high Burj Khalifa (pictured). The emirate has built up a $25bn-a-year diamond trade in the last 30 years, capitalizing on low taxation and co...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's diamond polishing capital is slowly re-opening after a third lockdown, despite more than 1,700 workers testing positive for COVID-19.City authorities in Surat (pictured) have relaxed some earlier restrictions. From 1 August they have been allowing diamond markets to open six hours a day instead of four, and allowing two workers per polishing mill rather than one, provi...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership88 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyLithium no quiet place for AVZSPONSOREDavz mineralsScoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Castillo, which is already listed on the ASX and is seeking to capitalise on growing demand for copper, is looking to p...Read More

The metals and equity indices were headed in different directions this morning, Tuesday August 4, with equities up and metals down, but good data may well push metals prices higher as the day progresses - especially given better-than-expected US vehicle sales in July.* Nasdaq set another record high on Monday.* US total vehicle sales rose to 14.5 million units annualized in July, sales were expect...Read More

Corn ETN (CORN) moved below $11.61 setting an intermediate downtrend.Pre-opening Comments for Tuesday August 4thU.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 13 points in pre-opening trade.Mosaic advanced $1.32 to $15.00 after reporting higher than consensus second quarter sales and earnings.Take Two Interactive advanced $8.32 to $176.00 after reporting higher th...Read More

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Gold's rally took another upturn on Tuesday, as it surpassed US$2,000 per ounce.By midday, spot gold had hit US$2,009.20 per oz., and at press time in Toronto had reached US$2,019.40 per ounce.Bullion has surged more than 30% this year to a record high and is one of the best-performing assets in 2020 as a result of increased safe-haven demand during the coronavirus pandemic.Investors are driven...Read More

Malaysia has approved Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp.'s (ASX: LYC) application to build a permanent disposal facility for waste treatment, a minister said on Tuesday.The miner, the world's only major producer of rare earths outside China, can now proceed with construction of the waste plant, on a site identified by the Pahang state government, Khairy Jamaluddin, science, technology and in...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest bullion miner, said today that Canadian junior Skeena Resources (TSX-V: SKE) has decided to exercise an option to acquire a 100% interest in the past-producing Eskay Creek property.Discovered in 1988, the Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle was, according to Skeena, once the world's highest-grade gold mine and the f...Read More