Positive sentiment as the trade adapts to the Covid-19 selling environment. Polished prices firming due to shortages. 1 ct. RAPI +3.2% in Aug. Manufacturers seeing better profit margins after De Beers and Alrosa reduced rough prices. Polished production increasing but coronavirus restrictions still limiting Surat factories. Rough trading steady. Momentum likely to continue through October as retai...Read More
RAPAPORT... Signet Jewelers' revenue and profit beat expectations in the second fiscal quarter as stores unlocked their doors and the retailer upgraded its digital capabilities."Sales improved sequentially throughout the second quarter as we reopened stores and remained agile and innovative in these unprecedented times," CEO Virginia Drosos said Thursday. "During the quarter, we also scaled o...Read More
RAPAPORT... Jewelry was one of the top-selling categories at Macy's during the second fiscal quarter, even as overall sales declined at the department-store chain.Group revenue dropped 36% to $3.56 billion in the three months ending August 1, while comparable-store sales - at owned and licensed shops open for at least a year - fell 35%, the retailer reported Wednesday. However, sales rose at its "...Read More
RAPAPORT... Rio Tinto will offer a record-breaking diamond at its penultimate pink-diamond tender as it prepares to close the Argyle mine.The 2.24-carat, fancy-vivid-purplish-pink diamond, known as Argyle Eternity, will headline the Argyle Pink Diamonds Tender, which has run since 1984. It is the largest round brilliant diamond of fancy-vivid color the company has ever put up for sale. The tender...Read More
RAPAPORT... The resurgence in rough-diamond trading will persist for another two months as manufacturers fill supply shortages and retail demand rises, dealers predicted."There's still a gap, because demand is there, and supply is very limited and will be limited for a couple of months," a sightholder said. Polished originating from rough bought in August won't hit the market until mid-Octobe...Read More
(IDEX Online) - More than 100 people have reportedly been arrested on suspicion of conspiring to receive diamonds smuggled from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland.A Chinese couple had 150 packets of undocumented polished diamonds and details of their destinations when they were picked up in the border metropolis of Shenzhen (pictured), a special economic zone which is home to more than 2,300...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The Jewelers for Children charity will celebrate its achievements - raising almost $57m to support kids - with a day of promotions and fundraising.Its third annual JFC Day will be held on Saturday, 26 September, with charity partners rallying their local supporters to visit jewelers and say thank you. "The pandemic has presented a host of issues not only for...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The IDEX Polished Diamond Price Index showed long-awaited signs of post-Covid recovery with a slow but steady rise throughout August. It closed the month up 0.6 per cent, the biggest increase since the "false dawn" in April, when it rose 0.7 per cent. During August the Index increased marginally most days, with only occasional exceptions. In the previous month, July, the...Read More
Markets were mixed this morning, Thursday September 3, with the base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange generally firmer, albeit in fairly light volumes.Markets are still underpinned by the prospect of more stimulus from the United States, once Congress can agree on a figure, but some of the metals are starting to look a bit tired* China’s Caixin services purchasing managers’ ind...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 17 points in pre-opening trade.Index futures were virtually unchanged following release of economic news at 8:30 AM. Consensus for second estimate of second quarter Non-farm Productivity was an increase to 7.5% from 7.3%. Actual was an increase to 10..1%. Consensus for the July U.S. Trade Deficit was $58.0 billion ver...Read More
The Global Mining Symposium wrapped up its final day with an interview with B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) president and chief executive Clive Johnson, who sat down with MINING.com senior editor Cecilia Jamasmie.Johnson's career includes leading B2Gold since its inception in late 2006 and, before that, Bema Gold, and has taken him from Russia to Africa and throughout the Americas. Drawing on hi...Read More
Executive chairman and founder of Yamana Gold (TSX: YRI; NYSE: AUY), Peter Marrone, spoke on the second day of the Global Mining Symposium about the company's assets, its strategy, and his views on the price of gold. Marrone started his career practicing law in Toronto, focusing on corporate, securities, and international law and then became the head of investment banking at a major Canadian in...Read More
Mining executive John Antwi, president and director of privately held Elim Mining, spoke about the copper market on the third day of The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium.Antwi and his team at Elim Mining are advancing the company's flagship Cactus copper project in Arizona and plan to make a construction decision in 2022.The project, which hosts the past-producing Cactus mine, was brought...Read More
The nights are drawing in, and the Autumn equinox is upon us in the Northern Hemisphere, with an equal duration of light and dark on Sept. 22. On the positive side, there is an R in the month, so we can eat oysters in the United Kingdom. This advice dates to at least 1599, when it appeared in Henry Buttes's cookbook, Dyets Dry Dinner, although some historians trace it to an ancient Latin saying.Th...Read More
The European Union has added lithium, used in batteries that power electric vehicles (EVs), to a list of critical materials as part of a strategy to reduce its reliance on imports.The group of 27 nations will need about 60 times more lithium and 15 times more cobalt for EV batteries and energy storage by 2050, analysts estimate. The EU's demand for rare earths, used in high-tech devices and milita...Read More
International Tower Hill Mines (TSX: ITH; NYSE-AM: THM) plans to raise US$10.3 million in support of a prefeasibility study on its Livengood gold deposit, 110 km north of Fairbanks, Alaska.In July, the Vancouver-based company announced it had finalized the key contracts to complete a prefeasibility study on the large, low-grade Livengood project, with an expected release date of October 2021.The t...Read More
The Global Mining Symposium continued apace on the second day of the three-day event with Alisha Hiyate, editor at The Canadian Mining Journal, interviewing Ronald-Peter Stoeferle, managing partner and fund manager at Incrementum AG.Stoeferle has co-authored two books: Austrian School for Investors, published in 2016, and the In Gold We Trust report, an annual report he started in 2007 that has be...Read More
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Sep 04, 2020 Guest(s): Michael Danov President & CIO, SBP Management Equities markets fell on Friday, led by a tumble in technology stocks, but one fund manager maintains his bullish stance. Michael Danov, president and CIO SBP Management, said that while macroeconomic conditions are favorable for broad equities indices, momentum traders have pushed tech stocks beyond reasonable levels of valuat...Read More
Canada Nickel Company Inc. (TSX-V:CNC) is a new mineral resource company focused on their 100% owned flagship, Crawford Nickel-Cobalt Sulphide Project, in the heart of the prolific Timmins-Cochrane mining camp. We learned from Mark Selby, Chairman, CEO and Director of Canada Nickel Company, they are going to advance it, aggressively, through to a PEA/scoping study, by the end of this year, and the...Read More