A uranium hexafluoride cylinder at Cameco's conversion facility in Port Hope Credit: CamecoONTARIO - Cameco has announced that it is resuming production at the uranium hexafluoride (UF6) plant within its Port Hope conversion facility and its Blind River refinery in Ontario. The two operations are planned to restart the week of May 18 and ramp up to full production by the week of May 25.On Apr. 8,...Read More

RAPAPORT... US retail demand will recover slowly, with economic growth expected to bounce back in the second half of the year, according to the National Retail Federation (NRF)."Getting back to work or shopping in a pre-virus manner is difficult to predict at this time, with households likely to tiptoe back in rather than making an immediate return to the lives they experienced before," said...Read More

RAPAPORT... First place is usually something to strive for, but being the number-one target for cyberattacks that steal customer data is not a distinction retailers want. As jewelers move increasingly toward online offerings, their private information becomes less secure, while hackers become more sophisticated in their retrieval methods. The retail sector had a higher number of data breaches...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lucapa Diamond Company has recovered a 171-carat, gem-quality diamond from its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola.The stone is the miner's 15th over 100 carats from Lulo to date, and the second in that size category this year, following the discovery of a 117-carat stone in January. The new find is also the fourth largest ever recovered from the site, the company said Monday. Lucapa retrieve...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucara has been forced to re-think a major expansion of its Karowe mine in Botswana after COVID-19 left it with first quarter losses of $3.2m. That compares with a profit of $7.4m for the same three months last year. The Canada-based miner has continued full production throughout the coronavirus crisis at Karowe, a mine famed for exceptional type IIA diamonds, and for having p...Read More

RAPAPORT... A Canadian court has ordered the Rio Tinto subsidiary that manages the Diavik mine to release inventory belonging to Dominion Diamond Mines it had been holding as a guarantee for missed payments.Diavik Diamond Mines (DDMI) has certain rights to extra shares in the mine if Dominion goes bankrupt with outstanding debts to the company, the court said earlier this month. However, DDMI...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers has launched an online platform to sell its rough diamonds. It's offering its registered buyers a new opportunity in a market severely weakened by COVID-19. De Beers' third Sight of the year , in March, was canceled and the fourth, in May, was virtually wiped out by travel restrictions. The new "Buy platform" allows users to search and buy in four categories - ve...Read More

PERTH (miningweekly.com) – Diversified major Rio Tinto has introduced Covid-19 testing at its Diavik diamond mine, in the Northwest Territories, in Canada, as an additional precautionary measure to protect employees and community members.The miner said over the weekend that not-for-profit public health experts GuardRX have installed an on-site laboratory at Diavik to conduct a testing progra...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A spectacular asscher-cut Golconda five-carat diamond ring by Harry Winston has been sold at auction.It was valued at $600,000 but the price, paid by an unnamed online buyer from New Orelans, Louisiana, USA, was not disclosed. The 5.06 carat stone, graded by GIA as internally flawless, D-color, and type IIa, was described by sellers as the "ultimate diamond". The ring was made by t...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesFranco-Nevada will receive a perpetual 1% net smelter return interest from SolGold calculated with reference to NSR from the Cascabel licence area in Ecuador.Read More

U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 31 points in pre-opening trade.FedEx slipped $1.19 to $119.25 after Deutsche Bank lowered its target price from $142 to $128Marriott dropped $1.93 to $85.24 after reporting less than consensus first quarter earnings.Under Armour fell $0.33 to $9.65 after reporting a higher than expected adjusted first quarter loss.AMC...Read More

Executives at SSR Mining (TSX: SSRM; NASDAQ: SSRM) and Alacer Gold (TSX: ARR; ASX: AQG) started talking about a possible merger of the two companies in November 2019, and completed all of the site visits required and much of the due diligence to make a decision on a transaction before COVID-19-related travel restrictions put an end to international travel.The business combination the two companies...Read More

Is the Hardrock gold project, 275 km northeast of Thunder Bay in northern Ontario, a shovel-ready gem or a promising project in need of further technical work?Joint-venture partners Premier Gold Mines (TSX: PG; US-OTC: PIRGF) and Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) have painted two very different pictures of the development-stage project in a legal dispute that began late last year.In a statement of claim fil...Read More

Ecuador-focused SolGold (TSX: SOLG; LSE: SOLG) has secured up to US$150 million from streaming company Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV; NYSE: FNV), which it will use to develop its Alpala copper-gold project.The Australian exploration company said the net smelter returns (NSR) agreement is for an initial US$100 million. Franco-Nevada, which provides companies with upfront cash in exchange for future produ...Read More

Production of so-called battery metals, such as graphite, lithium and cobalt, will have to increase by nearly 500% by 2050 to meet the growing demand for clean energy technologies, the World Bank said on Monday.According to the global lender, over 3 billion tonnes of minerals and metals will be needed to deploy wind, solar and geothermal power, as well as energy storage required for transitioning...Read More

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesSeven ways the resources sector can survive the COVID-19 crisisSPONSOREDproudfootEarlier this month, as Mining Journal reported on May 1, it was prices up (she loves me), according to t...Read More

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In this episode, John and Kevin answer your questions that were asked to Kevin via Twitter. You can follow Kevin today on Twitter - https://twitter.com/kevinlkloseNeed help booking your next vacation? Dreams Unlimited Travel agents are experts at helping you plan the perfect Disney vacation. Our agents have booked vacations for over 100,000 families, applying discounts when applicable to save you...Read More