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Pueblo Viejo entered into a 10-year supply agreement with AES Andrés DR, SA, in May 2018, to provide natural gas and build a gas pipeline from the AES gas terminal to the Quisqueya I power plant for the mine. This was also expected to benefit the San Pedro region which had not previously had access to this cleaner fuel alternative, the company said.Barrick CEO Mark Bristow said it and 40% p...Read More
Fifty years ago, an international team of researchers was commissioned by the Club of Rome to build a computer simulation of exponential economic and population growth on a finite planet. In 1971, its findings were first released in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro, and later published in 1972 under the title The Limits To Growth. Few reports have generated as much debate, discussion and disagreement. Th...Read More
"There is no opting out. No control over your personal information," Republican Senator Josh Hawley recently tweeted."That's Big Tech. And that's why Congress needs to take action."Continue...Read More
"Right now, there's no real inflation at play. But if we go further than we are currently, inflation is inevitably going to rise." Continue...Read More
After the Denver Gold Forum in September, mergers and acquisitions in the gold mining space is finally picking up especially in the last month. However, all assets are not being acquired for big premiums. Some are being acquired for no premium at all.Mid-tier primary gold miners with good free cash flow margins and good balance sheets are being aggressive either buying "non-core" assets from Barri...Read More
RAPAPORT... Gemfields auctioned 12 parcels of rubies backed by G? 1/4 belinGem Lab's Provenance Proof program, the first blockchain-enabled rubies theminer has sold, it said Tuesday. "[The stones] have become the first Gemfields rubies ever topioneer the use of blockchain in facilitating improved supply-chaintraceability," Adrian Banks, Gemfields' managing director of product and sales,expla...Read More
RAPAPORT... Alrosa will help launch a blockchain-based provenance program offering Chinese consumers greater transparency when buying jewelry via WeChat. The e-commerce program, apartnership with blockchain platform Everledger and Chinese Internet giantTencent Holdings, will be available to nearly a billion WeChat users, thecompanies said Monday. WeChat, which is owned by Tencent, is a m...Read More
RAPAPORT... Petra Diamonds has appointed Peter Hill as non-executivechairman, succeeding company founder Adonis Pouroulis, who is stepping down,the company said Tuesday. Hill is currently non-executive chairman of geotechnicalcontractor Keller Group and of building-products company Volution Group. Hewill begin with the miner as non-executive director and chairman-designate onJanuary 1, and will be...Read More
Global industrial company Metso is set to deliver high-performance crushing and material handling equipment to global diamond miner De Beers Group’s Venetia mine, in Limpopo.The Venetia mine is reported to produce an output of about four-million carats, making it one of South Africa’s mineral resource flagships.AdvertisementMetso will deliver two primary jaw crushers and a number of fe...Read More
London-listed Petra Diamonds on Tuesday announced the appointment of mining engineer Peter Hill as nonexecutive director and chairperson to succeed founder and chairperson Adonis Pouroulis on March 31.Hill, currently chairperson of the world’s largest geotechnical contractor Keller Group and of building products company Volution, will be chairperson designate from January 1.AdvertisementHe b...Read More
In 1909, Mark Twain said, "I came in with Halley's comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't. The Almighty said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'" Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day after the comet returned.Of course, Twain los...Read More
Federal Reserve ChairmanJerome Powell’s comments on inflation last Wednesday added fuel to the contra-dollartrade.During a press conferencefollowing the Fed’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged, Powell said,“In order to move rates up, I would want to see inflation that's persistent andthat's significant. A significant move up in inflation that's alsopersistent..."To...Read More
The year is wrapping up and the markets are about to get really boring in the next couple weeks.But as sleepy as the markets are now, they are going to be firing up at full speed as soon as they open on January 2, 2020. 2019 performance for traders is over. Everyone is starting at 0% yet again. I know, no one is trying to add work and stress this time of year. I'm frazzled and trying to limp over...Read More
Federal Reserve ChairmanJerome Powell’s comments on inflation last Wednesday added fuel to the contra-dollartrade.During a press conferencefollowing the Fed’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged, Powell said,“In order to move rates up, I would want to see inflation that's persistent andthat's significant. A significant move up in inflation that's alsopersistent..."To...Read More
Christmas came early for TSX investors this year, with the “phase one” trade deal between the U.S. and China corresponding with a big win for Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party. At the same time, the USMCA agreement added some festive cheer, and plans for a rejigged retail environment buoyed cannabis stocks. Crude was up, and the TSX ended the week higher.A big win for Brexit cou...Read More
Federal Reserve ChairmanJerome Powell’s comments on inflation last Wednesday added fuel to the contra-dollartrade.During a press conferencefollowing the Fed’s decision to leave interest rates unchanged, Powell said,“In order to move rates up, I would want to see inflation that's persistent andthat's significant. A significant move up in inflation that's alsopersistent..."To...Read More
I badly underestimated the system's ability to perpetuate obvious frauds and swindles without causing a social rebellion. And worse, to watch so many otherwise intelligent people participate with glee.Continue...Read More
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