RAPAPORT... De Beers is shutting its diamond-recycling division, as digital advancements in the sector have lessened the need for its services. The International Institute of Diamond Valuation (IIDV) wasset up in 2016 to repurchase and recycle diamond jewelry that consumers no longerwanted. De Beers began the operation after noting the difficulty consumersfaced in trying to sell their jewelry at a...Read More

An Angolan delegation led by President Joao Lourenco has arrived in Moscow for a four-day visit. The Russian publication Kommersant wrote that "although this is the Angolan leader's first visit to Russia in this capacity, he does have first-hand knowledge about the Russian capital, since he studied at the Military-Political Academy here in 1978-1982. While attending the Russia-Angola business foru...Read More

RAPAPORT... Lucapa Diamond Company hassigned a new refinancing agreement that will allow it to reduce its debts and further develop its Mothae mine in Lesotho. New Azilian will give theminer a one-year loan of $7 million, some of which it will put toward repayinga loan to Equigold ahead of schedule. That loan was taken out in 2017. Lucapa will also use thefunds from New Azilian as working ca...Read More

RAPAPORT... Sotheby's failed to find a buyer for three blue diamonds at its Hong Kong auction Tuesday. A cut-cornered, rectangular step-cut, fancy-vivid blue, 3.32-carat diamondring, valued at $5.9 million to $7.6million, was left unsold. The center stone was set between two trilliant-cut diamonds.Two cut-cornered, rectangular, modified brilliant-cut stones also failed to attract a buyer at t...Read More

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Diversified mining company Anglo American is implementing new techniques that give the company far more control over its tailings dams, which have been thrown into the spotlight after the tragic loss of life at Brumadinho, in Brazil, where an iron-ore tailings dam collapsed at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao mine earlier this year killing hundreds of people....Read More

In her address to the 6th Forum of the Africa-Belgium Business Week, held in the Belgian town of Genval, Marie-Chantal Kaninda, Executive Director of World Diamond Council (WDC), expressed the WDC's optimism that Central African Republic (CAR) will soon be able to resume the unrestricted export of rough diamonds, supported by the Kimberley Process Certification System, and help turn the CAR...Read More

CEDEX, a blockchain-based trading platform for diamonds, said that ahead of its launch its diamond exchange-traded fund (ETF), it had secured more than 6,000 diamonds, worth some $50 million. The diamonds will provide traders with a variety of investment options prior to the launch of the fund. Quoting a lack of transparency, liquidity and fungibility as the reasons why diamonds have not become a...Read More

Lucapa Diamond Company and the Government of the Kingdom of Lesotho announced that yet another 50+ carat rough diamond - this time a 55-carat top color stone- had been recovered from its new 1.1 Mtpa Mothae kimberlite plant in Lesotho. The stone is the fifth +50 carat diamond recovered to date from the new Mothae mine, where commercial production commenced in January 2019 following the commission...Read More

Expanding the scope of the Kimberley Process (KP) to include issues related to human rights and labour relations, as is being advocated by the World Diamond Council (WDC), will help create conditions in which Sub-Saharan Africa's artisanal diamond miners can meet their economic potential, and so support the development of their countries' economies, says WDC executive director Marie-Chanta...Read More

Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds has completed the intensification drilling programme on the Frischgewaagt and Hartbeesfontein farms, which form part of its Thorny River diamond dyke project, in South Africa.The intensification drilling programme comprised 33 holes and 1 282 m of drilling which, together with previous work, has resulted in a total drilled depth of 3 299 m in five areas on th...Read More

LONDON – The story of how two prospectors, down to their last nickels, discovered diamonds in Canada’s frozen north is the stuff of legend.Back in 1982, Chuck Fipke and Stewart Blusson laid low in a pup tent by day while their competitor De Beers hauled 45-gallon drums of rock samples to a nearby outpost for transport to South Africa. Using the long hours of summer sunlight north of th...Read More

Global Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corp"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resourcesCEO Ivan Arriagada said the full proj...Read More

"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftHow to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumCEO Alberto Lavandeira said Atalaya had delivered the majority of its key performance indicators ahead of or in line with expectations, whic...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxThe key to this transformation is deploying the incline block-cave mining method in the relatively modest-sized Papamono mine.Read More

U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 1 point in pre-opening trade.Index futures were virtually unchanged following released of the Weekly Jobless Claims report at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus was an increase to 219,000 from upwardly revised 212,000 last week. Actual was 202,000.Tesla dropped $26.96 to $264.70 after the company delivered lower than expected fir...Read More

Happy tax season!Or should I call it spam season?Maybe you’ve noticed the number of spam phone calls have picked up recently.Well... I’m here to tell you that the uptick is directly related to tax season.That’s because fake IRS calls are one of the easiest (and most lucrative) scams out there.If you’re unfamiliar, IRS scams usually involve fraudsters posing as agents callin...Read More

Living healthy isn’t always cheap. Everything from gym memberships or personal trainers to buying organic produce comes at a cost. When you’re living on a fixed income as you plan for retirement, you don’t want to be spending a lot of money on what could be considered luxuries. If you’re not maintaining a healthy lifestyle, you might be limiting your enjoyment of those all-...Read More

For more than a decade, investors have pumped cash into index funds and other passive investment vehicles, much to the dismay of active managers.The dollar amounts involved are staggering.As a result, the share prices of publicly traded active asset managers have struggled.But what we all need to remember is that the popularity of passive and active investments is very cyclical. And this cycle is...Read More

A team of graduate students from Colorado School of Mines took first place in the Rocky Mountain section of the Imperial Barrel Award Program, earning a spot in the world finals this May.More than 250 teams from 50 countries around the world participate every year in the prospective basin evaluation competition, organized by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). One winner from...Read More

The following is an edited release from the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) showing preliminary data for world copper supply and demand for 2018. For more detailed information, visit www.icsg.org.Mine productionPreliminary data shows that world mine production is estimated to have increased 2.3% in 2018, with concentrate production rising 2.2%, and solvent extraction-electrowinning (SX-EW)...Read More