The 200-Day Held: Now Comes the Test That Decides Whether the Bounce is a Reversal

Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 3 broke a five-week decline for both gold and silver. Gold posted its first weekly gain since late May and silver led the recovery with a much larger move. The trigger was a weaker-than-expected US jobs report, which reset rate-hike expectations and pushed the dollar to its largest weekly decline since April. Layered underneath were two other significant developments: the release of the World Gold Council’s Mid-Year Outlook on Tuesday July 1 (covered in

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The 200-Day Held: Now Comes the Test That Decides Whether the Bounce is a Reversal

Macro Snapshot: The week ending July 3 broke a five-week decline for both gold and silver. Gold posted its first weekly gain since late May and silver led the recovery with a much larger move. The trigger was a weaker-than-expected US jobs report, which reset rate-hike expectations and pushed the dollar to its largest weekly decline since April. Layered underneath were two other significant developments: the release of the World Gold Council’s Mid-Year Outlook on Tuesday July 1 (covered in

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GJEPC Makes Presentation at KP Meet

Perth: At a presentation made to the ‘Special Forum on Diamond Equity’ held at the ongoing KP Intersessional Meet in Perth, GJEPC’s Diamond Panel Convener Sanjay Shah has stressed boosting consumer demand for diamonds will only be possible through developing a ‘clean and transparent’ diamond trade, adequately financed generic promotion campaigns and clear differentiation between the synthetic and natural diamond

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DiamondCorp Hands Control to Administrators

London: Junior miner DiamondCorp has turned to administrators after flooding at its Lace mine in South Africa last year forced it to shut down the operation. The board looked into all options to keep DiamondCorp afloat since appointing a business-rescue practitioner in November, the company explained in a recent statement. However, management could not finalize an agreement with either bond

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Lucara Diamond's Revenues Fall 50% in Q1

Vancouver: Lucara Diamond Corp. has declared first quarter revenues of $26.1 million, or $405 per carat which represents nearly a 50% drop from the $50.6 million earned at $649 per carat in Q1 2016. The company explains the results as follows: “The decrease in revenues in Q1 2017 compared to Q1 2016 was due to a lower volume of carats

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ZCDC Suffers Marange Diamond Mining Setback

Harare: The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) was recently barred by the High Court from looting diamond ore which belongs to Mbada Diamonds, which was booted out of Marange with other miners last year, according to local media reports. ZCDC had previous defied a similar High Court order issued in February. Mbada had 150 000 tonnes of diamond ore stockpiles

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GJEPC Makes Presentation at KP Meet

Perth: At a presentation made to the ‘Special Forum on Diamond Equity’ held at the ongoing KP Intersessional Meet in Perth, GJEPC’s Diamond Panel Convener Sanjay Shah has stressed boosting consumer demand for diamonds will only be possible through developing a ‘clean and transparent’ diamond trade, adequately financed generic promotion campaigns and clear differentiation between the synthetic and natural diamond

Read More »

DiamondCorp Hands Control to Administrators

London: Junior miner DiamondCorp has turned to administrators after flooding at its Lace mine in South Africa last year forced it to shut down the operation. The board looked into all options to keep DiamondCorp afloat since appointing a business-rescue practitioner in November, the company explained in a recent statement. However, management could not finalize an agreement with either bond

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Lucara Diamond's Revenues Fall 50% in Q1

Vancouver: Lucara Diamond Corp. has declared first quarter revenues of $26.1 million, or $405 per carat which represents nearly a 50% drop from the $50.6 million earned at $649 per carat in Q1 2016. The company explains the results as follows: “The decrease in revenues in Q1 2017 compared to Q1 2016 was due to a lower volume of carats

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ZCDC Suffers Marange Diamond Mining Setback

Harare: The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) was recently barred by the High Court from looting diamond ore which belongs to Mbada Diamonds, which was booted out of Marange with other miners last year, according to local media reports. ZCDC had previous defied a similar High Court order issued in February. Mbada had 150 000 tonnes of diamond ore stockpiles

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