Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Welcome to this week’s Market Wrap Podcast, I’m Mike Gleason.Precious metals investors remain cautious following the Federal Reserve’s latest jumbo rate hike.On Wednesday, the Fed announced another three-quarter point bump up on interest rates. It’s the sixth straight hike by central bankers and brings the Fed funds rate up to 4%. That’s the highest it has been since...Read More

Macro changing in favor of the gold stock sector is and has been a processThe process began with the leveling off of inflation’s momentum and continued as the global economy began to show signs of weakness (e.g. US manufacturing deceleration and developing supply chain slack among several other problem areas as exposed during the current earnings season).While the nominal sector (HUI or the...Read More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingLaw 21,420, enacted in early 2022, amended the Mining Code and aims to increase the government take from mining concessions and surface...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipCypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingThe LME announced on January 5 that Huey Evans will not seek re-ele...Read More

The early repayment of its gold prepay facility to Newcrest Mining was the first step in debt reduction at the firm.Read More

"The severe cold temperatures of -35° Celsius (-31° Fahrenheit) immediately froze a number of essential systems in the mills, which delayed the restart of milling operations for several days,"Read More

Throughout the downtime, which resulted from the attack on its IT systems, the firm has been shipping copper concentrate to the Port of Vancouver from mine inventory and has maintained its plannedRead More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingSubsequent to the grant of the extension in 2021, SEMARNAT suggested it had made a typographical error and that the correct term was tw...Read More

Access our research platformsSign-in to our platforms to access our extensive research, our latest insight, data and analytics and to connect to our industry experts.Over 650 GW of new onshore and 130 GW of new offshore wind capacity will be installed between 2018 and 2028. This will consume in excess of 5.5Mt of copper, according to a recent analysis by Wood Mackenzie.Henry Salisbury, Wood Macken...Read More

"Freeport is successfully ramping up underground mining in Indonesia - our base case assumes progress according to guidance - and growing volumes in 2023 that should support free cash flowRead More

Cypress Development advances Nevada lithium project towards productionSPONSOREDcypress development corp4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streaming"International geopolitics has become an important factor affecting China's resource supply," the country's minister of natural resourc...Read More

U.S equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 20 point in pre-opening trade.Index futures moved higher following release of the December Non-Farm Payrolls at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was an increase of 200,000 versus a downwardly revised gain of 256,000 in November. Actual was an increase of 223,000. December Unemployment Rate was expected to remains unchanged from N...Read More

The calendar has scrolled to 2023... for good ... or ill.As a financial newsletter, we are duty-bound to hazard our annual market forecast - such as it is.So today we fetch our crystal ball from storage, blow away the dust... and gaze for images of the year ahead.How will the economy fare in 2023? Where will the stock market end the year? Gold? Oil? Bitcoin?The answers - the guaranteed answers - a...Read More

Sun Summit Minerals (TSXV: SMN; US-OTC: SMREF) says 2023 could be a decisive year for the company's Buck gold/silver/zinc project in north-central British Columbia. A set of 3,000 metres of outstanding drill results will shed light on how large the emerging epithermal system is, and company president Sharyn Alexander says an initial resource could be ready before the year is out."With the results...Read More

Arctic Canadian Diamond, operator of the Ekati mine in the Northwest Territories, is on track to expand revenue by more than half as it aims to be the only miner using a remote underwater vehicle with a cutting drum. The Calgary-based unlisted company will likely record 2022 income of about $500 million, an increase of more than 60% from the previous year's 11 months of operations, because of h...Read More

Patriot Battery Metals (TSXV: PMET; ASX: PMT; OTCQX: PMETF) is starting one of Quebec's largest winter lithium drilling programs at its Corvette property near James Bay as it prepares an initial resource estimate for the end of June. The Vancouver-based company plans to use five rigs to drill 20,000 metres in the period to April, it said in a news release on Thursday. It wants to lengthen a 2.2-...Read More

Copper Mountain Mining (TSX: CMMC; ASX: C6C) said it reopened its mine in southern British Columbia this week following a Dec. 27 ransomware attack that left deliveries unaffected.The Vancouver-based company restarted the primary crusher at its mine near Princeton about 300 km east of Vancouver on Jan. 1 and resumed operations at the mill "shortly thereafter," Copper Mountain said in a news releas...Read More

From Russia's invasion of Ukraine to stubbornly high inflation, and an unrelenting focus on reshoring critical minerals supply chains, last year was full of twists and turns for miners. Were you paying attention? Test your mining knowledge with The Northern Miner's 2022 mining news quiz.Read More

Caledonia Mining (LSE: CMCL) has added to its portfolio one of Zimbabwe's biggest gold mining projects after completing the acquisition of Bilboes Gold, owner of the namesake asset, the U.K.-based miner said in a news release Friday.The shares plus royalty transaction, announced last year, will help the company more than double its annual output, potentially making it Zimbabwe's top gold miner. T...Read More

Fed officials flexed their muscles during the last FOMC meeting. Silver tripped and fell in response, but that didn’t last long – why?The hawkish force was strong with this FOMC! The minutes from the last meeting of the Committee in December offered almost no dovish signals. In particular, the document doesn’t mention anything about the Fed’s pivot. Actually, we can read th...Read More