The AOCE and WB have moderate overall forecasts for the metals in 2025 inline with IMF forecasts for a decline in economic growth and inflation, although we see the probability of a stagflationary scenario as still reasonably high.Read More

The past year was a difficult one overall for the metals, with the main standouts to the upside being a geopolitical risk-driven gain in gold, a China-driven rise in iron ore and a surge in uranium on broadening global support for nuclear power (Figure 1). A jump in global interest rates to near two-decade highs saw recession fears persist all year, and while one still did not actually eru...Read More

This year the post-global health crisis boom was brought to an end by a surge in inflation to forty-year highs, a major rise in global interest rates in an attempt to curb the rising prices and surging geopolitical risk after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. While precious metals held up reasonably well as markets turned to them as a risk hedge, by Q2/22 the higher interest rates put an end t...Read More

Chile is the world leader in copper production, at 28.5% of the total in 2020, and this looks set to continue, with the country having the largest global reserves, at 23.0% of total. It is also the global leader for molybdenum, which is often found along with copper, and is a major lithium player, holding 51.1% of global reserves. Read More

Newfoundland has become a gold exploration hotspot over the past few years, with the sector seeing some of its strongest activity ever. While the province remains a small contributor to Canadian gold production, it has a substantial mineral industry well supported by the government, focused on iron ore, copper and nickel, and the surge in exploration suggests that gold output from the...Read More

Nevada is the core of the U.S. gold output, accounting for by far the majority, at 75.4% on average for the past year. The state looks set to remain a dominant player in U.S. gold, as it accounts for 49% of total U.S. reserves, with Alaska slightly ahead with 51% of reserves, but just 8.6% of current production. The U.S. accounts for 6.1% of global gold output, making Nevada one of the largest gol...Read More

The Golden Triangle in northwestern British Columbia has historically been a major site of Canadian gold production, beginning as early as the mid 1800s. There was a wave of production in the 1990s which cooled as the gold price declined, but larger scale production resumed in 2017, and the area has seen surging exploration interest over the past year, given that the region has some of the largest...Read More

In this report we outline the Quebec gold mining industry, including its major producers, and a survey of many of the junior miners focused on the province. Quebec accounts for 34% of Canadian gold production (second to Ontario, with 44%) and remains a major focus for both producers and junior miners.Read More

Red Lake has been one of the most prolific gold mining districts in Canada and the world, with exploration having started in the 1920s, and production, which began in the 1930s, continuing to the present day. The district is known for the high grade of its gold, its infrastructure, and strong institutional support, given the long history of mining in the area.Read More

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; NYSE: US-OTC: IVPAF) has published the results of an independent definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its Kakula project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which says the asset could become the world's second-largest copper mining complex.Kakula, the first underground mine planned at the Kamoa-Kakula concession, is forecast to generate six million tonnes of m...Read More

Vale (NYSE: VALE) is preparing to potentially shut down its nickel and cobalt operations on the Pacific island of New Caledonia, after failing to reach a sales agreement on the assets with Australia's New Century Resources (ASX: NCZ).The Melbourne-based zinc producer first announced in May its intention to acquire a 95% stake in Vale Nouvelle Cal?(C)donie (VNC), the operator of the troubled Goro n...Read More

This week's episode features new Northern Miner contributor Dr. Chris Hinde, mining engineer and director of Pick and Pen Ltd., a U.K.-based consulting firm he set up in 2018 specializing in mining industry trends. Chris discusses the big issues he sees in the mining industry, including mining's branding problem, ESG and the obsession with gold. He also discusses his previous work with S&P Global...Read More

Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.AVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsThe first hole returned 585m grading 0.51% copper-equivalent, comprising 0.33% copper, 0.21 grams per tonne gold and 0.45g/t silver, including a higher-grade interval of 213m at 0.75% Cu-eq.Read More

Auroch taps into further nickel potentialSPONSOREDauroch mineralsAVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsElement 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 2588 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyThe IDP comprises three components, including a 6Mtpa bankable feasibility study for the standalone Kakula project; a prefeasibility...Read More

Auroch taps into further nickel potentialSPONSOREDauroch mineralsAVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsElement 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 2588 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyThe IBA includes a roster of commitments and benefits for communities including impact mitigation, employment, education, training an...Read More

The five-year contract extends the relationship between the two companies to at least 20 years, with Barminco having worked at Western Areas' Forrestania mine since 2005.Read More

Tech stocks are taking a blow and it is raising questions about the role they can play moving forward.The inflow of money into big tech hardly needs mentioning, I'm sure. The thing is, they hardly needed more of a boost.The top five U.S. companies - pull out Netflix, put in Microsoft - made up 18% of the market capitalization of the entire S&P 500. That had never happened before for any top five c...Read More

Sep 04, 2020 (The Expresswire) --Global "Gold Market" research report presents a detailed analysis of the industry by size, growth rate, top key players,...Read full newsRead More

VANCOUVER, BC, Sept. 3, 2020 /CNW/ - First Energy Metals Ltd. (CSE: FE) ('First Energy' or the 'Company) is pleased to announce assay results of s...Read full newsRead More

The Global Mining Symposium's final panel brought together experts from across the industry to discuss the merits and shortcomings of feasibility studies and how they can be improved to add value.Moderated by Mark Nopp?(C), managing director and corporate consultant in geology at SRK Consulting, the panel featured Jo-Anne Dudley, chief executive of Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ), C...Read More

A key theme of the Global Mining Symposium is the need to advance new technologies to make mining safer, as well as more efficient and productive, which is why Northern Miner senior reporter Carl A. Williams spoke to Michelle Ash, chief executive of GEOVIA-Dassault Syst??mes, from her home in Melbourne, Australia. Dassault Syst??mes is a software company and GEOVIA is a division that is specific...Read More

US markets had closed lower on Friday as tech stocks continued to slide.In the UK, the British government is reportedly planning legislation to override key parts of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, ahead of an October 15 deadline to strike a free-trade agreement with the European Union.The gold price was up slightly on the spot market to about US$1,938 an ounce at the time of writing.Copper had g...Read More

The South Africa-focused company, saw its PGM basket price rise by 58% year-on-year to US$2,015/oz in FY2020, driven mainly by higher rhodium and palladium prices.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Diamond exporters in India are reportedly looking to new markets in the Far East as tensions rise in the country's Himalayan border dispute with China.Trade links have becoming increasingly strained since 20 Indian soldiers were killed in fighting in June, the deadliest clash there between the two nations in almost half a century.Matters were made worse last week when the Chin...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Australian miner Lucapa has reported another record month of carat recoveries at its Lulo alluvial mine in Angola.Gravel deposits in the MB06 leziria area yielded 3,852 carats in August, including 52 specials, beating the company's record in July of 3,462 carats.  The largest diamond recovered from the area is a 61-carat white D-colour Type IIa."This is the second consecu...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Signet appears to be bouncing back, with an unprecedented $270m of e-commerce sales making up, in part, for the enforced closure of stores during lockdown.The jeweler saw virtual sales up 72.1 per cent in the second fiscal quarter, compared with same period in 2019, as it served more than 300,000 customers via online consultations.James Allen, Signet's e-commerce brand, was th...Read More

Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.AVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsIt's the latest result in a series of legal battles being fought over the proposed NorthMet mine, which is expected to produce about 1.2 billion pounds of copper, 170 million pounds of nickel, 6.2Mlb of cobalt and 1.6 million ounces of pre...Read More

Timothy Ray Sewell is no stranger to pandemics. In the early 2000s, he developed emergency management plans in Indonesia and Borneo for BHP Billiton during the H1N1 influenza pandemic and the H5N1 avian influenza. Years later, Sewell was working for BHP in West Africa and Sundance Resources in central Africa as the first sporadic cases of Ebola emerged on the continent.Now the senior director of h...Read More

More than 1,800 people from over 80 countries tuned in to The Northern Miner's first Global Mining Symposium last week. The three-day virtual event built on the success of our Canadian Mining Symposium conferences, now in their fourth year, and featured interviews and panel discussions with mining executives, fund managers and technical experts from around the world.In the first panel discussion,...Read More