News and Reports

Year Ahead 2025

January 06, 2025

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

Year in Review 2023 and Outlook for 2024

January 04, 2024

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

Year in Review 2022 and Outlook for 2023

January 2023

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: The Heart of Global Copper

October 2021

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 Gold

June 2021

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 Gold Mining and Canadian Juniors

April 2021

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

An Overview of the Golden Triangle

July 2020

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

An Overview of Quebec Gold Mining

April 2020

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

An Overview of the Red Lake Mining District

January, 2020

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

Fortescue Metals, an iron star divided

July 14, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDCatalyst to lock up Plutonic goldbeltSPONSOREDcatalyst metals ltdCollective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpNo bids have been lodged and FMG is fiercely expensive even with the uncertainties around Chinese iron ore demand and FMG's opaqu...Read More

Barrick still on track after small production miss...

July 14, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Gold production The gold production is up 6% quarter-on-quarter, primarily due to a return to throughput levels at its Carlin mine in Nevada, US, following significant maintenance in the first fourRead More

BHP and Vale have their $46bn day in court over Samarco

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

This is the latest in a series of court cases and refers to whether or not Vale should be jointly liable for any damages when the case is heard in the High Court in October 2024, given that SamarcoRead More

Titan's Q1 Jewelry Sales Increase by 20%

July 13, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Titan Company says revenue from its 559 jewelry stores - including Tanishq and CaratLane - was up by 21 per cent year-on-year in the three months to 30 June.Watches and wearables saw a 13 per cent increase in sales, in over 1,000 outlets."Buyer growth was higher than average ticket size growth for this period," the company said in a quarterly update.Titan, based in Bengaluru, India...Read More

China eyes greater metals price influence via warehouse...

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Collective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSORED"ShFE has the intention to expand into overseas warehousing.Read More

Codelco 'not in crisis' - Pacheco

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

With an ambitious US$32 billion programme of structural development projects to finance and execute to ensure the operational continuation of the company for decades to come, Read More

Aussie uranium developers to merge

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Copper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCollective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThe A$64 million merger will combine the production-ready Kayelekera asset in Malawi with the lower...Read More

Dubai Hosts World's First Lab Grown Symposium

July 13, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - More than 230 delegates attended an inaugural lab grown symposium in Dubai to address issues facing the industry.It was, said Ahmed Bin Sulayem, (pictured) chairman of the Dubai Diamond Exchange (DDE), the first event of its kind in the world."With over $1.5bn of lab-grown diamonds traded through Dubai last year - a year-on-year increase of 126 per cent - we are witnessing first-ha...Read More

BHP and Vale have their $46bn day in court over Samarco...

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Copper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCollective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThis is the latest in a series of court cases and refers to whether or not Vale should be jointly l...Read More

Australian Jeweler to Increase Lab Grown Revenue

July 13, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Australian jeweler Michael Hill is expanding its range of lab growns, and expects them to account for 10  per cent of its revenue, up from six per cent currently.The company is now selling lab grown earrings, necklaces, and tennis bracelets at its 281 outlets across Australia, New Zealand and Canada. "We haven't made a big noise about lab-created diamonds until now b...Read More

Why Is the Stock Market So Strong?

July 13, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

Since last March the Federal Reserve has been elevating its target rate with fantastic abandon.Across that same frame it has been chewing into its balance sheet.Meantime, the bond market is putting out the loudest recession warnings since 1982.Wobbles to the banking system have likewise clouded the economic outlook.It is a formula toxic to the stock market.That is, in theory it is a formula toxi...Read More

Aris gets Marmato build approval

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The development of a new US$280 million underground mine will provide access to the wider porphyry mineralisation below the existing small-scale Upper Mine at Marmato, allowing for bulk mining and theRead More

Gold equities get boost from cooling US inflation

July 13, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

With inflation seemingly under control in the US, markets are seeing an imminent end to the series of interest rate hikes unleashed by the Federal Reserve.Read More

The Original Leftists

July 13, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

Happy Thursday!Tomorrow is Bastille Day. And with all the recent trouble in France, it's interesting to revisit the beginning of communism. They're not communists there, you say? Perhaps not. But one bright historian called the French Revolution the "Proto-Communist Revolution."Didn't Marx and Engels start it all? Nope. They just wrote those stupid ideas down.But thanks to this historian of fantas...Read More

Tiffany Buys "Finest Ever" Muzo Emerald

July 12, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Tiffany & Co has bought an extremely rare emerald weighing over 10 carats and described as the finest ever sourced from the famed Muzo mines of Colombia.It is virtually inclusion-free, has no fissures and has a perfectly saturated green color.The New York-based jeweler did not disclose the price or provide a precise specification."We are thrilled to announce our recent acquisit...Read More

Barksdale backs USFS against NGOs

July 12, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The lawsuit is challenging decisions the service made to allow the company to resume drilling at its Read More

Nutrien slashes guidance on Vancouver port strikes

July 12, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Nutrien now expects its full-year 2023 potash adjusted EBITDA to fall below the bottom end of its previous guidance, due to factors including the strike, a Portland terminal outage and lower globalRead More

Aurora extension grows Filo del Sol strike to 5km

July 12, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company highlighted 1,131m grading 0.57% copper equivalent, including 210m grading 0.80%. Filo also said drilling expanded the Read More

China rare earths association will pay cash for illegal...

July 12, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Published on the group's WeChat, the association said that it would review any information and pass to relevant authorities. Chinese authorities have Read More

Golden Arrow Resources drills 0.86% copper over 64.2 metres at San Pietro, Chile

July 12, 2023 / www.canadianinvestor.com

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Golden Arrow Resources Corp. [GRG-TSXV; GARWF-OTCQB; G6A-FSE] reported results for the remaining six holes of the 4,000-metre phase 1 drilling program at the company's flagship San Pietro iron-copper-gold-cobalt (Fe-Cu-Au-Co) project in Chile. All six holes reported are from the Rincones target, which is the most advanced target and the focus of the company's first re...Read More

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