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

Nigeria hopes changes it has made to gold mining regulation will earn the government $500 million a year in royalties and taxes and create 250,000 jobs, President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday.Read full newsRead More

The gold price broke past US$2,000 on Tuesday, an important psychological and monetary threshold for the metal.Read full newsRead More

The company had announced a C$30 million placement this week, plus a $60 million secured credit facility from Sprott Private Resource Lending II, to fund its acquisition of Millennium Minerals and its Pilbara assets including a mothballed 1.5Mtpa plant.Yesterday, Novo increased its placement to $42.5 million, upped the over-allotment option from 15% to 20% and announced a non-brokered $3 million p...Read More

Companies able to provide consistently good results by the drill bit have seen their shares rewarded (see chart). Equities continue to move higher as gold climbs past US$2,000/oz.Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Danish jeweler Pandora is to launch a range of Star Wars-themed charm bracelets and other items of jewelry.It's working with Lucasfilm to launch a capsule collection inspired by the 1977 blockbuster and its eight prequels and sequels.Star Wars spawned the most successful ever movie merchandising franchise, grossing an estimated $70bn.The Star Wars x Pandora collection will...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Chinese jewelry retail chain Chow Sang Sang has warned that its first-half net profits for 2020 could fall by as much as 70 per cent.Profits are expected to be down from $79.4m to $ 25.8m.The COVID-19 pandemic forced it to close most of its 400 outlets in February, and they were only able to re-open the following month with limited hours.The two-week quarantine also deterred fo...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A woman has appeared in a British court over the audacious heist in which a gang swapped $5.3m of diamonds for a bag of worthless pebbles.Georgeta Danila, 52, was extradited from France last month and has now been charged with conspiracy to steal from the luxury London jeweler Boodles (pictured), in March 2016.The thieves posed as wealthy Russian businessmen to dupe jewelers out of...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesPerth-based corporate advisor Liam Twigger, who joined the SolGold board last year, has been appointed as chairman of SolGold.Read More

Mexico is an attractive destination for Canadian miners with its mining-friendly policies, prospective mineral belts and well-developed infrastructure and legislation. Below, we provide an overview of eight companies with exploration, development and production-stage assets in the country. Americas Gold and SilverLHD loader at Americas Gold & Silver Cosala project's San Rafael mine in Mexico. Cre...Read More

Since the establishment of the spot market for iron ore in 2008 and the inclusion of coking coal prices on the Singapore Exchange in 2014, the price of 62% iron ore has never risen above coking coal, said Clyde Russell, in a column for Reuters news agency on Aug. 5.The spot price of a tonne of iron ore and coking coal, essential materials in steelmaking, delivered on a cost and freight delivered b...Read More

The Global Tailings Review (GTR) has released the first-ever Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management, aimed at strengthening best practices around tailings dams in the mining sector, with the goal of zero harm to people and the environment.The standard is the result of a more than one-year process started by the United Nations Environment Programme, Principles for Responsible Investment (P...Read More

88 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyLithium no quiet place for AVZSPONSOREDavz mineralsScoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.IronRidge shows its mettleSPONSOREDironridge resources The trade weighted index measuring the US dollar against the currencies of advanced countries has fallen by more than 7% since mid M...Read More

Glencore (LSE: GLEN) posted a US$2.6 billion loss after write-downs for the first half of the year and scrapped its dividend, as the coronavirus pandemic dented global demand and lowered prices and production at its mining division.Despite the virus impact, the Swiss commodities trader and miner managed to remain profitable on an operating basis. Glencore posted US$1.5 billion in adjusted earnings...Read More

The most recent five drill holes (and one redrilled hole) reported from Moneta Porcupine Mines' (TSX: ME; US-OTC: MPUCF) Golden Highway project, 110 km east of Timmins, extend the mineralization at the 55 deposit by up to 250 metres west and 150 metres east of the resource boundaries.Drill highlights included 9 metres of 2.2 grams gold per tonne starting at 160 metres and 9 metres of 0.9 gram gold...Read More

When Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) paid Placer Dome $10 million for the Mulatos project in Mexico in November 2001, gold was below US$300 per ounce.At that gold price, recalls John McCluskey, the company's president and CEO, "Mulatos didn't look very promising - nothing did at that time - but we entered into the agreement on the assumption that the gold price would rise and it did within six m...Read More

Inomin Mines (TSXV: MINE) has announced an agreement to acquire Gunpoint Exploration's (TSXV: GUN) La Gitana and Pena Blanca gold-silver properties, located 100 km east of Oaxaca City, Mexico.Under the agreement, Inomin will acquire a 100% interest in the properties in exchange for 1 million common shares of the company, $25,000 in cash, and a 1.5% net smelter return royalty (NSR) payable to Gu...Read More

88 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyLithium no quiet place for AVZSPONSOREDavz mineralsScoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Element 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 25The company's revised production plan for 2020 was aimed at cutting spending near-term amid COVID-19 and other uncertainties while m...Read More

10:44 AM EST - Eclipse Gold Mining Corporation : Reported it has completed an induced polarization (IP) survey at the Hercules Gold Project located in Lyon County, Nevada. A review of the data collected to date showed a good correlation between zones of silicification in outcrop and drilling and resistive features in the recently collectedRead full newsRead More

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