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

Malaysia has approved Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp.'s (ASX: LYC) application to build a permanent disposal facility for waste treatment, a minister said on Tuesday.The miner, the world's only major producer of rare earths outside China, can now proceed with construction of the waste plant, on a site identified by the Pahang state government, Khairy Jamaluddin, science, technology and in...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest bullion miner, said today that Canadian junior Skeena Resources (TSX-V: SKE) has decided to exercise an option to acquire a 100% interest in the past-producing Eskay Creek property.Discovered in 1988, the Eskay Creek mine in British Columbia's Golden Triangle was, according to Skeena, once the world's highest-grade gold mine and the f...Read More

Star Diamond (TSX: DIAM) has begun to receive results from Rio Tinto's bulk-sampling program at the Star-Orion South project in central Saskatchewan.Rio so far has processed material from four of the 10 trenches excavated last year from the Star kimberlite at the project, but full results have only been reported from the first trench - 19 FALCT001.A total of 2,517 commercial-sized diamonds weighin...Read More

Silver producer Pan American Silver (TSX: PAAS; NYSE: PAAS) has updated the resource estimate for the La Colorada skarn deposit near its wholly owned La Colorada underground mine in Mexico's Zacatecas state.Inferred resources now stand at 100.4 million tonnes, grading 44 grams per tonne silver, 0.2% copper, 1.77% lead and 4.29% zinc, containing 141 million oz. silver, 199,000 tonnes copper, 1.8 mi...Read More

This week's episode features a wide-ranging interview with Teck Resources president and CEO Don Lindsay at the Canadian Mining Symposium on June 17, 2020. Northern Miner editor-in-chief Trish Saywell asks Don how he started in mining, how the company views the Chinese and Indian markets, as well as the oilsands and ESG, and the shift of its core business towards copper and its QB2 project.Don R. L...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesIt outlines annual production of 35,800 tonnes per year of copper cathode over a 12-year mine life with 40,000tpy of production during the first six years at a life of mine average C1 cash cost ofRead More

While the stock market is within a couple percentage points of all-time highs, gold is now testing the $2,000-per-ounce mark.This may seem counter-intuitive with both rising at the same time. In some ways it is, but it isn't.It isn't just a doom-and-gloom counter-narrative, though plenty of gold haters always see any rise in gold prices that way.Instead, what we're seeing is the formation of a lon...Read More

The days are getting hotter -- and so is the market's interest in the yellow metal.Read full newsRead More

India Business News: India's refined fuel consumption in July slipped from June, according to preliminary industry data, indicating slower industrial activity as high retaRead full newsRead More

The rush for bullion, unsurprisingly comes amid the worst public-health crisis in generations, but what does the climb in the centuries-old haven asset mean...Read full newsRead More

Stephanie Kelly, Koustav Samanta, Bozorgmehr SharafedinRead full newsRead More

(Bloomberg) -- Tech and pharma may be getting the attention these days, but three mining billionaires are quietly padding their fortunes with an investment that's decidedly more old school.Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Al Amoudi and Russia's Alexander Nesis and the family of Suleiman Kerimov have the largestRead full newsRead More

Since the year beginning, oil exports went down by 8.8%, to 140.2 million tonnesRead full newsRead More

Comex December gold futures had touched $2,009.50/oz earlier but were around $1,998/oz at the time of writing.Spot gold was worth about $1,981/oz.US growth took its worst hit on record in the second quarter, while the S&P 500 stands some 4% below all-time highs, Reuters reported, with the continued divergence between stocks and the real economy worrying some investors."With US real interest ra...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Australian miners Lucapa hopes to resume operations at its Mothae mine, in Lesotho, which has been closed since March because of the COVID-19 pandemic. "The Mothae diamond mine is an important contributor to the Basotho nation and Lucapa's strong marketing proposal, we believe, will see the full value of the Mothae kimberlite mine unlocked," said CEO Stephen Wetherall in a sta...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Arctic Star is going it alone with plans to explore an area of Canada's Northwest Territories for diamonds.The Vancouver-based miner says it will invest $1.6m in a year-long drilling at the 25,000-hectare Diagras site, near the Arctic Circle, staring next spring, when work is most economic.Arctic Star is the 40 per cent partner in a joint venture with Margaret Lake Diamonds, w...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A rabbi's wife discovered on TV that a pearl and diamond ring she inherited was Van Cleef & Arpels, was worth $60,000 - twice as much as she thought.She told the Antiques Roadshow in the USA how her husband had been asked to officiate at the funeral of a man who wasn't a member of his congregation. "When she (the man's widow) passed, she left these two items...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 However, that's exactly what's happened for Newcrest Mining at the Havieron project in Western Australia's Paterson Province.Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe resource estimate could easily have ended up as an addendum to the company's first (June) half profit report.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 answer is a word not used for some time: sequencing.Read More