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

(IDEX Online) - Police in Angola seized almost 4,500 diamonds and detained a French national as part of its Operation Transparency.It followed a number of tip-offs regarding the alleged clandestine sale and purchase of diamonds at the suspect's home in Lucapa, in the eastern Lunda Norte province, according to the country's official news agency Angola Press. .The country has made rep...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe extension to the payment deadlines reduces the total payments due between May 2020 and February 2021 from US$9.Read More

Endeavour Silver (TSX: EDR; NYSE: EXK) took a significant hit to production in the three months to the end of June, as operations were halted for two months to comply with the Mexican government's efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus.During the quarter, the Vancouver-based precious metal miner churned out 596,545 oz. silver and 5,817 gold oz., for silver equivalent production of 1.06 mill...Read More

The total transaction value of mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter of the year reached US$2.86 billion in twelve deals, with Chinese buyers acquiring gold assets and smaller companies joining forces to become mid-tier producers, Bank of America Securities says in a new report.The investment bank notes that the 12 transactions represented the highest quarterly total since the fourth quar...Read More

Haywood Securities has raised its gold price forecast for the second half of 2020 from US$1,650 per oz. to US$1,800 per ounce.Next year, the broker-dealer predicts gold will average US$1,700 per oz., up from its earlier forecast of US$1,600 per oz., while 2022 should see the precious metal average US$1,650 per oz., up from an earlier estimate of US$1,550 per ounce."We maintain our view that gold i...Read More

Antofagasta's (LSE: ANTO) Twin Metals Minnesota has received formal notice that its planned copper-nickel-cobalt-platinum metals mine will be assessed through a federal environmental review. The U.S. government's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) notified the company at the end of June of its intention to scope and prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed mine project in Minn...Read More

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Driving more value from your capital projects post COVIDSPONSOREDproudfootIronRidge shows its mettleSPONSOREDironridge resources Matador Mining has a gold project in Newfoundland which directors valued at A$194 million in a scoping study comp...Read More

Chirundu includes the Njame and Gwabe deposits, which were included in GoviEx's 2017 preliminary economic assessment for its Mutanga uranium project.GoviEx said due to the smaller scale and higher-cost nature of the Gwabe and Njame deposits, they were scheduled to be mined in the later stages and as a result, "the exclusion of these deposits from the mine plan is believed to have a low to no impac...Read More

With the first half of 2020 officially in the books, I thought I'd look ahead and try to figure out what the second half might bring. What looks good? What doesn't?Well, regretfully, I've come to find that quite a lot looks bad. To put it bluntly, stocks are in a bubble. As of June 30, the market posted its best 100-day period in more than 80 years, going back to 1938, according to Bespoke Inve...Read More

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A rapid-fire succession of setbacks for big energy pipelines in the United States this week has revealed an uncomfortable truth for the oil and gas industry: environmental activists and landowners opposed to projects have become good at blocking them in court.Read full newsRead More

Gold is bullish. Spot gold will rise very quickly on a break of $1810. Federal Reserve policy makers pledged more support by way of more bond buying. I never understood how printing more money leads to way out of a pandemic or a recession. Central banks are not addressing the core economic fundamentals of (a) Reduction in the cost of living like school fees and college fees. (b) Creation more in...Read More

Gold is bullish. Spot gold will rise very quickly on a break of $1810. Federal Reserve policy makers pledged more support by way of more bond buying. I never understood how printing more money leads to way out of a pandemic or a recession. Central banks are not addressing the core economic fundamentals of (a) Reduction in the cost of living like school fees and college fees. (b) Creation more in...Read More

History repeats itself with staggering similarity. The Crises of the 3rd Century and today have much in common. All empires have the seeds of their own destruction within them. So if we look back a...Read full newsRead More

U.S. electricity consumption will collapse by a record 4.3% in 2020 due to business closures for coronavirus-linked lockdowns, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Tuesday in its Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO).Read full newsRead More

Global supply of fuel oil, used by ships and power plants, is expected to grow in the third quarter, depressing the marine fuel market as shipping demand remains weak, analysts and trade sources said.Read full newsRead More

Comex gold futures are above US$1,800 an ounce for the second time in two weeks and flirted with a nine-year high. On the spot market, the precious metal was worth about $1,795/oz at the time of writing, a level last seen in 2012.Meanwhile, gold-backed exchange traded funds recorded their seventh consecutive month of positive flows, the World Gold Council said yesterday, closing the...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's ailing diamond industry is calling for a huge cut in the duty charged on its polished exports. It's also requesting "direct" rough purchases to reduce costs, rather than being forced to buy through middlemen in Antwerp, and a package of other measures relating to e-commerce and gold monetization. The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC) says the expo...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The "bible" of lab-grown diamonds is being republished to update jewelers, traders and consumers.Authors Dusan Simic and Branko Deljanin have revised existing content and added 50 pages since the last edition of Laboratory Grown Diamonds in 2007 and aim to present complex technical information in an easy-to-understand format.Simic, a research gemologist at New-York based Analytical...Read More