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

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesChairman and CEO Dr Keith Barron said Aurania had recognised in March that a competitor had discovered a similar style of mineralisation to what Aurania found in the Cutucu Cordillera, 300km to theRead More

Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM) has welcomed a change of plan for its Pebble project in Alaska's Bristol Bay region, which would now include an all land-based transportation route to connect the proposed copper-gold-molybdenum-silver mine in southwest Alaska.On May 22, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) - the lead federal regulator for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) permitting...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX; NYSE:GOLD) will finally be able to ship gold concentrate containers out of Tanzania, which have been sitting at Dar es Salaam Port for three years due to a dispute over taxes between the country and the gold giant's now defunct subsidiary, Acacia Mining.The decision comes four months after reaching a deal with Barrick, which ended the tax row and granted the government a sta...Read More

AngloGold Ashanti (NYSE: AU) has temporarily closed its Mponeng mine in South Africa after 196 workers tested positive for COVID-19.The company has conducted 651 tests since the first COVID-19 case was detected at the mine last week, with the "vast majority" of those tested asymptomatic, the company reported.The cases were discovered as part of a screening, contact tracing and testing program at t...Read More

Gold rebounded on Friday as concerns about the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic were compounded by fears of rising political tensions between China and the United States.Spot gold closed at US$1,732.70 per oz. on May 22, up from US$1,727.50 per oz. on May 21, after the Chinese government announced its intention to impose a national security law that criminalizes political dissent in the...Read More

NEW TOOLS IN ITS LATEST MICROMINE UPGRADESPONSOREDmicromineCardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesThe flat price of the steel-making material offers few clues to the nickel revival which has seen the return of Australian inv...Read More

Newmont Mining (NYSE:NEM) has been on fire, and why shouldn't it? While gold prices have been quiet lately, they won't stay that way forever. The backdrop for the yellow metal is bullish. Therefore, the backdrop for NEM stock is bullish, too.Source: Piotr Swat/Shutterstock But let's not pretendRead full newsRead More

Each May, we Americans give tribute to those in the military who have paid the ultimate price serving their country. This Memorial Day is all the more poignant as we also remember family, friends and colleagues who have fallen to the coronavirus, a deadly, invisible enemy.The pandemic has slammed the U.S. economy, triggering bankruptcies and putting millions out of work. Goldman Sachs warned earli...Read More

Greenlane Renewables Inc. is a pioneer in the rapidly emerging renewable natural gas (RNG) market.Read full newsRead More

Boris Johnson needs to prioritise the environment as the UK recovers from coronavirus, firms say.Read full newsRead More

There have been two suspected arson attacks on the installations of SLN, New Caledonia's largest private sector employer, in the territory's north.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) -  One of the world's more unusual diamond mines  - a dig-your-own family attraction in Arkansas, USA - has reopened after state lockdown rules were eased.Visitors pay $10 a day to sift the soil of a plowed field at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, and keep whatever they find.Diamonds were first discovered there in 1906 by a farmer who owned the 37...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Traders and merchants in India have been crowding outside private vaults to retrieve their diamonds, after lockdown rules were finally eased. Authorities in Surat, the cut-and-polish hub, have allowed factories and workshops to resume production with up to half their staff, providing they follow strict guidelines on sanitizing and social distancing. Security companies that operate...Read More

De Beers has been given permission for a long-term clean-up at the site of its ill-fated Snap Lake mine, in Canada.   The company invested over $2.2bn in its first mining project outside Africa.   Snap Lake (pictured) had an expected 15-year life when it opened in July 2008, but was closed seven-and-a-half years later, after a decline in diamond prices and ongoing water problems at...Read More

TMAC is the third underperforming Canadian gold junior to be acquired in the past few months.Read full newsRead More

May 20, 2020 (Baystreet.ca via COMTEX) --The spot price of gold has enjoyed significant momentum on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the yellow...Read full newsRead More

Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ) (the "Corporation" or "Venzee") is pleased to announce it has completed a non-brokered private placement consisting of the issuance of 28,040,000 million units of the Company at a price of $0.05 per unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of $1,402,000 as announced by the Company on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, oversubscribing the amount originally ann...Read More

There's no market quite like a captive market. That's something the video game industry has learned well over the past few months. People are stuck indoors. There are only so many times one can stream reruns of The Office before wanting something else to distract them. So, over the past few months, when Americans weren't on social media, sleeping, or baking (if they could find yeast), they've be...Read More

May 20, 2020 (Baystreet.ca via COMTEX) --The spot price of gold has enjoyed significant momentum on the back of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the yellow...Read full newsRead More

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq both finished the day with modest gains Recently renewed tensions between the U.S. and China kept the Dow at bay for most of today's trading session, and the blue chip index finally settled with a shallow loss, off less than nine points on Friday. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were able to climb modestly higher, as optimism over a potential coronavirus vaccine helped kee...Read More