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

On a global scale, work is grinding to a halt and mines are being placed on temporary care and maintenance.Read full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - The Fancy Color Research Foundation says COVID-19 has hit trade so badly that it won't be publishing its regular quarterly index. Its Fancy Color Diamond Index (FCDI) has been tracking changes in wholesale buying prices of yellow, pink and blue stones since 2015. But government lockdowns and travel restrictions have brought trading in fancy color diamonds to a virtual halt and...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A diamond weighing 50.36 cts has been recovered as work continues behind closed doors at the Grib mine, in Archangelsk, northern Russia. Owners AGD Diamonds say the transparent, regular-shaped, jewelry-grade stone was found during lockdown on 13 April. "The exclusive jewelry grade diamond became the second large diamond mined by company's specialists this year," it told the g...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesUnderpinned by its 75% interest in the cornerstone Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine in British Columbia, which it restarted in 2004 and subsequently expanded and modernised through investment of aboutRead More

Most economic activities were halted in Mexico in late March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the deputy secretary of work at the national level for the Confederation of Mexican Workers, Javier Villarreal, is asking the federal government to include mining in its list of essential services so that operations can resume in May.The union leader, speaking to the newspaper El Universal, said activiti...Read More

Well-known mining experts continue to suggest precious metals are the place to be during the ongoing turmoil, but many have offered words of caution for inve...Read full newsRead More

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

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New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) says its Silver Sand project in Bolivia is one of the more significant primary silver discoveries in the last decade, and the majority of the mineralization identified so far lies within a few hundred metres of surface.The company released its inaugural resource estimate on the deposit this week, two years after acquiring the project, outlining 35.39...Read More

The S&P/TSX Composite Index rose 1.37%, or 193.30 points, to finish the April 13-17 trading week at 14,359.90. The S&P/TSX Global Mining Index rose 3.92% to 77.47, while the S&P/TSX Global Base Metals Index increased 0.34% to 73.34. Spot gold finished at US$1,686.50 per oz., a gain of 0.05%, and the S&P/TSX Global Gold Index climbed 6.11% to 306.28.Shares of Agnico Eagle Mines were up $7.04 to $...Read More

First Cobalt (TSXV: FCC; US-OTC: FTSSF) has staked new claims to the west of its Iron Creek cobalt-copper project in Idaho - increasing its landholdings by 50%.The 43 new claims staked cover an area of over 3.5 sq. km - increasing the project's total size to 10.5 square kilometres. "We've already invested around $10 million on our Iron Creek property," Trent Mell, First Cobalt's president and CEO...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Russian mining giant Alrosa aims to meet its full-year production target for 2020, despite coronavirus. It recovered 8m cts in the first quarter, a drop of nine per cent on Q1 2019, but says the outlook for the whole year remains at 34.3m cts. That figure that was reduced late in 2019 from 38.7m cts. State-owned Alrosa produces around 25 per cent of diamonds globally, and almost 30...Read More

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2.21%, or 523.12 points, to 24,242.49 during the April 13-17 trading week, and the S&P 500 advanced 3.04%, or 84.74 points, to 2,874.56. Spot gold finished at US$1,686.50 per oz., a 0.05% increase, after touching a high of nearly US$1,740 per oz. on April 17.Yamana Gold's shares climbed US54 ? to US$4.26. The company announced it would resume operations at the...Read More

Focus is on how the world will move once the various nations open up. Gold and silver will break free from the recent range trade and form a new range. No need to worry. I will prefer till next week and then make decide on whether to make a new investment in gold or wait. In the short term selected stocks will give a much better return than gold. Silver should outperform gold as prices moves sho...Read More

Focus is on how the world will move once the various nations open up. Gold and silver will break free from the recent range trade and form a new range. No need to worry. I will prefer till next week and then make decide on whether to make a new investment in gold or wait. In the short term selected stocks will give a much better return than gold. Silver should outperform gold as prices moves sho...Read More

TORONTO - April 15, 2020 - New Gold Inc. ("New Gold" or the "Company") (TSX and NYSE American: NGD) reports preliminary first quarter operational results from the Rainy River and New Afton mines. (All amounts are in US dollars unless otherwise indicated.) The Company is also announcing that due to the rapidly changing and unpredictable environment caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Compan...Read More

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Oil futures remained at their lowest since 2002The Dow extended its midday rally to end both the day and week higher thanks to a life out of Boeing (BA). However, it did pare earlier gains due to underperforming Apple (AAPL) and Amazon.com (AMZN). The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also ended the day and week in the black, boosted by optimism over Gilead Sciences' (GILD) potential coronavirus treatment. Loo...Read More

FireFox Gold Corp. (TSXV:FFOX; FSE:A2PDU7) announces that it intends to raise up to $200,000 by way of a non-brokered private placement.Read full newsRead More

Canadian housing once seemed so infallible that the head of the world's biggest asset manager in 2015 described Vancouver condos as a better store of wealth than gold.Read full newsRead More