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

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(IDEX Online) - Police in Canada are investigating the theft of gold and other valuables worth US$15m in what is believed to be the country's biggest ever heist of its kind.A cargo container packed with gold and other "items of monetary value" was stolen from a warehouse near Toronto Pearson International Airport (pictured) that was reportedly unmanned by airport security.Police have revealed...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers has filled the decommissioned Victor diamond mine, in northern Ontario, Canada, with almost 12 billion gallons of water and turned it into a lake.Virtually nothing now remains of the mine, which opened in 2008 and closed in May 2019.Over its life, more than 8.2 million carats of diamonds were recovered at Victor. It was identified in 1987 as Canada's first economicall...Read More

Shanta reported that the ramp-up at Singida is progressing well including 2,200 oz produced in the first 22 days of April 2023.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Antwerp's 500-year-old diamond industry, and the Haredi (ultra-orthodox Jewish) community with which it is inextricably linked, come under scrutiny in Rough Diamonds, an eight-part crime drama now airing on Netflix.Neither get an easy ride, at least in the early episodes. It follows the struggles and strife of the prominent (and fictional) Wolfson family, in a mix of (subtitle...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Storm Mountain Diamonds (SMD) has recovered the biggest ever pink diamond by far from its Kao mine, in Lesotho.The 108.39-carat Type IIa fancy intense pink stone (pictured) is more than twice the weight of the 47.81-carat Pink Eternity, which was recovered last year and sold for an undisclosed price.Mohlomi Moleko, Lesotho's minister of natural resources, described the newly-r...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Jewelry manufacturers will display their goods next month at the first IGI D Show outside India.The event, launched in India in 2011 by Antwerp-based International Gemological Institute, will take place in Dubai.Over 100,000 designs from 33 jewelry manufacturers will be displayed at the show's first international edition. Representatives from more than 150 prominent retail bra...Read More

The current telling of the story of de-dollarization - the replacement of the U.S. dollar as the global economy’s primary reserve currency with a new BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China)-funded reserve currency - depicts the loss of the reserve currency as a catastrophe that will crush America.As delightful as this prospect may be to various audiences, once we shift from considering a reserve...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - E3 Lithium [ETL-TSXV, EEMMF-OTC, OU7A-FSE] said it is firmly positioned to deliver battery-grade lithium to the global market."Last year was a foundation-building year for E3 Lithium,'' said the company's President and CEO Chris Doornbos, President and CEO of E3, which has filed its financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for 2022.He said E3 is...Read More

The long-term bull case for copper is well-discussed in the market.Read More

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In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I've only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from?The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or CISA. The edict came down March 18, 2020, two days foll...Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelBoric said future lithium contracts would be public-private associations in which the state lithium compan...Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickel"America's pro-EV and battery manufacturing policies are providing an advantage to Piedmont at a time when...Read More

Glencore is unusual among its peers in that it also owns a large trading business, which tends to perform best in times of high volatility.Read More

The defeat of a new draft constitution in September 2022, and more recently, the March rejection of its flagship tax reform plan by Chile's lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, has shown that Chile,Read More

You know, every morning I wake up I see someone losing their minds over artificial intelligence. "It's evolving too fast!""The robots are going to take over!""It's a threat to our existence!"Well, let me tell you something: None of that is true. This isn't a movie and humanity isn't at risk. But...Robots are taking over. And that's a good thing.See, I don't know if you've noticed or not, but we...Read More

Geotechnical risk in a high-grade section of the Escondida pit has caused BHP to lower the mine's fiscal 2022-2023 (July-June) guidance for the operation to 1050-1080kt, from 1080-1180kt.Read More

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GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumPreventing Crusher Events: How GET Trakka Helps Keep Mines Running SmoothlySPONSOREDcr powered by epirocTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelGeotechnical risk in a high-grade section of the Escondida pit has caused BHP to lower the mine's fiscal 2...Read More