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

We received a sponsor update from FPX Nickel's (???????,FPOCF -- ????????FPX) CEO Martin Turenne. The company has recently made a number of significant announcements...Read full newsRead More

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Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipGreat Southern peaking under the coverSPONSOREDgreat southern miningGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uranium Technical and feasibility studies continue, as do offtake discussions with European battery makers.Read More

"Our increasing output is timely with a demand supply gap forecast over the next year and we are well positioned to play our role in the evolving flake graphite opportunities," the company's executiveRead More

Video Series: Mining Journal speaks with Sheila KhamaSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumGreat Southern peaking under the coverSPONSOREDgreat southern miningThe knock-on 8% rise in the price of Brent will reinforce the hawkish stance of central banks e...Read More

Video Series: Mining Journal speaks with Sheila KhamaSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumGreat Southern peaking under the coverSPONSOREDgreat southern mining"Our increasing output is timely with a demand supply gap forecast over the next year and we ar...Read More

Let's step back from today's banking financial crisis and look at the bigger picture. That will help us to understand the system dynamics, and estimate how long the crisis might last, and how destructive it might be.As a preliminary matter, let's distinguish between a recession (even a bad one) and a financial crisis. They're different.A recession is a part of the business cycle. It involves some...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Polished diamond prices tumbled 17.3 per cent year-on-year in March. Such a dramatic fall shows how dependent the market has become on world events. This kind of volatility was unknown in the days when De Beers cornered the market and insulated prices.It controlled 90 per cent of the diamond market in the late 1980s and fluctuations were mostly limited to single digits. Then Russia...Read More

The company said its interpretation is that the drill results are the first intercepts into the edges of a major new copper-gold system midway between its Los Helados porphyry copper-gold deposit 9kmRead More

(IDEX Online) - Edward Asscher, outgoing president of the World Diamond Council, defended the Kimberley Process and addressed the "white elephant" of Russian sanctions at the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) Congress in Israel."Today, through the KP and the work that we all do, I am convinced that 99.9 percent of all diamonds in the global marketplace are conflict free," he said."Is the...Read More

If you ask me, it's not a question of IF China will retaliate - it's WHEN. The U.S. has recently spearheaded a movement of restricting the export of critical semiconductor manufacturing equipment to Chinese customers, citing the obvious national security concerns. The Netherlands and now Japan - the only other countries currently able to build advanced lithography machines - have both restr...Read More

Video Series: Mining Journal speaks with Sheila KhamaSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumGreat Southern peaking under the coverSPONSOREDgreat southern miningFew companies, however, evaluate both the cost and risk of different financing methods in tande...Read More

A handful of key assets are on the verge of major moves this week.Gold is on the cusp of a significant breakout above $2,000 as the US Dollar index drops. Any significant extension above the mythical $2K mark should attract a ton of attention from the mainstream financial media, lighting the fuse for an even bigger momentum move in the metal and the miners.Bitcoin is also working on its own potent...Read More