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

Equity financings in the mining industry slumped in 2022, while company share prices took a battering amid global market turmoil following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.Read More

Southern Silver Exploration (TSXV: SSV) has posted a slight resource increase at its Cerro Las Minitas project in Mexico that sent its shares up 9.4%. The overall resource at the project near Durango, about 900 km northwest of Mexico City, rose by 5%. Southern Silver said its La Bacona deposit saw a 63% rise in silver-equivalent ounces while the South Skarn, Blind, El Sol, Skarn Front and Las V...Read More

The market's in a highly unstable state right now. These violent swings show the inadequacy of the standard models that the Fed and other mainstream analysts use.The Fed assumes so many things about markets that are simply false, like that markets are always efficient, for example. They're not. Under volatile conditions like these they gap up and down - they don't move in rational, predictable inc...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Julia Roberts is the new global ambassador for the Chopard, the Swiss jewelry brand.The 55-year-old actress, best known for the 1990 romantic comedy Pretty Woman, will represent all the maison's watch, high jewelry and luxury jewelry collections for women.She features in a series of black-and-white portraits of and Chopard Loves Cinema video vignettes, the first of which was r...Read More

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Although not as high as last January, the current puts to calls ratio for Apple is still high on a historical basis. Click here to see our take on AAPL stock.Read full newsRead More