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

Why did “private” prison stocks soar the day after Trump got elected?It is almost like people in the industry knew something that the public didn’t. The former Attorney General Yates said that private prisons would be phased out. So before any cabinet members had been announced, why were stockholders betting that private prisons would not be phased out after all?It could just be...Read More

Everything is a conspiracy, the elite globalists control us all, they will win, and resistance is futile.Well, in that case, what’s the point of even fighting it? In fact, if all is so hopeless, why even bother pointing out how hopeless it is?Or could it be–gasp, conspiracy!–that those ultra-pessimists are really themselves the agents of the controlling elite?The idea is that tho...Read More

Everything is a conspiracy, the elite globalists control us all, they will win, and resistance is futile.Well, in that case, what’s the point of even fighting it? In fact, if all is so hopeless, why even bother pointing out how hopeless it is?Or could it be–gasp, conspiracy!–that those ultra-pessimists are really themselves the agents of the controlling elite?The idea is that tho...Read More

* Dollar posts biggest weekly fall since Feb 2015* Best week of 2017 for Brent; WTI up 5 pct* Stocks rally on Wall St but end down for the week (Updates to U.S. market close)By Rodrigo CamposNEW YORK, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar fell on Friday and was set to close its worst week in more than a year, with losses steepening after reports an investigation into possible collusion between Russia...Read More

Zinc was the best performing commodity on Friday with LME prices ending at $2,616 a tonne ($1.19 a pound), a 3.3% jump on the day, outperforming sector bellwether copper's 2% gain.After today's move zinc is once again in positive territory for 2017, building on a 60% gain last year on the back of dwindling supply and strong demand from the global automotive sector.Donald Lindsay CEO of Teck Resour...Read More

Democratic Republic of Congo's legislators are set to review next week a long-delayed revision to the mining code, which is said to be crucial for the country, as the nation needs the higher revenues a revised legislation would generate.The country's government abandoned plans to change the mining code in February last year, on fears the move would have driven away investors at a time of historica...Read More

May 19 (Reuters) - Hindustan Copper Ltd HCPR.NS* Hindustan copper - capacity of proposed plant to make copper cathode from sulphide copper concentrate is 100,000 tonne/annum at estimated cost of INR 302.5 million* Says company has initiated process to obtain investment approval from ccea, government. Of india Source text - Further company coverage: HCPR.NSRead More

Even though management announced in April that its iron ore shipments from the Pilbara region were down 13% in the last quarter, Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) sent out a press release today stating that it will reduce the payment terms for smaller suppliers to 30 days in a bid to improve cash flow for those businesses.The change will be effective as of July 1, 2017, and will apply to more than 5,500 Au...Read More

An NGO based in the southern Bol?-var state is calling the Venezuelan government to kill the 2016 decree that creates the Mining Arch of the Orinoco River National Development Strategic Zone. This is a 111,843 Sq.Km concession area for mining gold, diamond, iron, copper, bauxite, coltan, among other resources, that has caught the attention of some 150 companies from 35 countries.According to the O...Read More

While Beijing's One Belt, One Road initiative is much grander in scale, the controversial infrastructure program to create a Eurasian trading route is already running into trouble.In contrast, the success of Chinese President Xi Jinping's other grand project is almost a certainty.On April 1, Xi announced a state-level plan to transform a backwater called Xiongan, located 110km south of Beijing and...Read More

Junior mining investor enthusiasts will be duelling it out for the big money when the next contest by Stockpools and Kitco is launched the first week of June. Announced May 3-4 at the Mines and Money conference in New York, the 2017 Minerals Market Challenge is offering participants the chance to win CAD$16,000 worth of gold bullion. Stockpools and Kitco are upping the ante from their 2017 Precio...Read More

Trevali Mining's (TSX:TV) shareholders approved Thursday a planned acquisition of Glencore's two African zinc mines, in a transaction that makes of the Canadian miner one of the few multi-asset, low-cost global zinc producers.The acquisition of about 80% of Rosh Pinah mine in Namibia and a 90% stake in in the Perkoa mine in Burkina Faso, will help the Vancouver-based firm's total production double...Read More

Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSE:FM) is just a few months away from commissioning its massive $5.48 billion copper project in Panama, one of the largest of very few new red metal mines to begin production by the end of the decade.The company, which gained control over the Cobre Panama project in 2013 with the acquisition of rival Canadian copper miner Inmet Mining, said Thursday the open-pi...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices were a bit lower in European trade on Thursday, but stayed near the highest level in two weeks as investors kept an eye on fresh political developments in the U.S. amid uncertainty over the future of President Donald Trump.Comex gold futures shed around $3.00, or about 0.3%, to $1,255.29 a troy ounce by 3:00AM ET (07:00GMT). Meanwhile, spot gold was at $1,255.51. Prices...Read More

Palisade Research May 18, 2017 Category: Research Don't tell them (but they know it) - the heralded royalty companies of precious metals are vultures.Franco-Nevada, Silver Wheaton, Royal Gold, and Osisko Gold Royalties all deploy a royalty and streaming model. This model has outperformed the conventional mining company during the recent bear and bull markets in dramatic fashion.Osisko Gold Royalti...Read More

Imagine if a third of your family died of the plague as religious fanatics preached “The end is nigh!” and threatened that the few pleasures you could squeeze out of life would lead to your eternal damnation. As wars raged around you, surrounded by death, disease, and the lowest grimy depths of poverty, it would be understandable to think the world was in the midst of an apocalyptic co...Read More

Imagine if a third of your family died of the plague as religious fanatics preached “The end is nigh!” and threatened that the few pleasures you could squeeze out of life would lead to your eternal damnation. As wars raged around you, surrounded by death, disease, and the lowest grimy depths of poverty, it would be understandable to think the world was in the midst of an apocalyptic co...Read More

Foreign investors are likely to flee Colombia's mining sector in the coming months as the country is failing to protect the interest of global companies operating and exploring in the country, the local mining association warns.According to Roberto Junguito, president of the board of governors at the Colombian Mining Association (ACM), the country needs to set clear rules for the industry and pri...Read More

The United Nations is ready to send additional peacekeeping forces to the Central African Republic diamond-mining town of Bangassou to suppress a recent flare of attacks on civilians and peacekeepers that has cost hundreds of lives in the past two months.Just last week, as many as 100 people were killed in the south of the country, which only last year was allowed to resume diamond exports after...Read More

LUSAKA, May 17 (Reuters) - Zambia is close to reaching an agreement with mining companies over its plans to increase electricity prices, Finance Minister Felix Mutati said on Wednesday.The government last month proposed introducing a flat tariff of 9.30 U.S. cents/kilowatt hour (kWh) backdated to January for mining companies, instead of individually negotiated rates that have averaged 6 U.S. cents...Read More