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

10 candidates for next UN chief to be in “globally televised” debate ... Ten of the 12 candidates who have announced their bids to replace UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will take part in a first-ever “globally televised” debate, President Mogens Lykketoft of the General Assembly said here Monday. – xinhuanet.comThe UN is moving faster now to become the empowere...Read More

Sanders' victory: How Bernie ended the Cold War in 2016 ... Sanders’ dark horse candidacy stripped socialism of its fringe labels and, culturally speaking, ended the Cold War – SalonNow that Bernie Sanders is becoming a Hillary backer, the mainstream media is celebrating him.This article from Salon actually gives Sanders credit for ending a certain kind of Cold War.More:I can remember...Read More

Gold has consolidated its post-Brexit gains this month and continues to be the best-performing commodity so far this year, filling the pockets of most producers of the precious metal, a new study shows.According to SNL Metals & Mining, gold-focused companies have climbed the most in the ranking of the world's top 25 mining companies by market capitalization from April to June this year, helped b...Read More

Britain’s central bank is on the cusp of pulling an unprecedented move to stop Brexit destroying the economy ... The Bank of England is on the cusp of cutting interest rates to a new historic low again on Thursday in a bid to mitigate an impending economic slowdown caused by a Brexit. -Business InsiderThis Business Insider article points out how the Bank of England is getting ready to save t...Read More

The true danger to democracy is cynicism, not anger ... "The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections," Roger Porter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told me, "is that we are likely to elect someone who close to two-thirds of the country does not trust." The choice offered to Americans this November is the largest failure of the two-party system since (at least) the democratization o...Read More

Government Holds the Promise of Faster Growth ... One of the U.S.’s biggest economic challenges is the slump in productivity. After climbing steadily for many decades, productivity has slowed dramatically since 2011: Productivity is the key to long-term prosperity. It represents a hard ceiling on the amount of valuable things that a society is able to produce. If productivity flatlines,...Read More

Below, see news from our sponsor. You can see an interview HERE.Vancouver, BC / Marketwired /July 11, 2016 / Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FRA: GAC (WKN: A0B6XQ), “Golden Arrow” or the “Company”) has structured a plan to capture the positives of the market changes using the Company’s value achievements to date as a base for growth.The top priority...Read More

Britain’s central bank is on the cusp of pulling an unprecedented move to stop Brexit destroying the economy ... The Bank of England is on the cusp of cutting interest rates to a new historic low again on Thursday in a bid to mitigate an impending economic slowdown caused by a Brexit. -Business InsiderThis Business Insider article points out how the Bank of England is getting ready to save t...Read More

The true danger to democracy is cynicism, not anger ... "The most amazing thing about the 2016 elections," Roger Porter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government told me, "is that we are likely to elect someone who close to two-thirds of the country does not trust." The choice offered to Americans this November is the largest failure of the two-party system since (at least) the democratization o...Read More

Government Holds the Promise of Faster Growth ... One of the U.S.’s biggest economic challenges is the slump in productivity. After climbing steadily for many decades, productivity has slowed dramatically since 2011: Productivity is the key to long-term prosperity. It represents a hard ceiling on the amount of valuable things that a society is able to produce. If productivity flatlines,...Read More

Below, see news from our sponsor. You can see an interview HERE.Vancouver, BC / Marketwired /July 11, 2016 / Golden Arrow Resources Corporation (TSX-V: GRG, FRA: GAC (WKN: A0B6XQ), “Golden Arrow” or the “Company”) has structured a plan to capture the positives of the market changes using the Company’s value achievements to date as a base for growth.The top priority...Read More

It was one of the worst environmental disasters in Canadian history, and now, the company behind the 2014 Mount Polley mine tailings breach is looking to make somebody pay.Imperial Metals (TSX:III) has filed a lawsuit for damages in the Supreme Court of British Columbia alleging negligence and breach of contract by Knight Piesold and AMEC (now Amec Foster Wheeler), two engineering firms in its e...Read More

Italy’s Matteo Renzi buffeted on all fronts ... Matteo Renzi is facing months of domestic challenges, including a referendum that could bring him down Matteo Renzi’s nickname is Il Rottamatore – the Demolition Man. Italy’s prime minister wears the name proudly, advertising his desire to tear through the mouldering institutions of the Italian state. But this year, his main t...Read More

Italy’s Matteo Renzi buffeted on all fronts ... Matteo Renzi is facing months of domestic challenges, including a referendum that could bring him down Matteo Renzi’s nickname is Il Rottamatore – the Demolition Man. Italy’s prime minister wears the name proudly, advertising his desire to tear through the mouldering institutions of the Italian state. But this year, his main t...Read More

Decades-old pink sweater helps explain why Hillary Clinton really hates press conferences ... Why is she so reluctant to stand in front of the assembled media and take questions? The answer could have something to do with the very first news conference Clinton held as first lady in 1994, an event that became known as the "pink press conference" or the "pretty-in-pink press conference." - Nat...Read More

The Horrific, Predictable Result Of A Widely Armed Citizenry ... The killings in Dallas are one more reminder that guns are central, not accessory, to the American plague of violence ... They are central now, when the increased fetishism of guns and carrying guns has made such horrors as last night's not merely predictable but unsurprising. The one thing we can be sure of, after we have mourned...Read More

Decades-old pink sweater helps explain why Hillary Clinton really hates press conferences ... Why is she so reluctant to stand in front of the assembled media and take questions? The answer could have something to do with the very first news conference Clinton held as first lady in 1994, an event that became known as the "pink press conference" or the "pretty-in-pink press conference." - Nat...Read More

The Horrific, Predictable Result Of A Widely Armed Citizenry ... The killings in Dallas are one more reminder that guns are central, not accessory, to the American plague of violence ... They are central now, when the increased fetishism of guns and carrying guns has made such horrors as last night's not merely predictable but unsurprising. The one thing we can be sure of, after we have mourned...Read More

World's largest miner BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP) (LON:BLT) is getting close to finishing key heap leach testing trials to pave the way for a significant copper output increase at its Olympic Dam, Australia's biggest underground mine.While plans for a $30 billion redevelopment of the mine were shelved in 2012, promising results from current trials indicate copper output could increase 40% over t...Read More

America's Anger Is Out of Control Jeffrey Kluger ... After the September 11 attacks, TIME's Lance Morrow wrote a powerful essay titled, "The Case for Rage and Retribution," in which he argued: "For once let's have no fatuous rhetoric about 'healing.' A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage. What's needed is a unified, unifying, Pearl Harbor sort of purple Ameri...Read More