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

The need for responsible mining practices is not new and has for many years been at the top of the agenda for many large scale mining companies.This issue has been collectively addressed by the large scale mining industry since the late 1990s in order to help improve public awareness, address concern for the environment, introduce the broader concept of sustainability and maintaining high e...Read More

With sales and operations at the ends of the earth, few companies are in a better position to take the pulse of the global economy and the resource sector in particular than Caterpillar.The world's number one heavy equipment manufacturer has been hit hard by the decline in mining and construction - sales are down more than $20 billion from its peak just four years ago after a drop of over $8 billi...Read More

Mining and commodities giant Glencore (LON:GLEN) is getting closer to selling its Lomas Bayas copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert, after receiving at least two significant offers for the asset, local media reports.According Diario Financiero (in Spanish), the bidders include former Barrick Gold CEO Aaron Regent's company - Magris Resources -, and Chilean energy firm Copec.Bidders include form...Read More

March madness reached the commodities markets on Thursday as investors piled into the mining sector on the back of a jump in the copper price and a renewed iron ore rallyOn the Comex market in New York copper for delivery in May climbed as much 2.8% to $2.2925 a pound or some $5,050 a tonne. It's the highest closing value since November 4 and the red metal is now up more than 18% from a six-y...Read More

MINING.com joined Keith Laskowski, Vice President of Technical Services for Sandstorm Gold at PDAC 2016. Mr. Laskowski has over 35 years in the mining industry working as a specialist in resource evaluation. He's visited over 60 countries and 100's of projects to determine if there is value in the ground. Formerly, he was the Principal Mining Specialist for the World Bank- International Finance Co...Read More

The seven miners that went missing last week after a "geotechnical failure" led to landslide at Glencore's (LON:GLEN) Katanga Mining operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo are now considered dead.The company, which has so far recovered three bodies from the site, said Thursday it has officially ended the search for the other four following a 10-day effort.Operations were halted last year...Read More

In an unexpected announcement, mining giant Rio Tinto (ASX, LON, NYSE:RIO), the world's second largest miner, said Thursday its chief executive, Sam Walsh, would retire on July 1 and that Jean-S?(C)bastien Jacques, the copper and coal division boss, would take the reins of the company.Walsh, who has led the Anglo-Australian group since 2013 and overseen a cost-cutting drive as the mining sector fa...Read More

The longer-term effects of Brexit are … likely to be adverse. Most studies suggest that economic growth would suffer. A detailed analysis from the Bank of England in October found that EU membership had benefited the British economy. Attempts to model the consequences of Brexit point to economic damage. Two American banks, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, recently warned that growth and the pou...Read More

The longer-term effects of Brexit are … likely to be adverse. Most studies suggest that economic growth would suffer. A detailed analysis from the Bank of England in October found that EU membership had benefited the British economy. Attempts to model the consequences of Brexit point to economic damage. Two American banks, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, recently warned that growth and the pou...Read More

"Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall."That's a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago.He could have just as easily been talking about propaganda. The Fed, the White House, Wall Street, the media have a vested interest in peddling a certain narrative about the economy....Read More

George Soros Forms Pro "Illegals" Super PAC To Shift Election ... Soros Dumping Millions Into Questionable Voter Influence Campaign - Illegals? ... Their tools in the onslaught are what the New York Times describes as "Latinos and other immigrants." -RickWellsCall this decade "1960's Redux"- mostly because the men at the top want it this way.They want continued and expanded polarization. They seek...Read More

"Prosperity is like a Jenga tower. Take one piece out and the whole thing can fall."That's a direct quote from John Williams, the President of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank in a speech he gave a few weeks ago.He could have just as easily been talking about propaganda. The Fed, the White House, Wall Street, the media have a vested interest in peddling a certain narrative about the economy....Read More

George Soros Forms Pro "Illegals" Super PAC To Shift Election ... Soros Dumping Millions Into Questionable Voter Influence Campaign - Illegals? ... Their tools in the onslaught are what the New York Times describes as "Latinos and other immigrants." -RickWellsCall this decade "1960's Redux"- mostly because the men at the top want it this way.They want continued and expanded polarization. They seek...Read More

McMillian LLP Lawyer Robin Junger, who specializes in aboriginal land claims, sorting through maps in his Vancouver Office l Chung ChowSettling native land claims is ostensibly supposed to bring some certainty to land-use questions in B.C.But two recent decisions by the provincial government are creating even more uncertainty for mining and mineral exploration in B.C. and sending a negative signal...Read More

CFR Elites Seek Renewed Military Spending Around the WorldNew World Order is New World Disorder ... Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses this weekend’s attacks in Turkey and the Ivory Coast and the importance of international leadership by the United States. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” – BloombergThe Council on Foreign Relations is...Read More

CFR Elites Seek Renewed Military Spending Around the WorldNew World Order is New World Disorder ... Richard Haass, president at Council on Foreign Relations, discusses this weekend’s attacks in Turkey and the Ivory Coast and the importance of international leadership by the United States. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” – BloombergThe Council on Foreign Relations is...Read More

MINING.com correspondent, Andrew Nelson, interviews the newly appointed President of McEwen Mining, Colin Sutherland, at the most anticipated mining conference of the year, PDAC 2016 in Toronto. Mr. Sutherland has over 20 years of financial and operating experience in the gold mining industry and most recently was the CEO of Archipelago Resources growing it to a 200,000 ounce gold producer. He als...Read More

The pain at Anglo American (LSE:AAL) has finally reached the corner office.Today the struggling mining major with roots going back more than a hundred years to South Africa's gold and diamond fields, said CEO Mark Cutifani's total pay last year fell 8 percent, from ?3.7m to ?3.4m. The Australian, who joined Anglo in 2013 replacing Cynthia Carroll, also saw his bonus plummet by almost 40 percen...Read More

Moveon.Org raising funds from Trump protests, warns more disruptions to come ... "We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else ... We've been ramping up our efforts for months ... We need to double-down in the face of direct attacks on our community"... The progressive group is funded by billionaire George Soros, and has endorsed Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. Bernard...Read More

Moveon.Org raising funds from Trump protests, warns more disruptions to come ... "We refuse to be intimidated by Donald Trump, Fox News, or anyone else ... We've been ramping up our efforts for months ... We need to double-down in the face of direct attacks on our community"... The progressive group is funded by billionaire George Soros, and has endorsed Democratic candidate Vermont Sen. Bernard...Read More