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

UN Votes Wednesday on Tough New North Korea Sanctions ... The U.N. Security Council votes Wednesday on a resolution that would impose the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades. -APNorth Korea is the target of yet more negotiated sanctions and the mainstream media won't provide many articles that question them.The propaganda is thick here. North Korea fights no wars with its adversaries...Read More

UN Votes Wednesday on Tough New North Korea Sanctions ... The U.N. Security Council votes Wednesday on a resolution that would impose the toughest sanctions on North Korea in two decades. -APNorth Korea is the target of yet more negotiated sanctions and the mainstream media won't provide many articles that question them.The propaganda is thick here. North Korea fights no wars with its adversaries...Read More

Already high bankruptcy and default rates in mining & metals and oil & gas will only accelerate this year as the prolonged downturn in commodities begin to spill over into other sectors.Overall, global speculative-grade corporate defaults will increase by more than 30% in 2016 and reach the highest level since 2009, says Moody's Investors Service in a new report.And 2015 already saw close to a do...Read More

Beleaguered miner and commodity trader Glencore (LON:GLEN) unveiled Tuesday the extend of the damaged caused by the current mining downturn, logging an annual loss of $8 billion and $5.8 billion of charges.The company, the second-worst performer in the FTSE 100 last year, reported a net loss of $4.96 billion compared with net profit of $2.3 billion in 2014, as the price of its key commodities - in...Read More

The Canadian province of Saskatchewan has been chosen the most attractive jurisdiction for mining investment in the country, and the second best worldwide, a new study published Tuesday shows.According to the latest annual global survey of mining executives by the Fraser Institute, the potash and uranium-rich province leads the way for the second consecutive year. The jurisdiction is perceived a...Read More

Sustainability holds key in green quest for China ... With the Chinese economy slowing down, it is possible to predict that the country’s policymakers would still have their eyes trained on economic development for a not-so-bad GDP growth, rather than sustainability matters, say experts, but applaud environmental steps taken. -China DailyHere's an article in China Daily treading carefully as...Read More

Sustainability holds key in green quest for China ... With the Chinese economy slowing down, it is possible to predict that the country’s policymakers would still have their eyes trained on economic development for a not-so-bad GDP growth, rather than sustainability matters, say experts, but applaud environmental steps taken. -China DailyHere's an article in China Daily treading carefully as...Read More

Agnico Eagle's Meadowbank open-pit gold mine in the Nunavut Territory of Canada Image Jason Pineau In 2015, preliminary estimated gold production by the top publicly-traded and non state-owned gold mining companies amounted to 30.78 Moz, a 1% increase compared to 2014 totals (30.39 Moz).Five out of the 10 miners suffered a decline in their attributable gold output while another five of them ach...Read More

Story developed using data from Mining Intelligence. Learn more and schedule a demo.Agnico Eagle's Meadowbank open-pit gold mine in the Nunavut Territory of Canada Image Jason Pineau In 2015, preliminary estimated gold production by the top publicly-traded and non state-owned gold mining companies amounted to 30.78 Moz, a 1% increase compared to 2014 totals (30.39 Moz).Five out of the 10 miner...Read More

Copper had a fourth decline in five sessions on speculation that China's efforts to stimulate its economy will fail to rekindle demand growth in the world's biggest metals consumer.China's central bank cut the reserve ratio amid plunging stock prices and a weakening currency. Global equities headed for a fourth monthly decline amid mounting concerns about slowing world growth. Copper has lost more...Read More

Close to 40,000 cubic meters of wastewater from a copper mine in northern Mexico spilled into rivers in 2014, forcing authorities to restrict water supply to urban areas.The leak, which is now considered the worst environmental disaster in the country's history, came from Grupo Mexico's (BMV:GMEXICOB) Buenavista copper mine, located only about 40 km from the U.S. border, and contaminated the Baca...Read More

Global finance officials promise to shore up sagging growth ... Finance officials of the world’s biggest economies promised Saturday to use “all tools” to shore up sagging global growth and to avoid devaluing their currencies to boost exports ... -APThe just-held G20 meetings are being reported by the Western mainstream media with a "facts only" context. In fact, as usual, China'...Read More

Global finance officials promise to shore up sagging growth ... Finance officials of the world’s biggest economies promised Saturday to use “all tools” to shore up sagging global growth and to avoid devaluing their currencies to boost exports ... -APThe just-held G20 meetings are being reported by the Western mainstream media with a "facts only" context. In fact, as usual, China'...Read More

Eritrea expects to have four mines in operation by 2018 producing gold, copper, zinc and potash as one of Africa's poorest nations looks to build an industry that can kick-start its economy, a top mining official told Reuters.Eritrea's artisanal miners have long scratched for gold nuggets on deposits that stretch along the Red Sea, a geological formation known as the Arabian Nubian Shield, but the...Read More

‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked ... Dame Janet Smith report finds 'climate of fear' at BBC 'Macho culture' led employees to keep quiet ... She concluded that "an atmosphere of fear still exists today in the BBC possibly because obtaining work in the BBC is highly competitive and many people no longer have the security on an employment contract"....Read More

‘Serious failings’ at BBC let Jimmy Savile and Stuart Hall go unchecked ... Dame Janet Smith report finds 'climate of fear' at BBC 'Macho culture' led employees to keep quiet ... She concluded that "an atmosphere of fear still exists today in the BBC possibly because obtaining work in the BBC is highly competitive and many people no longer have the security on an employment contract"....Read More

Now that Exploration Insights founder Brent Cook is starting to see the bright side of the mining equity cycle, he brought in former Canaccord Genuity Analyst Joe Mazumdar to cover developers and producers at the newsletter. In this interview with The Gold Report, the pair share observations from their recent travels and a short list of companies they are compiling to take advantage of a possible...Read More

BHP Billiton's spin-off South32 (ASX, LON, JSE:S32) confirmed Thursday it is looking for assets, mainly copper ones, despite reporting a significant loss for the half-year and announcing it will cut more than 770 jobs across Australia.In the six months to the end of December, the Perth-based company lost $1.75 billion due to write-downs of its manganese and coal assets.The loss represents a dramat...Read More

Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets ... Germans are losing faith in their media. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mistrust of refugee crisis media coverage. Where did journalists go wrong? And how much of this ske...Read More

Lying Press? Germans Lose Faith in the Fourth Estate “Mendacious swine journals” reads this sign held by a German protester at a recent PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden, listing various German media outlets ... Germans are losing faith in their media. Nowhere is this more apparent than in mistrust of refugee crisis media coverage. Where did journalists go wrong? And how much of this ske...Read More