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

Unless you were hiding out in rough rice or lean hogs, commodities were not your friend in the third quarter of 2015.GoldCore compiled three-month relative performance of commodities with data from Finviz.com. Worries out of Asia hurt commodities. China is rebalancing, emphasising consumption over investment. It's stock market gyrations also dragged down metals. The Shanghai Composite Index fallin...Read More

The slowdown in the Chinese economy has been front and centre for commodities markets for a long time, but today's its impact is felt on US interest rate policy and equity markets. China's official GDP growth is expected to slow to less than 7% in 2015, the slowest pace in 25 years.But even at this rate of growth the country would be adding some $700 billion to gross domestic product (and that's e...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Graphite One Resources Inc. (TSX-V:GPH / GPHOF:OTCQX) ("Graphite One" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has completed and closed on its previously announced non-brokered private placement ("Private Placement") and has raised gross proceeds of $1,359,234.94.Pursuant to this closing, the Company has issued a total of 19,417,642 units (the "Units") at a price of C$0.07 per...Read More

Last week's announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days)...Read More

Last week's announcement that Saudi Arabia — easily one of the world's most brutally repressive regimes — was chosen to head a U.N. Human Rights Council panel provoked indignation around the world. That reaction was triggered for obvious reasons. Not only has Saudi Arabia executed more than 100 people already this year, mostly by beheading (a rate of 1 execution every two days)...Read More

Christine Lagarde speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Image from Wikipedia.With China emphasising consumption over investment, there 'could be a prolonged period of low commodity prices', said Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of International Monetary Fund.Lagarde, who was speaking to the Council of the Americas today, said China is transitioning to a new growth model,...Read More

Collahuasi cutsOn Wednesday copper futures staged a comeback from six year lows hit earlier in the week as supply disruptions from top producing countries Chile and Peru lift sentiment in beaten down sector.On the Comex market in New York copper for delivery in December surged as much as 4.7% to a session high of $2.3575 or $5,200 a tonne. Today's advance lifted the red metal out of bear territor...Read More

#Peru: 3 people dead in protests against mining project #LasBambas | http://t.co/bFce77m5kf (esp) via @laprensaperu pic.twitter.com/TFyNiXWcO7- Revolution News (@NewsRevo) September 29, 2015Protests at MMG's Las Bambas mine in Peru resulted in four fatalities and 16 people seriously injured yesterday, said the company in statement.A state of emergency has been imposed at the Apurimac region near t...Read More

Hillcore Group to Join Forces with Yaletown in Financing of Solegear's Commercial Growth OpportunitiesVancouver, BC - Solegear Bioplastic Technologies Inc. (TSX-V:SGB) (the "Company" or "Solegear") is pleased to announce that Hillcore Group ("Hillcore") has led the first tranche (the "First Tranche") of a non-brokered private placement of common shares (the "Shares") of the Company (the "Private...Read More

Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More

Criminal justice reform is a contentious political issue, but there's one point on which pretty much everyone agrees: America's prison population is way too high. It's possible that a decline has already begun, with the number of state and federal inmates dropping for three years straight starting in 2010, from an all-time high of 1.62 million in 2009 to about 1.57 million in 2012. But...Read More

Over reliance on Iran's oil sector have hurt mining, says Mehdi Karbasian, managing director of a group pushing for mine development in the country."During the past decades, due to the huge investments made in the oil industry. The foundation of the Iranian economy was based on this industry and the government paid less attention to making big investments in other sectors," said Karbasian last mo...Read More

In mid-August, China shocked markets by devaluing the yuan.Today's infographic looks at the impact this had on global currencies using three different timeframes:1 day, 1 week, and 1 month.In the grand scheme of things, China's mid-August currency devaluation spree was a drop in the bucket. Since the Financial Crisis, countries have routinely printed money, kept rates pegged artificially low, and...Read More

Australia's minerals industry professionals have experienced another surge in unemployment. The mining industry is now losing highly skilled professionals as they pursue alternative work.The organisation representing minerals professionals, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM), today released annual survey results highlighting an alarming increase in unemployment amongst hi...Read More

Woodbridge, ON - Titanium Transportation Group Inc. (TSX-V:TTR) ("Titanium" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Company has appointed Nia Karabatsos as General Counsel. Ms. Karabatsos joins Titanium from the Business Law Group at Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP.Ms. Karabatsos has a wealth of experience in corporate and commercial law, with emphasis on negotiating and executing mergers...Read More

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More

Rampant sexual abuse of children has long been a problem in Afghanistan, particularly among armed commanders who dominate much of the rural landscape and can bully the population. The practice is called bacha bazi, literally "boy play," and American soldiers and Marines have been instructed not to intervene — in some cases, not even when their Afghan allies have abused boys on mili...Read More

Volkswagen's scheme to cheat on emissions tests could have been found out earlier if the automaker—and indeed all automakers—hadn't been able to block car-owners from digging into the software that runs their vehicles, digital rights advocates say.The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA)—the controversial US law governing di...Read More

Volkswagen's scheme to cheat on emissions tests could have been found out earlier if the automaker—and indeed all automakers—hadn't been able to block car-owners from digging into the software that runs their vehicles, digital rights advocates say.The Electronic Frontier Foundation says that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA)—the controversial US law governing di...Read More

Pope Francis, a son of immigrants making history's first papal address to the U.S. Congress, implored America's leaders on Thursday to accept immigrants as their own children, putting aside political differences to embrace those who "travel north in search of a better life."In a speech that gently but firmly urged Americans to move beyond the partisan paralysis that year after ye...Read More