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

Peru's ongoing political crisis spells more trouble for miners in the world's No. 2 copper producing nation, following two years marked by increasingly frequent protests targeting the industry.The country was thrown into turmoil on Dec. 7, when former president Pedro Castillo was removed from office after less than a year and half on the job, after trying to dissolve Congress. The leftist Castillo...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Pope Francis yesterday told crowds in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) how the "poison of greed" had smeared its diamonds with blood.In a hard-hitting speech he condemned the "economic colonialism" of those who had plundered its natural resources.And he described the country's ongoing conflict with neighboring Rwanda as a "forgotten genocide".At the start of a four-day v...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipUr-Energy to boost production at Lost CreekSPONSOREDur-energyBradda Head eyes Arizona pegmatite prizeSPONSOREDbradda head lithiumThe explorer, which together with ASX-listed Piedmont Lithium, is hoping to start producing within two years, has boosted resources by 16% from 30 mi...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Round prices fell yet again during January amid continued hesitancy in the markets, although fancies fared much better. Overall demand remains slow, sentiment is weak, and manufacturing in India is still well below full capacity. Estimates for the number of workers laid off in Surat vary between 10,000 and 20,000. China scrapped its zero-COVID policy in December, which has fre...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Indian government today announced an immediate abolition of the five per cent import levy on the graphite seeds used to create lab grown diamonds.The move is seen as a major boost to India's small but growing lab grown sector, and follows the announcement last August that the State Bank of India (SBI) would, for the first time, provide loans for manufacturers to buy the ma...Read More

Concern is growing over the federal government's seeming inability to leverage Canada's vast natural resource endowment as it navigates the uncertain global geopolitical and economic landscape, an industry event in Vancouver heard this week.Besides examining resource sector investment opportunities closely, Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) organizer and Cambridge House Internationa...Read More

An Australian emergency services search team has found a tiny, but potentially deadly radioactive capsule belonging to Rio Tinto (ASX, LSE: RIO) on the side of a highway in the northern region of Western Australia.The stainless steel device, just 8 millimetres long and 6 mm in diameter, was lost while being transported from the company's Gudai-Darri iron ore mine in the Pilbara last week.The cap...Read More

Greg Nesbitt, Minister, Manitoba Natural Resources and Northern Development, speaks to Henry Lazenby, Staff Reporter with The Northern Miner at AME BC Roundup in January. They discuss how Manitoba is working to speed permitting for juniors looking for critical minerals in the province, which hosts Canada's only producing lithium mine.Read More

Camino Corp. (TSXV: COR) has signed a letter of intent to partner with Japan's Nittetsu Mining Co. at its Los Chapitos copper exploration project in Peru. Nittetsu currently operates the Atacama Kozan copper mine located in northern Chile, an iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) deposit style similar to Camino's Los Chapitos.Under the deal as outlined, Nittetsu can earn a 35% interest in Los Chapitos thr...Read More

China-backed miner MMG Ltd has placed its vast Las Bambas copper mine in Peru, the world's second largest producing nation of the metal, on care and maintenance due to ongoing community protests triggered by the impeachment and arrest of former president Pedro Castillo late last year.Nationwide protests continued for an eighth week on Wednesday, amid the South American country's political crisis,...Read More

Analysts say American Lithium's (TSXV: LI; NASDAQ: AMLI) Tonopah project in Nevada could run at world-beating costs based on a new study including the sale of by-product magnesium. The operating cost of the Tonopah Lithium Claims (TLC) project, about 340 km northwest of Las Vegas, is estimated at US$817 per tonne of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) including selling 1.7 million tonnes a year...Read More

The Northwest Territories, which depends heavily on mining, has an obligation to leverage its critical minerals endowment towards the green economy, Caroline Cochrane, premier of the Northwest Territories, told Northern Miner Staff Writer Henry Lazenby at AME BC Roundup in January. They discuss how the territory's strong relationships with Indigenous governments can help save mining companies...Read More

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Vale reported fourth-quarter iron ore production at 80.85Mt. Full-year iron ore production was 307.Read More

The yellow metal resurgence was powered by central bank demand reaching its highest level since 1967 at 1136t in 2022, while global bar and coin demand improved 2% to 1217t, a nine-year high whereRead More

Yamana Gold shareholders voted 98.7% in favour of the special resolution approving the previously-announced acquisition by Pan American Silver Corp.Read More

Alexandria Real Estate delivered excellent Q4 and full-year 2022 results. Read more to see why ARE is one of the highest quality REITs.Read full newsRead More

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