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

International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:NYSE:IBM) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call January 25, 2023 5:00 PM ETCompany ParticipantsPatricia Murphy - Vice President, Investor...Read full newsRead More

Okta is the leader of the $80 billion Identity Access Management market. Read more to see the complete financial analysis of OKTA stock and my recommendation.Read full newsRead More

DHY allocates primarily to high-yield corporate bonds with a pocket of CLO debt. See why the CEF provides an attractive entry point for new investors.Read full newsRead More

FinWise Bancorp (NASDAQ:NASDAQ:FINW) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call January 25, 2023 5:30 PM ETCompany ParticipantsKent Landvatter - Chief Executive OfficerJavvis Jacobson - Executive...Read full newsRead More

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (NYSE:NYSE:FCF) Q4 2022 Earnings Conference Call January 25, 2023 2:00 PM ETCompany ParticipantsRyan Thomas - Vice President, Finance and IRMike...Read full newsRead More

Garnet cuts the path for Heavy Minerals' production plansSPONSOREDheavy minerals limitedRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsCan EV battery metal continue its incredible bull run?SPONSOREDSheffield forges ahead at Thunderbird mineral sands projectSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedCaerus has formally signed a deal with Pluotonic Metals and Indo-European Mining for the...Read More

The company beat its 2022 guidance with production of 14Moz of silver and 135,000oz of gold. At Lucky Friday, the company is deploying a unique mining method to boost production.Read More

Inflation and geopolitics have overtaken ESG as the biggest concerns for 2023, while energy costs, shifting supply chains, and climate-related regulation and activism still worry firms.Despite shared concerns, there is surprisingly little agreement on the economic outlook, how market players will respond, or what will be the pervasive theme for the year ahead.These are chief among the conclusions...Read More

(IDEX Online) - US consumers are set to spend $5.5bn on jewelry as they splash out on a record Valentine's Day, according to the NRF (National Retail Federation).That will account for just over a fifth (21 per cent) of the forecast $25.9bn, it says in its Prosper Insights & Analytics issued yesterday. Total Valentine's spending in 2021 was $23.9 bn.Top gifts are forecast to include c...Read More

Shanta boosted the size of its indicated resource by 91%, to 722,000oz at a grade of 11.45gpt. Total inferred and indicated reserves were 1.72Moz.Read More

Just brilliant! The mining industry is in urgent need of redemption but, at conferences in January, mining executives have aligned themselves with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) and an elitist club operating from a Swiss ski resort. The general public is hardly likely to be won over by our partnering with right-wing royalty in Riyadh and the World Economic Forum (WEF). In the past, miners ha...Read More

Things are advancing for the company at a rate of knots for the company as it seeks to create an integrated company to mine graphite from the largest deposit in the USA and use it to produce theRead More

"Today it is Ukraine, but tomorrow it will be us, if we do not stop Putin now."These are the remarks of Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal - babbled this week in Ukraine.Standing next to him was Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican. He too had something to say. Thus he intoned:If Putin gets away with this, there goes Taiwan. If Putin’s successful in Ukraine and is not prosecuted under internati...Read More

Red Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsCan EV battery metal continue its incredible bull run?SPONSOREDSheffield forges ahead at Thunderbird mineral sands projectSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedGarnet cuts the path for Heavy Minerals' production plansSPONSOREDheavy minerals limitedWithdrawal of unprecedentedly supportive monetary conditions is the overriding influence...Read More

The project, which is 98km north of Lubumbashi in the Katangan Copperbelt is an ex-producing copper and cobalt mine and is forecast to produce 120,000 tpa of copper oxide.Read More

(IDEX Online) - A digital supplement to GIA grading reports has been launched as part of its "strategic collaboration" with the AGS.The two grading labs announced last October that the AGS Laboratories, research staff, intellectual property, technology and Las Vegas facility would be integrated into GIA.The AGS supplement to GIA diamond reports will be available for D-to-Z natural and lab grown ro...Read More

As zero-emissions technologies continue to develop, demand is steadily rising for?EUR?uranium, nickel, lithium, copper and graphite. Here's a glimpse of eight companies exploring for or?EUR?mining the energy metals.Baselode Energy Baselode Energy?EUR?(TSXV: FIND, US-OTC: BSENF), a Toronto-based uranium explorer, is expanding its drilling program targeting near-surface, high-grade orebodies in nor...Read More

In 2012, I attended the Property and Freedom Society conference.The conference exposed the organized "State" for what it was - an institution run by crooks, liars and useful idiots.Not only that, we discussed what a free and natural order would look like.Back then, I was so hopeful... so energized. I thought the world was really headed toward change.I was wrong.But that's no reason to be miserable...Read More

(IDEX Online)  - Three workers at a gold mine in Kenya were killed in a blast caused by illegal miners.Six other employees at the Karebe mine, the Northern Rift Valley region, were seriously injured in the explosion on Monday.The workers who died were deep underground at the time of the blast."Our staff were instantly killed when a wall built to prevent the mine against flooding and illegal i...Read More

Near-term macroeconomic conditions could slow the uptake of plug-in electric vehicles, but strong sales growth will persist through the medium term, an industry event heard this week in Vancouver.Capitalight Research MD Tom Brady sounded the alarm during a presentation at the Association for Mineral Exploration B.C.'s annual Roundup event. He says unrealistic expectations for the energy transition...Read More