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
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Fortuna Silver Mines (TSX: FVI; NYSE: FSM) reported Wednesday that the Mexican federal administrative court has granted a provisional injunction to allow the company's San Jose mine to continue to operate under the terms of the 12-year environmental impact authorization (EIA).Compa??ia Minera Cuzcatlan, Fortuna's Mexican subsidiary, recently began legal proceedings to contest and revoke the annulm...Read 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 limitedThe development come after the company reported last week that it had missed both 2022 g...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Talented Wang Xuerui beat over 1,500 jewelry designers to win first prize in HRD Antwerp's 18th Design Awards. Her piece, called Mutualistic, was described as "a stunning work that symbolizes peace at the core of its design". Judges at the Vicenzaoro boutique jewelry show, in Italy, were looking for storytelling, technical skills and the ability to translate them into the des...Read More
Operational difficulties accounted for 77% of the production shortfall. "We've had an extraordinarily eventful year.Read More
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) says its majority-owned Greenstone project in northern Ontario is more than two-thirds complete, on schedule to pour gold in next year's first half, and - most impressively - on budget.The US$1.2-billion project is being developed as a 60:40 partnership by Equinox and New York-based Orion Mine Finance Group. Greenstone, located about 100 km north of Lake Superior, is slated...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The UK miner Vast Resources says it has made encouraging progress towards the release of a parcel of 129,400 carats of rough diamonds that have been held at Zimbabwe's central bank since 2009. It began formal proceedings at the High Court of Zimbabwe last December and said in a statement that it was "encouraged that material progress on the outcome of this legal action...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 limitedPhase 14A involves a cutback to access about 400,000 ounces of higher-grade ore over fou...Read More
Discovery Silver's (TSX-V: DSV, OTC: DSVSF) preliminary feasibility study on its Cordero project in northern Mexico expands output by 40% while increasing construction costs by nearly a quarter compared with an earlier report. The project, located about 550 km south of the border city of El Paso, TX, is forecast to produce 33 million tonnes of silver-equivalent over an 18-year mine life for a n...Read More
Certainly Mr. Orwell hooked onto something when he wrote:"Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them."How else can we explain the eternal prosperity - the near immortality - of stupid ideas? For example:The idea that plunging a nation into debt will raise it up into wealth...That raising the prices of life's essentials raises the general economic level...That prosperity springs...Read More
With the odds now stacked largely in favor of a 0.25% interest rate hike at next week's FOMC meeting, the price of gold is positioned to move back over $2,000 an ounce by early February.According to the CME FedWatch Tool, there is now a 99.1% probability that the Fed will hike rates by 0.25%, compared with the 0.5% hike in December. That's bearish for the U.S. dollar and bullish for gold.Source: C...Read More
The proposed 211-mile, the industrial-use-only road is needed by Trilogy Metals to advance copper exploration and development at its Ambler Mining District.Read More
Wesdome Gold Mines (TSX: WDO) president and chief executive officer Duncan Middlemiss has resigned after the Kiena mine upgrade in Quebec fell behind schedule and the company missed production goals. Middlemiss, who led the company for six years, has been replaced by Wesdome board chairman Warwick Morley-Jepson while the Toronto-based company searches for a replacement. Laurentian Bank said th...Read More