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

Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpDenison eyeing low-cost in-situ recovery in Canada's high-grade Athabasca BasinSPONSOREDdenison minesUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDFeasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uranium   "PNG has traditionally been a provinc...Read More

Canada has joined the launch of the new Sustainable Critical Minerals Alliance that seeks to pursue environmentally-sound and responsible mining, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson announced Monday.Speaking at the United Nations Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, Wilkinson said Alliance members will commit to developing and sourcing critical minerals through a "nature-positive...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A court in India has ruled in favor of diamond tech firm Sarine and issued injunctions against five manufacturers that illegally used its software. It follows a series of court-ordered raids at eight locations in Surat, India's cutting and polishing capital, on 18 May.Gopi Impex, Nirghay Impex, Pramukh Gems, Dhiren Diamonds and Bhumika Gems were all found guilty of copyri...Read More

Easterday said the company had reinitiated resource drilling due to a land deal concluded earlier this year to test the upside potential.Read More

Ascot Resources (TSX: AOT; US-OTC: AOTVF) has entered into non-binding letters of intent for roughly $200 million in project financing for construction of the Premier gold project, in northwestern British Columbia. The proposed financing package will consist of a US$110 million gold and silver streaming agreement with Sprott Resource Streaming and Royalty and/or its affiliates and an equity inves...Read More

Blue Sky Uranium?EUR?(TSXV: BSK; US-OTC: BKUCF), a Vancouver-based uranium and vanadium explorer with 4,000 sq. km of prospective tenements in Argentina's Patagonia region, expects to update the preliminary economic assessment for its Ivana deposit after completing an enhanced regional exploration drilling program next year. Despite a difficult market for capital raising, Blue Sky announced on De...Read More

When Dan Noone first visited Guyana in 2004, the capital Georgetown was a "sleepy place," says the geologist and CEO of G2 Goldfields (TSXV: GTWO). "There weren't many cars on the road." As recently as 2010, Guyana was ranked the second-poorest nation in the Caribbean, after Haiti. Now, after a string of offshore oil discoveries off Guyana's coast by Exxon Mobil over the last seven years, Georget...Read More

I've frequently said that forecasting Fed policy is easy. The Fed actually tells you what they plan to do in advance. This is the "no drama" Fed.All you have to do is listen to what they say and believe them. They don't want to surprise markets or trigger any unexpected volatility. So they signal in advance and move accordingly.In reality, there's a bit more to it than that.The Fed also signals th...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Two more diamonds from the De Beers Exceptional Blue Collection have failed to sell at auction.A 3.24-carat cushion brilliant-cut internally flawless fancy vivid blue, with a $5m to $8m estimate, was withdrawn before the sale at Sotheby's New York last week.And a 2.08-carat cushion-cut fancy intense blue, with a $1.2m to $1.5m estimate failed to find a buyer at the same auctio...Read More

The post-pandemic period represents "the best diamond market in the better part of a decade," Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) president and CEO Eira Thomas told delegates at The Northern Miner's the recent Canadian Mining Symposium in London, U.K.In an interview with The Northern Miner podcast host Adrian Pocobelli, Thomas explained the rationale of investing in a space that gives exposure to both mined...Read More

Argentina Lithium & Energy (TSXV: LIT, US-OTC: PNXLF), a member of the Vancouver-based Grosso Group of companies, is aggressively assembling a portfolio of lithium properties in northwestern Argentina as demand for the battery mineral continues its upward trajectory. "The lithium market had a couple of false starts, but this time is different," said Nikolaos Cacos, the company's president and CEO...Read More

Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDDenison eyeing low-cost in-situ recovery in Canada's high-grade Athabasca BasinSPONSOREDdenison minesFeasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumThe financing will consist of a US$110 million gol...Read More

Dear Outsider,It's been one hell of a ride for the markets to close out the year.Volatility just doesn't want to let up.Good inflation numbers, bad inflation numbers...Stock futures up, down, and sideways.It makes you just want to throw up your hands and walk away.But don't forget that markets have come back strong each time the CPI numbers were released the last two months, so we'll make sure to...Read More

Three days prior to the December 14 deadline for Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) to ink a contract with the Panamanian government that would allow the company to keep running its Cobre Panam?? copper mine, the country's Chamber of Commerce issued a statement criticizing the way authorities have handled the deal.In the communiqu?(C), the Chamber's president Marcela Galindo De Obarrio expr...Read More

BHP (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) has joined billionaire Robert Friedland's I-Pulse Inc. and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a clean-tech venture backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, to speed up technologies that can help the mining sector save on energy.I-Pulse and Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV)-Europe launched earlier this year a company named I-Rox, a France-based firm focused on demonstrat...Read More

The Cerro Yapacana is home to wildlife found nowhere else in the world. Satellite images show the extent of the damage.Read full newsRead More

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's supreme court on Friday endorsed a settlement with Barrick Gold to resume mining the Reko Diq, one of the world's biggest copper and gold deposits sites in the country's southwest, a court order showed. The short order was read out by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, who headed a five-person panel. A Reuters reporter was present in the co...Read More

Pakistan's Supreme Court endorsed on Friday a settlement for Barrick Gold to resume mining at the Reko Diq project, one of the world's largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits, it said in an order.Read full newsRead More

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's supreme court on Friday endorsed a settlement with Barrick Gold to resume mining the Reko Diq, one of the world's biggest copper and gold deposits sites in the country's southwest, a court order showed. The short order was read out by the Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, who headed a five-person panel. A Reuters reporter was present in the co...Read More

Pakistan's Supreme Court endorsed on Friday a settlement for Barrick Gold to resume mining at the Reko Diq project, one of the world's largest underdeveloped sites of copper and gold deposits, it said in an order.Read full newsRead More