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

(IDEX Online) - Diamond miners in Zimbabwe are now paying half their royalties to the government in rough stones, 40 per cent in local currency and 10 per cent in foreign currency.Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube gave details of the new policy last week, saying the government needed to build its national reserve of precious stones and metals, including gold, platinum and lithium.It previously accepte...Read More

(IDEX Online) - One of Britain's oldest jewelry stores is to finally cease trading, after almost 230 years.Martin Wilkinson Jewellers, in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, (pictured) will close when owner Andrew Campin retires after 60 years of service.The store, founded in 1794 during the reign of King George III, became renowned for servicing bomber command wrist watches during World War II."With...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Prices of used Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet and other luxury watches are sliding.They were down 6.7 per cent in November according to the Subdial50 Index, which tracks prices for the 50 most traded luxury watches.Among the biggest losers were the Rolex Oyster Perpetual 41 Reference: 124300, down 10.8 per cent to $8,283 and the Patek Philippe Nautilus Reference: 5712/...Read More

I doubt there is another era in the history of Western Civ when the forces in motion acting on society were so mystifying to those acted upon.And isn't it especially galling that this is so in an age after rational scientific practice had decoded so many of nature's secrets? Did that project somehow fail in the end? Has the Enlightenment been defeated? How have we become trapped like frogs being b...Read More

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Thursday veto of the contentious Pebble copper-gold project in Alaska has again irked the proponent Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE American: NAK).In a statement on Friday, Northern Dynasty president and CEO Ronald Thiessen accused the EPA of "regulatory overreach" in once more recommending a pre-emptive strike. When the same tactic was de...Read More

The Pebble scheme has been embroiled in a face-off with regulators and at least one Congressional committee over the development of the scheme, which became symptomatic of the problems faced by firmsRead More

Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE: GROY) has agreed to sell mineral rights and interests on 12 prospective properties in Quebec and Ontario to junior miner Val-d'Or Mining (TSX: VZZ).The Vancouver-based gold royalty firm said the pact allows it to retain a 0.5%-1% net smelter return royalty on the properties.Streaming and royalty firms provide upfront financing for exploration and development to precious m...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Ximen Mining Corp. [XIM-TSXV; XXMMF-OTCQB; 1XMA-FSE] has completed airborne lidar and magnetic surveys at its Brett property near Vernon, southern British Columbia.A total of 54 km2 were covered by magnetic surveys, flown at 50-metre spaced flight lines. The lidar surveys covered a total of 12 km2 and included orthophotos. Data was collected with a Phoenix Ranger li...Read More

Roscan Gold (TSXV: ROS; US-OTC: RCGCF) has entered into a royalty financing agreement with Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) to raise gross proceeds of $10 million. The royalty is related to the company's Kandiol?(C) project in Mali, West Africa.Osisko will initially acquire a 1% net smelter return royalty for upfront consideration of $5 million, and retains the option to purchase a second...Read More

Our times of boom to bust are the perfect illustration of the credit cycle first presented in its fullness in the 1920s. Why then? Because this was the first decade after most countries created central banks. They caused some very odd behavior that made 19th-century-style economics seem to have less explanatory power.That was when a few economists working in Vienna put together a model for underst...Read More

Imagine a captive, bound and hapless...There he is, chained down pitifully in his cell, resigned to his inevitable punishments. Fifty lashes across the back are due him.Then comes the retributional day...This unfortunate winces in anticipation of his 50 lashes - yet his "merciful" captor issues a mere 25.This he interprets as "good news."He momentarily forgets the fundamental fact that he absorbed...Read More

Back in 2015, about a year after Russia annexed Crimea, Russian hackers wrested control of Ukraine's power grid and cut off electricity at three different companies.Some 30 substations were switched off, and about 230,000 people were left without electricity for up to six hours.They didn't have lights or, in many cases, heat.Being left without heat in the dead of winter isn't just an inconvenience...Read More

Volkswagen AG has begun searching for a site in Canada to build its first battery cell factory in North America, a part of the German carmaker's planned expansion of its electric vehicle (EVs) battery business outside Europe.Canadian Industry Minister Fran??ois-Philippe Champagne signed the document - described as an addendum to a memorandum of understanding inked with VW in August this year -...Read More

Macron has led European Union (EU) opposition to the IRA, which offers major financial subsidies to firms that invest in critical minerals, electric vehicles, and battery manufacturing on US soil.Read More

While the search for new gold deposits across the world never lets up, explorers are picking?EUR?up the pace seeking out critical?EUR?minerals.?EUR?Here's a glimpse of eight companies exploring for precious and critical minerals in countries across?EUR?the Americas, Europe and the South Pacific.Acme Lithium A drill rig at ACME Lithium's Clayton Valley lithium brine project in Nevada. ACME LITHIUM...Read More

Feasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDA supply surge coming onstream by 2025 is expected to push lithi...Read More

Feasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDPresident Joe Biden welcomed the move on December 1 and said he...Read More

Feasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDCredit Suisse, in a detailed examination of the lithium market,...Read More

Feasibility Study Imminent at Fission's High-Grade, Low-Cost Uranium Project SPONSOREDfission uraniumGlobal Atomic homes in on Dasa financingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpBlue Sky's big ambitions for Patagonia's uranium resourcesSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumUranium revival takes off as reality hits on energy, geopoliticsSPONSOREDChief executives from Barrick Gold, Agnico Eagle Mines, Yamana G...Read More