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

Active in the nuclear space since the 1950s, the only aspect preventing comprehensive vertical integration in the jurisdiction - which boasts three reactors and another in the pipeline - is a lack of uranium production. This means uranium is currently imported from Kazakhstan before being enriched on home soil. Nikolas Cacos, president and chief executive However, if the vast 300,000 ha mineral di...Read More

Reach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesEncounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resources'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources The Arizona-based miner reported a September quarter net income attributable to common stock of US$454...Read More

'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesPeru's government said the country's exploration investments have shown progress.Read More

'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resources  Optimistic investors, those said to be on the long side of trading, have undoubtedly been hit by...Read More

'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesThe notes have an initial conversion price of 43c, in line with the 2021 share issue price, and at a 62...Read More

Hopes are high all will go well though the build was 4-5 months slower than expected and plants like these feature many more complexities than, for example, standard gold, nickel and copper processingRead More

This is not about whether there is such a thing as a literal social contract. The phrase has always been a metaphor, and an imprecise one since it was first invoked by Enlightenment-era thinkers trying to sort through a rationale for collective practice of some sort.It's easy enough to regard the social contact not as explicit but implied, evolved and organic to the public mind. At the most intuit...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The G7 nations are today due to consider four options to implement a ban on Russian diamonds.They will discuss the technicalities and legalities of preventing goods, primarily from Alrosa, entering the supply chain.Belgium, India, France and the World Diamond Council have all put forward proposals.Belgium wants mandatory third-party blockchain technology to certify the provenance o...Read More

The license, granted by the Amazon government, had been initially suspended by a lower court. Judge Marcos Augusto de Souda overturned the suspension on Tuesday.Read More

Reach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesEncounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resources'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources The license, granted by the Amazon government, had been initially suspended by a lower court. Judge Mar...Read More

Reach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesEncounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resources'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources "We have already outlined spodumene-bearing pegmatites through drilling, and channel and grab samples o...Read More

I was looking through my old files and remembered that I hadn't told you this story yet.When people ask me why I'm so against shorting options, this is what I tell them.I'll elaborate on what can happen though admittedly very rarely does – when you're short volatility and you don't know what you're doing.The Rogue TraderNick Leeson was an ordinary boy from the ordinary London suburb of Wat...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Prada has launched its first jewelry collection featuring lab grown diamonds.The luxury Italian fashion house says it uses gems that are grown to order in the new edition of its Eternal Gold collection, and has them "Prada-cut" in the shape of its triangular logo It also says it is now committed to using lab growns across all its fine jewelry collections by the end of the year...Read More

'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesSpeaking to the Globe and Mail, BHP boss Mike Henry said he had "no kind of burning desire or need," to...Read More

'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesThe application for Taranis' Thor project in BC has been delayed for 14 months now.Read More

This past weekend we entered a local park hard upon the Chesapeake Bay.At water's edge stood several head of fishermen.Each extended a line to pluck aquatic beings from the "immense protein factory" as H.L. Mencken labeled the fruitful Chesapeake Bay.All was peace.Of a sudden a vehicle of the Maryland Natural Resources Police came pulling up.From it emerged an officer of the same authority. He w...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership'Underdog' Warriedar rapidly progressing gold and base metals projectsSPONSOREDwarriedar resources Encounter with copper and critical minerals focus in emerging provinceSPONSOREDencounter resourcesReach Resources focused on playing role in decarbonisation solutionsSPONSOREDreach resourcesFederal District Court Judge Lorna...Read More

Federal District Court Judge Lorna Schofield of the Southern District of New York issued an opinion and order on September 29 in the case of Harrington Global Opportunity Fund versus CIBC WorldRead More

Speaking to the Globe and Mail, BHP boss Mike Henry said he had "no kind of burning desire or need," to buy Nutrien. "That ship has sailed," Henry said.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Rio Tinto reported a 37 per cent drop in Q3 production at its only diamond mine, Diavik, in Canada's Northwest Territories.It said the completion of an underground pipe, and an area of the open pit at the mine, 200 miles from the Arctic Circle, were to blame for the lower output.Rio Tinto said Q3 production for the three months to 30 September was 757,000 carats, down from 970...Read More