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
Adventus Mining (TSXV: ADZN) has finalized a US$55-million offtake financing agreement with Trafigura for the construction of its 75%-owned El Domo-Curipamba copper-gold project in Ecuador. Of the total US$248-million estimated project capex, Adventus has now locked down US$235.5 million. The development is a joint venture with Salazar Resources (TSXV: SRL). The total US$235.5-million financing...Read More
BeMetals (TSXV: BMET; OTC: BMTLF), which made its name in the gold sector by acquiring a portfolio of exploration projects in Japan, has announced a US$5-million loan from strategic investor B2Gold (TSX: BTO). The loan, which bears interest at 4.7% per annum and matures on Aug. 4, 2025, will be used for working capital."Given the current conditions in equity markets for the mining sector, we are p...Read More
Canada's Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) flagged after markets closed on Thursday a US$200-million cost increase for the ongoing expansion of the massive Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.The Montreal-based company currently estimates its base case incremental funding requirement at US$3.6 billion, up from the US$3.4 billion forecast by the end March.Turquoise Hill said the up...Read More
Anglo American (LSE: AAL) is planning to appeal a Chilean environmental commission's rejection of its $40-million operational continuity project for El Soldado copper mine, 125 km north of the capital Santiago.Despite having the backing of the country's top environmental evaluation authority, which recommended the project's approval, local regulator Coeva scratched last month El Soldado Phase V pr...Read More
When inflation started clobbering producers and consumers last year, the general feeling in the air was: This won't last long. After all, everyone in a position to know promised it was all transitory. Just one of those things that comes and goes before life gets back to normal.Gradually, we've come to see the light. There will be no rolling back those price increases in general. There will be decl...Read More
Nancy Pelosi gets to go home. She got a photo op, a ton of press, and, ironically enough, even some grudging kudos from Republicans who typically cast her as a communist archvillain. And then she left. She doesn't have to live in Taiwan, in the shadow of the dragon threatening to consume the small island. She has a mansion in San Francisco (one of the country's most out-of-control housing mark...Read More
Granada Gold Mines CEO Frank Basa joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company is reporting the first rubidium mineral resource estimate at ...Read full newsRead More
Giga Metals (TSXV:GIGA) is a Canadian-based mineral exploration company with one of the largest undeveloped nickel-cobalt sulphide deposits in the world.Read full newsRead More
Share this articleVANCOUVER - Canagold Resources Ltd. [CCM-TSX, CRCUF-OTCQB, CANA-FRA] has appointed a new CEO and director following the resignation of Scott Eldridge.Following the completion of an executive search, the company said its board of directors has approved the appointment of Catalin Kilofliski as CEO and Mike Doyle as director. Both appointments took effect on August 3, 2022.On Thur...Read More
In a terse statement within its June quarter results, the company said the partners determined that the project does not currently meet their investment thresholds for development at this time.Read More
An update of the project by the firm revised go forward attributable initial capital spending to US$1.335 billion, higher than a previous estimate of $1.2 billion-$1.Read More
The Nasdaq-listed firm earned lower-than-expected royalty revenue from its Cortez, Voisey's Bay, Canadian Malartic and Robinson interests.Read More
Alicanto wows with maiden resourceSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsSavannah eyes major Li production in PortugalSPONSOREDsavannah resourcesMining Journal and MiningNews.Net: Mongolia Country SupplementSPONSOREDTwo quarters of contracting US GDP have triggered a debate about whether the world's largest economy is in the midst of a recession and whether the central bank needs to shrink demand still moreRead More
(IDEX Online) - Dozens of jewelry items and watches that Elvis Presley and other gave to his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, are being sold.The online auction, by Kruse GWS Auctions, in Los Angeles, runs until 27 August.Parker represented Elvis from 1956 until the singer's death in 1977 - and received more than half his income.The collection was considered "lost" for decades, but was assembled f...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Switzerland yesterday banned the importation of gold and other metals from Russia as the war in Ukraine continues.The government has outlawed the "buying, importing or transporting gold and gold products from Russia".Switzerland refines as much as 70 per cent of the world's total gold output and its watchmaking industry is a significant consumer.The country, traditionally take...Read More
(IDEX Online) - LVMH saw H1 revenue rise by 28 per cent, to $37.3bn, as Tiffany & Co. enjoyed an "excellent" half-year.The French luxury conglomerate said all its business groups achieved double-digit organic revenue growth over the period.Watches and jewelry grew by 16 per cent and they saw a 26 per cent increase in profit from recurring operations, up to $1bn for H1 2022."Tiffany & Co. e...Read More
Several Canadian-listed gold producers released second-quarter results after market close on Wednesday in what can perhaps best be described as a mixed bag.Vancouver-based major B2Gold (TSX, NYSE: BTO) posted a better overall cost profile than expected for the three months to June.Total gold production of 223,623 oz. gold, (including 14,765 oz. of attributable production from its 15.2% holding in...Read More
Torex Gold Resources (TSX: TXG) shares saw a nearly 15% bounce in trading today after the Mexico-focused miner posted second quarter results that beat analysts' expectations. The company produced a total of 123,185 oz. gold at its El Limon Guajes mine (ELG), in Guerrero state, putting it on track to meet its full year production guidance of 430,000 to 470,000 ounces. In spite of continued infl...Read More
Iamgold (TSX: IAG ; NYSE: IAG) on Wednesday announced another increased estimate of capital expenditures for its 70%-owned C??t?(C) gold joint venture in northern Ontario that it holds with Sumitomo Metal Mining (30%). The Toronto-based miner said in a news release that the remaining costs to complete construction and bring C??t?(C) into production would come to more than US$1.3 billion as of t...Read More
Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA; OTC: SYAXF) has further advanced its planned restart of spodumene production at its North American Lithium (NAL) operation in Quebec, with approximately 30% of plant and equipment upgrades now completed. It remains on track to deliver first concentrates in the first quarter of 2023."It is extremely pleasing to see the rapid progress at NAL as we ramp up towards the recomme...Read More