The precious metals all soared in 2025, and while a continued monetary expansion and geopolitical risk could still drive gains especially for gold in 2026, a pullback in silver, platinum and palladium is possible after recent partly speculative surges.Read More

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

Kudz Ze Kayah is an open-pit and underground silver, copper, gold, lead and zinc mine development located approximately 115 kilometres southeast of Ross River, Yukon and 5 km west of the Wolverine zinc mine.The project is anticipated to inject up to C$720 million in capital expenditures into Canadian and Yukon economies over its life, Natural Resources Canada said.The project can now proceed to th...Read More

Tell me what this sentence means to you."We have a strong interest in ensuring that innovation does not lead to a fragmentation in international payment architectures."It's dry, it's vague, and it doesn't seem like something that'll affect us day to day. That's half the point.As for the other half, it's also one of the most telling quotes you'll read as the U.S. government tries to assert unpreced...Read More

"What the market is worried about," argues LPL Financial's chief equity strategist... is "that the Fed breaks something."His co-worker, chief market strategist at the firm, continues:The Fed has a very tight needle to thread here and I think investors and the market, in general, are losing a good deal of confidence that the Fed might be able to do that.We hazard the market is justifiably a jitter....Read More

Some 67% of regional silver production and 56% of our copper production was exposed to water scarcity.Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Riverside Resources Inc [RRI-TSXV, RVSDF-OTCQB, 5YY-FSE] has released assay results for the first five of a 12-hole, 1,700-metre drill program completed at the Oakes gold project in northwestern Ontario.Riverside shares advanced on the news, rising 3.7% to 14 cents, and currently trade in a 52-week range of 20 cents and 12.5 cents.The primary focus is the HG Target, w...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Silver Mountain Resources Inc. [AGMR-TSXV] reported the results for drill holes SMR-001-22-MTC and SMR-002-22-SCS, the first drill holes of the 12,000-metre underground drilling campaign at the company's Reliquias underground silver mine in Huancavelica, central Peru.The Huancavelica region, and especially the Castrovirreyna mining district, is known to host significa...Read More

"About three years ago we put forward a very aggressive plan to become 150,000 ounce a year producer within five years.Read More

The project would yield an after-tax net present value of C$48.3 million at a at a 5% discount rate and an internal rate of return of 43% at a US$1,600 per ounce gold price following an initial capital cost of $22.1 million.The company is progessing to complete a pre-feasibility study expected to be completed by year end with permitting for the Bachelor mill and tailings expansion ongoing."The ope...Read More

In May, SolGold reported a measured and indicated resource of 2.7 billion tonnes grading 0.Read More

US fund manager Van Eck, which is the second largest shareholder in the firm, has now termed the proposed deal as "another poorly structured deal", according to one of its analysts.Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu mines"It takes a lot of work to understand a deal with this level of complexity. … It is very unique for two piec...Read More

Construction work at Skouries started in 2013 but the project has been embroiled in a series of legal disputes with Greek authorities over permitting for the scheme.Read More

Kinross has already received US$300 million in US-denominated cash into its corporate account outside of Russia and will receive the remaining payment of US$40 million on the first anniversary of dealRead More

(IDEX Online) - Diamond miners in Lesotho are urging the government to reconsider new rules that would halt refunds on VAT paid on the goods, services and capital items for day-to-day operations.They say the proposed VAT Amendment Bill would harm the industry, which produced 1.1m carats in 2019.Australian-owned Lucapa, which operates Mothae, the world's highest US$ per carat kimberlite diamon...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A luxury jeweler in Ukraine that started making body armor after the Russian invasion is now sending wedding rings to frontline soldiers.Oberig's manufacturing base in Kharkiv - Ukraine's heavily-shelled second city - has so far contributed more than 6,000 items of body armor to the war effort.And now it's sending silver wedding rings - 148 and counting - to soldiers...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lusix, the solar-powered lab grown company, has announced $90m in an investment round for its Sun Grown Diamonds.LVMH Luxury Ventures is among those funding the Israel-based company, founded by Benny Landa, the "father of commercial digital printing" who sold his company Indigo to HP for $830m.Half the $90m was revealed in February, when the company said it had secured funding from...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesGudai-Darri, approved in late 2018, represents Rio's first greenfields Pilbara iron ore development in over a decad...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu mines"Canada is home to almost half of listed companies in the mining and minerals space, with a combined market cap of...Read More

CONEXPO-CON/AGG, Taking Construction to the Next LevelSPONSOREDconexpo-con/agg 2023Advancing Copper and Gold Projects in an Under-Explored Porphyry DistrictSPONSOREDresilience miningServicing China's Steel SectorSPONSOREDaspire miningChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesSome 67% of regional silver production and 56% of our copper production was exposed to water scarcity.Read More

Antofagasta announced a leak in the Los Pelambres concentrate pipeline on June 7. Antofagasta reports that restrictions to access the leak have been partially eased, allowing repairs to begin.Read More