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

Australian BMG Resources Ltd reported promising high-grade gold results at the Capital Prospect within its Abercromby project in West Australia's goldfields region.Read More

Standard Lithium has started a preliminary feasibility study at its South West Arkansas lithium project, located around 35 miles west of its Lanxess project.Read More

The test was to assess the ability to replace the use of natural gas with green hydrogen in the iron ore reduction process.   During this first test, 6.Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsSuncor Energy, a C$67 billion Canadian business with a foot in both the mining and oil industries,...Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth minerals Stories are doing the rounds that CEO Duncan Wanblad and his team are casting a slide rule over t...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Petra's rough sales tally was down by almost 40 per cent at its latest tender. In March the UK-based miner sold 735,222 carats for $140.6m. In April it sold 635,806 carats for $86.1m, down by 38.8 per cent.Like-for-like rough diamond prices decreased by almost a quarter (23.7 per cent). Like-for-like prices at its March tender were up 37.6 per cent on December 2021.Per-ca...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Christie's New York is to auction a 103.49-ct diamond with a high estimate of $18m.The Light of Africa Diamond is a D color, flawless, Type IIa emerald-cut from the iconic Cullinan mine, in South Africa.It will lead the New York Magnificent Jewels sale on 8 June, as part of Christie's Luxury Week.The diamond (pictured) was cut and polished in South Africa from a 299.3 car...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Jewelry and watch sales in the US slowed suddenly in March.  They were still growing, but at just 8.5 per cent year-on-year, compared with 28.4 per cent in February. Growth in March was the slowest we've seen since January 2020, during the very early days of the pandemic. Year-on-year growth peaked last April - up by an unprecedented 218 per cent - indicating strong...Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsAnglo American said it is examining the details of the decision and expects to continue following...Read More

NGM holds three tier-one gold mines (Turquoise Ridge, Carlin and Cortez) within ten underground and 12 open pit mines, two autoclave facilities, two roasting facilities, four oxide mills, a flotationRead More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsA countrywide shortage of labour, skilled and unskilled, had a significant effect on mine producti...Read More

Artemis Gold (TSXV: ARTG) has moved closer to the start of construction at its Blackwater gold project in British Columbia with the award of a $312-million, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPC) contract for the processing plant and associated infrastructure to Sedgman Canada. The contract is expected to be executed by June 30, this year. Construction of the plant, whi...Read More

This week's episode features Global X director of research Rohan Reddy in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on mining stocks, market sentiment, the dollar and precious metals. Reddy suggests that mining stock valuations are suffering because of jurisdicitional risk and he expects the rally in uranium to maintain itself based on low supplies.All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.Music...Read More

The Mining Association of Canada's (MAC) Community of Interest Advisory Panel has selected the Gahcho Ku?(C) mine, owned as a joint venture between De Beers Group and Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; US-OTC: MPVDF), and Copper Mountain Mining (TSX: CMMC) to receive this year's prestigious Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Excellence Awards in recognition of their innovative sustainability p...Read More

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has said that the Phase 3 expansion at its Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will increase its annual copper production to about 600,000 tonnes by the fourth quarter of 2024, making it the world's third-largest copper mining complex. Commercial production at the operation began on July 1, 2021, with Phase 2 produc...Read More

South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has resolved to push ahead with intensifying strike action at precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE: SSW; NYSE: SBSW) local gold mines.Amcu general secretary, Jeff Mphahlele, tells The Northern Miner the union and the rival National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) met with Sibanye-Stillwater on May 2 for another round of...Read More

The Mining Legends Speaker Series kicked off with an inaugural in-person event in Vancouver featuring mining entrepreneur and Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee Ross Beaty and rising talent Maggie Layman, vice-president of Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV). Organized by The Northern Miner, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame and Young Mining Professionals, the series pairs CMHF inductees with accom...Read More

Analysts and authors, myself included, have been warning about the collapse of the dollar as the global reserve currency for years. I described this prospect in my first book, Currency Wars (2011), and in several other books in the years since.This process can take many years. For example, the decline of sterling as the leading global reserve currency played out over 30 years from 1914 (the beginn...Read More

Dynasties consistently fell in China, India, and Africa over eons.The French Revolution kicked off and Europe didn't stop burning until Napoleon was exiled the second time, arguably longer.Waves of immigrants have fled to the USA across centuries, especially from Ireland.The Arab Spring took root and toppled regimes, leading to waves of terrorism and the short-lived ISIS "caliphate."These are but...Read More

Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (ASX:SRR, TSXV:SWA) is pleased to announce that the Company's securities have commenced trading on the Australian Securities Exchange ("ASX") under the ASX code SRR following a strongly supported public offering which saw A$8M raised predominantly fr...Read full newsRead More