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

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron The SEC's complaint, filed in U.S.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Plans to close Canada's Diavik mine in 2025 will have a significant impact on the local economy, owners Rio Tinto warned this week.The deposit (pictured), 300 km northeast of Yellowknife, is one of the largest employers in Northwestern Territories, providing 1,100 jobs, and contributing almost 10 per cent of its GDP.However, Rio Tinto says it will helps workers redeploy within...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Bulk sampling has confirmed a "significant population of fancy orange and yellow diamonds" at Canada's Naujaat mine.Australian owners Burgundy say they are encouraged by results of the project, which is 70 per cent complete.A total of 268 diamonds over 0.21 carats, weighing 117.98 caratswere recovered from 1,316 dry tonnes of kimberlite at the mine, in the remote, Arctic terri...Read More

Glencore has reduced its copper guidance for 2022 by 3% or 40,000 tonnes and cut its cobalt guidance by 6% or 3,000 tonnes because of setbacks at the Katanga mine, the Zug-headquartered commoditiesRead More

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Lundin posted attributable earnings of US$345.1 million or $0.47 per share for the first three months of this year,...Read More

West Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDMakuutu magnetises support for Ionic Rare EarthsSPONSOREDionic rare earthsFortuna backs West Africa for growthSPONSOREDfortuna silver minesLake Resources targeting 100ktpa lithium productionSPONSOREDlake resources"Despite the challenging quarter in our operations, we are on track to deliver on our commitments for 2022," the mining giant's CEO Eduardo Bar...Read More

Copper is a metal essential to construction, manufacturing industrial machinery and to the green energy transition - and demand is increasing worldwide.The copper price broke an all-time record intraday high above US$11,000 per tonne this year on the back of historically low global inventories.Our sister company Mining Intelligence has compiled a list of the world's top 10 biggest copper mines bas...Read More

A motion for an official apology from the Ontario Legislative Assembly to former Ontario miners who were forced to inhale an aluminum and aluminum oxide powder linked to the development of Parkinson's disease was denied on Thursday, as the House asked for more time to "properly honour" the victims and their family members. In between 1943 to 1979, many Ontario miners were required to inhale the...Read More

Arizona Sonoran Copper (TSX: ASCU; US-OTC: ASCUF) has entered into a partnership with Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) focused on the latter's Nuton venture and a non-brokered private placement for total gross proceeds of up to $30.5 million. Nuton technologies offer a portfolio of proprietary copper leach related technologies and capability developed by Rio Tinto to deliver increased co...Read More

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Vale S.A. (NYSE: VALE) with making "false and misleading claims" about the safety of its dams ahead of the January 2019 collapse of its Brumadinho dam in Brazil, which killed 270 people, in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in New York, the SEC said. According to the SEC's complaint, the mining giant "manipulated multiple...Read More

Just one month after announcing a deal to acquire the Gasp?(C) Copper project, near Murdochville, Que., Osisko Metals (TSX-V: OM; US-OTC: OMZNF) has announced an initial inferred resource estimate for the Mount Copper deposit at the project using data from historical drilling completed between the 1960's and 2019. The company has also started a 30,000-metre drill program at the project, located...Read More

Champion Iron (TSX: CIA; OTC: CIAFF) has provided operational results for its fiscal fourth quarter and full year ended Mar. 31. The company owns and operates the Bloom Lake mining complex, located on the south end of the Labrador Trough, approximately 13 km north of Fermont, Que., and 10 km north of the Mont Wright iron ore mining complex held by ArcelorMittal Mines Canada.The Bloom Lake Phase...Read More

Miner and commodities trader Glencore (LSE: GLEN) touted on Thursday prospects for its trading unit, saying it faces another strong year as Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues to drive up prices of most commodities the company mines and sells.Delivering results for the first three months of the year, the Swiss company said earnings from its marketing unit will "comfortably" top the highest end...Read More

Ukraine's suffering is under every eye…Russia's desecration of Ukraine appalls all right-thinking men. Yet many of these men insist you know of their appallment.We believe the term is "virtue signaling."They appear daily on the television, wringing their hands, rending their cloths... and gnashing their teeth.They yell about the march of evil. The murder of innocents. The fading of freedom,...Read More

There is a quote I've been reluctant to drop in the last two months even as I've been citing a whole lot of history that mirrors what we're seeing today in everything from arms to food to global logistics."We must be the great arsenal of democracy. For us this is an emergency as serious as war itself. We must apply ourselves to our task with the same resolution, the same sense of urgency, the same...Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - AbraSilver Resources Corp. [ABRA-TSXV, ABBRF-0TC] shares rallied in active trading Wednesday after the company released drill results from an ongoing Phase 11 program at the company's wholly-owned Diablillos property in Salta Province, Argentina. The company also released a drilling update from a second Argentina project, known as La Coipita.Diablillos drilling high...Read More

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixHistoric assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsThe 41.5m grading 5.2 grams per tonne gold from 598m reported today is more than 250m down-dip from the resour...Read More

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron Executive chair Peter Marrone told Mining Journal that there is nothing unusual in making such an arrangement. "It i...Read More

An investigation by the SMA after receiving a complaint from the General Directorate of Water (DGA) of Antofagasta regarding the reduction in the population of the endangered frog species telmatobiusRead More

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsChampion Iron to fuel green steel revolutionSPONSOREDchampion iron The firm's diesel price had increased 52% over the period. Other key supplies were also fanning costs higher, it sai...Read More