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

MJ Nighthawk Gold had a management team change last year and you came on board. Why was the management team changed and what was the board of directors looking to achieve with this?Read More

Drilling extended the 55 Zone mineralisation to a strike length which is now 800m and a width of 250m with a highlight of 37m grading 1.04 grams per tonne in hole 200 including 4m grading 5.31g/t.Read More

Highlights included 11m grading 4.04 grams per tonne at Victory, including 1m grading 36.6g/t.Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat pantherThe 12-month extension involves a repayment of $30 million this August, $20 million in both January and March next year, and the final $80 million in March 2024.Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat pantherBlackstone executives scheduled a three hour virtual briefing for investors last week following release of a pre-feasibility study into the company's Ta Khoa nickel...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's only industrial diamond mine sold over 8,000 carats in an e-auction, though it did not disclose prices or further details.There are over 1,000 licensed artisanal mines in the country, but only the state-run Majhgawan mine, in the central state of Madhya Pradesh, is mechanized.Mining at Majhgawan (pictured) has been stopped several times over the last 50 years because o...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Two men have been jailed for a $400,000 armed raid on a jewelry store on the outskirts of Chicago, USA. They stole watches by Frederique Constant, Patek Phillipe and Tudor, as well as high-value jewelry from Razny Jewelers (pictured) in Hinsdale, Ilinois, in March 2017.The defendants later "sold, attempted to sell, or disposed of some of the stolen items" in the Chicago area a...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The company behind the first regulator-approved diamond commodity is now offering investors a higher-value diamond bar, in addition to the coins it launched last year.New York-based Diamond Standard says it has received regulatory approval for the 70mm by 35mm transparent bar containing "a set of certified natural diamonds with identical geological scarcity".They each have an initi...Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDEro Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperFor C3 Metals, X marks the spotSPONSOREDc3 metalsGreat Panther, great prospectsSPONSOREDgreat panther"Geopolitics and markets will likely be different, but the question is, how different? The crisis looks to be prolonging the pandemic recovery boom, and our commodi...Read More

Vizsla Silver (TSXV: VZLA; NYSE: VZLA) has released assay results from seven new drill holes targeting the Copala and Christiano veins, located east of the Tajitos resource area, at its 100%-owned Panuco silver-gold project in Mexico. Highlights included 7.81 meters grading 1,559 grams silver per tonne and 7.29 grams gold per tonne starting from 274 meters in drill hole CS-21-116 and 2.09 meters...Read More

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become more important in the mining industry, especially as companies seek fresh capital for projects, and as investors start to scrutinize ESG disclosures. A Thought Leadership panel at The Northern Miner's Q1 2022 Global Mining Symposium in late February explored the issues. Moderator Ani Markova, co-founder of Onyen Corp., began the di...Read More

Sanctioning Russian nickel will slow the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and hinder the decarbonization of Western economies, according to a new report from GlobalData.The result, such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer," the analysts argue.According to GlobalData's Mining Commodity Analyzer, Russia was the third-largest nickel pro...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has become the first major mining company to announce it was cutting all ties with Russian businesses, joining a massive exodus of Western companies since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.The world's second largest miner, which operates aluminum refineries in Russia's east together with aluminum producer Rusal International, had said it wanted to keep its rela...Read More

The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has urged the government to invest more in critical minerals in this year's budget to avoid "slipping behind" its competitors in the sector, while revealing its annual report on the state of Canadian mining.Pierre Gratton, president of the association that includes about 50 of Canada's leading mining companies, told The Northern Miner in an interview that the...Read More

Talisker Resources (TSX: TSK; US-OTC: TSKFF) has released more high grade results from drilling in the Bralorne West area of its Bralorne gold project in British Columbia.One highlight of the latest batch of drill results is SB-2021-100, which intersected 38.01 grams gold per tonne over 1.55 metres and 13.43 grams gold per tonne over 1.70 metres. Another hole, SB-2021-102, returned 7.50 grams gold...Read More

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become more important in the mining industry, especially as companies seek fresh capital for projects, and as investors start to scrutinize ESG disclosures. A Thought Leadership panel at The Northern Miner's Q1 2022 Global Mining Symposium in late February explored the issues. Moderator Ani Markova, co-founder of Onyen Corp., began the di...Read More

Despite the happy talk from the mainstream media, the U.S. economy is hanging by a thread. The U.S. economy is stalling out.The latest estimate of first-quarter 2022 U.S. GDP growth prepared by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta shows growth of 0.5%. That's dangerously close to recession.Of course, we still have three weeks left in the quarter, and we won't know the actual first-quarter figure un...Read More

The price of gold reached a record high this week.And if you listen to the mainstream financial news, you might think the Russia-Ukraine war has everything to do with gold's record prices.The Wall Street Journal: "Russia-Ukraine Tensions Power Gold to Eight-Month Highs"CNBC: "Gold Rises Amid Russia-Ukraine Crisis"Bloomberg: "Gold Rises Above $2,000 as War in Ukraine Boosts Haven Demand"There's jus...Read More

TRU Precious Metals Corp. announces new assay results from an additional 4 of 22 holes completed during its 2021 winter drill program at its flagship Golden Rose Project in Central Newfoundland.Read full newsRead More

In our latest Thematica report, Gold Rush. In this report, we examine the gold landscape and the opportunities ahead. Download today.Read full newsRead More