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

Silver Elephant Mining (TSX: ELEF; US-OTC: SILEF) has announced the results of a preliminary economic assessment for its Gibellini vanadium project in Nevada, demonstrating an after-tax internal rate of return of 25.4% and net present value of US$127.9 million.The Gibellini project is envisioned as an open-pit, heap-leach operation in the state's Battle Mountain region, about 25 km south of Eureka...Read More

The 'Burners' amongst you will not need reminding that the Burning Man festival takes place in Nevada's Black Rock Desert every year during the week leading up to the U.S. Labor Day holiday (celebrated this year on Monday September 6).Burning Man began on San Francisco's Baker Beach in 1986, and became a desert festival four years later at a site near Gerlach, 190 km north of Reno. Attendance reac...Read More

Researchers at the University of Southern California are working on a development aimed at discouraging the degradation of lithium-ion batteries' structural integrity, which is one of the reasons that lead to functionality drop over time.Their solution involves introducing "stretch" into battery materials so they can be cycled repeatedly without structural fatigue.In a paper published in the Journ...Read More

Future remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesOzAurum drills in home of goldSPONSOREDozaurum resourcesThe Future of Tailings ManagementSPONSOREDMost comments on BHP's makeover have, so far, assumed that what management wants, it gets.Read More

Integra Resources (TSXV: ITR; NYSE-AM: ITRG) plans to update the resource estimate and complete a prefeasibility study on its DeLamar project before the end of the fourth quarter and in the meantime continues to release high-grade results from the project in southwestern Idaho.The project, 160 km from Boise, consists of two past-producing mines, DeLamar and Florida Mountain, which shut down in the...Read More

Many everyday Americans probably believe that the COVID vaccines will keep them from getting COVID. That's not true and never has been true.The vaccines do not prevent you from being infected with the COVID virus. They do not keep you from spreading the COVID virus.There have been many cases of so-called "breakthrough" infections where double-vaxxed citizens get COVID anyway. That's not uncommon.T...Read More

Dear Outsider,I recently found myself in a nice little townhome while I got some life matters figured out. It was a big change of scenery from the large country estate I'd become accustomed to, but after a month or so, I really started to feel more "at home."I could decorate the place as I wished, with bookshelves, musical instruments, and surrealistic paintings that wouldn't have worked at my old...Read More

Project location Proximity to Bodie-Aurora-Borealis mining district in Nevada Rock photos Picture taken by Paramount Geologists during field review exhibit similar features to historic rock samples described in the table within the body of the press release. Rock photos Picture taken by Paramount Geologists during field review exhibit similar features to historic rock samples described in the tabl...Read More

THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. NEWS AGENCIES VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE/ FRANKFURT:1A9/U.S.OTC:ASGOF) ("Asante" or theRead full newsRead More

Share this article TORONTO - Nomad Royalty Co. Ltd. [NSR-TSX, NSRXF-OTCQX], said Monday it has secured commitments from financial lenders to increase its revolving credit facility to US$125 million, money it will use for future royalty and stream acquisitions.It has also obtained an option to increase the facility to US$150 million, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions.The completion...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Dundee Corporation (TSX: DC.A) reported that its approximately 88%-owned subsidiary, Blue Goose Capital Corp., has entered into a share purchase agreement with an arm's length third party to sell The Blue Goose Cattle Company Ltd. for an aggregate purchase price of $68 million. The Transaction includes all of BG Cattle's ranches with the exception of Lambert Creek Org...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Authorities in Angola have seized almost 2,500 diamonds from illegal buyers as part of a long-running crackdown on illicit gem trafficking.They launched Operation Transparency in December 2018, targeting the eastern Lunda Norte province, where there are an estimated 700 illegal mining sites.The country's Criminal Investigation Service (SIC) seized 2,477 diamonds, plus cash equ...Read More

(IDEX Online) - An Indian farmer has recovered his sixth diamond in two years - a 6.47-ct gem valued at over $40,000.Prakash Majumdar leases a small patch of land in diamond-rich Panna from the Madhya Pradesh state government. The diamond, which he found last Friday, will be sold at a price fixed by the Government Diamond Office, and the proceeds -  minus taxes and royalties - will be sp...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Armed raiders targeted diamond couriers on a bus to Surat, India, but were thwarted when passengers locked them in the driver's cab.Three gang members traveled with the angadiyas (couriers) from Bhavnagar, in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat, and asked the driver to stop at Ankleshwar. There an accomplice who'd been following in a car pointed a gun at him and or...Read More

MMG said the accident happened in the Huallpachaca area of the Cotabambas province, which has a series of hairpin bends.Local media reported the bus fell into a deep gorge.The passengers were employees of contracting firms including Manpower, Geotec, MB Renting, AKD Drilling, Lavalin, M&RC, JRM and JP Natlian, MMG said."We express our deepest sorrow and grief and extend our sympathies and supp...Read More

For Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE: WPM; LSE: WPM), 2021 has proven to be a spectacular year as the company reports record revenue, cash flows and sales volume in the first six months. In just the second quarter of this year, Wheaton saw net earnings rise 57% from the same time last year to US$166 million, and the company reports it is on track to achieve guidance of 720,000 to 780,000 go...Read More

Kirkland Lake Gold (TSX: KL; NYSE: KL; ASX: KLA) has intersected new visible gold bearing mineralization below the Swan zone, along the Cygnet Fault system, and to 1,000 metres downplunge of existing reserves along the Curie fault at Robbin's Hill, both part of the company's Fosterville mine in the state of Victoria, Australia. Drilling from the underground exploration drive hit this new minerali...Read More

Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV: GRG; US-OTC: GARWF) is a precious and base metal explorer with a pipeline of projects in Argentina, Chile, and Paraguay. It is part of the Grosso Group of companies, which has been working successfully in Argentina for almost three decades.The Vancouver-headquartered junior is advancing its 100%-owned Rosales copper project in the Atacama region of Chile, approximate...Read More

Sayona Quebec, a joint venture of Sayona Mining (ASX: SYA) and Piedmont Lithium (NASDAQ: PLL; ASX: PLL), has completed the acquisition of North American Lithium. Sayona Quebec is be owned 75% by Sayona and 25% by Piedmont. As part of the deal, Piedmont has agreed to take 50% of Sayona Quebec's lithium carbonate output.North American Lithium's chief asset was its suspended open pit mine about 60 km...Read More

Tudor Gold (TSXV: TUD) continues to attain impressive results from resource expansion and definition drilling of the Goldstorm deposit at its flagship property, Treaty Creek.The company announced the second set of results from the 2021 program, highlighted by an exceptional extension of the 300 Horizon and CS600 to the northeast in hole GS-21-113 that contains 972m of 1.265 g/t AuEq, including 456...Read More