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

Nickel prices are drawing closer to the $20,000/t threshold required to spur investment in new supply. The LME three-month (3M) contract was up by more than 30pc year on year at $18,133/t yesterday, amid rising demand expectations and strengthening macroeconomic conditions.Read full newsRead More

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ZAMBOANGA CITY: A satellite photo of the southern Philippine island of Tumbagaan in Tawi-Tawi's Languyan town shows the devastation caused by nickel mining there. The Google Maps photo accessed by The Manila Times shows about 90 percent of the island had been mined. But the different shades of colors of the island, which was once [...]Read full newsRead More

Mining production was pulled down by a 35.3% drop in iron ore output, which contributed -3.9 percentage points, and a 16.1% fall in platinum group metals production, contributing -3.4 percentage points.There has been an upward trend in production since the 47.3% yoy plunge in April 2020 caused by the country's COVID-19 shutdown.Seasonally adjusted mining production increased by 6.3% for...Read More

Canadian investment bank Stifel GMP will underwrite the transaction, purchasing 9.9 million of Neo Lithium special warrants priced at C$3.05 each.Read More

Ongoing negative real interest rates and excess liquidity will see gold rise gradually in the first months of 2021, Rhona O'Connell, StoneX head of market analysis for EMEA & Asia, wrote in theRead More

Share this articleTORONTO - YAMANA GOLD INC. (TSX:YRI; NYSE:AUY; LSE:AUY) reported the successful completion of Yamana's acquisition of the Wasamac property and the Camflo property and mill from Monarch Gold Corporation.The addition of the Wasamac project to Yamana's portfolio further solidifies the company's long-term growth profile with a top-tier gold project in Quebec's Abitibi region, a proli...Read More

Share this articleNeo Lithium Corp. [NLC-TSXV; NTTHF-OTC] has announced a $30.2 million bought deal financing that will be used to fund development of its 100%-owned Tres Quebradas (3Q) Project in Argentina.Specifically, Neo Lithium intends to use the majority of the financing proceeds to advance the construction of the concentration pond system at a commercial scale with a view to accelerating fu...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Namakwa Diamonds is to sell another exceptional fancy pink diamond recovered from its Kao mine, in Lesotho.The 25.97-ct rough stone (pictured), named Pink Dawn, comes from the same geological domain as  several other significant fancy-color stones - the 36.06-ct Pink Storm (sold in 2014) the 3.06-ct  Purple Princess (2017) and the 29.59-ct Rose of Kao (2018). The Pin...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa's sales of rough and polished diamonds soared by a third in the last quarter of 2020, up to $1.22bn (q-on-q).The Russian state-owned miner reported average realized prices in Q4 were down by 38 per cent to $67.40 per carat q-on-q.But by the end of the year demand for for rough diamonds had become strong and stable, it said in its Q4 and 12M 2020 operating results, "driv...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Petra reported an eight per cent slip in gross revenue for the six months to December 2020, down to $178m.But it said like-for-like prices at its tender earlier this month - 382,000 carats of rough sold for $30.5m - were up by eight per cent, and had returned to pre-COVID-19 levels.  It raised $40m from the sale of the 85.6-ct Letlapa Tala Collection of blue diamonds (pic...Read More

Neo Lithium moving closer to productionSPONSOREDneo lithiumPantoro charging towards second gold mineSPONSOREDpantoro limitedMaximus ready to resume search for more Wattle Dam richesSPONSOREDmaximus resourcesDecade of performance: Pitram delivers diamond standard for Argyle diamond mineSPONSOREDmicromineOngoing negative real interest rates and excess liquidity will see gold rise gradually in the fi...Read More

If you blinked you might have missed the news last week but it was extraordinary: Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) and the Quebec government announced they are building a commercial-scale demonstration plant to produce scandium oxide in Canada - the first scandium oxide plant in North America.As Alisha Hiyate, the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Mining Journal and Diamonds in Canada magazine pointe...Read More

Wrapping up the second day of the Association for Mineral Exploration's (AME) Remote Roundup 2021 was a virtual session that brought together a group of industry experts who provided their perspectives on the commodities and financial markets.Danielle Mountjoy, a mining analyst at Sun Valley Gold, moderated the session and touched upon capital raising and business risks in today's markets and the...Read More

Ontario-focused Harte Gold (TSX: HRT; US-OTC: HRTFF) has announced plans to go ahead with an expansion of its Sugar Zone mine to 1,200 tonnes per day, from the current 800 tonnes per day throughput, based on strong feasibility study economics.The latest study suggests that an incremental $21 million in expansion capital could grow throughputs by 50% starting in the first quarter of 2023. As a resu...Read More

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Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE:EGO) is buying QMX Gold Corp. (TSXV: QMX) by acquiring all the shares it doesn't already own in the Quebec-focused explorer, in a deal worth $132 million (US$105 million).The friendly acquisition will see Eldorado, which currently owns about 68.13 million shares of QMX or roughly 17% of the junior, paying each QMX shareholder 7.5 ? in cash and 0.02 of an Eldorado com...Read More

I stood watching in abject horror as a man dropped his pants in the street and began shitting himself.My colleagues and I were in downtown San Francisco to give presentations at a global investment conference, and we simply wanted to grab a sandwich and a coffee in between our speeches. Now, having our headquarters in Baltimore, I was quite used to scatological behavior. I plan on writing a book a...Read More

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