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

Collective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDepirocThe International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada (ILWU Canada) began strike action on J...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Signet ranks 56th in a new list of  top US retailers compiled by the NRF (National Retail Federation) with worldwide sales of $8.32bn in 2022.It jumps from 66th place last year, following its acquisition during 2022 of the online retailer Blue Nile for $360m and Diamonds Direct, the chain of 22 specialty jewelry stores, for $490m.In 2021 Signet also bought the jewelry-rental s...Read More

(IDEX Online) - An honest diamond broker returned eight paper packets of polished stones he found on a road in Surat.Mukesh Rabadiya was heading home from Mini Bazaar, Varaccha, Surat, when he spotted the packets, inside a plastic box, containing 20 carats, valued at $8,500.He put the diamonds in his locker at a private safe deposit vault, according to Times of India, and a fellow broker managed t...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Chow Tai Fook (CTF) today reported an increase of almost 30 per cent in its first quarter retail sales value (RSV), following the end of China's zero-tolerance Covid lockdowns.The recovery was much more pronounced in Hong Kong, Macau and other markets, which account for just over 13 per cent of the company's trade, than it was across the mainland.The RSV increase in mainl...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The world's most expensive iPhone - incorporating a Graff diamond snowflake pendant - is on the market, for $450,000.Russian company Caviar International has made three iPhone 14 Pro Max cases of platinum and 18K white gold inlaid with a total of 570 round and marquise-cut diamonds.The Diamond Snowflake is a collaboration with British jeweler Graff and is also fits the new iPh...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Israel's trade in rough diamonds has halved during the first half of this year, according to new government figures.Net imports were down 45 per cent compared with H1 2022 to $555m and net exports fell 54 per cent to $444m.Trade in polished goods has also been hit by the global slowdown, but not as badly.Net imports were $1.38bn in the first half of 2023, down 22 per cent year...Read More

Unbeknownst to economists, the Keynesian bedrock of modern economics using financial repression and government spending funded by debt to manage the business cycle of growth and recession is an artifact of a century of expansive cheap energy and virtuous demographics.Presented as quasi-scientific “laws of economics,” Keynesian policies of suppressing interest rates and funding stim...Read More

Collective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDepirocThe company offered 6.33 billion shares at a price of 1,695 rupiah each, raising some 10.73 t...Read More

Collective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDepirocThe tour of the mine which has caused Rio Tinto a seemingly endless round of ownership, techn...Read More

TikTok user Roxie Abernathy recently came to a devastating realization...The janitor at her local gas station makes as much money as she does at her desk job as a case manager in the healthcare industry."I haven't been the same since," she says in a post that's now garnered more than 855,000 views. "All love to janitors I honestly might join you at this point."After seeing her post inundated with...Read More

The assault on enterprise of the last few years meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life has taken very strange forms.Ever since The New York Times said the way forward was to "go medieval," the elites have been attempting just that. But this medievalism has not come at the expense of Big Data, Pharma, Ag or Media.It mainly hi...Read More

The latest economic data out of China was predictably weak, adding evidence that the post-Covid rebound of the start of the year was small and short-lived.Read More

"We will have to work together with the authorities in the development of the regulations for the application of these laws and ensure and ensure that they provide certainty for current and futureRead More

The company offered 6.33 billion shares at a price of 1,695 rupiah each, raising some 10.73 trillion rupiah (US$708 million). Amman was seen trading between 1,700-1,820 rupiah on July 7.Read More

Huayou purchased the Arcadia hard rock deposit from ASX-listed Prospect Resources for $422 million in 2022, and has invested a further $300 million.Read More

Reunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDepirocCollective Mining eyes repeat success in ColombiaSPONSOREDcollective mining "We will have to work together with the authorities in the development of the regulations for...Read More

The Chilean producer, which has 50% of the Mount Holland project and a lithium hydroxide refinery at Kwinana, has been gradually entering smaller farm-ins across Australia with the likes of AzureRead More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsIn a report on the net zero transition, McKinsey said that in order to accelerate mining to meet the demand from energ...Read More

The first drill hole of the summer drilling campaign at the Mavis Lake lithium project in Ontario returned 74.4m of continuous spodumene-bearing pegmatite averaging 20% spodumene.Read More

CMC is expected to be created in the near future, with European hoping to complete its A$750 million merger with the NASDAQ-listed special purpose acquisition company Sizzle.Read More