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

The telegraphed plan to sell the two Burkina Faso mines Endeavour's push to "focus management efforts on higher quality assets," Endeavour president and chief executive Sebastien de Montessus said.Read More

(IDEX Online) - A "unique" 29.52-carat pink diamond, recovered from the banks of the middle Orange River, in South Africa, has sold on tender for $8m.   The Johannesburg-based Pioneer Diamond Tender House says it's the highest price paid for any stone they've sold.   The Type II rough diamond, named Protea Pink, after South Africa's national flower, sold for $271,307 per c...Read More

Saturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limitedReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpNavigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDThe country's official manufacturing purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell for a third consecutive month, remaining be...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Firefighters in New York tackled an electrical blaze at Tiffany & Co's new $500m flagship store, on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.Fourteen fire appliances and 80 firefighters were involved at the height of the blaze, according to the New York City Fire Department.The fire broke out on Thursday morning (29 June) before the store had opened to customers in a basement utility vault...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Gem Diamonds has recovered its second +100-ct diamond of the year at its Letseng mine, in Lesotho.The UK-based miner described it as "an impressive 163.91-carat yellow diamond".But it will be hoping for more. Recoveries of large diamonds last year were below average - four +100-cts compared with an average since 2008 of eight per year.So far it has recovered two this year. In March...Read More

Information extracted from PwC'S 2023 Mine report meanwhile showed that 70% of young (Canadian) people polled would definitely/probably not consider a career in mining, with 67% answering the same forRead 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 metalsStokes and Wanblad are a world apart in their chosen professions, and they were half-a-world apart when the issue of h...Read More

"Good artists copy; great artists steal." Pablo PicassoYou know a company has "made it" when it becomes part of the vernacular.For example, you don't look something up on the internet you Google it.You don't ship a package you FedEx it.You don't ride-share you Uber.And for a very long time, if you made copies of a document, you Xeroxed it.Xerox became a household name and an industry standa...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Botswana government is to see its share of De Beers diamonds double from 25 per cent to 50 per cent over the next 10 years, after both sides reached a last-minute agreement on Friday (30 June).Botswana's President Mokgweetsi Masisi had repeatedly threatened to walk away from the deal unless De Beers agree to more favorable terms - reportedly the 50 per cent figure.In a pre...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Round prices maintained their long-term decline during June, but fancies fared significantly better, with price rises dominating in some sizes. Prices overall have been falling since hitting their peak last February. Rounds are being badly hit by the global recession and an increasing price differential between lab growns and mined diamonds. Lab growns are becoming an increasi...Read More

By now, if you haven't been living under a rock, you've heard all about the failed "coup" in Russia against Vladimir Putin.I put the word coup in quotes for a reason. All available evidence indicates that it wasn't a coup at all. It was more of a temper tantrum.You'd think that the hapless D.C. neocons, Antony Blinken and his boss, Victoria Nuland, plus the gang at Spook Central, would have learne...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The deadline is now only hours away for De Beers and the Botswana government to renew the long-standing deal that now covers the sale of 25m carats a year.The government's minerals and energy minister Lefoko Moagi told reporters yesterday (Thursday 29 June) that no agreement had yet been reached, but that both sides were working around the clock towards today's deadline."...Read More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limited  "Supply security is a big issue for us. We are highly dependent on imports. I think this will be a big opportun...Read More

The percentage of Americans interested in buying an electric vehicle skyrocketed over the past year.A survey conducted by Ernst & Young through the months of March and April found that over 20% of respondents would consider making a fully electric vehicle their next car purchase. That's up from a scant 5% last year.Furthermore, when hybrids were added into the equation, 48% of respondents said the...Read More

Navigating the ESG Compliance LandscapeSPONSOREDReunion aims to put Guyana back on the map with Oko WestSPONSOREDreunion gold corpSaturn works dual-focus opportunitySPONSOREDsaturn metalsCopper Search starts drilling high-priority IOCG targets at PeakeSPONSOREDcopper search limited"The investment of more than $1.Read 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 metalsChanging the face of mining is a collaboration between White & Case, ARCH Emerging Markets Partners and Women in M...Read More

  "Supply security is a big issue for us. We are highly dependent on imports. I think this will be a big opportunity for Chinese companies as well.Read 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 metalsBears, however, are not giving up easily, pointing to earlier price collapses which have followed catastrophic nuclear...Read More

Globalist elites like to talk about democracy. But in reality, they don't believe in democracy.When the U.K. voted for Brexit in June 2016, the globalists were stunned. They couldn't believe it. They then did everything they could to delay and fight Brexit.Then when Donald Trump won the election as president in November 2016, the globalists were even more stunned. They went into complete denial an...Read 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 metalsSpeaking a dinner held by the Melbourne Mining Club in London, Nagle admitted that the future direction of the company...Read More