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

Share this articleCALGARY - The CEO of Suncor Energy Inc. says the Alberta government's decision to end its oil production curtailment program in December after almost two years is "a very positive signal" for the oilsands and refining giant.On a conference call, Mark Little says the end of the quota system imposed to support oil prices will allow Suncor to operate "unencumbered" as it recovers fr...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Yoram Dvash is to stand down as president of the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) to focus on his role at the helm of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses He'd been acting president of the WFDB since April and was confirmed in the position for a three-year term by a digital election two weeks ago.He replaces Ernie Blom, from South Africa, who said he was stepping aside fo...Read More

(IDEX Online) -Tiffany and LVMH have settled their highly-publicized differences over a $16.2bn takeover.The French luxury conglomerate LVMH walked away from the deal in September, citing a tit-for-tat war over US trade tariffs and a poor performance by Tiffany & Co during the pandemic.But after bitter legal threats from both sides, LVMH has now negotiated a modest three per cent ($425m) disco...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's diamond industry is calling for the duty on rough imports to be slashed from 7.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent.It also wants an exemption from a two per cent e-commerce (equalization) levy on rough sales and a tax amendment that would allow rough to be sold in the Mumbai SNZ (Special Notified Zone).The Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC) say the meas...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Diamond dealers are to be guaranteed basic banking services under a new law passed last week by Belgium's federal parliament.The move has been welcomed by the Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) which says many of its members have been rejected multiple times or have had their accounts closed.  Banks around the world are suspicious of the diamond trade, consider it t...Read More

Pantoro bullish on bigger production profileSPONSOREDpantoro limitedGenesis opens new chapter at UlyssesSPONSOREDgenesis mineralsRamelius now among WA gold frontrunnersSPONSOREDramelius resourcesAgile Mining - The Future is Smaller. Bigger is not always betterSPONSOREDproudfootThe company said a series of 25m representative grab samples from the Herradura zone were combined into one sample, with a...Read More

Pantoro bullish on bigger production profileSPONSOREDpantoro limitedGenesis opens new chapter at UlyssesSPONSOREDgenesis mineralsRamelius now among WA gold frontrunnersSPONSOREDramelius resourcesAgile Mining - The Future is Smaller. Bigger is not always betterSPONSOREDproudfootThe Canada-based company increased the lower-end of its copper guidance by 25,000 tonnes and narrowed the upper range by 1...Read More

Pantoro bullish on bigger production profileSPONSOREDpantoro limitedGenesis opens new chapter at UlyssesSPONSOREDgenesis mineralsRamelius now among WA gold frontrunnersSPONSOREDramelius resourcesAgile Mining - The Future is Smaller. Bigger is not always betterSPONSOREDproudfootThe Canadian copper producer reported total output of 38.Read More

Wallbridge Mining's (TSX: WM) flagship Fenelon gold project lies along the prospective Detour-Fenelon gold trend in north-western Quebec, 75 km west-northwest of Matagami. The 85.6 sq. km land package is 1 km north of the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone (SLDZ), a major east-west structure in the northern Abitibi greenstone belt, which also hosts Kirkland Lake Gold's (TSX: KL: NYSE: KL) Detour Lake...Read More

Pantoro bullish on bigger production profileSPONSOREDpantoro limitedGenesis opens new chapter at UlyssesSPONSOREDgenesis mineralsRamelius now among WA gold frontrunnersSPONSOREDramelius resourcesAgile Mining - The Future is Smaller. Bigger is not always betterSPONSOREDproudfootThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut back its estimate of global production losses as a result of the COVID-19 pa...Read More

The Chibougamau-Chapais region, 750 km north of Montreal, is part of the largest Archean greenstone belt in the world.The belt, better known as the Abitibi, is 150 km in width, and stretches for 650 km from just west of Timmins in Ontario to Chibougamau in Quebec.Explorers started travelling through the Chibougamau wilderness, a territory with abundant fur-bearing animals, fishing and hunting as...Read More

Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI) generated record cash flow of US$76 million during the third quarter, led by strong operating performance across its three operations in Ontario and Mexico.Alamos generated 117,100 oz. gold., and sold 116,035 oz. at an average realized price of US$1,882 per oz., at all-in sustaining costs (AISCs) of US$949 per oz. sold.The resulting record cash flow led the compan...Read More

Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE; WPM; LSE: WPM), one of the world's largest gold and silver streaming companies, began trading on the main market of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on Oct. 28.The Vancouver-based company will maintain its primary listing on the Toronto Stock and a listing on the New York Stock Exchange, Randy Smallwood, Wheaton's president and chief executive, said in an i...Read More

"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see."?EURo Edgar Allan PoeIn Baltimore, October 3rd, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found in a gutter.He was dressed in the ill-fitting clothes of a stranger, stinking drunk, and barely holding on to life. He died just a few days later.Considering the famed author's thirst for drink and drugs, it wasn't altogether an unexpected demise.However, it wa...Read More

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