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
(IDEX Online) - The first ever educational course dedicated to lab-grown diamonds is being launched for the industry by GSI.The New York-based lab has graded identified hundreds of thousands of lab-growns and will share its knowledge online through Laboratory-Grown Diamond Essentials."It is imperative that the jewelry industry has the ability to communicate about laboratory-grown diamonds confiden...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Alrosa is to extend existing three-year rough diamond supply contracts to help buyers respond to ongoing market uncertainties.The Russian miner usually analyzes trading activity at the year end, to determine who will be on its long-term client list and what product mix they'll be offered.It is delaying that assessment until the end of March 2021 "to support its clients amid th...Read More
(IDEX Online) - De Beers' diamond output showed a solid third-quarter recovery, down just four cent year-on-year despite the devastating impact of coronavirus.Total production was 7.2m carats compared with 7.4m carats in Q3 2019, according to figures released by parent company Anglo American. Output in Q2 of 2020 was less than half, 3.5m carats.Mark Cutifani, Anglo American chief executive, r...Read More
Polyus PJSC, Russia's largest gold producer, said its untapped Sukhoi Log deposit in Siberia holds the world's biggest reserves.Read full newsRead More
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) has been granted 10 new exploration licenses in Tanzania, where, until recently, it was locked in a three-year conflict over taxes and mine ownership.The Toronto-based miner, which operates three mines in the African country through Twiga Minerals, added it would spend US$8 million carrying out exploration in Tanzania this year.Twiga Minerals was born last year...Read More
Alianza Minerals Ltd. (TSXV:ANZ) (OTC:TARSF) (Read full newsRead More
Polyus PJSC, Russia's largest gold producer, said its untapped Sukhoi Log deposit in Siberia holds the world's biggest reserves.Read full newsRead More
Vancouver, BC - October 22, 2020 - Siyata Mobile Inc. (NasdaqCM: SYTA, SYTAW) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce that management will be hosting a live investor webinar on Thursday, October 29th at 2:00 PM ET. The management will be going through its updated October investor presentation which includes an overview of current operations, industry metric and upcoming milestones on it...Read More
Shares of Unigold (TSXV: UGD) rose 46%, or 14.5 ?, to 46 ? per share following positive drill results from its Candelones Extension deposit, which is part of the company's 210-sq.-km Neita Concession in the Dominican Republic.Recent drilling was designed to test potential epithermal feeder systems at Targets B and C of the deposit. The first hole to test post-mineral mafic dikes intersected a high...Read More
Canada's Wheaton Precious Metals (TSX: WPM; NYSE: WPM), one of the world's largest gold and silver streaming companies, said today it has been approved by the U.K. financial regulator to list on the London Stock Exchange (LSE).The Vancouver-based firm, which already trades in Toronto and New York, will make its debut on the LSE on Oct. 28 under the ticker WPM.The move will make Wheaton the largest...Read More
O3 Mining (TSXV: OIII) completed a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) of its Marban gold project in Quebec after only four months, and is on track to start a prefeasibility (PFS) study in 2021 and complete it by 2022.The company, which was spun out from Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) in early 2019, was able to fast-track Marban because more than $60 million had been invested in the asset before Osisk...Read More
The MINING.COM EV Metal Index, which tracks the value of battery metals in newly registered passenger EVs (including plug-in hybrids) around the world, continued to recover month on month in July, after dropping to its lowest level since January 2018 in April.With the exception of cobalt, there was a modest sequential uptick in battery raw material deployed in August, but year on year growth is ac...Read More
QMX Gold (TSXV: QMX) has drilled 44.4 grams gold per tonne over 2 metres from 170 metres downhole at its River Target, 1 km west of the past-producing Herbin mine and 16 km northwest of the junior's Bonnefond deposit. The Lac Herbin underground mine produced about 172,650 oz. gold between 2008 and 2016.The interval came from a second mineralized zone within drill hole 17421-20-056, which also retu...Read More
Earlier this week, numerous Democratic voters in Florida received threatening emails that were apparently sent by a right-wing white supremacist group.But a few days ago, the Director of National Intelligence, John Ratcliffe, and the FBI held a press conference saying that Iran was behind the emails.So apparently, it was all just another attempt at election interference that follows similar effort...Read More
Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Caroline Bain, chief commodities economist at London-based Capital Economics, told viewers of the China-focused session that China's bounce-back in recent months was already priced in to metalsRead More
Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Minor premiers Port Adelaide got knocked out of the AFL grand final, and now BHP has added to SA's misery by deciding against a US$2.Read More
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