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

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Jon Case, portfolio manager at CI Investments, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the open letter to global gold companies advocating for change in their governance and operations.Read full newsRead More

Jon Case, portfolio manager at CI Investments, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss the open letter to global gold companies advocating for change in their governance and operations.Read full newsRead More

NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ --NEW YORK, Sept. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- With government spending skyrocketing and the value of the U.S....Read full newsRead More

Sentiment was buoyed by renewed hopes of US fiscal stimulus, and improvements in industrial companies' profits in China, ahead of the country's Golden Week holiday which begins on October 1.There was keen interest in lithium stocks following Tesla's news it planned to build a lithium hydroxide chemical plant in Texas; and Piedmont Lithium confirmed a spodumene sales agreement with the EV manufactu...Read More

It's the second time in a year Vale has had to suspend Viga's concentration plant.It estimated impact of the latest temporary stoppage was about 11,000 tons of iron ore fines per day.Vale said the B7 dam was suspended on September 24 in compliance with a court decision regarding a public civil action filed by the municipality of Jeceaba.It said as a result, Viga's concentration plant was also susp...Read More

The Sao Miguel Paulista refinery is costing Jervois $22 million in staged payments between now and mid-2023, and has a stated production capacity of 25,000t of nickel and 2000t of cobalt.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Raiders broke in through the roof of a Kay Jewelers store - part of the Signet group - and fled with an estimated $1m of jewelry.Police responded to an emergency call after the alarm went off in the early hours last Friday morning, but looked through the windows and saw no evidence that anything was amiss.When staff arrived for work hours later at the store in Hinnesville, Georgia,...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The French luxury conglomerate LVMH yesterday countersued Tiffany & Co, claiming the takeover agreement had become invalidated by the coronavirus pandemic. LVMH backed out of its delayed ?, ?16.2bn purchase three weeks ago, citing pressure from the French government over a tariffs war with the US and saying the deal was "no longer possible". Tiffany responded by suing LVMH.&nb...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's exports of lab-grown diamonds surged by a record 40 per cent in August.They represent a tiny fraction of its overall diamond production, but have shown sustained growth during the pandemic, while sales of natural stones have suffered badly.Year-on year exports of lab-growns were 37 per cent up in June, 22 per cent up in July and 40 per cent up in August, according to t...Read More

Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.The SAVANT platform, which uses satellite data to monitor up to 90% of copper smelting capacity around the world, said the global activity dispersion index averaged 44.2 during the month, a sequential improvement but still the lowest recording for August since 2016's 41.5."The most striking data in August was t...Read More

Large scale property acquisitions peaked in 2016-2017 led by China Molybdenum's purchase of the Tenke Fungurume mine in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.China Molybdenum bought Freeport-McMoRan's (NYSE: FCX) 56% stake in the copper-cobalt mine in November 2016 and picked up Lundin Mining's (TSX: LUN) 24% interest in April 2017 for a total consideration of $3.8 billion, based on data from Minin...Read More

Solaris Resources (TSXV: SLS) has reported assay results for the second and third drill holes completed as part of a 40,000-metre drill program at its Warinzta project in southeastern Ecuador. The program is the first drill campaign in 20 years at the 268-sq.-km project.Hole SLS-02 hit 660 metres of 0.97% copper-equivalent (0.79% copper, 0.03% molybdenum, and 0.1 gram gold per tonne) starting at s...Read More

Lion Battery Technologies is pushing forward with plans to develop lithium-ion batteries that use platinum and palladium to enhance battery performance.The company was formed as a joint venture between Platinum Group Metals (TSX: PTM; NYSE: PLG) and Anglo American Platinum (US-OTC: ANGPY), the world's largest producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), and aims to accelerate the development of n...Read More

This week's episode features DeepGreen Metals chairman and CEO Gerard Barron, who discusses the merits of deep-sea mining as an environmentally-friendly method of resource extraction. Gerard talks about his previous investment in Nautilus Minerals, the strategy behind mining polymetallic nodules, and what it's like to deal with the International Seabed Authority and the United Nations on mining pr...Read More

GR Silver Mining (TSXV: GRSL; US-OTC: GRSLF) has discovered high-grade polymetallic disseminated and massive sulphide-rich mineralization during initial underground channel sampling on the lower level of the historic Plomosas mine at its Plomosas silver project in Mexico's Sinaloa state.GR Silver says assay results from one of the saw channel samples returned 16 metres of 90 grams silver per tonne...Read More

Jervois Mining (TSXV: JRV; US-OTC: JRVMF) is buying a nickel and cobalt refinery in Brazil from Companhia Brasileira de Alum?-nio for 125 million reals (US$22.1 million) in an effort to transform the company into a producer and refiner of battery metals.The miner said the S??o Miguel Paulista refinery in S??o Paulo had a production capacity of 25,000 tonnes per year nickel and 2,000 tonnes per yea...Read More

Tesla recharges the global battery industry but simplistic presentation causes chaosBattery-metal explorers and producers ought to coin a new (transitive) verb; "to Musk" is to confuse a science that is already complicated. Lithium developers, in particular, have been 'musked' since Tesla's Battery Day on Sept. 22.As already reported in The Northern Miner, there has been an incredibly diverse resp...Read More

Authorities in Queensland have granted Pembroke Resources a mining lease for its A$1 billion (US$710 million) Olive Downs mine, which is poised to become the state's third-largest coal operation.The mine, 40 km south of Moranbah in the Bowen Basin, will have a productive life of 80 years and will create 1,000 jobs, according to Annastacia Palaszczuk, Queensland's premier and trade minister.Core co...Read More