Digging Deep

End of Banks in Canada?

September 16, 2024

Defense Metals in the Media

February 16, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 2

January 11, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

January 02, 2023

Can Gold Hit $3,000 in 2024?

29 December, 2023

Will Bitcoin ETFs Kill Gold?

November 21, 2023

What's Next for Gold?

06 June, 2023

Platinum and Palladium

February 2022

Transition to Production

June 15, 2021

Silver Suppression?!

February 02, 2021

Gold: Year in Review 2020, and 2021 Outlook

January 04, 2021

Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

AbraPlata: CMR's full analysis of an Argentina focussed gold and silver junior

May 2020

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

The return of oil sands mining

May 03, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsSuncor Energy, a C$67 billion Canadian business with a foot in both the mining and oil industries,...Read More

Study Points to High-Value Rough at Canada Site

May 03, 2022 / www.diamonds.net

RAPAPORT... Star Diamond Corporation's Canadian mining project contains a "significant" proportion of high-value, type IIa rough, according to a study the company performed.The Star-Orion South site in Saskatchewan, which the company owns in partnership with Rio Tinto, holds an "unusually high" number of these stones in multiple units within the mining area, Star Diamond said Monday. In one portio...Read More

Diamond Trading Reflects Market Split

May 03, 2022 / www.diamonds.net

RAPAPORT PRESS RELEASE, May 3, 2022, Las Vegas... The diamond market slowed in April due to geopolitical tensions and the seasonal effects of the Passover and Easter holidays. Steady US retail demand supported the trade, but dealer activity was sluggish amid price uncertainty, Chinese lockdowns and Russian sanctions. The RapNet Diamond Index (RAPI?,,?) for 1-carat diamonds fell 3.2% during the mon...Read More

Rumours swirl Anglo plotting $1.5bn Botswana copper...

May 03, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth minerals Stories are doing the rounds that CEO Duncan Wanblad and his team are casting a slide rule over t...Read More

Petra's Rough Sales Fall by almost 40%

May 03, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Petra's rough sales tally was down by almost 40 per cent at its latest tender. In March the UK-based miner sold 735,222 carats for $140.6m. In April it sold 635,806 carats for $86.1m, down by 38.8 per cent.Like-for-like rough diamond prices decreased by almost a quarter (23.7 per cent). Like-for-like prices at its March tender were up 37.6 per cent on December 2021.Per-ca...Read More

Christie's Flawless 103-ct Diamond Could Sell for $18m

May 03, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Christie's New York is to auction a 103.49-ct diamond with a high estimate of $18m.The Light of Africa Diamond is a D color, flawless, Type IIa emerald-cut from the iconic Cullinan mine, in South Africa.It will lead the New York Magnificent Jewels sale on 8 June, as part of Christie's Luxury Week.The diamond (pictured) was cut and polished in South Africa from a 299.3 car...Read More

US Consumers put Brakes on Watch and Jewelry Sales

May 03, 2022 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Jewelry and watch sales in the US slowed suddenly in March.  They were still growing, but at just 8.5 per cent year-on-year, compared with 28.4 per cent in February. Growth in March was the slowest we've seen since January 2020, during the very early days of the pandemic. Year-on-year growth peaked last April - up by an unprecedented 218 per cent - indicating strong...Read More

Anglo's Los Bronces permit denied

May 03, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsAnglo American said it is examining the details of the decision and expects to continue following...Read More

NGM: breaking the staffing mould or retention issues?...

May 03, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

NGM holds three tier-one gold mines (Turquoise Ridge, Carlin and Cortez) within ten underground and 12 open pit mines, two autoclave facilities, two roasting facilities, four oxide mills, a flotationRead More

Australia's worker shortage starting to bite

May 03, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixOreCorp prepares to deliver Tanzania's next big gold mineSPONSOREDorecorpArrow Minerals on the gold discovery path in West AfricaSPONSOREDarrow mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsA countrywide shortage of labour, skilled and unskilled, had a significant effect on mine producti...Read More

Tech Talk for Tuesday May 3rd 2022

May 03, 2022 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were mixed this morning. S&P 500 futures were unchanged in pre-opening trade. Avis advanced $19.44 to $300.00 after reporting a swing to a first quarter profit. Clorox dropped $2.98 to $140.30 after lowering earnings guidance.Expedia gained $2.69 to $177.50 after narrowing its first quarter loss.Devon Energy added $1.60 to $59.95 after announcing a dividend increase a...Read More

Artemis Gold inks $312M construction contract for Blackwater plant in BC

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Artemis Gold (TSXV: ARTG) has moved closer to the start of construction at its Blackwater gold project in British Columbia with the award of a $312-million, engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning (EPC) contract for the processing plant and associated infrastructure to Sedgman Canada. The contract is expected to be executed by June 30, this year. Construction of the plant, whi...Read More

The Northern Miner Podcast - episode 289: Demand and political risk weigh on mining stocks, ft Global X director of research Rohan Reddy

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

This week's episode features Global X director of research Rohan Reddy in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on mining stocks, market sentiment, the dollar and precious metals. Reddy suggests that mining stock valuations are suffering because of jurisdicitional risk and he expects the rally in uranium to maintain itself based on low supplies.All this and more with host Adrian Pocobelli.Music...Read More

Copper Mountain, Gahcho Ku?(C) receive MAC's 2022 TSM Excellence Awards

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The Mining Association of Canada's (MAC) Community of Interest Advisory Panel has selected the Gahcho Ku?(C) mine, owned as a joint venture between De Beers Group and Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; US-OTC: MPVDF), and Copper Mountain Mining (TSX: CMMC) to receive this year's prestigious Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Excellence Awards in recognition of their innovative sustainability p...Read More

Ivanhoe eyes Phase 3 expansion at Kamoa-Kakula in the DRC

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN; US-OTC: IVPAF) has said that the Phase 3 expansion at its Kamoa-Kakula copper mining complex in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will increase its annual copper production to about 600,000 tonnes by the fourth quarter of 2024, making it the world's third-largest copper mining complex. Commercial production at the operation began on July 1, 2021, with Phase 2 produc...Read More

Unions set to intensify Sibanye-Stillwater strike on exec 'wage wallop'

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

South Africa's Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) has resolved to push ahead with intensifying strike action at precious metals miner Sibanye-Stillwater's (JSE: SSW; NYSE: SBSW) local gold mines.Amcu general secretary, Jeff Mphahlele, tells The Northern Miner the union and the rival National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) met with Sibanye-Stillwater on May 2 for another round of...Read More

Deconstructing Ross Beaty: Exclusive interview at the Mining Legends Speaker Series

May 03, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The Mining Legends Speaker Series kicked off with an inaugural in-person event in Vancouver featuring mining entrepreneur and Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee Ross Beaty and rising talent Maggie Layman, vice-president of Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV). Organized by The Northern Miner, the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame and Young Mining Professionals, the series pairs CMHF inductees with accom...Read More

RT @Fission3Corp: Fission 3.0 to Spend $7.9M on 5 Athabasca Basin Properties

May 03, 2022 / ow.ly

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Canex Announces Equity Financing and Welcomes Strategic Investor Michael Gentile, CFA

May 03, 2022 / bit.ly

Blair Schultz Joins Board Of DirectorsNOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO U.S. NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES.Canex Metals Inc. (Read full newsRead More

Sarama Resources Investor Briefing

May 03, 2022 / bit.ly

Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (ASX: SRR, TSX-V: SWA) advises that an Investor Briefing will be held via webcast following the Company's commencement of trading on the Australian Securities Exchange ("ASX") on 2 May 2022. Sarama's President, CEO & MD, Andrew Dinning, will provide ...Read full newsRead More

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