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

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

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Throughout 2021, I have been quite vociferous in my view that prices for copper (along with several other mined commodities) do not reflect fundamentals – the dynamics of supply, demand, stocks, costs and their empirically-observed relationships. My 35-year career following and opining on markets is grounded i...Read More

Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Monday, 4 December 20...Read More

As we look to 2020, copper is faced with a finely balanced market. For now, positive investor sentiment around copper’s fundamentals is supporting higher prices. Stronger demand growth is underpinned by new semis capacity, while mine supply growth will be reliant on additions from both projects and existing mines. Meanwhile, the recent approval of new copper scrap re-categorisation standards...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice.Driven by a growing list of stakeholder requirements and an explosion in creative solutions, we expect the mining industry to accelerate its adoption of technology.The sense of urgency will grow as corporates pursue net-zero CO2 pledges, improved water management, continued improvements to employee safety, and cost optimisatio...Read More

Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Thursday, 30 November...Read More

Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More

Guilty of going after tonnages and pursuing growth at any cost during bull times, the world's mining companies have suffered a wave of CEO replacements, with shareholders demanding more capital austerity and returns in the form of dividends and share buybacks.By 2016, the mining industry had given back all the value created during the Chinese growth cycle and 'capital discipline' became the new ma...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. Demand for copper — already on a rising trend — is arguably set to explode as the energy transition takes hold. In order to prevent structural deficits, unsustainably high prices and demand destruction, miners will have to invest ever-increasing sums of money in supply. In the last article in this series...Read More

For details on how your data is used and stored, see our Privacy Notice. The steady climb in copper prices since mid-2020 – and the more recent launch into the stratosphere – puts me in mind of Senator Gracchus in the film Gladiator. Specifically, his observation that fear and wonderment is a powerful combination. Why?Well, on the one hand many investors and speculators are s...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A diamond merchant reported his own 16-year-old son to police in Surat, India, for allegedly stealing polished gems worth over $62,000. According to a report filed to police, the boy stole six packets of polished diamonds, with a total weight of 269 carats. He then sold them for a tiny fraction of their real value, just $300, so he could buy an iPhone. The father, who runs a diamo...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Hammer-wielding thieves threatened security staff during a raid on a diamond store in Canada.Security guards converged on White Carat Co. Diamonds, at the Bramalea City Centre shopping mall, in Brampton, Ontario, after reports of display cases being smashed.One of the three masked raiders climbed onto a counter and appeared ready to swing a hammer at the guards, in surveillance vid...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers rough diamond sales crashed to just $80m during cycle 9 as demand virtually evaporated.That's the lowest figure since it started reporting Sight totals in 2016, down 60 per cent on cycle 8 and down 82 per cent on cycle 9 last year.Al Cook, De Beers CEO, said: "Macro-economic challenges continue to affect the diamond sector. The retail recovery in China remains slow.&n...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The UAE has taken over chairmanship of Kimberley Process (KP) for a second time, promising "a year of delivery", despite a chaotic plenary in Zimbabwe that ended last week without the usual end-of-session communique."Our work in the Kimberley Process holds greater significance than ever before," said Ahmed Bin Sulayem, executive chairman and CEO of Dubai Multi Commodities Center (D...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Earrings featuring a pair of exceptionally large fancy vivid orange-yellow diamonds, weighing 12.20 carats and 11.96 carats are to be sold at Christie's New York.The California Sunset Diamonds carry an estimate of $7m to $12m. Both stones are oval mixed-cut and natural color. The larger of the two is VVS2 clarity, the smaller is VS1.Each earring has an additional two white dia...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 16 points at 8:35 AM EST. S&P 500 futures slipped 5 points following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EST:U.S. October Producer Price Index was expected to increase 0.1% versus a gain of 0.5% in September. Actual was a decrease of 0.5%. Excluding food and energy, October PPI was expected to increase 0.2% versus...Read More

The United States House of Representatives has assented to a resolution that will keep the government in funds through Jan. 19.More Democrats voted yay than Republicans voted yay though the bill was Republican-proposed.The Senate will approve it. The president will sign it.And so Republicans will get their guns. Democrats will get their butter...Both will get their pork...And the American taxpay...Read More

Today we're considering the real environmentthat determines economic conditions.It has nothing to do with short-term data, Fed policy, conventional economic models or other factors most economic commentary focuses on.Instead, it has to do with the "trilemma," identified in the 1960s by economist Robert Mundell.Mundell identified three critical policy variables that nations face: the central bank p...Read More

CHEYENNE, Wyo., Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Gold Corp. (Nasdaq: USAU) ("U.S. Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it will be presenting and exhibiting at the Mines and Money @ Resourcing Tomorrow conference (the "Conference"), to be held in London at the end of November. U.S. Gold's management team invites shareholders and all interested parties to attend. Conference admissi...Read More

With strong financial results and progress on its mine, Ron Struthers of Struthers Resource Stock Report shares why he believes this gold stock is a Strong Buy.Argonaut Gold TSX:AR Recent Price - $0.46 Entry Price - $0.39 Opinion - Strong Buy on short squeezeToday, Argonaut Gold Inc. (AR:TSX) reported financial and operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, as well a...Read More

(IDEX Online) - India's polished diamond exports for October were down 25 per cent on September, and down 33 per cent on the same month last year, according to the latest figures from the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC). But there is no monthly breakdown of rough imports to indicate how much manufacturers are abiding by a voluntary two-month ban which started on 15 O...Read More