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

Sep 21, 2020 (Baystreet.ca via COMTEX) --Analysts remain bullish on gold. UBS for example believes gold could run even further and remain high “for...Read full newsRead More

It was back in September 2015 that first reports surfaced about VW cheating with diesel emission readings, costing a number of senior company executives their careers and crushing the sales of VW'sRead More

(IDEX   Online) - More than 1,000 police officers were deployed in a crackdown on diamond smuggling in China earlier this month, customs bosses have revealed.The gems were being brought in through Hong Kong to Shenzen, home to over 2,000 diamond factories, to evade a four per cent import tax.Further details of the operation, on 1 September, have now been disclosed, according to the China...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A new set of standards for grading polished diamonds has been drawn up and published by the ISO.The Geneva-based organization certifies the quality of a vast range of 23,000 products, services and systems across the world.It has now issued a ground-breaking 55-page document for the diamond industry specifying the terminology, classification and methods are used for grading and desc...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Total sales of jewelry and watches in the US continued their recovery with a remarkable nine per cent bounce in July. Perhaps we should no longer be surprised by extremes in the way markets behave during a global pandemic. Overall sales plunged by a record 50 per cent in April - worse than the 1929 Wall Street Crash - the first full month to suffer the impact of global lockdowns a...Read More

Trident aims to fill valuable nicheSPONSOREDtrident royaltiesNew Horizon beckons for gold minerSPONSOREDhorizon mineralsSaturn Metals' Leonora star is risingSPONSOREDsaturn metalsWaihi District, a Golden Opportunity in New Zealand SPONSOREDoceanagoldThe magnetic survey showed up four "large-scale" anomalies that were at least as large as the sulphide anomaly that sat beneath the Marimaca oxide...Read More

Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.The company reached agreement with the Queensland government, which is providing a one-off incentive as part of its North Queensland Recovery Plan.Neither party disclosed the quantum of the incentive.Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.Glencore will invest mor...Read More

Raymond James forecasts higher average prices for copper, nickel, lead, zinc and iron ore, but lower prices for uranium, its analysts wrote in a research note.The financial services firm has increased its average copper price forecast for this year to US$2.71 per lb., up from its previous estimate of US$2.62 per pound. Next year, it expects copper will average US$2.80 per lb. (up from US$2.70 per...Read More

Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: SKREF) has initiated a 20,000-metre drill program at its flagship 1,073-sq.-km Troilus gold project in Quebec's Frotet-Evans greenstone belt.The program is designed to upgrade existing resources and grow mineralization across the past-producing property.Although the drilling is scheduled to take place by year-end, Troilus Gold chief executive Justin Reid said, "dril...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) and Japan Gold (TSXV: JG) are expanding their footprint in the Asian country with the acquisition of the Kanehana project, which comprises 40 new claims and covers seven historic gold mines.The asset spans 124 sq. km and adjoins the west side of the Japan Gold's Ikutahara project on Hokkaido, the country's second-largest island.Under a joint venture formed in Fe...Read More

For a province of just over a million people, Saskatchewan punches above its weight in the Canadian mining industry. While potash and uranium continue to be mainstays in the province, there has been increasing diversification within the sector to include base metals, lithium, diamonds and rare earth elements.Like the rest of the country, Saskatchewan went into a lockdown in March as Covid-19 sprea...Read More

Great Bear Resources (TSXV: GBR; US-OTC: GTBAF) has retained B.C.-based Blue Coast Research to complete metallurgical test work and consulting for its Dixie gold project in Ontario's Red Lake district.The test work is expected to provide the gold explorer with metallurgical recovery estimates and processing flow sheet recommendations for the Dixie project zones, which are required to publish an in...Read More

Russian-Zimbabwean platinum venture Great Dyke Investments (GDI) has cleared an important hurdle to develop what it would be the African nation's largest mine of the precious metal.GDI, 50% owned by Russia's Vi Holding and Zimbabwean investors, said the African Export-Import Bank had completed a due diligence study allowing it to proceed with a $500 million funding program for the Darwendale proje...Read More

Share this article If you are an investor in resource stocks, then the first and a half months of 2020 have been very kind to you, especially so if your portfolio has been over-weighted to the gold/silver sector.I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure that other than the high flying technology sector, the gold/silver sector has been the top performing market segment so far this year...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucky Kevin Kinard unearthed a diamond weighing over nine carats on a day trip to a park in Arkansas, USA. He was sifting at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, near Murfreesboro, the world's only dig-your-own-diamond attraction, situated on a disused mine. The 9.07-ct stone found by Kevin, 33, is the second largest since the park opened for amateur diamond hunters in 1972. The...Read More

The selloff continues. The S&P 500 is now 8% off its record high set earlier this month. The NASDAQ is 10% off. Gold is now down around 10% from its record high as well. This isn't a doom piece. The S&P had a gap to fill from when everyone thought the world was going to end in March. A little strength in the dollar. A dash of volatility in the couple tech stocks propping the whole thing up.....Read More

In this interview, Andrew O'Donnell is joined by the President and CEO of FPX Nickel, based in Vancouver, Canada. The key topics they discuss are ?EUR? Carbon Ne...Read full newsRead More

The world's top gold miners sought to reassure investors on Monday that they're not going on a spending spree despite surging gold prices boosting their shares and free cash flow.Read full newsRead More

The world's top gold miners sought to reassure investors on Monday that they're not going on a spending spree despite surging gold prices boosting their shares and free cash flow.Read full newsRead More

Noble Mineral Exploration Inc. is pleased to announce that a diamRead full newsRead More