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

Legendary investor Warren Buffett is known for being uninterested in gold, but what comments has he actually made about the yellow metal?Read full newsRead More

Deep-South Resources Inc. announces that it will close $1 millionRead full newsRead More

If global investors reallocated just 5% of their financial assets to gold that would be $14.7 trillion of increased demand trying to purchase less than $1.8 trillion of privately held gold bullion.Read full newsRead More

Jim Paterson, chairman and CEO of ValOre Metals Corp, said investor sentiment had moved "from apathy, or fear, to FOMO [fear of missing out]" over the past year.Read More

The approval allows for FMG to expand the material handling capacity from 175 million tonnes per annum to 210Mtpa on a staged basis.Read More

Scoped for growth: Nevada Copper shifts into production modeSPONSOREDnevada copper corp.AVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsThe discovery was made on a 75m step-out drill hole which intercepted 282m grading 0.7% copper and 0.49 grams per tonne gold for 1.16% copper-equivalent, including a 45.7m intercept grading 1.Read More

Auroch taps into further nickel potentialSPONSOREDauroch mineralsAVZ closes on financing for tier-one lithium projectSPONSOREDavz mineralsElement 25's Butcherbird on songSPONSOREDelement 2588 Energy (ASX:88E) Prepares for Billion Barrel Farm OutSPONSORED88 energyIndia's mining ministry proposed a series of legislative changes on August 24 that will effectively mean around 500 exploration licen...Read More

The company today announced that it had awarded the world's first LNG-fuelled Newcastlemax bulk carrier tender to Eastern Pacific Shipping, with the aim of GHG emissions by more than 30% per voyage.Read More

The COVID-19 death toll is now approaching a bleak 190,000 in America. Fully six months after the virus first arrived on our shores, we're still wearing masks. We're still social distancing. And many of us are still working from home. There's a global effort underway to develop a vaccine but it's not likely to be released any time soon. And time is running short with summer drawing to a close.Wh...Read More

Benchmark Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company focused on the Lawyer's Gold and Silver project, located in the Golden Triangle of BC, Canada.Read full newsRead More

Peter A Ball, President and CEO of NV Gold Corp, spoke to us about the latest update from the ongoing exploration program at their high-grade Exodus Gold Pro...Read full newsRead More

GOLDEN RIDGE RESOURCES LTD. (TSXV:GLDN) (Read full newsRead More

Further to its news release dated August 19, 2020, the Company has closed the initial tranche of its non-brokered private placement.Read full newsRead More

Figure 1 Location map of Mineral Ridge and ownership boundary. Figure 2 Mineral Ridge highlighting areas of previous mining, planned mining and exploration target areas. Figure 3 Limited surface rock chip sampling results for the Mineral Ridge claims.VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 31, 2020 (GLOBERead full newsRead More

Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) is pleased to report new intersections of strong uranium mineralization in the initial drill holes of the summer campaign at the Hurricane zone. The Hurricane zone is a recent discovery of high-grade uranium mineralization on the Company's 100% owned Larocque East property (the "Property") in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of Saskatche...Read More

U.S. sanctions and a collapsing oil industry are prompting Venezuela to step up its push into gold mining, including in protected areas of the Amazon.Read full newsRead More

Positive manufacturing data and talk of further fiscal stimulus buoyed markets.The S&P/ASX 200 also closed higher yesterday, up 1.8%, despite news Australia had officially entered its first recession in almost 30 years due to COVID-19.The gold price has softened about US$20 an ounce from this time yesterday to $1,940/oz on the spot market.Cardinal Resources (TSX: CDV) was one of the bigger mar...Read More

Three dams and three dikes were issued negative Stability Condition Declarations (DCEs), the company said yesterday.However the Brazil-based miner said there would be no impact on its already revised 2020 iron ore production guidance, which it tipped in July would likely reach the lower end after a challenging second quarter. Vale said yesterday it had started level one emergency protocols fo...Read More

Prominent gold commentator John Hathaway appeared on the second day of The Northern Miner's Global Mining Symposium. In January, after 22 years at Tocqueville Asset Management, the veteran investment manager moved to Toronto-headquartered Sprott Asset Management (TSX: SII; NYSE: SII), where he is now senior portfolio manager and managing director.Hathaway spoke with Dean McPherson, head of busines...Read More

President Mike Romanik said the explorer was "very pleased" Sprott had agreed to invest about $6.5 million, which would increase the high-profile investor's stake to 19.9%.First Majestic would subscribe for $700,000 worth of the shares on offer, resulting in a holding of about 16.4%.The placement was priced at $1.40 per share.Silver Dollar had listed on the Canadian Securities Exchange in May afte...Read More