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

Piper Sandler hiked its price target on Tesla all the way up to $928 from $729After a brief pullback last week, it seems like the shares of electric automaker Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) are on their way back up the charts. In fact, the stock is already up 7% to trade at $918.31 in electronic trading this morning, after Piper Sandler hiked its price target all the way to $928 from $729, predicting the...Read More

Historical data points to an extended rallyAfter an incredible 2019 whereby equities shook off the holiday blues of the year prior and the S&P 500 Index (SPX) gained nearly 30%, you'd be inclined to think that a consolidation of price action would be in the cards, right? Well, as it turned out, a continuation of the rally predicated on super-low interest rates and a healthy fear of missing out hav...Read More

Virigin Galactic stock has been rising rapidlyWe've continued to keep a close eye on sentiment in the markets with stocks trading at all-time highs, and lately it's been hard to ignore the rise of a few "cult" stocks in recent months. Grabbing the most headlines -- and the attention of traders on a number of social media sites -- has been Tesla (TSLA), as the shares have rocketed up the charts to...Read More

Gold futures rose more than 1% above US$1,600 an ounce and gold was worth $1,600.60/oz on the spot market at the time of writing.Palladium surged to a new record and was trading earlier at $2,536/oz on the spot market.Base metals, bar lead, sank on the London Metal Exchange yesterday.The S&P500 closed lower, as did European and Australasian indices except the Shanghai Composite Index, which ma...Read More

Rio had moved to acquire a majority stake in Star's Fort à la Corne project, dubbed Project FalCon, in November - years ahead of schedule.Read More

Orica's share price (ORI) edged down marginally this morning on the news of its planned acquisition of Grupo Breca's 83.5% stake in Exsa, which is listed on the Lima Stock Exchange and had a market capitalisation after a circa-30% jump in its share price yesterday of about US$50 million.It plans to bid for Exsa minorities (16.5% balance of the company) via tender offers "in accordance with Peruvia...Read More

The rate of new infections in China of the Covid-19 virus seems to have stabilised, just as the death toll climbed above 2,000 and 75,193 confirmed cases of coronavirus are being monitored across the globe. However, the ripple effects the pandemic have wreaked on global supply chains are only now being felt, and questions linger on how long the impact on commodities such as zinc, lead, copper and...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Great Atlantic Resources Corp. [GR-TSXV] announced it has received analytical results for the fifth through tenth drill holes completed during the 2019 Phase 1 diamond drilling program at its Golden Promise Gold Property, located within the central Newfoundland gold belt. The drilling program was conducted at the Jaclyn Main Zone.The analytical resul...Read More

Canadian exploration junior Star Diamond said on Tuesday that it would take all necessary actions to ensure that its interests in the Star-Orion South project, in which Rio Tinto Exploration Canada (RTEC) is earning into, were protected.The company said that RTEC’s purported exercise in November 2019 of its four options under the option to joint venture agreement of June 2017 did not comply...Read More

(IDEX Online) Collector Larry West has added a unique Siberian stone to his famed array of pink diamonds. He is now proud owner of a 6.21-carat cushion cut fancy intense pink purple diamond that was unearthed and polished by Alrosa. The stone, from Yakutia, a region in northeastern Siberia, came with an electronic passport that included a detailed visual history of its extraction and production,...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucapa reports "promising" results in its search for alluvial diamonds in Lulo, Angola. The ASX-listed Lucapa Diamond Company says 45 diamonds of up to 3.75 carats, and a number of D-colours (according to preliminary analysis), have been recovered from stream bulk sampling. The exploration of hard-rock kimberlite sources is taking place in the Canguige tributary draining into the...Read More

Star Diamond Says Rio Tinto Options Exercise not Compliant with JV Terms(IDEX Online) - Star Diamond Corporation has told Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. (RTEC) that its "purported exercise" of its four options under the Option to Joint Venture Agreement did not comply with the terms of the agreement.  In November 2019, Rio Tinto announced its intention to take a majority ownership in...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesAlways a good measure of the underlying economy, the copper price has stabilised and even appears to be showing a modest upward trend as speculators take early-bird positions in what they believe willRead More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesIt said the community of Chilloroya had formally approved a surface rights agreement, although it said additional consultation between the government and local community was required before HudbayRead More

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesWhile Canaccord's head of mining research Reg Spencer believes the full impact of coronavirus is yet to be felt, any assumption around it being brought under control means the current period could in fact represent a ‘buying' opportunity on the basis of future stimulus spending in China.   As such, Spencer is positi...Read More

Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe index put the month's average at 90.1, up from December's 88.9.The figures have ranged over the past 12 months from 85.2 in April to 93.8 in July.Artemis all set thanks to unique approachSPONSOREDartemis resourcesThe observations showed activity was "particularly strong" in Europe during January, and while there was a slight re...Read More

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaI wrote last week that I thought we were all going to die a horrible viral death, drowning in our own phlegm.Read More

Controversial development plans for Northern Dynasty Minerals' (TSX: NDM; NYSE-AM: NAK) wholly-owned Pebble project in southwest Alaska's Bristol Bay region, have swung further in the company's favour following the release of a preliminary version of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' final environmental impact statement (EIS).The executive summary of the draft EIS, recently leaked to the media, ta...Read More

The flurry of M&A transactions last year brought a much-awaited consolidation of the global gold sector. It also brought significant changes to the Canadian mining landscape: Newmont's (NYSE: NEM) takeover of Goldcorp wiped a major Canadian firm off the board, and Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), while still Canadian, has undeniably shifted its focus away from the country, with few executives...Read More

Cardinal heading down familiar gold roadSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesSarama right in the middle of big exploration, corporate build-upSPONSOREDsarama resources Exore excels in Cote d'IvoireSPONSOREDexore resourcesCase study: platform financeSPONSOREDminexiaBoth hugely successful miners now have direct operating exposure into North America via their acquisitions of assets in Alaska and Ontario, r...Read More