The precious metals all soared in 2025, and while a continued monetary expansion and geopolitical risk could still drive gains especially for gold in 2026, a pullback in silver, platinum and palladium is possible after recent partly speculative surges.Read More

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

Cobalt developer Global Energy Metals (TSX-V: GEMC)has shed more light on the use of drones at its Nevada-based battery mineralexploration assets. Global Energy - which revealed plans to co-list inLondon earlier this year - has contracted MWH Geo-Surveys International (MWH) tofly Unmanned AeRead full newsRead More

Russ Parker has been the CEO of Crater Gold Mining Limited (ASX:CGN) since 2015. First, this article will compare CEO...Read full newsRead More

Russ Parker has been the CEO of Crater Gold Mining Limited (ASX:CGN) since 2015. First, this article will compare CEO...Read full newsRead More

On the back of record quarterly revenues from its wholly owned Lac des ??les mine, 100 km northwest of Thunder Bay, Ont., pure-play palladium producer North American Palladium (TSX: PDL; US-OTC: PALDF) recently added to its regional presence by acquiring 51% of the nearby Sunday Lake platinum group metal project, just 60 km south of its mine.Originally entering an earn-in agreement in mid-2017 wit...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The National Retail Federation (NRF) is predicting holiday retail sales during November and December will increase between 3.8 percent and 4.2 percent over 2018 to a total of between $727.9 billion and $730.7 billion. This is just slightly above the average 3.7 percent increase seen over the past five years.NRF expects online and other non-store sales, which are included in the tot...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The mining lease for the Let?... ?eng mine in Lesotho has been renewed for 10 years, Gem Diamonds Ltd has announced. This is the maximum period allowed under the 2005 Mines and Minerals Act. Under the terms of the new lease, the royalty payable in respect of diamonds sold by Let?... ?eng has increased from 8 percent to 10 percent, effective immediately. Gem will continue...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Against the backdrop of ongoing pro-democracy protests, retail sales in Hong Kong registered the largest year-on-year decline on record. All aspects of trade have been hit with the jewelry, watch, clock and valuable gifts category seeing a massive 47 percent decline in August.Department stores sales fell 30 compared to a year ago with 30-80 percent of the city's stores closed...Read More

Golden Mile goes back to the futureSPONSOREDgolden mile resourcesLang brings more than 40 years experience in the mining industry to the table, replacing Alan Hibben as agreed under a settlement with a major shareholder over a bitter battle for a board overhaul.Lang has deep experience in relevant fields of engineering, development and production at gold, copper, coal and platinum group metals ope...Read More

Oriole's deepening footprint in West Africa is paying offSPONSOREDoriole resourcesPoster South Africa mine regeneration on trackSPONSOREDorion mineralsSilver Mines times Bowdens to perfectionSPONSOREDsilver mines limitedThe future of mining is (still) peopleSPONSOREDproudfoot"Market speculation on the potential acquisition of First Quantum provided a short respite to copper-levered names. Howe...Read More

Fission Uranium (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) has released an updated prefeasibility study (PFS) for an underground-only mine at its wholly owned Patterson Lake South (PLS) uranium project in northwestern Saskatchewan. The updated PFS follows an earlier study of an open-pit and underground operation released in April.The PFS tables a 1,000-tonne-per-day underground mine that will process 2.3 million t...Read More

Global economic growth concerns supported gold on Friday, once again pushing the yellow metal above the US$1,500 per ounce level.Read full newsRead More

Russ Parker has been the CEO of Crater Gold Mining Limited (ASX:CGN) since 2015. First, this article will compare CEO...Read full newsRead More

We've barely even begun to tap the potential for cannabis molecules and derivatives to revolutionize medicine.At the recent CannMed 2019 conference in Pasadena, CA, we were introduced to what may be the future.A group of scientists have developed a way to create synthetic and stable acids that are naturally found in cannabis plants but will rapidly degrade when the plant is harvested. This include...Read More

A well-received jobs report for September capped a week filled with disappointing economic dataU.S. stocks ended the week on a high note, with the Dow tacking on over 370 points after a well-received U.S. jobs report for September. The economy added a softer-than-forecast 136,000 jobs during the month, while the unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low of 3.5%. The lukewarm data effectively served...Read More

The nickel market is being roiled by Indonesia's impending ban on ore exports, with traders rushing to withdraw as much metal as possible.Read full newsRead More

A new report shows 10% of global copper miners are in loss making territory amid falling price and higher costs.Read full newsRead More

HP will cut up to 16% of its global workforceHP Inc (NYSE:HPQ) stock is spiraling -- down 10% at $16.56, fresh off a two-year low of $16.46 -- after the tech giant said it will cut about 7,000-9,000 jobs, or up to 16% of its workforce, as part of a broader restructuring effort, which will result in a one-time charge of $1 billion. However, the company also expects these actions to result in saving...Read More

Yesterday, weed stocks were generally green. The day before too. This brought about a load of folks on social media talking about how 'cannabis is back!' and 'the bear market is over!' Ugh. Seriously, you guys. It's not over. Not by a long shot. Currently, Canopy Growth Corp (WEED.T), the big bellwether of the cannabis ...Read full newsRead More

Some AVYA options traders may just scored major profitsTwo of the biggest stock moves today are coming from RingCentral Inc (NYSE:RNG) and Avaya Holdings Corp (NYSE:AVYA). The companies last evening announced an exclusive partnership, sending the shares of each soaring, and options activity has picked up in a major way, as well. Let's jump into what's happening around RNG and AVYA shares.RNG was l...Read More

The research firm called SDC a "cash incinerating 'unicorn'"The U.S. stock market is soaring after this morning's jobs report, though all three benchmarks are headed toward a weekly loss. Two individual stocks making notable moves in today's trading are electric car concern Nio Inc (NYSE:NIO) and teledentistry name SmileDirectClub Inc (NASDAQ:SDC). Here's a quick look at what's moving the shares o...Read More