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

(IDEX Online) - GIA is joining Tracr, the blockchain platform developed by De Beers, to strengthen consumer confidence in natural diamonds.Consumers buying a diamond traced from source by Tracr and graded by GIA will receive enhanced information on the stone's provenance.Tracr  is the only distributed diamond blockchain that starts at the source and operates at scale.It has registered mo...Read More

"It works well in the Andes [mountains] as it is drier, so there is less dilution on the leach pad, there is a reasonable temperature without drastic highs and lows, and it really likes chalcopyrite,"Read More

And he's not just endorsing it - he's making it mandatory. Did you ever wonder why Big Government and its hive of financial cronies were so opposed to crypto? It's because they've had this plan in the works for longer than any of us could have imagined. The unquantifiable "they" I'm referring to are the political string-pullers that exist far above presidents and Congress members. They...Read More

The project contemplates two new phases to the existing pit, developing an underground mine 5km from the pit which will be accessed via a tunnel from the pit, and an upgrade to the mine's waterRead More

Writing about gold sometimes lands me in hot water.Readers have sent me more than my fair share of nastygrams over the past decade as gold chopped through a secular bear market.If I marked up a chart that led me to believe the yellow metal was close to another breakdown, my inbox would overflow with letters from angry gold bugs.Most dissenters were cordial enough. But a few would employ, well, let...Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelTo be sure, resource nationalism has been around a long time and miners have always had to risk being stuck with higher taxes and royalties than originally agreed with national governments.Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelEvolution Energy Minerals, EcoGraf and Peak Rare Earths were all invited to the capital Dodoma for yesterday's signing ceremony at the new Chamwino State House, ending years of setbacks since theRead More

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Speaking at the 2023 CESCO Mining Exploration Forum in Santiago, Chile, the minister said that while world exploration budgets increased in 2022, with Chile representing 5.Read More

Together with its direct lithium extraction technology partner, Lilac Solutions, Lake announced the production of 2,500kg of lithium carbonate equivalents at the Kachi lithium pilot plant.Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Sigma Lithium Corp. [SGML-TSXV, NASDAQ] has successfully and safely achieved first production of green lithium, thus concluding the commissioning process and transitioning the company from developer to producer.Completing the commissioning of the phase 1 green tech plant is the final critical milestone in the development of the Grota do Cirilo project in Brazil an...Read More

"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it."- Attributed to Albert EinsteinDear Outsider,We receive a lot of questions from readers about the basics of investing.Whenever I make an investment, I begin by asking myself one simple question: What is my goal?For me personally, I want to be able to live off my investments. Wheneve...Read More

The panel discussion featured the viewpoints from three different parts of the copper supply chain: representing copper producers was Read More