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

The electrification of transport is transforming the demand and supply of battery raw materials. We expect to see double-digit growth for battery raw materials over the next decade. Our latest research suggests they could face a supply crunch by the mid-2020s.Read full newsRead More

Montr?(C)al, QC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (TSX-V:SIM | OTCQX: SYATF) (the "Company" or "Siyata") is pleased to announce the commercial launch of their latest enterprise Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) offering, the Uniden (R) UV350 Desktop Dispatch Unit (DDU). The DDU is now available through cellular carriers and distributors in the United States, Canada, and Israel.Built on the foundation and...Read More

The chip sector is propping up the tech-heavy Nasdaq The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is taking a breather today, down triple digits as the latest batch of blue-chip earnings reports disappoints. The S&P 500 Index (SPX) and Nasdaq Composite (IXIC) are cautiously in the black, with the latter fresh off a new record high, as chip sector gains outweighthe scrutiny FAANG stocks are receiving...Read More

Is Highland Gold Mining Limited (LON:HGM) a good dividend stock? How can we tell? Dividend paying companies with...Read full newsRead More

UPS announced second-quarter earnings and revenue that exceeded analysts' estimates The shares of package delivery concern United Parcel Service Inc (NYSE:UPS) are up this morning on second-quarter earnings and revenue that exceeded analysts' estimates. The company cited strengthening e-commerce deliveries and a higher demand in domestic shipments, driven by increased Next Day Air volume from Amaz...Read More

Our indicators showed a put-skew on Boeing and Visa before earningsWall Street is considering a barrage of earnings releases this morning, and two of the biggest names making headlines are Dow stocks Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) and Visa Inc (NYSE:V). Below is a brief breakdown of the news and numbers to watch for the shares of BA and V today. For Boeing, traders are considering the fallout from the compan...Read More

Boeing suffered a major loss of $5.82 per share, while Caterpillar also reported an earnings miss A disappointing day for blue chips in the earnings arena has Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures reversing course, signaling a roughly 100-point loss this morning. Trade-sensitive stocks Caterpillar (CAT) and Boeing (BA) are in the spotlight after CAT posted a second-quarter earnings and rev...Read More

The construction giant cited slowing Chinese sales for its earnings missCaterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT) stock is down 5% in electronic trading, after the big-cap construction concern reported adjusted second-quarter earnings of $2.83 per share. Not only was this below the consensus estimate, but it was down 4.7% from its year-ago profit, on slowing demand in China. Revenue of $14.43 billion fell just...Read More

Is Highland Gold Mining Limited (LON:HGM) a good dividend stock? How can we tell? Dividend paying companies with...Read full newsRead More

Gold hasn't been this expensive, in silver terms, in a quarter-centuryThis week, I'm looking at gold and silver, which are behaving very strange lately relative to each other. The chart below shows the two commodities since 2010. Gold has shot higher recently to its highest levels since 2013. Silver, on the other hand, has moved higher recently, but has significantly lagged behind gold. Gold/Silve...Read More

Australian mining engineer Palmer was Newmont's COO and promoted to the dual roles of president and COO last year.In February, former Rio Tinto executive Rob Atkinson was announced COO, effective June 1, freeing up Palmer to take on the CEO role when Gary Goldberg retired in the fourth quarter.Newmont said Goldberg would serve as executive advisor to support Palmer and the executive leadership tea...Read More

Severalmaz, the Lomonosov mining and processing division of Alrosa, said that in the first half of this year, it had increased its production with 21 percent to more than 1.9 million carats of rough diamonds, 340,000 carats more than in the same period of 2018. In January-June, the Lomonosov mining and processing division mined 1.8 million tons of ore and processed almost 1.7 million tons. More th...Read More

De Beers Group's carbon-capture research at the Gahcho Kue mine in Canada has received a funding boost following the award of a C$675,000 grant from Natural Resources Canada's Clean Growth Program towards pioneering research in partnership focused on delivering carbon-neutral diamond mining. The project in Canada is part of a De Beers Group global research program that includes studies,...Read More

In response to the severe global health and ecological impacts resulting from the use of mercury by artisanal gold miners (ASGM), a major new effort to address this issue is being launched by Mercury Free Mining (MFM).  https://www.mercuryfreemining.org/ More than 15 million subsistence gold miners inadvertently release 8,000 pounds of mercury into the environment every day causing irreversib...Read More

Fashion designer Stella McCartney is calling on consumers to protect the planet with her fall 2019 campaign, the Women's Wear Daily (WWD) website reported. "It's as much of a fashion statement as it is a political one with individuals such as Amber Valletta, members of the climate activist group Extinction Rebellion and primatologist and chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall taking part." "The...Read More

Lake Resources prepares to make a splash in lithium SPONSOREDlake resourcesStars aligning at Stellar for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxMetro Mining promises low-cost bauxite for Chinese smeltersSPONSOREDmetro miningNamdini moves toward 300,000ozpa realitySPONSOREDcardinal resourcesThe new system will contain all relevant information pertaining to mining titles including areas of restriction, national parks...Read More

Lake Resources prepares to make a splash in lithium SPONSOREDlake resourcesStars aligning at Stellar for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxMetro Mining promises low-cost bauxite for Chinese smeltersSPONSOREDmetro miningNamdini moves toward 300,000ozpa realitySPONSOREDcardinal resourcesRegular readers will be all too painfully aware I am a golfer, which sadly no longer comes with the caché it once did. T...Read More

MACMILLAN PASS, YUKON - Fireweed Zinc (TSXV: FWZ) CEO Brandon Macdonald travelled to China three times last year, twice to Japan, and also talked with Korean smelters about the company's Macmillan Pass project in the Yukon - the largest undeveloped zinc and lead resource in the world held by a junior Canadian company."The reception we've had with the smelters has been very positive," Macdonald tel...Read More

Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD), the world's second-largest bullion miner, is counting the days until it takes full control of its African subsidiary, Acacia Mining (LON: ACA).By now, most of Acacia's shareholders have expressed the intention of approving the sweetened takeover bid the gold giant submitted on July 19. That day, Barrick upped its original proposal, put forward on May 22, offeri...Read More

Two Canadian mines will pilot University of British Columbia- (UBC-) led research that combats greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions by trapping carbon dioxide (CO2) in mine tailings, the waste left over from ore mining.The technology, the UBC says, could drastically reduce the GHG emissions of mining operations and result in the world’s first GHG neutral mine.AdvertisementThe project – a col...Read More