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

Chinese copper smelting activity, as expected, was lower with a number of smelters undergoing maintenance programmes.Read More

Mining Journal Select London 2023 SPONSOREDGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesOrion Minerals, which is listed on the Johannesburg and Australian stock markets, is an unlikely contender for the title of small-miner champion of South Africa having...Read More

Glencore has bucked the trend among other mining majors by hanging on to its coal assets. The company argues that this is the more responsible course of action.Read More

Reade, who gave a preview of the WGC's gold demand trends, before its delayed launch in London due to the coronation of King Charles, said the March quarter was characterised by strong bar andRead More

 Albemarle reported net sales of US$2.6 billion, an increase of 129%, while net income rose by 389% year-on-year.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Polished diamond prices, which had been showing some small signs of recovery since November 2022, suffered a setback in April, slipping by 2.1 per cent. Monthly declines had been progressively smaller - from 2.4 per cent to 0.4 per cent in March.But April saw a drop of 2.1 per cent, as uncertainty persists globally, the US feels jittery over bank collapses and China's post-Cov...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumMining Journal Select London 2023 SPONSOREDTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesThe funding will enable the ordering of long lead items for both the lithium and geothermal energy plants. Canaccord and Merrill Lynch are involved in the fundraising.Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumMining Journal Select London 2023 SPONSOREDTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelAddressing the company's Australian annual general meeting for the first time since he became chairman last year, Barton said he was pleased with Rio's progress on bui...Read More

Since late 2018, Anzá has been the subject of an exploration agreement with Minera Monte Águila (MMA), a joint venture between Newmont and Agnico Eagle Mines.Read More

Scrape away the hand-wringing about interest rates and we find a bedrock of complacency. Nobody seems to doubt that the status quo can grind on for another 30 years doing the same stuff it’s done for the past 30 years.The U.S. economy and its financial system operate under the implicit belief that the Federal Reserve controls the direction of the economy and finance. This belief isn’t...Read More

"Current situation:Interest rates at their highest level since 2006Credit card debt set to cross $1 trillion for the first timeMultiple regional banks on brink of collapseRegulators believe in "system is strong"One month away from U.S. defaultHow can this end well?"Here you have the reflections of economics crackerjack Adam Kobeissi - he of the eponymous Kobeissi Letter.Indeed: How can this end we...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipGoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumMining Journal Select London 2023 SPONSOREDTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resources"Support for the 25-basis-point increase was very strong across the board," Fed chair Jerome Powell said after the meeting, according to Bloomberg.Read More

"Support for the 25-basis-point increase was very strong across the board," Fed chair Jerome Powell said after the meeting, according to Bloomberg.Read More

An initial open pit mining operation would cost $798 million with sustaining and expansion capital costs of $1.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Dua Lipa dazzled at the Met Gala wearing an updated version of Tiffany's Lucida Star Necklace, minus the iconic yellow Tiffany Diamond.It's been replaced by 100-carat D-color 82-facet cushion-cut stone, known as the Legendary Diamond.The original 128.54-carat center stone, as worn by Audrey Hepburn and Lady Gaga, is said to be worth $30m.But it became the source of someth...Read More

The funding will enable the ordering of long lead items for both the lithium and geothermal energy plants. Canaccord and Merrill Lynch are involved in the fundraising.Read More

(IDEX Online) - One of the last diamonds recovered from the iconic Argyle mine - a 1.36-carat fancy deep pink stone - features in a ring designed for Rio Tinto, with a $1.33m price tag.The center stone is one of just 12 radiant-cut diamonds over 1.0-ct with a super-high 1P color grading, in the last 30 years of production at the mine, in East Kimberley, Western Australia, which closed in November...Read More

GoviEx edges closer to productionSPONSOREDgoviex uraniumMining Journal Select London 2023 SPONSOREDTorq kicks off drilling at Santa CeciliaSPONSOREDtorq resourcesCanada Nickel eyes feasibility study for CrawfordSPONSOREDcanada nickelLast week's From the Capital column related the predicament of Cyprium Metals.Read More

(IDEX Online) - A 118.35-carat royal blue sapphire is to be sold later this by month by Phillips Hong Kong with a high estimate of $4.5m.It was set into a necklace by Bulgari in 2004 as party of its High Jewelry Collection and appears at auction for the first time.The Sri Lankan unheated, cushion-shaped sapphire scored what Phillips describes as an "impossible" 98 points in the Gubelin Gemstone Ra...Read More

(IDEX Online) - US watch and jewelry sales slumped during March, with the biggest monthly fall since the pandemic struck in 2020.They were down 9.2 per cent according to figures release by the US Department of Commerce. In February the fall was 6.8 per cent (revised down from the 3.0 per cent figure).Sales have been declining for the last six months, with the exception of January (revised up to 0....Read More