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

Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsPerth-based corporate advisor Liam Twigger, SolGold's Brisbane-based head of exploration Jason Ward, and head of communications Anna Legge are now directors.Twigger joins the SolGold board as a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee, Ward is executive director, project management, and Legge is executive di...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipStrongbow reviving age-old Cornwall tin mining traditionSPONSOREDstrongbow explorationLithium's next generationSPONSOREDneo lithiumFinally, a changed mining tech M&A landscapeSPONSOREDatricoThe company, which has not traded since it was rapped over the knuckles by New South Wales' regulator for serious breaches of its lice...Read More

Altech ticks boxes on path to production SPONSOREDaltech chemicalsCRU Consulting principal analyst Erik Heimlich said at the Copper to the World Conference in Adelaide the market would see the "first real volumes of copper use in electric vehicles" by 2025, absorbing about one million tonnes a year of copper by then."Expect this specific EV market demand to rapidly increase to 5Mtpa," Heimlich sai...Read More

It's no secret that our country’s Social Security program is running out of money. The Social Security system is paying out in benefits more than it's collecting in tax revenue and as a result they're dipping into the Social Security trust fund to make up the difference. If Congress takes no action to fix the problem, starting in 2034 retirees are going to see a 23% cut in social security pa...Read More

The global uranium mining market in the 2010s took a hit from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 - which cut global uranium demand some 10% for many years - and the simultaneous ramping up of low-cost uranium production out of Kazakhstan that has transformed the country into the world's largest uranium producer.Thanks to the massive devaluation of the Kazakhstan tenge currency in 2014...Read More

Battery metals-focused Cobalt 27 Capital (TSXV: KBLT; US-OTC: CBLLF) has come a long way since listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in June 2017.The company has a cobalt stream on Vale's (NYSE: VALE) world-class Voisey's Bay nickel-copper-cobalt mine in Labrador beginning in 2021; holds an 8.56% joint-venture interest in the producing Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea; owns one of the wor...Read More

A road map to finalise agreements that will enable Aim-listed Vast Resources to mine for diamonds on the Heritage concession, in Zimbabwe, has been established.This follows after meetings between the company’s senior management, local community leaders and parastatal Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), in Harare, last week.AdvertisementThe agreements concerning the Heritage concess...Read More

How far might markets plunge next time around?And will you be able to recover your losses rapidly?Answers - possibilities, rather - shortly.And is one of Wall Street's oldest chestnuts of investment wisdom tragically wrong?This question too we will tackle.But first to that vicious den of sin and iniquity - the stock market.The Dow Jones roared 353 points today. The S&P rallied 28 points and th...Read More

In its continuing effort to be as tone deaf as possible, Facebook went ahead and announced that it is going to try to launch a cryptocurrency.It is going to be called Libra, it is going to be run by a subsidiary called Calibra, and if there is some kind of digital hell in our future, it will be part of it.Cryptocurrencies seem very similar on the surface, and for the most part they were up until s...Read More

Macmahon is paying A$48 million cash upfront, follow by two potential earn-out payments capped at A$53.5 million and based on performance over FY20 and FY21.Read More

A surging tech sector propped up Wall Street todayThe Dow started Fed week on the right foot, finishing modestly higher. A surging tech sector -- including Cisco Systems (CSCO) -- helped power gains today, while offsetting lackluster manufacturing and housing data. Trade tensions with China remain elevated, however, especially after Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said President Donald Trump is "p...Read More

An earnings beat could prompt short-covering tailwinds for KMXCarMax, Inc (NYSE:KMX) is scheduled to report earnings before the open this Friday, June 21, and the stock just received a bullish analyst note ahead of the event. Credit Suisse upped its price target to $90 from $84, which follows another price-target hike to $100 at Oppenheimer on Friday. There's also been plenty of buzz in KMX's opti...Read More

BMO just downgraded DOW stock to "market perform"Markets are higher this afternoon on gains from tech giants Apple (AAPL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO). Several other stocks are making notable moves today, too, including fellow blue chip Dow Inc (NYSE:DOW), sporting goods retailer Hibbett Sports, Inc. (NASDAQ:HIBB), and drug name ContraVir Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:CTRV). Here's what's moving the sha...Read More

Telson Mining Corporation ("Telson" or the "Company" (TSXV:TSN, OTC:SOHFF, Frankfurt:TSGN (formerly SQ82)) is pleased to once again report significant channel sample assay results from underground mine development at it's Tahuehueto Project, a 1,000 tonne per day gold mine currently in construction development.Read full newsRead More

Rumors are swirling FB's Project Libra reveal will happen tomorrowFacebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) stock is red-hot today, as buzz builds around the company's cryptocurrency, expected to be launched as early as tomorrow, June 18. Ahead of the highly anticipated Project Libra reveal, FB stock is trading up 3.2% at $187.07, set for its highest close since May 10. FB options traders are getting in on the a...Read More

Short sellers could be shaking in their bootsSeveral healthcare stocks are higher today, led by Pfizer (PFE) buyout target Array Biopharma (ARRY). In addition, fellow biotechArQule, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARQL) is among the best stocks on the Nasdaq today, following upbeat drug data. Likewise, Incyte Corporation (NASDAQ:INCY) shares are higher on encouraging data for the company's vitiligo treatment. Agains...Read More

The stock has more than tripled in 2019The shares of prepaid debit card provider Paysign Inc (NASDAQ:PAYS) have soared more than 200% in 2019, and hit an all-time high of $13.63 last week. But today the stock's down 11.3% at $11.27, after brokerage firm BTIG downgraded its rating to "neutral" from "buy." The analyst note suggested that Paysign's strong growth is already priced into the stock price...Read More

HRS options are attractively priced, tooHarris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) is a defense contractor and tech name that doesn't get the publicity of bigger names like Lockheed Martin (LMT) and Raytheon (RTN), despite its merger with L3 Systems back in October. As far as the stock is concerned though, investors may want to take notice, as its flashing two bullish signals that could present intriguing buyi...Read More

A bullish signal just sounded on the charts for CSCOThe shares of blue chip Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO)pulled back after clocking an 18-year high of $57.56 just last week. The pullback was in part sparked by William Blair's bear note, and the stock is starting this week off strong, trading up 1.2% at $55.43. Plus, the equity sounded a bullish signal that could propel it even further up the c...Read More

Apple and Cisco are two of the best Dow stocks at middayThe Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is trading in positive territory at midday, as big gains for Apple (AAPL) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) highlight a bouncing tech sector. This is helping offset a dismal Empire State manufacturing index, which fell into contraction territory for the first time in two years in June, while a separate report fro...Read More