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

My readers know that I'm a longtime critic of bitcoin. Bitcoin rose from about $2,000 in May 2017 to $20,000 by December 2017 in one of the greatest asset price bubbles in history.I argued repeatedly that it was nothing but a massive bubble and that the bubble would probably burst when it hit $20,000.In late 2017 it did.Bitcoin crashed from $20,000 all the way to $3,300 by December 2018 - an 83.5%...Read More

Joining us today is the President and CEO of Ethos Gold (TSX-V: ECC)(OTC: ETHOF), Mr. Craig Roberts.Ethos Gold was up 40% last week on news the company will be drilling a Carlin-style gold target in Nevada. Ethos is also drilling in Mexico later this year and is fully funded with approximately C$0.12 per share in cash.I spoke with Mr. Roberts about the new project, the addition of Quinton Hennigh...Read More

The MySteel 62% Australian iron ore fines price added another 2.5% on Friday to US$100.35 per tonne, a fresh five-year high.Vale said Gongo Soco had been closed since 2016, but its dam was just 1.5km from housing. The alert level was raised to 2 in February and to 3 in March."It should be noted that there are no technical elements so far that point towards an eventual slide of the northern slope o...Read More

How you can transform lagging indicators into leading indicators.No one ever said trading was going to be easy.Sometimes, do-it-yourself investing can feel about as scientific as throwing darts... and many traders give up, unable to figure out how they can break through the endless cycles of mediocre - or even straight up abysmal! - results.And when even the supposed "market gurus" or "experts" do...Read More

Peru must shake up its electoral system and root out graft before the 2021 election to restore faith in its political leadership following the country's biggest-ever bribery scandal, President Martin Vizcarra said.The government is urging the opposition-controlled Congress to debate a series of bills with new rules on campaign financing and selecting candidates. Congress has little more than a yea...Read More

Peru must shake up its electoral system and root out graft before the 2021 election to restore faith in its political leadership following the country's biggest-ever bribery scandal, President Martin Vizcarra said.The government is urging the opposition-controlled Congress to debate a series of bills with new rules on campaign financing and selecting candidates. Congress has little more than a yea...Read More

Human rights group Kap?(C)-Kap?(C) denounced this week that illegal mining continues to destroy the traditional territory of the Pem??n Indigenous tribe in southeastern Venezuela.The civil society association issued a media statement this week saying that unregulated gold extraction is polluting the Carrao river and its tributaries within the Canaima National Park, in the Bol?-var state.This is th...Read More

Human rights group Kap?(C)-Kap?(C) denounced this week that illegal mining continues to destroy the traditional territory of the Pem??n Indigenous tribe in southeastern Venezuela.The civil society association issued a media statement this week saying that unregulated gold extraction is polluting the Carrao river and its tributaries within the Canaima National Park, in the Bol?-var state.This is th...Read More

A financial re-set could lead to the biggest political event in decades.The American financial system may be headed towards a crisis, unlike anything the U.S. has seen in the last 50 yearsOne financial guru is predicting a political event that could "reset" the financial system in ways that many Americans will never predict -- and it could lead to "a national nightmare."With growing inequality cau...Read More

Dr. John-Mark Staude, president and CEO of Riverside Resources, sits down with Maurice Jackson of Proven and Probable to discuss his company's just-announced exploration funding agreement with BHP.Maurice Jackson: Joining us for a conversation is Dr. John-Mark Staude, the president and CEO of Riverside Resources, Where Knowledge is Golden.Riverside Resources Inc. (RRI:TSX.V; RVSDF:OTCQB has some b...Read More

Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, and Tony Milligan, a philosopher at King's College London, collaborated on a study that concludes that humans should be allowed to mine only one-eighth of eligible planets, moons and asteroids, leaving 85% of the solar system untouched.As companies get closer to developing technologies that allow them to...Read More

The possibility of an oversupply of lithium chemical is a myth, the president of California-based Global Lithium, Joe Lowry, said this week.Addressing the audience at the conference Paydirt 2019 Latin America Downunder, Lowry blamed the spread of such a 'myth' on 'big bank' analysts and the Chilean regulator CORFO.In Lowry's view, there have been misunderstandings regarding CORFO's reports related...Read More

The possibility of an oversupply of lithium chemical is a myth, the president of California-based Global Lithium, Joe Lowry, said this week.Addressing the audience at the conference Paydirt 2019 Latin America Downunder, Lowry blamed the spread of such a 'myth' on 'big bank' analysts and the Chilean regulator CORFO.In Lowry's view, there have been misunderstandings regarding CORFO's reports related...Read More

Martin Elvis, senior astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, and Tony Milligan, a philosopher at King's College London, collaborated on a study that concludes that humans should be allowed to mine only one-eighth of eligible planets, moons and asteroids, leaving 85% of the solar system untouched.As companies get closer to developing technologies that allow them to...Read More

Debmarine Namibia, a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of the Republic of Namibia and De Beers Group, announced it will begin with the construction of the world's first ever custom-built diamond recovery vessel. The new vessel is expected to cost US$468 million (N$7 billion) and represents the largest ever single investment in the marine diamond industry. The ship will become the sev...Read More

Roman Serov of Octonus (Finland, Russia), a leading diamond technology developer and Dr. Olga Okhrimenko, of Cutwise.com, presented "Diamond Impression -The Key to Sustainable Competitiveness" Dr. Okhrimenko began by asking a set of confronting questions, addressing the challenges retailers face when trying to sell diamonds to consumers, and, not less important, how develop repeat customers and se...Read More

As JCK Las Vegas 2019 quickly approaches, The Plumb Club will be offering buyers new attractions at what it calls a "state-of-the-art pavilion." The Plumb Club will be hosting its annual Breakfast Symposium on Saturday, June 1. Registration is required.  This year, the Plumb Club is staging its new "Radiant Universe Planetarium Show." By using trend data acquired through market and consu...Read More

Petra Diamonds, the junior diamond company that operates diamond mines in Tanzania and South Africa was assigned a consensus recommendation of "Buy" from the ten brokerages that are covering the company, MarketBeat Ratings reported.  The Tech Know Bits website reported that four investment analysts have rated Petra's stock with a hold rating and that six had assigned a buy rating to the...Read More

Precious metals declined for the week as investors with risky appetites lost interest in the metals' safe haven nature.Read full newsRead More

A gold rush in Peru's Tambopata province transformed the Amazonian wilderness into a desert pocked with dead trees and toxic pools. Security forces came and went; illegal miners scattered and returned. Then Peru announced a new approach, to stay. (May 16)Read full newsRead More