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

GWPH short sellers could soon head for the exitsThe shares of GW Pharmaceuticals PLC (NASDAQ:GWPH) are in focus today, aftera double-dose of good news last night. First, the drugmaker's first-quarterlosswas slimmer than expected. But more importantly, its epilepsy drug Epidiolex met the main goals in a late-stage study, while first-quarter sales for the drug were higher than expected. In respon...Read More

ArcelorMittal will reduce output and cut 300 out of 800 jobs at its iron ore mines in Bosnia, the world's largest steelmaker said on Tuesday.Output will be reduced by a third to 1 million tonnes and the job cuts will be carried out from September, it said in a statement.ArcelorMittal operates a steel plant in the central Bosnian town of Zenica which processes iron ore from its Omarska mines in Pri...Read More

The shoe company posted first-quarter earnings and revenue that beat expectationsThe shares of Crocs Inc (NASDAQ:CROX) are popping in early trading, after the firm posted first-quarter earnings of 33 cents per share on $295.9 million in revenue -- both topping analysts' estimates. CROX cited strong e-commerce and wholesale revenue, and said its same-store sales were up 8.7% for the first part of t...Read More

The biotech missed on both the top- and bottom-lineRegeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:REGN) stock is trading down 3.7% ahead of the bell, after the biotech reported slimmer-than-expected first-quarter adjusted earnings of $4.45 per share. Regeneron revenue of $1.71 billion also missed the mark. The shares have sold off sharply since their March 4 17-month high of $442. The stock's $330-$335 are...Read More

Indians could buy at least 10 percent more gold during the annual Hindu and Jain holy festival of Akshaya Tritiya than a year ago, industry officials said, as a dip in prices prompted consumers to increase purchases.A rise in consumption by the world's second-biggest gold consumer could help global prices which are currently hovering near a 4-month low, but could widen India's trade deficit and pu...Read More

Robert Lighthizer said tariffs on $200B in Chinese goods will increaseFollowing confirmation by U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer that tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods will increase this Friday, May 10, if no deal is reached, Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are once again in the red. Chinese Vice Premier Liu He is expected in the U.S. for trade talks later this week....Read More

Iron ore prices look increasingly caught between the bullish reality of lower supply from Brazil and the bearish possibility of weaker demand if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to ramp up his tariff war against China.The price action in the wake of Trump's Twitter threat on Sunday to ramp up tariffs on $200 billion of imports from China to 25% was indicative of iron ore's dilemma.Tak...Read More

Yamana Gold has announced something huge: a doubling of its dividend. How did it manage that and what does it mean for investors?Read full newsRead More

Traders seem to be "all-in" on a bearish price move for gold, despite Friday's strong finishGold futures took a big hit in the aftermath of last week's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting -- which was punctuated by a press conference at which Chairman Jerome Powell disappointed anyone who may have been anticipating a hairpin shift from rate hikes to rate cuts on the part of the central ba...Read More

Great Atlantic Resources (TSXV: GR) acquired, through an option agreement and by staking, the Glenelg vanadium property located in southwest New Brunswick, Canada.In a press release, Great Atlantic said that recent bedrock grab samples from the property from a layered intrusion returned significant levels of vanadium, specifically 0.33 & 0.42% V2O5.Located approximately 5 kilometres southeast of t...Read More

Transition Metals (TSXV: XTM) announced this week that it completed a ground magnetotellurics or MT survey and stacked an additional 235 hectares at its 100%-owned Saturday Night project, located north of Thunder Bay, Ontario.In a press release, the Sudbury-based miner said that the completed MT survey included 37 stations focused on further evaluating a reversely-polarized magnetic anomaly measur...Read More

Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM)(TSX: NGT), the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, is expected to churn out 8.4 million ounces of the precious metal this year, or 7.1% of the total global output, according to data and analytics firm GlobalData.In comparison, main rival Barrick Gold's (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) output for 2019 is estimated at only 5.6 million oun...Read More

Newmont Goldcorp Corporation (NYSE: NEM)(TSX: NGT), the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, is expected to churn out 8.4 million ounces of the precious metal this year, or 7.1% of the total global output, according to data and analytics firm GlobalData.In comparison, main rival Barrick Gold's (TSX:ABX)(NYSE:GOLD) output for 2019 is estimated at only 5.6 million oun...Read More

Question? Which nation is the biggest gold producer in Europe, excluding Russia? Clue: it gave the world Santa Claus, gifted tulips to the Netherlands and calls olive oil wrestling its national sport. Kerim Sener is devoted to making it better known for auricerous land.Read full newsRead More

At Insider Monkey we follow nearly 750 of the best-performing investors and even though many of them lost money in the last couple of months of 2018 (some actually delivered very strong returns), the history teaches us that over the long-run they still manage to beat the market, which is why it can beRead full newsRead More

Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Tuesday that recent results from the Porvenir project, held by its wholly owned subsidiary Green Rock Resources, suggest the presence of a "significant" copper-gold system.Mapping and sampling, SolGold said, has extended copper-gold mineralization at Cacharposa Creek on Porvenir, located in southern Ecuador. The samples, the company noted, show...Read More

Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Tuesday that recent results from the Porvenir project, held by its wholly owned subsidiary Green Rock Resources, suggest the presence of a "significant" copper-gold system.Mapping and sampling, SolGold said, has extended copper-gold mineralization at Cacharposa Creek on Porvenir, located in southern Ecuador. The samples, the company noted, show...Read More

Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Tuesday that recent results from the Porvenir project, held by its wholly owned subsidiary Green Rock Resources, suggest the presence of a "significant" copper-gold system.Mapping and sampling, SolGold said, has extended copper-gold mineralization at Cacharposa Creek on Porvenir, located in southern Ecuador. The samples, the company noted, show...Read More

Ecuador-focused miner SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) said Tuesday that recent results from the Porvenir project, held by its wholly owned subsidiary Green Rock Resources, suggest the presence of a "significant" copper-gold system.Mapping and sampling, SolGold said, has extended copper-gold mineralization at Cacharposa Creek on Porvenir, located in southern Ecuador. The samples, the company noted, show...Read More

High-profile investments by Agnico Eagle Mines (TSX: AEM; NYSE: AEM) in two new Nunavut gold operations will drastically alter the company's production profile with the onset of commercial production later this year. However, perhaps lost in the excitement is that its core operations in Quebec - La Ronde, Canadian Malartic and Goldex - are also expected to expand. Help on the regulatory front from...Read More