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

California was one of the pillars of American energy security. That, however, has changed due to declining production. Since its peak in 1985, production has plunged almost 60 percent to 460,000 barrels per day...Read full newsRead More

The London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said Societe Generale had resigned as a market maker for gold and silver, as France's third-largest bank pushes ahead with a downsizing of its commodities business.SocGen said this month it would cut 1,600 jobs to boost profits after poor performance last year and exit over-the-counter commodities trading.SocGen declined to comment on its resignation.In...Read More

Glencore Plc cut its full-year copper-output goal by about 3% and lowered production targets for other commodities from nickel to oil, as the world's biggest metal trader deals with multiple problems across its operations. The shares fell.There was no mention of changes to the company's marketing-profits guidance, which it often updates in production reports.Key insightsGlencore's disappointing ou...Read More

Glencore Plc cut its full-year copper-output goal by about 3% and lowered production targets for other commodities from nickel to oil, as the world's biggest metal trader deals with multiple problems across its operations. The shares fell.There was no mention of changes to the company's marketing-profits guidance, which it often updates in production reports.Key insightsGlencore's disappointing ou...Read More

Earnings out of Dow components have been strongDow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) futures are pointing to a positive open this morning ahead of a huge day of earnings on Wall Street. Strong quarterly reports from blue chips McDonald's (MCD), Merck (MRK), and Pfizer (PFE) are getting the ball rolling for the 30-stock index, while former Dow component General Electric (GE) is also set to soar after...Read More

Africa-focused Alphamin Resources (TSX-V: AFM) has begun commissioning its Bisie tin mine in North Kivu, a remote province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).The Mauritius-based miner kicked off construction at Bisie, considered one of the world's highest-grade known tin deposits, in 2017. At the time, an updated feasibility study projected that the mine could produce...Read More

As Tokyo traders go on holiday, EWJ just rallied into a potentially formidable layer of chart resistanceJapanese stocks were a remarkably hot commodity among investors last week, according to the latest fund flows data (via Bank of America-Merrill Lynch). BAML reports inflows of $5.4 billion into Japanese equity funds during the week ended April 24, yielding their biggest one-week take since March...Read More

Analysts estimate the company will report a $0.06 loss per share, but that doesn't mean it can't glimmer in other ways.Read full newsRead More

A bitter battle for control of Canada's Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY) between the miner and dissent shareholders led by founder and ousted chairman, Patrick Sheridan, has been finally settled this week, costing the company's head his job.As part of the agreement, the Toronto-based miner is appointing two new independent directors to the board - Alan Pangbourne and Allen Palmiere - with other two...Read More

A bitter battle for control of Canada's Guyana Goldfields (TSX: GUY) between the miner and dissent shareholders led by founder and ousted chairman, Patrick Sheridan, has been finally settled this week, costing the company's head his job.As part of the agreement, the Toronto-based miner is appointing two new independent directors to the board - Alan Pangbourne and Allen Palmiere - with other two...Read More

Tower Resources (TSXV: TWR) announced this week that its team of geologists started an exploration program on the Nechako property, located in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.In a press release, Tower said the campaign will begin with infill reverse circulation or RC drilling at the head of the Nechako dispersal train.In the current RC drilling program, six to eight infill holes...Read More

Tower Resources (TSXV: TWR) announced this week that its team of geologists started an exploration program on the Nechako property, located in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.In a press release, Tower said the campaign will begin with infill reverse circulation or RC drilling at the head of the Nechako dispersal train.In the current RC drilling program, six to eight infill holes...Read More

Tower Resources (TSXV: TWR) announced this week that its team of geologists started an exploration program on the Nechako property, located in the western Canadian province of British Columbia.In a press release, Tower said the campaign will begin with infill reverse circulation or RC drilling at the head of the Nechako dispersal train.In the current RC drilling program, six to eight infill holes...Read More

American Battery Metals (CSE: ABC) announced this week that it has entered into a non-binding letter of intent to acquire a 90% interest in Ontario-based E.U. Energy Corp. and its 100%-owned Viken project in Sweden.In a media statement, the North Vancouver-based company said the letter of intent stipulates that American Battery Metals has to issue 20 million shares in exchange for 90% of the issue...Read More

Sirius Minerals (LON:SXX), the British company building a huge fertilizer mine beneath a national park, has signed up Wall Street giant JPMorgan to provide financing in the form of bonds and credit up to about $3.8 billion.The bank is underwriting a $400 million share placement, launched on Tuesday, at a price between 15p to 18p per share. It is also using its balance sheet to provide a $2.5 bi...Read More

Sirius Minerals (LON:SXX), the British company building a huge fertilizer mine beneath a national park, has signed up Wall Street giant JPMorgan to provide financing in the form of bonds and credit up to about $3.8 billion.The bank is underwriting a $400 million share placement, launched on Tuesday, at a price between 15p to 18p per share. It is also using its balance sheet to provide a $2.5 bi...Read More

Vancouver, BC - good natured Products Inc. (TSX-V:GDNP) (the "Company" or "good naturedTM"), today announced its audited financial results for the twelve months ended December 31, 2018 ("FY2018"). On January 9, 2018 the Company changed its fiscal year-end from February 28 to December 31. As required in such cases, FY2018 is being compared to the ten months ended December 31, 2017 (the "Comparati...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices slipped on Monday in Asia as markets await the outcome of the next FOMC meeting.Gold futures for June delivery, traded on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, were down 0.1% at $1,287.05 per ounce by 1:16 AM ET (05:16 GMT).The Fed will conclude its two-day meeting on Wednesday amid expectations that interest rates will remain on hold. The meeting is c...Read More

James Hyerczyk20 hours ago (Apr 29, 2019 4:37 AM GMT)Gold futures rebounded from early session weakness to post a potentially bullish closing price reversal bottom last week. Despite the strong U.S. Dollar, which hit a 2-year high last week, gold prices rallied because of a drop in U.S. Treasury yields. They were part of global weakness in the government debt markets that started after the release...Read More

The O'Brien mine, halfway between the towns of Rouyn-Noranda and Val-d'Or along the Larder-Lake-Cadillac fault, was considered the highest grade gold producer in Quebec between 1926 and 1957, when the underground operation churned out 1.20 million tonnes grading 15.25 grams gold per tonne for 587,121 oz. gold.Today, the historic mine is part of Radisson Mining Resources (TSXV: RDS; US-OTC: RMRDF)...Read More