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

Market futures were pointing to a positive start in Toronto and London but lower on Wall Street and the S&P/ASX 200 index was lower at the time of writing.Both official and private business surveys pointed to slower Chinese factory growth this month, Reuters reported, maintaining hopes for further economic stimulus.The S&P500 had reached a fresh, record intraday high yesterday of 2,949.52...Read More

The Neal Project in Idaho, USA. Source: Pure Nickel Inc.Pure Nickel Inc. [NIC-TSXV; PNCKF-OTC] said Tuesday April 30 that it has signed a deal with a numbered company controlled by Eric Sprott that outlines the arm's length terms for the acquisition by Pure Nickel of a 51% interest in the Neal Development Ltd. Partnership from Sprott Mining, and the option to acquire an additional 27% of the Neal...Read More

Examining diamond drill core from the Soledad Project in Peru. Source: Chakana Copper Corp.Chakana Copper Corp. [PERU-TSXV] has announced an $8 million strategic investment from Gold Fields Ltd. [GFI-NYSE, JSE] that will see the world's seventh largest gold producer taking a 16.14% interest in Chakana.Under an agreement, Gold Fields Nazca Holdings Inc., a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of Gold F...Read More

(IDEX Online News) - Looking back at the previous months, there still was some movement - going up up here and dropping down there - in prices of diamonds under two carats.  But in April, it seems the market simply had taken a step back and the sporadic price changes that occurred in rounds under two carats were mixed at best. Market commentators, however, like to point out that Apr...Read More

Alrosa, the world's largest diamond miner in volume, said it had generated $9.65 million from the sale of special sized diamonds (+10.8 carats) at its diamond auction in Vladivostok which took place on April 8-19. Alrosa hosted 29 companies from Belgium, India, Israel, the UAE, the USA, Hong Kong and Russia at the auction. A total of 150 diamonds with a total weight of 2481.9 carats were off...Read More

The Women's Jewelry Association's Gender Equality Project released the results of its first survey, which asked members of the gem, jewelry and watch industries to comment on workplace practices where gender could be a factor. WJA engaged MVI Marketing, a trade and consumer research company that works exclusively for the gem, jewelry and watch industries, to assist in designing a questi...Read More

Ans Anthonis, HRD Antwerp Chief Officer Diamond Lab & Research, will be presenting the impact of laboratory grown diamonds (LGDs) on the current market during a panel discussion to be held during the GemGeneve trade fair, on Thursday 9 May 2019, at 18:00. GemGeneve is held May 9 to 12, 2019. The lab will also host a daily workshop to teach show visitors more about HRD's latest range of eq...Read More

Evgeny Agureev, director of the United Selling Organization of Alrosa, the world's leading rough diamond producer, told the Indian Express that it had "initiated a rupee-rouble payment mechanism with its Indian clients" and already had run a payment pilot with a handful of its Indian clients. The newspaper also wrote that "Alrosa is increasing its marketing spend in India as it attempts to ca...Read More

The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC), the umbrella organization of the Antwerp diamond industry, published its second sustainability report. The report, the AWDC says, is an "integrated report that does not shy away from thorny issues such as 'reputation,' 'integrity in the diamond value chain' and 'compliance in the diamond industry.' Furthermore, with this report...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxOutput at the BHP-operated Chile copper mine included 975,893t of copper in concentrates and 266,794t of copper cathodes. The mine experienced 44 days of strike action in 2017."We are happy with the positive results from 2018. The challenges, however, are growing because as the deposit ages we face deeper pits, lower grades and harder rock, as well as more...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxCopper production for the March quarter dropped 7% year-on-year to 320,700 tonnes, hit by the issues at Mopani, as well as severe flooding in Queensland, depletion at the Alumbrera openpit operation, and the sale of Punitaqui.However, cobalt output rose 56% on the year to 3,900t, despite Katanga having to manage excess levels of uranium content in its cobal...Read More

How to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixWhite Gold Corp a force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumWill Indonesia abandon its plan to ban bauxite exports?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftThe company reported a 6% drop in copper output compared with a year earli...Read More

Global Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resourcesHow to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixWhite Gold Corp a force in Yukon as exploration drive reaps dividendsSPONSOREDwhite gold corpIt said yesterday it expected operations would reach "normal le...Read More

The optimal income for life satisfaction in North America is $105,000 per year. That's according to a 2018 study conducted by researchers at Purdue University on more than 1.7 million people, in every region of the world. Whatever you make beyond that level is not associated with greater life satisfaction. In fact, it reduces life satisfaction.This $105,000 income cutoff is deemed the “satia...Read More

Two stories published by The Northern Miner in 2018 have been nominated for the 2019 National Magazine Awards: B2B.Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming got the nod in the "Best Profile of a Company" category for his look at Toronto-based Black Iron (TSX: BKI; US-OTC: BKIRF) in the feature site-visit article, "Black Iron advances Shymanivske premium iron ore project in Ukraine."Standing on t...Read More

Gold explorer Barrian Mining Corp. (TSXV: BARI) has completed its initial public offering, and is now listed for trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker symbol 'BARI.'.The company has wrapped up an earn-in agreement with Allegiant Gold (TSXV: AUAU; US-OTC: AUXXF) to acquire up to a 75% interest in the latter's Bolo gold project near Tonopah, Nevada. Bolo will be Barrian's flagship as...Read More

On this day 230 years ago, George Washington stood on the balcony of the then New York City Hall on Wall Street and was sworn in as the first elected President of the United States.A crowd formed in the street. President Washington started the tradition of the inaugural speech and kissed the Bible on which he took his oath. Fireworks bought by the citizens in attendance lit up the sky to celebrate...Read More

The top gainers on the TSX last week were Oryx Petroleum, GoGold Resources, Argonaut Gold, MAG Silver and Centamin.Read full newsRead More

Western Copper and Gold Corporation (TSX:WRN; NYSE American: WRN) announces that it entered an agreement with PI Financial Corp. (the "Agent") on a marketed best efforts basis to conduct a brokered private placement of up to 3,333,333 flow-through common shares (the "FT Shares") at a price of $0.90 per FT Share to raise gross proceeds of up to $3.0 million (the "Offering").Read full newsRead More

ASIAN METALS MARKET UPDATEGold needs to break and trade over $1290-$1292 zone to attract short covering. Spot silver needs to trade over $15.10 to attract short covering. Crude oil needs to trade over $60.00-$60.60 this week to be in bullish zone. Copper is in neutral zone. Japanese markets are closed this week till 5th May. So the sea calm is there in bullion and currencies. US dollar will ga...Read More