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

Canada's Lundin Mining (TSX:LUN) has agreed to acquire a copper-gold operation in Brazil from fellow miner Yamana Gold (NYSE: AUY), (TSE: YRI) in a $1 billion-deal as it looks to beef up its base metals portfolio.The Chapada mine, in the northwest Brazilian state of Goi??s, began production in 2007 and is expected to churn out about 54,500 tonnes of copper and 100,000 ounces of gold this year.The...Read More

American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY) is seeing the payoff of its efforts to develop a technology capable of recycling cathode material and generating products for lithium-ion batteries that are as close to the final form as possible.This week, the Surrey, British Columbia-based company announced that independent lab Kemetco ran a series of tests and the results showed that AMY's pilot plant was able to...Read More

We often see insiders buying up shares in companies that perform well over the long term. Unfortunately, there are also plenty of examples of share prices declining precipitously after insiders have sold shares. So before you buy or s...Read full newsRead More

Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More

Gold giant Newmont Mining's (NYSE:NEM) $10 billion acquisition of Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) is expected to close this week as the deal has received Investment Canada Act approval.Last week, almost 98%of Newmont's shareholders approved the deal, which creates the world's largest gold producer by market value, output and reserves, and robs Barrick of its recently cemented supremacy. Earlier this mo...Read More

Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO), the world's second largest miner, will invest a further $302 million to advance its Resolution copper project, in the U.S. state of Arizona, as part of its drive to increase its exposure to the red metal, used in everything from electric vehicles to batteries.The extra financing brings the total injected by Rio, which owns a 55% interest in the project, and its Resolution...Read More

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Vancouver, BC - Norra Metals Corp. (TSX-V:NORA) (the "Company" or "Norra") is pleased to announce that it has submitted four recently completed, NI 43-101 technical reports on its newly acquired Scandinavian properties to the TSX.V and has now filed those reports on SEDAR.The four Scandinavian projects; Bastutr??sk in Sweden, and the three Norwegian properties; Bleikvassli, Mer??ker and Sagvoll...Read More

MAS Gold (TSXV: MAS) has completed a 3,500-metre drill program in Saskatchewan, targeting the Point gold prospect on its Preview Lake property and the North Lake gold prospect on its North Lake property. Point sits 60 km northeast of La Ronge, Sask., and North Lake is 5 km northeast of Point."It has been in a bit of a slowdown for a number of years, because our joint-venture partner went through r...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipAlkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesGlobal Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpIt hit 626m at 0.62g/t gold and 0.11% copper from surface at Gran Bestia, which lies 1km no...Read More

Poli is executive chairman of ASX-listed Matsa Resources, a gold junior that has flown under the radar in recent years as it beavered away at the historic Lake Carey project in Western Australia'sRead More

Yamana Gold's copper-gold Chapada Mine in Brazil which Lundin Mining is acquiring. Source Yamana Gold Inc.Lundin Mining Corp. [LUN-TSX; LUMI-Sweden] said Monday April 15 that it has struck a deal to acquire Yamana Gold Inc.'s [YRI-TSX; AUY-NYSE] 100% interest in the Chapada copper-gold mine in Brazil for US$800 million.Under the definitive purchase agreement, Yamana will retain a 2.0% net smelter...Read More

The concentrator at the Kamoto Mine in the DRC. Source: Katanga Mining Ltd.Glencore AG's Katanga Mining Ltd. [KAT-TSX] unit has resumed the export and sale of a limited amount of cobalt that complies with both international and local Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) transport regulations with respect to the level of uranium.In the fourth quarter of 2018, Katanga said it would temporarily suspend...Read More

JOHANNESBURG – Tiffany & Co has been expanding its workforce in sub-Saharan Africa – a region of almost one-billion people where the jewellery giant does not have a single store.More than a quarter of the New York-based company’s 1 500 global diamond cutters and polishers are now based in Africa, CEO Alessandro Bogliolo said in an interview in Cape Town. Tiffany has factories...Read More

How to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixQuality emerges at Galan's blue-chip lithium addressSPONSOREDgalan lithiumCardinal's Namdini Ore Reserve Now 5.1 MozSPONSOREDcardinal resourcesYamana will receive $800 million cash at closing and additional consideration of up to $125 million based on the price of gold over a five-year period, a $100 million payment...Read More

Eastern promise for PolarXSPONSOREDpolarxAmerigo has a unique and distinctive mineral extraction business model that is difficult to find fault with given it counts with a decade's-long supply of raw material at its Minera Valle CentralRead More

Paying with your debit card might seem like a responsible move. After all, getting in the habit of whipping out your credit card whenever you have to make a purchase might lead to overspending.But from a security standpoint, paying with a credit card is actually the better move.By the end of this year, credit and debit card fraud is expected to reach $33B globally. While a criminal can steal your...Read More

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved Newrange Gold's (TSXV: NRG; US-OTC: NRGOF) proposal to transfer the company permits for the Merritt decline, part of its 16.7-sq.-km Pamlico gold project in Nevada, as well as to collect a 1,000-ton bulk sample at the project.The project's previous operators, the Merritt family, developed the Merritt decline in 2013 for between US$2 million and US$3...Read More

Thor Explorations (TSXV: THX) estimated in a definitive feasibility study two months ago that pre-production capex to build an open-pit mine at its Segilola gold project in Nigeria would cost about US$87 million.Today, the company announced it has secured a US$78-million financing package from the Africa Finance Corporation, a multilateral finance institution with US$4.5 billion on its balance she...Read More

Global Atomic's 'transformational discovery' changes everythingSPONSOREDglobal atomic corpAlkane maps own path to world-class critical metals producerSPONSOREDalkane resourcesWestern Atlas drill-ready in NunavutSPONSOREDwestern atlas resourcesHow to monitor and manage your Tailings Storage FacilitySPONSOREDisometrixKumar, who was previously responsible for building Tesla's lithium ion...Read More