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

After a tough 2018 for most junior resource companies, 2019 looks like the year that quality explorers break out.K2 Gold has the team, the share structure, and recently added Great Bear Resources' - also a Discovery Group company - CEO Chris Taylor as an advisor.CEO Steve Swatton explains why he's excited again and what to expect from K2 this year.To your wealth,Gerardo Del RealEditor, Junior Min...Read More

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The most recent leg of China's credit boom has been due to an important shift toward household lending.Read full newsRead More

Zimbabwean rescuers pulled the bodies of at least 22 illegal gold miners out of shafts west of Harare that were flooded earlier in the week, and rescued eight more alive, officials and witnesses said on Saturday.The accident involving about 70 miners in Battlefields, 175 km (109 miles) west of the capital, happened on Tuesday night and has shone a light on the risks run by illegal gold miners, who...Read More

This week, Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) sent out the first shipment of bulk nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate from its Savannah mine in Western Australia to Lianyungang, China.The shipment is making the news because its contents were produced after Panoramic was able to reopen the mine, which had been placed on care and maintenance in May 2016. The miner was waiting for a recovery in the nickel pr...Read More

This week, Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) sent out the first shipment of bulk nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate from its Savannah mine in Western Australia to Lianyungang, China.The shipment is making the news because its contents were produced after Panoramic was able to reopen the mine, which had been placed on care and maintenance in May 2016. The miner was waiting for a recovery in the nickel pr...Read More

This week, Panoramic Resources (ASX:PAN) sent out the first shipment of bulk nickel/copper/cobalt concentrate from its Savannah mine in Western Australia to Lianyungang, China.The shipment is making the news because its contents were produced after Panoramic was able to reopen the mine, which had been placed on care and maintenance in May 2016. The miner was waiting for a recovery in the nickel pr...Read More

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For the first time ever, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory had a peek inside the structure of the Ram's Horn, a 263 gram, 12-centimeter tall wire gold specimen considered one of the few of its kind.Using neutron characterization techniques, the researchers were able to take a look to try to better understand how the shiny object was formed."Almost nothing other than the existence of t...Read More

For the first time ever, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory had a peek inside the structure of the Ram's Horn, a 263 gram, 12-centimeter tall wire gold specimen considered one of the few of its kind.Using neutron characterization techniques, the researchers were able to take a look to try to better understand how the shiny object was formed."Almost nothing other than the existence of t...Read More

For the first time ever, scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory had a peek inside the structure of the Ram's Horn, a 263 gram, 12-centimeter tall wire gold specimen considered one of the few of its kind.Using neutron characterization techniques, the researchers were able to take a look to try to better understand how the shiny object was formed."Almost nothing other than the existence of t...Read More

The Angas zinc mine, just outside Adelaide and currently under care and maintenance, is about to become the site of 5 MW advanced compressed air energy storage or A-CAES project which will provide synchronous inertia, load shifting and frequency regulation to the area's electrical grid.The developer is Toronto-based Hydrostor, a firm that was awarded $9 million in grants to build the facility, wh...Read More

The Angas zinc mine, just outside Adelaide and currently under care and maintenance, is about to become the site of 5 MW advanced compressed air energy storage or A-CAES project which will provide synchronous inertia, load shifting and frequency regulation to the area's electrical grid.The developer is Toronto-based Hydrostor, a firm that was awarded $9 million in grants to build the facility, wh...Read More

The Angas zinc mine, just outside Adelaide and currently under care and maintenance, is about to become the site of 5 MW advanced compressed air energy storage or A-CAES project which will provide synchronous inertia, load shifting and frequency regulation to the area's electrical grid.The developer is Toronto-based Hydrostor, a firm that was awarded $9 million in grants to build the facility, wh...Read More

Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More

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Klondike Gold Corp. (TSXV: KG; Frankfurt: LBGF; OTC:KDKGF) has a 557-sq.-km land package in Yukon, not far from where Goldcorp Inc. (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) is developing the 1.67 million oz., construction-stage Coffee gold project and White Gold Corp. (TSXV: WGOK; NYSE: KGC) is working on its 960,000 indicated oz. Golden Saddle development-stage project.Klondike President, CEO and Director Peter Tallma...Read More

Kinross Gold (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) produced 2.45 million gold-equivalent ounces last year with record production from its Paracatu mine in Brazil and its Bald Mountain mine in Nevada, and forecasts company wide production this year will be similar to 2018.The company reported an attributable all-in cost per oz. sold on a by-product basis of US$1,287, down from US$1,308 per oz. in 2017.The Toronto-he...Read More

Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) issued a statement on Saturday saying that it had ordered the evacuation of some 200 people residing or working in 49 buildings that are located near its Mar Azul mine, in Nova Lima, Minas Gerais. This is the same Brazilian state where a tailings dam breach killed at least 166 people in late January and where over a hundred people are still missing.According...Read More

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