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

FDX stock has gained 14% year-to-date alreadyThe shares of FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) are down 3% in electronic trading, after the company's President and COO David Bronczek unexpectedly stepped down. Bronczek had just been named a director two weeks ago, and will now be replaced by Raj Subramaniam. Credit Suisse weighed in on the shake-up, noting that is creates "more questions than answers."...Read More

A new lithium technology could change the face of lithium production forever.Andrew Carnegie didn't invent the Bessemer converter, but used it to amass an incredible fortune producing steel at lower costs. What one simple machine can do for increasing production and lowering costs is staggering (think of the cotton gin).The lithium industry has been plagued with inefficiency and expensive producti...Read More

Africa-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Friday that drilling activities at its Doropo licence in C??te d'Ivoire resulted in more than double the mineral resources estimated for the area, which remains largely underexplored, with numerous targets identified.The Doropo mineral resource grew to 2.13m ounces at 1.31 grams per tonne of gold in the indicated category, up 58% from la...Read More

Africa-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Friday that drilling activities at its Doropo licence in C??te d'Ivoire resulted in more than double the mineral resources estimated for the area, which remains largely underexplored, with numerous targets identified.The Doropo mineral resource grew to 2.13m ounces at 1.31 grams per tonne of gold in the indicated category, up 58% from la...Read More

Africa-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Friday that drilling activities at its Doropo licence in C??te d'Ivoire resulted in more than double the mineral resources estimated for the area, which remains largely underexplored, with numerous targets identified.The Doropo mineral resource grew to 2.13m ounces at 1.31 grams per tonne of gold in the indicated category, up 58% from la...Read More

Africa-focused gold miner Centamin (LON:CEY) (TSX:CEE) said Friday that drilling activities at its Doropo licence in C??te d'Ivoire resulted in more than double the mineral resources estimated for the area, which remains largely underexplored, with numerous targets identified.The Doropo mineral resource grew to 2.13m ounces at 1.31 grams per tonne of gold in the indicated category, up 58% from la...Read More

Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) resumed diamond drilling at its wholly-owned Croinor Gold property, where activities were suspended following a winter freeze that affected Quebec's Val-d'Or region.In a press release, the Canadian company said the purpose of the current 1,750-metre campaign is to finish the 2018 drilling program and to drill high potential targets.Monarch said that before it was suspended,...Read More

Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) resumed diamond drilling at its wholly-owned Croinor Gold property, where activities were suspended following a winter freeze that affected Quebec's Val-d'Or region.In a press release, the Canadian company said the purpose of the current 1,750-metre campaign is to finish the 2018 drilling program and to drill high potential targets.Monarch said that before it was suspended,...Read More

Monarch Gold (TSX: MQR) resumed diamond drilling at its wholly-owned Croinor Gold property, where activities were suspended following a winter freeze that affected Quebec's Val-d'Or region.In a press release, the Canadian company said the purpose of the current 1,750-metre campaign is to finish the 2018 drilling program and to drill high potential targets.Monarch said that before it was suspended,...Read More

Silver One Resources (TSXV: SVE) reported this week that it started drilling at its Pe??asco Quemado project located in northern Sonora, Mexico.In a press release, Silver One explained that the 1,000-metre diamond drilling program is based on the strength of the soil geochemical anomalies near to a historically defined manto or replacement-style silver resource."The property hosts geological simil...Read More

Silver One Resources (TSXV: SVE) reported this week that it started drilling at its Pe??asco Quemado project located in northern Sonora, Mexico.In a press release, Silver One explained that the 1,000-metre diamond drilling program is based on the strength of the soil geochemical anomalies near to a historically defined manto or replacement-style silver resource."The property hosts geological simil...Read More

Silver One Resources (TSXV: SVE) reported this week that it started drilling at its Pe??asco Quemado project located in northern Sonora, Mexico.In a press release, Silver One explained that the 1,000-metre diamond drilling program is based on the strength of the soil geochemical anomalies near to a historically defined manto or replacement-style silver resource."The property hosts geological simil...Read More

Iron ore producer Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) revealed Friday that one of its massive driverless trucks collided with another at one of its Western Australia mines earlier this week. There were no injuries.The truck, said the company, was traveling at low speed and crashed into another that was parked at its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in the Pilbara region.One of the trucks was traveling a...Read More

Eight employees of Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) were arrested on Friday as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the deadly dam disaster in the town of Brumadinho, which killed at least 166 people with over a hundred still missing.Four people from the German consulting group T? 1/4 v S? 1/4 d, the company that certified the safety of Vale's dams, were also detained.All of the V...Read More

Western Australia's historic mining town of Coolgardie, 550 kilometres east of Perth, was put on the map by one of the world's biggest gold rushes back in 1892. Read full newsRead More

Employers want to analyse information about staff but leaks and misuse are raising concernsRead full newsRead More

I've written about and given presentations on Bitcoin for years now. As an IT specialist with strong connections to the financial community, you'd expect me to be one of the many people blindsided by the allure of Bitcoin-based solely on its technological appeal. Imagine a reinventing of money. A completely manipulation free currency made of digital bits with a predictable supply growth curve, som...Read More

I've written about and given presentations on Bitcoin for years now. As an IT specialist with strong connections to the financial community, you'd expect me to be one of the many people blindsided by the allure of Bitcoin-based solely on its technological appeal. Imagine a reinventing of money. A completely manipulation free currency made of digital bits with a predictable supply growth curve, som...Read More

SANTIAGO, CHILE - A first-of-its kind deal between Bolivia's state mining company Comibol and Vancouver-based explorer New Pacific Metals (TSXV: NUAG; US-OTC: NUPMF) promises to usher in a new period of foreign investment into Bolivia's mining industry.Under the deal signed in January, New Pacific Metals will have a 45-year contract at its Silver Sands silver project to explore and produce mineral...Read More

Underground mining operations Goldcorp's Red Lake, Ontario gold mine. Source Goldcorp Inc.As the old saying goes, the best place to discover gold is in an area where the yellow metal already exists. It helps to explain this week's announcements by two companies who have made acquisitions in the Red Lake District of northwestern Ontario.One is Pacton Gold Inc. [PAC-TSXV; PACXF-OTC]. The other is Ne...Read More