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

LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Acacia Mining beat forecasts on Monday with figures for its production and costs in 2018 that lifted the gold miner back into profit, but the company is still grappling with a long-running tax dispute in Tanzania where it operates all its mines.Shares in Acacia, majority owned by Barrick Gold Corp , were steady while the rest of the market rose, finding little impetus de...Read More

Canada's Cameco (TSX:CCO) (NYSE:CCJ), the world's largest publicly traded uranium miner, is in no rush to resume production at its idled operations due to "ongoing challenging and uncertain" uranium market conditions.The Saskatchewan-based miner indefinitely shut last year its flagship McArthur River mine - the world's biggest - and also the Key Lake mill, which has helped the market. But while...Read More

Vancouver, BC - IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX-V: ISO | OTCQX: ISENF) (the "Company" or "IsoEnergy") is pleased to announce that it has intersected an interval of strong (>20,000 total cps on an RS-125 hand-held spectrometer) uranium mineralization at the Hurricane zone in the first follow-up drill hole (LE19-06) completed along-strike of last summer's intersection in drill hole LE18-01A. The Hurricane z...Read More

On this edition of Weekly with Andrew McCreath, he takes a lookahead to some big market trends, including a busy week of earnings here in Canada headlined by the gold companies and the lifecos.Read full newsRead More

On this edition of Weekly with Andrew McCreath, he takes a lookahead to some big market trends, including a busy week of earnings here in Canada headlined by the gold companies and the lifecos.Read full newsRead More

The Choco Precious Metal Project in Colombia. Source Max Resource Corp.Max Resource Corp. [MXR-TSXV; MAXROF-OTC; M1D1-FSE] advanced in active trading Monday February 11 after the company said it had received conditional approval form the TSX Venture Exchange to acquire additional mineral rights in Colombia.Max is a Canadian exploration company with a focus on exploration of mineral assets in Colom...Read More

Madsen headframe, mill, tailings facility and mine village mine village located 16 km west of Red Lake, Ontario. Source: Pure Gold Mining Inc.Pure Gold Mining Inc. [PGM-TSXV; LRTNF-OTC] on Monday February 11 announced the results of a positive feasibility study for its 100%-owned Madsen-Red Lake project in northwestern Ontario.The feasibility study sees Madsen-Red Lake as an 800 tonne-per-day, hig...Read More

Full Article: FED CRUMPLES - and SEALS THE DOLLAR'S FATE..By: Clive MaundThe Fed didn't just fold on Wednesday, it crumpled, capitulated. A long time ago we had figured out that when push came to shove, this is what it would do. However, we thought that it would take a market crash to force it to change course, in order that it could use that as solid justification for a U-turn, instead of which...Read More

Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds has raised £575 000 before expenses through the issue of 191.67-million shares at a price of 0.3p a share. The funds will be used to continue the development of the Kareevlei mine, in the Kimberley region of South Africa.AdvertisementThe recent recovery of large, high-quality gem diamonds has encouraged the company to look at ways to fast-track its productio...Read More

Alderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesIts Ministro Hales, Gabriela Mistral and Radomiro Tomic divisions were also back to normal, and it starting to repair the public road linking Calama with Chuquicamata, Codelco said yesterday."Thanks to the measures adopted and the existing protocols, during the emergency no injured workers have been registered," the company said.Alderan u...Read More

American Lithium (TSXV: LI; US-OTC: LIACF) is about to drill its 6.3 sq. km Tonopah lithium claystone (TLC) project near Tonopah, Nevada.Over the next six weeks the company will drill 1,600 metres across 10 to 20 holes. It will average 100-metre depths, drilling up to 160 metres below surface.The company had previously collected 22 grab samples at TLC that graded as high as 1,380 parts per million...Read More

South32 (LON: S32) has the next 11 months to decide whether it wants to write a US$150-million cheque for a 50% stake in Trilogy Metals' (TSX: TMQ; NYSE-AM: TMQ) two base metal deposits in Alaska - Arctic and Bornite.To keep that option, the mining and metals giant has been required since 2017 to spend US$10 million a year on exploration at Bornite, which has an inferred resource of 5.45 billion l...Read More

Citi, a well-credentialled investment bank, earlier today penciled in A$102 as the target price for the stock, which has received an unexpected boost from a sharp increase in the price of iron oreRead More

McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX) expects to pour first gold at its Gold Bar mine project in central Nevada before the end of February, just fourteen months after breaking ground in November 2017.Commercial production is forecast to follow before the end of the first quarter, a dramatic schedule, says Chris Stewart, the company's president."I'd say that's pretty darned good," he says. "Typically...Read More

Goldspot Discoveries, about to make its TSXV debut (SPOT) after a backdoor listing via the former Duckworth Capital Corp and completion of a C$7.5 million placement sponsored by Canaccord Genuity and Haywood Securities, is applying machine learning algorithms to help companies such as Hochschild Mining, McEwen Mining and Yamana Gold improve district-scale exploration efficiency, and possibly effec...Read More

JOHANNESBURG (miningweekly.com) – Mining must take place with a strong focus on the interests of those who live in mining areas, says Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe, a standpoint that supports the notion that a mining right and a land right can co-exist, without pleasing one party at the expense of the other. But the Xolobeni judgment turns this around, says legal firm Bowma...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A gang of thieves suspected of carrying out a diamond theft during the International Diamond Week at the Israel Diamond Exchange (IDE) at the end of January, were arrested a few hours after the theft, the IDE said in a statement.   The arrests took place after the IDE's security team quickly alerted the police and supplied a picture of one of the suspects.   The gang of...Read More

According to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, there are now 70 lithium-ion battery megafactories under construction across four continents, 46 of which are based in China, with only five currently planned for the U.S.Simon Moores, managing director for Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.Moores last testified in October...Read More

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