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
Iron ore futures surged more than 5 percent to hit the highest level since 2014 on concern that the increasingly severe crisis at top producer Vale SA will curtail global supplies, tightening the seaborne market and offsetting the impact of a slowdown in China, the largest importer.Vale invoked force majeure earlier this week after a judge forced it to suspend some operations at its Brucutu mine i...Read More
Genesis Metals (TSXV: GIS) announced this week a new resource estimate for the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Quebec.In a press release, the miner said the resource estimate is for both the main Zone and east Zone at Chevrier, which are 10 kilometres apart. Geological data indicate that both zones are located within the Fancamp Deformation Corridor, which is a major structural break that...Read More
Genesis Metals (TSXV: GIS) announced this week a new resource estimate for the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Quebec.In a press release, the miner said the resource estimate is for both the main Zone and east Zone at Chevrier, which are 10 kilometres apart. Geological data indicate that both zones are located within the Fancamp Deformation Corridor, which is a major structural break that...Read More
Genesis Metals (TSXV: GIS) announced this week a new resource estimate for the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Quebec.In a press release, the miner said the resource estimate is for both the main Zone and east Zone at Chevrier, which are 10 kilometres apart. Geological data indicate that both zones are located within the Fancamp Deformation Corridor, which is a major structural break that...Read More
Genesis Metals (TSXV: GIS) announced this week a new resource estimate for the Chevrier gold project near Chibougamau, Quebec.In a press release, the miner said the resource estimate is for both the main Zone and east Zone at Chevrier, which are 10 kilometres apart. Geological data indicate that both zones are located within the Fancamp Deformation Corridor, which is a major structural break that...Read More
American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY; FRANK: 2AM) announced this week that its partner Kemetco Research had started the processing of a select sample of cathode scrap material through Stages 1 and 2 of a Pilot Plant built to recycle cobalt, nickel, manganese, and aluminum.In a press release, the British Columbia-based company said the commencement of the pilot plant followed a hazard and operability stu...Read More
American Manganese (TSX.V: AMY; FRANK: 2AM) announced this week that its partner Kemetco Research had started the processing of a select sample of cathode scrap material through Stages 1 and 2 of a Pilot Plant built to recycle cobalt, nickel, manganese, and aluminum.In a press release, the British Columbia-based company said the commencement of the pilot plant followed a hazard and operability stu...Read More
Heavy rains in northern Chile, which forced state miner Codelco to halt operations at its Chuquicamata and Ministro Hales copper mines, have also impacted Freeport-McMoRan's El Abra.Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, said Friday it had sent its daytime shift of workers home as a preventative measure and would evaluate whether to cancel its night shift as well.Freeport-McMoran (NYSE: FCX),...Read More
Heavy rains in northern Chile, which forced state miner Codelco to halt operations at its Chuquicamata and Ministro Hales copper mines, have also impacted Freeport-McMoRan's El Abra.Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, said Friday it had sent its daytime shift of workers home as a preventative measure and would evaluate whether to cancel its night shift as well.Freeport-McMoran (NYSE: FCX),...Read More
Heavy rains in northern Chile, which forced state miner Codelco to halt operations at its Chuquicamata and Ministro Hales copper mines, have also impacted Freeport-McMoRan's El Abra.Codelco, the world's No.1 copper producer, said Friday it had sent its daytime shift of workers home as a preventative measure and would evaluate whether to cancel its night shift as well.Freeport-McMoran (NYSE: FCX),...Read More
* Indian discounts narrow to lowest in two months* Feb, 10-13 India International Jewellery Show eyed* Japanese dealers offering discounts for second week* Global spot gold prices on track for weekly declineDemand for physical gold in India rose this week as jewellers stocked up for a major exhibition, allowing dealers to cut discounts to the lowest in two months, while the Lunar New Year holiday...Read More
Zinc has been on the climb this year, defying broader macroeconomic gloom and a ...Read full newsRead More
Zinc has been on the climb this year, defying broader macroeconomic gloom and a ...Read full newsRead More
The race for marijuana profits is on... and one up-and-comer is taking the "Buffett" approach to profits.The race for marijuana profits is on. Marijuana presents one of the most lucrative investing opportunities of the modern age - millionaires have been made many times over, and by finding the right stock at the right time, it's still possible for investors to cash in on these "first wave" profit...Read More
About 700 people were evacuated on Friday from two different towns in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais where a dam collapse last month killed at least 157 people, with nearly 200 still missing and feared dead.Brazilian mining giant Vale (NYSE:VALE) evacuated around 500 residents from a rural town near its Gongo Soco mine's dam, by order of the country's mining agency (ANM) after local consulti...Read More
McEwen Mining Inc. (MUX) (MUX.TO) is pleased to report that construction of the Gold Bar Mine in Nevada's prolific Battle Mountain-Cortez Trend is nearing completion, just 14 months after breaking ground in November 2017.The project is tracking on our original capital cost estimate of $81.4 millionRead full newsRead More
Windfall gold project in Quebec tops list and Global Atomic Corp's uranium project in Niger comes in second.Read full newsRead More
Windfall gold project in Quebec tops list and Global Atomic Corp's uranium project in Niger comes in second.Read full newsRead More
Delivering a 90-minute keynote presentation to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence's Cape Town World Tour stop this week, Friedland named air pollution - or airpocalypse - as the single biggest issueRead More
Largo's Maracas Menchen vanadium mine in Brazil. Source: L:argo Resources Ltd.Largo Resources Ltd. [LTO-TSX; LGORF-OTCQX] said Friday February 8 that it has filed a final base-shelf prospectus with Canadian regulatory authorities allowing Largo and certain of its security holders to qualify the distribution by way of prospectus of up to $750 million in securities during the 25-month period that...Read More