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

The brokerage firm downgraded the stock and cut its price targetGoldman Sachs downgraded H & R Block Inc (NYSE:HRB) stock to "sell" from "neutral," and lowered its price target to $22 from $27 -- a discount to last night's close at $25.52. Analyst George Tong said U.S. tax reform and the ending of many promotions this year will likely lead to falling assisted tax volume for the company.In reaction...Read More

Brazil's Minas Gerais state labour prosecutors have frozen more than 800 million reais ($219 million) of Vale's funds as compensation for victims of last week's tailing burst, which killed at least 99 people.People located at and near Brumadinho, the town where the breach occurred, are now facing the dangers associated with having toxic elements in the Parapoeba river, which flows into Sao Franci...Read More

Brazil's Minas Gerais state labour prosecutors have frozen more than 800 million reais ($219 million) of Vale's funds as compensation for victims of last week's tailing burst, which killed at least 99 people.People located at and near Brumadinho, the town where the breach occurred, are now facing the dangers associated with having toxic elements in the Parapoeba river, which flows into Sao Franci...Read More

Botswana's first privately owned coal mine will produce its first saleable coal in March, the chief executive of the company overseeing the project told Reuters.The Masama Coal Mine aims to produce 1.2 million tonnes per annum of coal and will target the South African market as well as other countries in the region, Minergy Chief Executive Andre Boje said."We should ramp up to the nameplate volume...Read More

* One source sees deal signing in first quarter of 2019* Brazil's CSN working to cut debt pile* Iron ore prices rise after Brazil mining dam failureGlobal trader Glencore is close to finalising a deal to make a $500 million payment to the mining arm of Brazil's Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) for iron ore cargoes to be delivered over five years, sources familiar with the matter said.One sourc...Read More

The DJI, on the other hand, is lower after DowDuPont earningsU.S. stock futures are trading mixed this morning, coming off of yesterday's Fed-driven rally. While the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) is set for a lower open with DowDuPont (DWDP), the tech-heavy Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is eyeing a strong start, as traders applaud Facebook's (FB) strong financial results. General Electric (GE) share...Read More

Early investors stand to reap the rewards as a new technology looks to change everything.One research firm - which recommended Google and Amazon before they became household names - has built a worldwide reputation of identifying profitable tech trends well before Wall Street and the talking heads on T.V.And just recently, they've uncovered a technology that's already being labeled "humanity's las...Read More

Since 2013, Candente Gold (TSXV:CDG) has been engaged with an agreement to reprocess the tailings deposit derived from the Mexico mine, which is part of the San Rafael Vein in the El Oro District, where the company has earned an undivided 100% interest from Goldcorp S.A. de C.V.El Oro is located in the state of Mexico in central Mexico.In a press release, Candente said that the agreement has to be...Read More

Since 2013, Candente Gold (TSXV:CDG) has been engaged with an agreement to reprocess the tailings deposit derived from the Mexico mine, which is part of the San Rafael Vein in the El Oro District, where the company has earned an undivided 100% interest from Goldcorp S.A. de C.V.El Oro is located in the state of Mexico in central Mexico.In a press release, Candente said that the agreement has to be...Read More

Since 2013, Candente Gold (TSXV:CDG) has been engaged with an agreement to reprocess the tailings deposit derived from the Mexico mine, which is part of the San Rafael Vein in the El Oro District, where the company has earned an undivided 100% interest from Goldcorp S.A. de C.V.El Oro is located in the state of Mexico in central Mexico.In a press release, Candente said that the agreement has to be...Read More

Since 2013, Candente Gold (TSXV:CDG) has been engaged with an agreement to reprocess the tailings deposit derived from the Mexico mine, which is part of the San Rafael Vein in the El Oro District, where the company has earned an undivided 100% interest from Goldcorp S.A. de C.V.El Oro is located in the state of Mexico in central Mexico.In a press release, Candente said that the agreement has to be...Read More

Canada's Avalon Advanced Materials (TSX: AVL) and Australia's Cheetah Resources announced this week that they have joined forces to work on the development of the rare earth resources on the Nechalacho project near Yellowknife, in Canada's Northwest Territories.In order to move forward with such a plan, the companies signed a binding Terms Sheet under which Cheetah will acquire ownership of the ne...Read More

Canada's First Vanadium (TSX-V: FVAN) is extending its Nevada-based Carlin project, considered the largest, highest grade primary vanadium deposit in North America, by acquiring the southern extension of the asset.The strategic move, announced Thursday, gives the company mineral rights to an additional 200-metre strike length of Carlin.Strategic move gives the company mineral rights to an additi...Read More

Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) jumped 12.6% in pre-market trading in New York on Thursday on the news that it will resume mining and heap leaching at its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey.The Vancouver-based miner noted it would halt a previously announced $520 million-project to build a mill on site. The facility would have made K????lada?? a nine-year, 270,000-ounce-per-an...Read More

Shares in Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) jumped 12.6% in pre-market trading in New York on Thursday on the news that it will resume mining and heap leaching at its K????lada?? gold mine in Turkey.The Vancouver-based miner noted it would halt a previously announced $520 million-project to build a mill on site. The facility would have made K????lada?? a nine-year, 270,000-ounce-per-an...Read More

Lithium is set to soar - and leave investors pocking huge profits.Even with all the headlines and controversy surrounding Tesla founder Elon Musk, recent research shows that even bad press can't stop the momentum of a huge component that makes Tesla what it is today.In fact, Tesla merely helped highlight how completely critical lithium is in today's increasingly-technological world... and how scar...Read More

Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) revealed Thursday plans to acquire Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP), a Canadian firm which has a 15% interest in the miner's coveted Cascabel copper-gold project, located 180 km north of the capital Quito.The takeover would see Cornerstone's investors receive 0.55 SolGold shares for each their shares, which SolGold said was a 20% premium.I...Read More

Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) revealed Thursday plans to acquire Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP), a Canadian firm which has a 15% interest in the miner's coveted Cascabel copper-gold project, located 180 km north of the capital Quito.The takeover would see Cornerstone's investors receive 0.55 SolGold shares for each their shares, which SolGold said was a 20% premium.I...Read More

Ecuador-focused explorer SolGold (LON, TSX:SOLG) revealed Thursday plans to acquire Cornerstone Capital Resources (TSX-V:CGP), a Canadian firm which has a 15% interest in the miner's coveted Cascabel copper-gold project, located 180 km north of the capital Quito.The takeover would see Cornerstone's investors receive 0.55 SolGold shares for each their shares, which SolGold said was a 20% premium.I...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Quadron Cannatech Corporation (CSE:QCC) (the "Company" or "Quadron"), is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of an end-to-end cannabis extraction and processing facility to Cannaworld Ventures Inc. ("Cannaworld Ventures").Cannaworld Ventures provides strategic investments in the cannabis industry focusing primarily on opportunities in the cannabis processing sector. C...Read More