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

"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftGolden Mile positioned for successSPONSOREDgolden mile resourcesCardinal advances at pace in Ghana SPONSOREDcardinal resourcesRevised Leonora PFS is next for KinSPONSOREDkin miningThe project ranks among the biggest undeveloped copper-gold-molybdenum deposits in the world and has collectivel...Read More

Bannerman Resources Ltd (ASX:BMN) (OTCMKTS:BNNLF) expects RC drilling results back from a campaign near its proposed Etango uranium processing plant in Namibia this quarter as the company continues to progress an update to the definitive feasibility study for its flagship project.The company that regularly has its share price track with the uranium price, posted its quarterly reports to market tod...Read More

The death toll has reached 84, with another 276 still missing.Brazil has arrested five people following the TSF wall breaking and spilling waste over the Corrego do Feijão iron ore mine and surrounding areas, three of whom worked for Vale and had been involved in signing of the structural integrity of the dam.The company said on Tuesday it would give each victim's family US$26,000.Vale's pr...Read More

(IDEX Online) - ALROSA has expanded its long-term customer list in 2019 within its 2018-2020 three-year contract period.   Six customers who, from the beginning of 2018, were ALROSA ALLIANCE participants and candidates for the possible signing of long-term agreements obtained long-term customer status. Chow Sang Sang Jewelery (China), Kapu Gems (India), Mohit Diamonds (India), VD Global (Indi...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lucara Diamond Corp. has recovered a 240-carat, top-white gem diamond from its 100% owned Karowe Diamond Mine located in Botswana.   This diamond will be shown alongside the 127 carat, top white gem diamond reported earlier this year together with other exceptional diamonds recently recovered from Karowe, at Lucara's upcoming diamond tender closing on March 7. Since mini...Read More

(IDEX Online) - ALROSA will receive the Diamonds Do Good Community Stewardship Award while the Luxury Jewelers Resource Group will receive the Diamonds Do Good Community Building Award, the Diamond Empowerment Fund has announced. The awards will be presented at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas on May 30.   ALROSA: Diamonds Do Good Community Stewardship Award The world's leading diamond mining...Read More

All holes encountered significant mineralisation with the most notable results being along the northern margin of drilling completed to date. Highlights included 236.35m grading 0.53% copper, 0.63g/t gold and 12.09g/t silver from 87.55m depth. This hole intercepted high-sulphidation epithermal and skarn with overprint of carbonate base metal intermediate sulphidation veining."The AntaKori project...Read More

The company said the future viability of the mine required an adjustment to "how we are organised, how we work and the technology that we use to improve our efficiency and productivity". Los Bronces has about 6,970 workers including contractors.The news comes as the company prepares to file an environmental impact assessment in March for an underground expansion project that will require an invest...Read More

"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftGolden Mile positioned for successSPONSOREDgolden mile resourcesCardinal advances at pace in Ghana SPONSOREDcardinal resourcesRevised Leonora PFS is next for KinSPONSOREDkin miningIt said it had intersected "a continuous potassic alteration facies as host to numerous granite dykes with coppe...Read More

Do you recognize this chart?Hint: This is one of my favorite areas of the market. And it’s an opportunity we’ve talked a lot about here at The Daily Edge.If you correctly identified this as a price chart for gold, give yourself a pat on the back.Even better, if you’re actually invested in gold, you’re doing even better. Because the higher the price for gold, the more wealth...Read More

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is known for its coal and copper-gold deposits, with a storied history of mining all three commodities. Now the second largest mining company in the world is looking to add a B.C. copper porphyry deposit to its portfolio of development properties.Speaking at the opening ceremony of the Association for Mineral Exploration's Roundup 2019 convention in Vancouver, Rio Tint...Read More

VANCOUVER - Miners and explorers in British Columbia hit paydirt on Monday, with B.C. Premier John Horgan announcing that two investment-friendly tax credits would be made permanent and no longer be re-evaluated on an annual basis.Speaking at Roundup 2019, the annual meet-up organized by the Association for Mineral Exploration (AME), Horgan said his government will adopt the recommendations of the...Read More

Here we go again. With memories still fresh of Vale and BHP's deadly Samarco iron ore tailings disaster in Mariana, Brazil in November 2015 - which killed 19 people - comes news of a smaller but even more deadly tailings dam collapse at Dam 1 of Vale's Feijao iron ore mine in Brazil's Minas Gerais state during the early afternoon of Friday, Jan. 25.The tailings spilled out with no warning to bury...Read More

"Tshisekedi would be a relatively positive figure for mining investment"SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftGolden Mile positioned for successSPONSOREDgolden mile resourcesCardinal advances at pace in Ghana SPONSOREDcardinal resourcesRevised Leonora PFS is next for KinSPONSOREDkin miningThere are times as a parent, in particular the parent of a teenage boy, when we simply have to accept the realit...Read More

Operations have resumed at Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds’ Kareevlei diamond mine, in Kimberley, in South Africa’s Northern Cape province.This follows a temporary suspension of operations from January 22, after the Department of Mineral Resources imposed a Section 54 notice.AdvertisementThe Section 54 notice was in relation to the code of practice relating to the operation of trackless m...Read More

In Canada, registered medical patients have been allowed to use cannabidiol (CBD) legally since 2001, or almost two decades.When Canada legalized cannabis last fall, CBD became legal for all adults to use.It immediately sold out. All of it.There is now a medical cannabis and CBD shortage.According to James O'Hara of Canadians for Fair Access to Medical Marijuana:"It's actually more than a supply i...Read More

No rate hike today.As roundly expected, the Federal Reserve held steady.Mr. Jerome Powell claimed his band of 12 would be "patient" with rate hikes.But we are not so concerned with the day's changing scenery, the shifting kaleidoscope.Our concern is rather the grand sweep, the long view... the perspective of the circling eagle.Today we attempt a wider glance.What holds the eternal key to growth an...Read More

Venezuela is nearing to be another Iran or Libya as it is trying to switch away from US dollar to other currencies on its crude oil and other natural resources. There will be a regime change in Venezuela soon. Russia and China will not be able to stop a regime change in Venezuela. UK has declined to give Venezuela its gold. The message is clear, US and UK will not give gold to nations have given...Read More

Venezuela is nearing to be another Iran or Libya as it is trying to switch away from US dollar to other currencies on its crude oil and other natural resources. There will be a regime change in Venezuela soon. Russia and China will not be able to stop a regime change in Venezuela. UK has declined to give Venezuela its gold. The message is clear, US and UK will not give gold to nations have given...Read More

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