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

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Gold output for the six-month period was 81,014 ounces, up 54.2% year-on-year, with production from Barberton up 24.5% to 50,0556oz and Elikhulu contributing 15,292oz. Pan African said Read More

Angola produced a total of 9.43-million carats of diamonds last year, which brought in revenues of $1.2-billion. These figures were reported to Angolan news agency Angop by Endiama President Ganga Júnior. Endiama stands for Empresa Nacional de Prospecção , Exploração, Lapidação e Comercialização de Diamantes de Angola (the National Com...Read More

The clouds part, and a crack of sunshine scatters the gloom...Markets learned today the Federal Reserve may soon declare victory... and mothball its ambitious balance sheet reduction plans.From today's Wall Street Journal:Federal Reserve officials are close to deciding they will maintain a larger portfolio of Treasury securities than they'd expected when they began shrinking those holdings two yea...Read More

Hold on to your hats, or your stash, because marijuana is about to take another big step toward full-blown legalization.There's going to be a rupture. And it's been a long time coming.Here's the deal...As you no doubt know, marijuana legalization has been advancing at a rapid pace... on the state level.Ten states - Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Colorado, Michigan, Vermont, Massac...Read More

Speaking at a ceremony that marked the reopening of the century-old mine in the south of the country, Akufo-Addo said Tuesday that the "forceful encroachment on the concession of the company" was over, according to an emailed copy of his speech."The sequence of events that led to the closure of theRead full newsRead More

Following a high-grade discovery at Goldsource's Salbora target, shares of the company rose close to 70 percent.Read full newsRead More

Nick Hodge, Brent Cook, Peter Spina and David Morgan discussed their resource outlook and investment ideas at this year's VRIC.Read full newsRead More

Mercenary Geologist Mickey Fulp shares his thoughts on the Newmont Mining/Goldcorp tie up, the trade war and metals to watch in 2019.Read full newsRead More

Zero growth in the US economy in 2019 is a serious risk if the government shutdown, trade war with China and Brexit are not resolved - but recession is unlikelyTrump has not delivered on campaign promises about workers' rights and resentment is building; the government shutdown is now putting air traffic at riskFor more information about the Annual Meeting, visit www.weforum.orgDavos-Klosters, Swi...Read More

The broad stock market fluctuated within a short-term consolidation range yesterday following Tuesday's decline. Is this a topping pattern before another leg down or just some relatively flat correction within a new uptrend?The U.S. stock market indexes gained 0.1-0.7% on Wednesday, as they fluctuated following Tuesday's decline. The S&P 500 index continued its rebound off the December t26th m...Read More

Wall Street cheered earnings from several chipmakersThe Dow started the session in the red following hawkish comments from Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on U.S.-China trade negotiations -- though it was Ross's confusion over furloughed federal workers visiting food banks that became a major news story. The blue-chip index made a couple of brief forays into positive territoryas well-received earni...Read More

As bad as things have been for Facebook since the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke one year ago, one team of researchers think the reality of the company's circumstances is even more dire than investors realize.Read full newsRead More

Apple, Amazon, and Facebook will be reporting quarterly earnings Earnings season is in full swing, with FAANG members Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), and Facebook (FB) set to report next week. In addition, several blue chips will step into the earnings spotlight, including Chevron (CVX), Boeing (BA), Verizon (VZ), and Visa (V). Elsewhere, traders will digest the Fed's policy statement and the subsequ...Read More

Searchlight Resources Inc. (TSXV:SRCH) is pleased to announce that at the Annual General MeetingRead full newsRead More

Freeport McMoRan Inc shares slid 9 percent on Thursday after the world's second-largest copper miner posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast a drop in 2019 production.A 14 percent dive in copper prices slammed the company in the fourth quarter, yet the chief executive officer said U.S. demand remains strong and underpins Freeport's plans for a major expansion in the United States....Read More

Freeport McMoRan Inc shares slid 9 percent on Thursday after the world's second-largest copper miner posted lower-than-expected quarterly profit and forecast a drop in 2019 production.A 14 percent dive in copper prices slammed the company in the fourth quarter, yet the chief executive officer said U.S. demand remains strong and underpins Freeport's plans for a major expansion in the United States....Read More

The stock just pulled back to a historically bullish moving average Since their early November bull gap that resulted in a two-year high of $69.00, the shares of TripAdvisor Inc (NASDAQ:TRIP) pulled back. Recently, though, TRIP has found support in the $52-$54 area and is already 5.1% higher this year. Plus, the travel concern just retreated to a key trendline -- a signal that, if history is any i...Read More

Toronto-based Anaconda Mining has shared updated resource numbers for two gold projects - Great Northern near the village of Jackson's Arm, Newfoundland and Cape Spencer 15 km east of Saint John, New Brunswick.The Great Northern project includes the Rattling Brook and Thor deposits. Rattling Brook has an inferred resource of 5.5 million tonnes averaging 1.45 g/t gold for 255,000 contained oz. usin...Read More

Toronto-based Anaconda Mining has shared updated resource numbers for two gold projects - Great Northern near the village of Jackson's Arm, Newfoundland and Cape Spencer 15 km east of Saint John, New Brunswick.The Great Northern project includes the Rattling Brook and Thor deposits. Rattling Brook has an inferred resource of 5.5 million tonnes averaging 1.45 g/t gold for 255,000 contained oz. usin...Read More