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

A retired Brazilian Army officer who recently advised Canadian miner Belo Sun (TSX: BSX) about its plans to mine gold in the Amazon, will head the country's Indigenous Rights Agency (Funai) aiming at using his experience in the sector to deal with hundreds of impending clashes between miners and locals.Native descendant General Franklimberg Ribeiro de Freitas had run Funai until April 2018, but wa...Read More

Newmont Mining plans to acquire smaller rival Goldcorp for $10 billion in the biggest-ever acquisition in the gold sector.Read full newsRead More

The most recent Annual Survey of Mining Companies by the Fraser Institute ranked British Columbia seventh among Canadian mining jurisdictions. But no other province or territory has had two new precious metal mines reach commercial production less than 15 months apart over the last two calendar years.In July 2017, Pretium Resources (TSX: PVG; NYSE: PVG) launched commercial production at its high-g...Read More

The bad news for shareholders of the Zimbabwe and Romania-focused miner piled up on Friday afternoon, with lender Bergen Global Opportunity Fund calling on conversion rights worth $500,000, meaning Vast must issue 164 million new shares.The $5.5 million tranche B money was to get the Baita Plai polymetallic mine in Romania up and running, the Manaila operation, and on diamond exploration in Z...Read More

Thome, President and CEO of AMEBC.AMEBC (Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia) is the leading association for the mineral exploration and development sector in British Columbia. The organization represents BC's mineral exploration sector and promotes environmentally responsible mineral development with clear policies, events and tools to support its thousands of members.AMEBC is we...Read More

The processing plant under construction at Lundin Gold's Fruta del Norte mine in Ecuador. Source: Lundin Gold Inc.Sandstorm Gold Ltd. [SSL-TSX, SAND-NYSE American] said Friday January 18 that it has acquired a 0.9% net smelter return royalty interest on precious metals produced from Lundin Gold Inc.'s [LUG-TSX, LUG-OMX] Fruta del Norte mine in Ecuador.Sandstorm said the royalty was acquired form a...Read More

Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Pilbara iron ore shipments for 2018 came in at 338.2 million tonnes, 2% higher than 2017 and at the upper en...Read More

The annual edition of The Economist's Intelligence Unit Democracy Index is out.Across several democratic categories nations are ranked. These include but are not limited to:Civil liberties... the functioning of government... political participation… electoral process... pluralism... and political culture.Where does the United States rank among the nations of the Earth?Is it the most democr...Read More

Today marks the 27th day of the government shutdown.In total, 800,000 Federal employees missed their first paychecks last week. And another 1.2 million government contractors are also estimated to be missing paychecks as well.That’s 2 million Americans currently out of work and not collecting paychecks!This boils down to a large portion of America’s middle class at risk of missing mort...Read More

Denison Mines (TSX: DML; NYSE-AM: DNN) getting to work on this year's exploration programs on its Wheeler River, Waterbury Lake and Hook-Carter uranium properties in northern Saskatchewan's Athabasca basin.Waterbury and Wheeler River are on the east side of the basin while Hook-Carter is on the west side, near Fission Uranium's (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) Triple R uranium deposit and NexGen Energy's...Read More

Likely Shadary win in DR Congo threatens further squeeze on miners' profitsSPONSOREDverisk maplecroftAlderan unlocking Frisco potentialSPONSOREDalderan resourcesRhyolite Ridge PFS beats expectationsSPONSOREDioneerElement 25 targeting clean entry into high-growth marketSPONSOREDelement 25Fearful about the prospects for my own mortality, I was compulsively drawn to a recent ‘View from the...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The 5th Mediterranean Gem and Jewellery Conference will take place in Limassol, Cyprus, following the success of the four previous conferences.   The Limassol meeting will take place on May 17-19 following the previous conferences in Greece in 2015, Spain in 2016, Italy in 2017 and Montenegro in 2018   The participants came from 25 countries in 2018, from a range of fiel...Read More

Marijuana stocks have come a long way... but it hasn't been an easy ride.Just ask any marijuana investor who bought shares last year. They may have been tearing their hair out, as I was many times throughout the year.You can watch our horror unfold by the movements of the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences ETF (HMMJ.TO) chart in the last year:This ETF charts the "equity securities of life sciences c...Read More

On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence stood before the Global Chiefs of Mission Conference at the State Department and told U.S. diplomats that ISIS had been destroyed."The caliphate has crumbled," he said, "and ISIS has been defeated."This was a strange thing to say, considering Pence was told hours beforehand that a terrorist attack by the Islamic State had killed four Americans.Officials said...Read More

Carube Copper Corp. (TSXV:CUC) is pleased to report positive results from its ongoing surface exploration program at the Company's 100% owned Main Ridge Project (Read full newsRead More

Red Pine Exploration Inc. (TSXV:RPX) (Read full newsRead More

COMEX FUTURES REPORTThe Brexit vote is over. Theresa May survives. Her next moves will be closely watched. Political uncertainty will result in gold trading with a firm bias. Traders will now start taking positions for Tuesday as Monday is a holiday in the USA. The US dollar is firm due to its safe haven status over the Pound and Euro. Focus will now be on economic data releases and its impact...Read More

COMEX FUTURES REPORTThe Brexit vote is over. Theresa May survives. Her next moves will be closely watched. Political uncertainty will result in gold trading with a firm bias. Traders will now start taking positions for Tuesday as Monday is a holiday in the USA. The US dollar is firm due to its safe haven status over the Pound and Euro. Focus will now be on economic data releases and its impact...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

The latest default raises very troubling questions about the quality of financial reports from Chinese companies.Read full newsRead More