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

Kirsten Marcia is the founder of DEEP and its President and CEO.The FEDs announced Friday support for a new geothermal energy power facility that is being led by DEEP Earth Energy Production Corp. (DEEP).The energy project is the first of its kind in Canada as its taps into a new energy resource and is located near Estevan in southeastern Saskatchewan.Geothermal energy harnesses heat from the eart...Read More

Goldcorp's Eleonore Mine in northern Quebec. Source: Goldcorp Inc.Consolidation in the global gold mining sector continued Monday January 14 with news that Goldcorp Inc. [G-TSX; GG-NYSE] and Newmont Mining Corp. [NEM-NYSE] have agreed to merge in an all-stock deal worth $10 billion.The combined company, called Newmont Goldcorp, will have operations in the Americas, Australia and Ghana, producing b...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ABN) (OTCQB: ABNAF) (Frankfurt: E2L2) has provided a summary of exploration results from the 2018 exploration program on their 100% owned Justin Gold Project in the Yukon Territory. Work completed in 2018 included the collection of 19 channel and 28 chip samples from 5 trenches, 16 rock samples, 7 till samples and 240 soil samples with...Read More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and Goldcorp Inc. of Vancouver have agreed to combine their gold companies in a deal worth about US$10 billion.The companies announced today that Newmont will exchange 0.328 of a share and two cents for each of Goldcorp's outstanding common shares.The deal has the unanimous support of the directors of both companies but requires regu...Read More

Full Article: Gold Outlook 2019: Uncertainty Makes Gold A "Valuable Strategic Asset"By: Mark O'ByrneAs we look ahead, we expect that the interplay between market risk and economic growth in 2019 will drive gold demand. And we explore three key trends that we expect will influence its price performance:financial market instabilitymonetary policy and the US dollarstructural economic reforms.Full Ar...Read More

MOSCOW – Russian diamond giant Alrosa has set up a subsidiary in Zimbabwe to begin mining operations there, it said on Monday, more than two years after it shelved plans to expand into the southern African country.Alrosa, the world's largest diamond producer by output, started conducting geological exploration in Zimbabwe in 2013 but dropped the licences it held there in 2016 d...Read More

Diamond processing technology specialist DebTech is supplying its X-ray diamond recovery technology to Newfield Resources’ Tongo diamond mining project, in Sierra Leone.DebTech is collaborating with project house Paradigm Project Management on the project.AdvertisementDebTech’s mature sorting technology is a dependable solution for the highly efficient recovery of diamonds from a varie...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedRio's wholly owned Kennecott Exploration Company (KEX) will join Valor at its Berenguela copper-silver-manganese project in south-east Peru.Read More

The time to start buying Chinese stocks is now.Don’t let the trade war fears scare you. China has some of the largest and most innovative companies in the world, yet their stock prices in no way currently reflect it.Your Editor Zach Scheidt and I saw firsthand some of their technology last week at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It was nothing short of incredible.Drone deli...Read More

The Titanic, arguably the world's most famous shipwreck, could have been prevented if the rivets in the steel plates of its hull had contained additional manganese, saving 1,500 lives.Read More

(IDEX Online) - Reed Jewelry Group has appointed Jim Fox to Portfolio Sales Director focused on industry and customer relations.   He will be responsible for strategy, leadership and development within the JCK and Luxury sales team, as well as key account customer relationships of the jewelry industry's leading events.   Jim has over 20 years of sales and business development experienc...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The large-scale diamond sector reforms being enacted by Angola's President Joao Lourenco to grow investment in the Angolan mining sector, will take another major step forward this month with the inaugural competitive bid sale of large and premium-quality diamonds from the Lulo mine in the Angolan capital of Luanda.   The sale will mark a significant milestone for the Ango...Read More

LISBON – Angola will give the outcome of its first diamond auction on January 31 as the southwest African country’s seeks to increase transparency, attract more investment and boost government revenue, state-owned diamond-trading company Sodiam said.The evaluation of seven gemstones from Angola’s northeast Lulo mine that will be sold is expected to end between Jan....Read More

Newmont Mining just agreed to merge with Goldcorp in a $10 billion deal that creates the world's premier gold company by output.This deal follows the mega-deal in September which saw Barrick Gold merging with Randgold."This combination will create the world's leading gold business with the best assets, people, prospects and value-creation opportunities," said Gary Goldberg, Newmont's chief executi...Read More

Newmont Mining Corp, the world's No. 2 gold producer, is cutting 120 jobs a...Read full newsRead More

Use gold to protect any IRA, 401(k), or retirement account from a looming financial crisis.Every American needs to learn how to protect and secure their retirement against the worst stock market crash in history, and this IRA/401KInvestment Guide 2019 is one way the average American can help protect their investments in the event of a crisis.Jim Rickards is the nation's most vocal and intelligen...Read More

Tesla Gigafactory 1, which produce battery packs and battery cells in partnership with Panasonic, is quickly becoming the automaker's most important asset as it has now already produced over ...Read full newsRead More

Gold miners are expected to remain committed to cutting costs and capping expenditures in 2019, a new report by Fitch Solutions reveals.According to the document, despite the fact that prices are predicted to average $1,300/oz and that most major miners' cash costs of production should remain comfortably below $900/tonne, the largest firms in the world are likely to remain committed to spending cu...Read More

Gold miners are expected to remain committed to cutting costs and capping expenditures in 2019, a new report by Fitch Solutions reveals.According to the document, despite the fact that prices are predicted to average $1,300/oz and that most major miners' cash costs of production should remain comfortably below $900/tonne, the largest firms in the world are likely to remain committed to spending cu...Read More

A coal mine roof collapse in northwest China's Shaanxi province killed 21 miners on Saturday, the state-run People's Daily reported on Sunday.The accident is the deadliest reported so far this year in China's coal industry, known for its poor safety record.It occurred at Baiji Mining Co Ltd's Lijiagou mine in the city of Shenmu at around 4:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) on Saturday, when 87 people were underg...Read More