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

China's No.1 gold producer Zijin Mining plans to issue 8 billion yuan (about $1.2 billion) worth of shares in Shanghai to finance the acquisition of Canada's Nevsun Resources (TSX, NYSEMKT:NSU), the biggest overseas purchase since the Beijing-backed miner went public in Hong Kong in 2003.Zijin aims to sell up to 3.4 billion A shares to investors in China, in a plan which is subject to shareholder...Read More

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Solar Ship CEO Jay Godsall pitches the benefits of using airships to access remote areas to a live audience at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.Visit www.solarship.com for more information.Solar Ship CEO Jay Godsall speaking at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2...Read More

Investors seeking exposure to gold typically focus on senior gold miners like Barrick because of the stability and maturity of their operations. While this provides a lower-risk means of bolstering exposure to gold, junior gold miners offer the opportunity to gain access to outsized returns. This is because they are typically viewed by the market as risky ventures that could fail should gold fall...Read More

A bidding war appears to have erupted over junior gold miner SolGold (TSX:SOLG), which is conducting exploration work in the Andean nation of Ecuador. The miner's stock has soared by 28% over the last year, and there are indications that it could climb higher.Emerging as a potential takeover targetSolGold has been attracting considerable interest from a range of major miners. Australian senior gol...Read More

I wish I would have followed by own advice and loaded up on Teck Resources (TSX:TECK.B)(NYSE:TECK) shares back when they were languishing under $10 each.Like many natural resource companies, Teck was feeling the pinch of declining commodity prices in 2015-16. Metallurgical coal prices had collapsed, and metal prices weren't doing much better. Teck's balance sheet was also in tatters, and it had bi...Read More

Glencore saw the heaviest fall of the group with a fall of 4.98% to £2.77 (US$3).The miner and trader had managed to avoid the global markets rout after Christmas that saw major indices mark the worst annual decline in a decade, only to be hit on the first trading day of 2019.Rio Tinto was better than the rest, but still fell 3.17% to £36.BHP and Rio also fell in Australia.The big Cana...Read More

Newrange names Archer as CEONewrange Gold Corp. [NRG-TSXV] said Wednesday January 2 that it has named Robert Archer as its new Chief Executive Officer. The company said Archer has more than 35 years of experience in the mining industry, working throughout North America and Peru.After spending more than 15 years with major mining companies, he held several management positions in the junior mining...Read More

The Ramu nickel-cobalt mine in Papua New Guinea. Source: Highlands Pacific Ltd.Cobalt 27 Capital Corp. [KBLT-TSXV, 270-FSE], owner of the world's largest stockpile of cobalt, on Wednesday January 2 announced the friendly acquisition of Australian Securities Exchange-listed Highlands Pacific Ltd. [HIG-ASX] in a $96 million transaction. Highlands' primary assets include an 8.56% stake in the produci...Read More

Share this articleTORONTO - Canada's main stock index started the trading year higher in a volatile day that saw the key energy sector get a boost from higher oil prices.The S&P/TSX composite index closed up 24.30 points at 14,347.16.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day up 18.78 points at 23,346.24. The S&P 500 index was up 3.18 points at 2,510.03, while the Nasdaq compos...Read More

Before I address my so-called predictions for what I believe is in store in 2019 for the economy and stock markets, let's take a quick review of what transpired in 2018.GDP was up along with the economy. But was it really? With infused cash and borrowing, the economy continued its torrid pace. Borrowing from the Fed will most likely have to continue for the economy to continue roaring forwards int...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The IDEX polished diamond price index was flat on the month in December.                                                    &nbs...Read More

A new year is upon us.It is time to ring out the old, as Tennyson counseled - and ring in the new.So today we retrieve our crystal ball from mothballed storage... and gaze for previews of 2019.Is this finally the year of the bear? Or will the bulls roar back to life?Are we months away from recession? Years away? Or days away?The shocking answers anon.But before we chart the way ahead, let us first...Read More

Publisher's Note: Mr. James Dines runs one of the world's longest-lasting financial newsletters, The Dines Letter, and is "The Original Gold Bug." Here's a look at part of his current gold outlook from his 2019 Annual Forecast Issue.To your wealth,Nick HodgePublisher, Outsider ClubGold investing is so entirely out of favor by investors worldwide that mainstream Security Analysts don't even ve...Read More

An Australian mining company wants to expand its mine in South Carolina because they have found more gold.Read full newsRead More

There's a few "sneaky" tricks Wall Street doesn't want made public.While pretending to be pillars of investing intelligence and integrity...The richest, most influential billionaires on Wall Street are secretly manipulating the market - and they don't care who gets hurt in the process.It's nothing personal...They have multi-million dollar bonuses to collect and high-rise condos to buy their mistre...Read More

The NDX just underwent its annual rebalance, with six companies removed from the list and six companies addedThe Nasdaq-100 Index (NDX) is made up of the largest non-financial companies. The index recently underwent its annual rebalancing, adding six companies and removing six. The tables below show the six additions and removals, along with their 2018 return and analyst "buy" percentages from Zac...Read More

Don't miss this "hidden" trendline for the long-term Treasury trackerSimultaneous with bond yields cooling dramatically from the highs that rattled investor sentiment earlier in the fourth quarter, the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) has staged a comeback from its Nov. 2 four-year closing low of $112 (at which point the exchange-traded fund was down 11.7% on a year-to-date basis)....Read More

A little post-Christmas love from Santa Claus to end 2018 won't be enough to turn the tide for an ugly December and a brutal 2018 that cut across a broad swath of Wall Street, ranging from stocks to commodities. Indeed, while investors had spent much of the long-running bull market in stocks arguing that "there was no alternative" to equities, the past year saw investors lament that there was "now...Read More

An Australian mining company wants to expand its mine in South Carolina because they have found more gold.Read full newsRead More