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

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

Almaden Minerals (TSX: AMM; NYSE: AAU) has tabled a feasibility study for its Ixtaca gold-silver project in Puebla State, Mexico, that reduces the mine plan's footprint by shifting to dry stack tailings and improves milling grade through ore sorting.The company originally used a conventional tailings dam in its 2017 prefeasibility study. Since then, it's studied mixing waste and tailings to elimin...Read More

When investors think of acquiring mining stocks, they usually look to larger miners with mature, stable operations. While senior and intermediate miners offer greater stability and come with lower risk, junior miners and explorers offer the potential to obtain outsized returns. One junior miner that stands out, offering an exciting opportunity for investors to gain exposure to high-quality preciou...Read More

Indicators for China's economic strength have been weak and central bank efforts to boost spending are getting less effective, analyst Christopher LaFemina said, and metals demand will fall as a result."Broad credit growth in China has been on a declining trend since 2017 … credit growth tends to lead economic activity by 3-6 months, and credit growth is unlikely to accelerate until more ag...Read More

BMO analyst Colin Hamilton said in a note there were many questions in the metals market raised by the trend in China of positive fiscal spending statements, but weak consumer-led data points, whichRead More

Yamana Gold's Cerro Moro gold-silver mine is southern Argentina, which has one of Sandstorm's many streaming agreements. Source: Sandstorm Gold Ltd.Sandstorm Gold Ltd. [SSL-TSX; SAND-NYSE American] said Friday January 4 that it sold approximately 57,600 attributable gold equivalent ounces in 2018, the highest yearly total in the company's history. That number includes approximately 14,150 attribut...Read More

SolGold tables updated estimate for Alpala DepositSolGold Plc [SOLG-TSX, LSE; SLGGF-OTC] shares were active Friday January 4 after the Brisbane-based company released a NI 43-101-compliant technical report containing an updated resource estimate for the Alpala Deposit, located on the company's Cascabel Project in northern Ecuador.According to the technical report, the Alpala mineral resource now s...Read More

Full Article: End of EmpireBy: W K DarcyAs I previously detailed in 2018, Washington Wall Street (W^2) is coming to the END OF EMPIRE just as Rome, France and Germany (not to mention Britain and a host of other wanna-be "masters of the world") met their demise.Forever wars depleting the treasury, a parasitic aristocracy subjugating and impoverishing the peasants, bread and circuses now ru...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedBMO analyst Colin Hamilton said in a note there were many questions in the metals market raised by the trend in China of positive fiscal spending statements, but weak consumer-led data points, whichRead More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe initiative uses a proprietary technology to reprocess old and fresh tailings of Codelco Chile's El Teniente division to recover copper and molybdenum.Read More

Cold water was thrown on the lithium market in 2018, with prices falling and lithium miners' equity prices falling alongside. We at Fastmarkets believe the price weakness has been front-loaded with the market deleveraging into the prospect of two-to-three years of supply surplus.We expect further price weakness in 2019, though not as much as seen in 2018. However, it may take a while for a bullish...Read More

Markets paced the floor this morning… like a man condemned awaiting word on his final appeal.For the December unemployment report was due out at 8:30.A poor jobs report would send stocks spiraling down the greasy pole - again.The market staggered into 2019 off its worst December since the Great Depression. It is also off to its worst start in 19 years.Could it absorb another blow?Economists...Read More

Small-scale gold mining has led to the destruction of more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon over the past five years, according to new research.Read full newsRead More

Traders and investors are focused on a global slowdown. Economic data releases worldwide need to beat street expectation to change the negative sentiment. US December private ADP numbers need to beat street expectation for the US dollar to rise and gold and silver to correct. However political uncertainty in the UK and Eurozone will prevent a major collapse in gold and silver. I will prefer to u...Read More

Traders and investors are focused on a global slowdown. Economic data releases worldwide need to beat street expectation to change the negative sentiment. US December private ADP numbers need to beat street expectation for the US dollar to rise and gold and silver to correct. However political uncertainty in the UK and Eurozone will prevent a major collapse in gold and silver. I will prefer to u...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

AAPL shares fell roughly 10% todayApple (AAPL) last night slashed its quarterly sales outlook, citing weak iPhone demand in China. The surprise announcement -- and AAPL's steepest one-day slide in nearly six years -- had a ripple effect on Wall Street, and fueled fears of a global economic slowdown; lackluster factory data out of the U.S. only exacerbated those concerns. Against this backdrop, the...Read More

The similarities are eerie, and Republicans could be facing a crisis.He's a successful businessman who never held public office before winning the Presidency...He's coming into power after an electoral college landslide...And he did it by beating an out-of-touch New Yorker opponent.Once in office, he launches a vast trade war, promising to stand up for America's heartland, with 890 increased tarif...Read More

As equities continue to fall and cement global economic growth fears, investors are once again turning to the safe-haven nature of gold.Read full newsRead More

Several Fed members will speakThe Fed's December meeting minutes will be released next Wednesday, with Wall Streetlooking for clues to the pace of future rate hikes. In addition, several Fed members will be speaking throughout the week, and traders will digest the latest inflation and international trade data. Earnings will begin to pick up, with Delta Air Lines (DAL) and weed names Constellation...Read More