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

Tasman Mining announced this week that government agency New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals granted a mining permit for the high-grade Blackwater gold deposit located near Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island.In a media statement, Tasman said that with this new permit, the company can put in motion its plans to build an underground operation at the site of the historic Blackwater mine. Gold...Read More

Tasman Mining announced this week that government agency New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals granted a mining permit for the high-grade Blackwater gold deposit located near Reefton on the West Coast of the South Island.In a media statement, Tasman said that with this new permit, the company can put in motion its plans to build an underground operation at the site of the historic Blackwater mine. Gold...Read More

Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) became the first top miner with operations in Zambia to react to a planned mining tax increase in the southern African nation by announcing on Friday it would have to lay off 2,500 workers at its local mines.In an internal memo, the Toronto-based miner said the job cuts will be implemented in phases during the first quarter of 2019, adding they'll be equall...Read More

Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) became the first top miner with operations in Zambia to react to a planned mining tax increase in the southern African nation by announcing on Friday it would have to lay off 2,500 workers at its local mines.In an internal memo, the Toronto-based miner said the job cuts will be implemented in phases during the first quarter of 2019, adding they'll be equall...Read More

Canada's First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) became the first top miner with operations in Zambia to react to a planned mining tax increase in the southern African nation by announcing on Friday it would have to lay off 2,500 workers at its local mines.In an internal memo, the Toronto-based miner said the job cuts will be implemented in phases during the first quarter of 2019, adding they'll be equall...Read More

As Warren Buffett likes to say, “price you what you pay, value is what you get.” It’s the reason why a $300-per-share stock can be cheap, while a $3 one can be expensive. With that said, there’s something about low-priced stocks that captivates investors’ imaginations. After all, there’s nothing like being able to buy a ton of shares for dirt cheap and having th...Read More

Weak production growth, steady-to-rising demand, supply deficits and falling inventories pushed prices of palladium up 19% in 2018, after a 51% jump in 2017, Scotiabank economist Rory Johnston concludes in his Dec. 20 Commodity Price Index report.By contrast, cobalt prices were down 24% year-to-date in 2018. That's a sharp reversal from the 127% gain in 2017, which made the metal the best performi...Read More

Gold stocks have had a rough run for several years, and while most investors have given up on the sector, others are starting to kick the tires on the industry's top names.Let's take a look at the current situation in the gold market to see if Barrick Gold (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:ABX) deserves to be in your portfolio.Gold recoveryGold recently surged above US$1,260 per ounce, adding to a rebound that has...Read More

The company said it would buy for cancellation up to 25.51 million Class A shares. The public float comprised 255.13 million shares as at December 14, and 391.25 million total issued and outstanding on the same date.The programme will expire on December 23, 2019. All purchases at prevailing market prices will be made via the TSX, alternative Canadian trading systems and/or the NYSE.Alamo...Read More

The Sweet Repose adit at ePower's Panther Creek Project in Idaho. Left to right, Jay Gatten Vendor, Michael Collins, CEO, ePower Metals, and Brian Brewer, consulting geologist. Source: ePower Metals Inc.ePower Metals Inc. [EPWR-TSXV] says it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Exploracion Auramex S.A. de C.V. and its Magenta Cobalt Project in Sinaloa, Mexico.ePower Metals is buying the...Read More

Teck acquires 13.8% stake in Sun Metals.Teck Resources Ltd. [TECK.B-TSX; TECK-NYSE] has spent $3.5 million to acquire a 13.8% stake in Sun Metals Corp. [SUNM-TSXV], a junior that has been moving to fund exploration at the Stardust polymetallic project in British Columbia.Teck said it has acquired the interest by picking up 12.5 million common shares of Sun Metals at 28 cents per share. The shares...Read More

Nexa set to start construction at Brazilian zinc mineNexa Resources S.A. [NEXA-TSX, NYSE] says it plans to start construction at the Aripuana zinc project in Brazil, which ranks as one of the 10 largest undeveloped zinc projects in the world.The announcement comes after the Environmental Authority of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil granted the installation license for the project.The Aripuana Pro...Read More

Share this articlePRAGUE, Czech Republic - The death toll in a methane explosion at a black coal mine in northeastern Czech Republic has increased to 13, a mining company said Friday.OKD mining company spokesman Ivo Celechovsky said that 12 of the dead were Polish nationals while one was Czech, correcting information given earlier that said there were 11 Poles and two Czechs.A further 10 miners we...Read More

I'm known for writing the #1 personal finance book of all-time, but most people recognize me as a "real estate" guy. It's my personal favorite investment category.In a civilized world, a roof over your head is as essential as food, clothing, energy, and water. That why there will always be a real estate market. And real estate investors are essential to keeping this vital human need available, fro...Read More

Lucara sells large diamonds for US$32.5mPrecious stonesMahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumNew Energy brings experience to new dawnSPONSOREDnew energy mineralsSprott US Holdings president Rick Rule on gold stocks (January 23): "For the first time in my lifetime the gold mining industry has actual...Read More

While prices for the major metals and other mined commodities mostly went sideways during 2018, there was plenty of big news over the year - much of its stoked by political pressures on miners. Here are our picks of the top mining stories of 2018.8. Beta Hunt bonanza - In the feel-good story of the year, RNC Minerals in September announced it had found a 95-kilogram specimen of rock at its Beta Hu...Read More

When Stratabound Minerals (TSXV: SB) CEO Kim Tyler told people he wanted to drill Golden Culvert as soon as possible after optioning the Yukon gold project in October 2017, many suggested that he should carry out some geophysical surveying before punching holes into the ground.But he told them that sort of work would only confirm what he already knew: that there was an outcrop the size of a transp...Read More

Power Ore (TSXV: PORE) is buying the Opemiska copper mine complex in Quebec from Explorateurs-Innovateurs de Qu?(C)bec (Ex-In), a private company.Opemiska consists of two past-producing underground mines operated by Falconbridge from 1953 to 1991. Located near the town of Chapais, Springer and Perry produced 23 million tonnes at 2.4% copper and 0.3 gram gold per tonne. "We've taken a bet on copper...Read More

Holy Toledo, this market sell-off/hysteria/nightmare is getting real UGLY, fast! Outside of cash, almost nothing is safe these days… Now, I realize that general equities and investors/speculators have been beyond blessed in recent memory, staging an almost unbelievable bull market (lasting ~decade), but as the saying goes: “It’s like taking the stairs up and the elevator dow...Read More

Remember the "tea party" revolt in 2009-2010 against government bailouts and government spending? Remember the "fiscal cliff" drama of Dec. 31, 2012, when Congress raised taxes and cut spending to avoid a debt default and government shutdown? Remember the actual government shutdown in October 2013 as Republicans held the line against more government spending?Well, congratulations if you do, becaus...Read More