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

Share this articleCARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela will hold onto its U.S.-based Citgo refineries, settling a lawsuit that threw ownership of the struggling country's prized assets into peril.Court papers show that Venezuela on Friday began paying off $1.4 billion that a panel said was owed to the Canadian mining firm Crystallex, following a disputed takeover of the company by the late-President Hug...Read More

Share this articleTORONTO - Canada's main stock index was higher in late-morning trading as the energy sector headed up amid rising oil prices, while U.S. stocks also gained ground.The S&P/TSX composite index was up 67.97 points at 15,078.70.In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 343.58 points at 24,629.53. The S&P 500 index was up 33.55 points at 2,666.11, while the Nasdaq composite...Read More

Full Article: To Succeed In The Markets You Must Become A 'Second Level ThinkerBy: Jesse Felder"To achieve superior investment results, you have to hold non-consensus views regarding value, and they have to be right. That's not easy... The good news is that the prevalence of first level thinkers increases the returns available to second level thinkers. To consistently achieve superior investment...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Despite an increase in sales and profit in the first half of this year, Hong Kong's Tse Sui Luen Jewellery fears the impact of the US-China trade war on business.   There has been rising retail sentiment in Hong Kong since September last year boosted by higher numbers of mainland tourists and growing sales to local customers, said Chairwoman Annie Yau.   "However, t...Read More

My model for forecasting oil prices has three top-level factors, represented graphically by arrows pointing up, down or sideways. An up arrow is colored green and points to higher oil prices. A down arrow is colored red and points to lower oil prices. The sideways arrow is colored grey and suggests that the relevant factor is neutral with respect to oil prices.Of course, there are innumerable subf...Read More

As the holidays are just around the corner, parents will soon welcome home their college children who have been off getting that overvalued college education. They're providing the education that we were always taught children needed.I say all the time that we were taught to go to school, get a job, save for retirement. But there's one lesson that seems to be left out: the real price of having kid...Read More

DR Congo: Is government intervention the real risk to watch?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftMahenge 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 mineralsProductivity - output per worker - matters to an economy because it is the principal driver of income per h...Read More

Suddenly, the diamond sector is an exciting place to be.Personally, I feel a renewed sense of optimism about the industry after being a part of the first ever Diamonds Symposium, organized by DiC's publisher The Northern Miner in June.It was gratifying to see a great turnout at the event, proving that there is still a vibrant diamond community in Canada.But it's not just that we had a successful a...Read More

While not officially scheduled, the presidents are expected to have a one-to-one encounter during the G20 conference of the world's 20 biggest economies being held in Buenos Aires on Friday an...Read More

Lucara sells large diamonds for US$32.5mPrecious stonesDR Congo: Is government intervention the real risk to watch?SPONSOREDverisk maplecroftMahenge the Cinderella of the graphite space?SPONSOREDblack rock miningSky is the limit for BSK at Amarillo GrandeSPONSOREDblue sky uraniumRaw Materials Week is a series of events organised by the European Commission addressing the latest news on raw material...Read More

The first annual Diamonds Symposium, organized by The Northern Miner and Diamonds in Canada, spanned the earliest days of Canada's diamond rush in the early 1990s to present trends and predictions for the future.Held in Toronto in June, the event featured keynote speakers Grenville Thomas, Eira Thomas and independent analyst Paul Zimnisky, as well as corporate presentations and more.Here are a few...Read More

ASX-listed Newfield Resources’ Tongo diamond project, in Sierra Leone, now has a Joint Ore Reserves Committee-compliant resource estimate of about 7.4-million carats, spread across four kimberlites.About 1.9-million carats, or about 25% of the updated in-situ resource, is classed in the indicated category, which underlines a considerably higher confidence level in key geological and technica...Read More

(IDEX Online) - IBM projects year-on-year retail sales growth of 4.83%, compared to 4.2% in 2017, due to ongoing high levels of consumer confidence.   Jewelry sales are seen rising by 5.2%, although consumer appliances lead all product categories with a 15.2% projected increase, followed by clothing.   "Weather conditions will affect what people buy and when," IBM said in a statement. "...Read More

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Shallow infill and step-out drilling - 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah - suggests that oxide gold-bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter-pit potentia...Read More

Shallow infill and step-out drilling - 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah - suggests that oxide gold-bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter-pit potentia...Read More

Shallow infill and step-out drilling - 250 metres south of the main deposit at Liberty Gold's (TSX: LGD) flagship Goldstrike project in Utah - suggests that oxide gold-bearing feeder structures follow multiple orientations that cross-cut the main deposit trend, the company says.Exploration results from the Peg Leg area at the past-producing mine also indicate that the zone has starter-pit potentia...Read 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

A study by the University of Alberta revealed that cobalt deposits in the Democratic Republic of Congo are 150 million years younger than previously thought.Using a new rhenium-osmium dating system to examine the 'blue gold' deposits in the African country, researchers Nicolas Saintilan and Robert Creaser demonstrated that cobalt and copper mineralization occurred during a period of mountain buil...Read More