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

Analysis from RFC Ambrian shows that there have been 325 copper M&A deals worth more than US$10 million in the past decade, with a combined value of $88.8 billion.Operating mines accounted for 92 deals worth $45.3 billion, construction projects with 31 deals worth $31.6 billion, feasibility projects accounted for 89 projects totalling $23.6 billion, and exploration projects made up 104 deals w...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe London-listed, Australia-focused company received laboratory assays for the first hole from the current drilling program, which kicked off in September.The hole returned total mineralisation of 275m at 4.77 grams per tonne gold and 0.61% copper, or 5.75gpt gold equivalent across two wide zones.The upper zone returned 118m at 3....Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThe global market analyst was optimistic about near-term Chile production forecasts for 2019 on the back of stronger performance from major mines, upgrades to existing mines, and a lower perceived risk of labour strikes.According to Fitch, Chile was expected to produce 2% more copper in 2018 than in 2017, at 5.4 million tonnes. To...Read More

Most retirement research points to an impending crisis for about half of Americans who save too little at the advice of their financial planner. Because people worry about outlasting their savings, most adjust by living humbly - often too humbly.If I hear one more financial advisor tell their audience "cut your expenses," I may just do something I'll regret later. Personally, it's insulting to me,...Read More

The whole "robots taking your job" is a serious concern.Yes, most of what you'll see about it is overblown clickbait, but it's a real thing and it is getting real for more and more people all the time.Stories about it almost always have the air of the typical labor vs. owner trope, of careless capitalists using up and tossing out the people who created productivity and profits for them.Well that m...Read More

When I reached my mid 20s, you could say I reached an important crossroads of sorts. I’m not sure if I was going through the moment of reaching my own version of “quarter life crisis” but many things didn’t feel right, and I felt like I was trapped in life.Granted, on the surface, many things seemed to be going well for me, especially in my corporate life: good job, high sa...Read More

Aim-listed BlueRock Diamonds has recorded a grade of 4.51 carats per hundred tonnes (cpht) at KV1 – one of five known diamondiferous kimberlite pipes at its Kareevlei mine, near Kimberley, in South Africa.It is currently mining from two pipes at Kareevlei – KV1 and KV2.AdvertisementIt has now processed the first Level 1 ore from KV1 totalling 20 500 t, resulting in grades of between 3....Read More

(IDEX Online) - A woman aged 42 who reportedly worked as a bookkeeper at Lev Leviev's LLD diamond company jumped to her death from the company's offices at the Ramat Gan bourse.   The woman had been questioned by police under caution regarding an investigation into an alleged diamond smuggling ring that had been going for some years and amounted to hundreds of millions of shekels, a...Read More

One of the questions I am asked most frequently in my global travels is what will be the cause of the next financial crisis. This question is asked by those who understand that this crisis is coming but want to pin down the date or a specific turn of events that will help them know when to react.My answer is always the same: We can be certain the crisis is coming and can estimate its magnitude, bu...Read More

"We are in a bear market."Here Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson dumps ice water on Wall Street's head.His claim is as arresting as the shriek of "Fire!" in a packed playhouse... the sight of a naked woman in Sunday church... or a MAGA hat on Hillary's head.Has it finally come to pass after lo so many years? Are stocks sunk in a bear market?Today we interrogate this scandalous claim."If it...Read More

In 2013, De Beers Canada turned down a chance to own a majority stake in Peregrine Diamonds' Chidliak project in Nunavut.Five years later, it now owns the project outright.What changed in that time period? De Beers Canada CEO Kim Truter says that the timing just wasn't quite right the first time around."I always say to people that to develop a mining business, you need a few stars to line up and o...Read More

Lucara Diamond (TSX: LUC) announced in October that its new sales platform Clara Diamond Solutions, is ready for its first sale of diamonds in November.The platform is meant to modernize the diamond selling process and improve margins for both buyers and sellers. Sales through Clara will be stone by stone rather than by assortments, which the company says will achieve the best possible price for p...Read More

Pan American Silver's (TSX: PAAS; NASDAQ: PAAS) friendly acquisition of Tahoe Resources (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) in a cash-and-share deal valued at US$1.07 billion will double the company's silver reserves and create the largest publicly traded silver mining company by free float.Tahoe Resources owns and operates the Escobal silver mine in Guatemala (now on care and maintenance), the La Arena and Sh...Read More

The message from many investors today to their favorite stocks... Most indices extended last week's outlier exuberance in Chinese stocks, except tech/small cap-dominated CHINEXT dropped...Read full newsRead More

Thanksgiving week has been marked by abrupt moves and long-term trend changing moves in metals and energies. This has happened most of the time (not all of the time) over the past fifteen years. I will prefer to be cautious in metals, natural gas and the US dollar Index this week. Technicals are fine but one should see signs of a trend changing technically. Global stocks could sink once again...Read More

Thanksgiving week has been marked by abrupt moves and long-term trend changing moves in metals and energies. This has happened most of the time (not all of the time) over the past fifteen years. I will prefer to be cautious in metals, natural gas and the US dollar Index this week. Technicals are fine but one should see signs of a trend changing technically. Global stocks could sink once again...Read More

A Denver suburb has finalized an unusual deal to acquire water from an inactive gold mine.Read full newsRead More

CHARLOTTE - Christian Ciciarelli was golfing with an old friend one day when he heard about mysterious tunnels far below uptown Charlotte.Read full newsRead More

ISRAEL: The daily administration of CBD-dominant cannabis extracts is associated with improved outcomes in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and severe behavioral problems, according to clinical data published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Israeli researchers assessed the efficacy of whole-plant cannabis extracts in a cohort of children with ASD. Participa...Read More

Right now, the most explosive profit opportunity is concentrated in one segment of the legalized pot industry, and this extraordinary pot stock is getting ready to blow up. The marijuana industry is close to wrapping up a very exciting year for investors. Many solid cannabis companies hit major markets expanding their exposure.Also, with former attorney general Jeff Sessions out of office, this co...Read More