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

(IDEX Online) - Israeli law enforcement officials say they want to question Lev Leviev, the business tycoon whose companies are reportedly at the center of a diamond smuggling ring that operated over years.   Among six people police detained for questioning under caution on Monday are two of his relatives, and four other people who are or had been involved in his companies in Israel and Russ...Read More

(IDEX Online) - During the third quarter of 2018 prices of fancy color blue and pink diamonds rose by 0.7% and 0.4% respectively in all sizes and saturation levels, according to the Fancy Color Diamond Index published by the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF).   At the same time, overall fancy color diamond prices showed no significant change and increased by only 0.1%, the FCRF said. Ye...Read More

(IDEX Online) - International Diamond Manufacturers Association (IDMA) President Ronnie VanderLinden said that during the 38th World Diamond Congress that was held in Mumbai last week the changing landscape of diamond manufacturing was at the heart of the members' discussions.   "We need to recognize that we have lost a significant number of factories, especially in the smaller diamond...Read More

Share this articleThe Mount Newman railway line in Western Australia. Source: BHP Billiton Ltd.BHP Billiton Ltd. [BHP-NYSE; BHPLF-OTCPK] has suspended all iron ore rail operations in Western Australia after a train carrying iron ore took off without the driver on board and travelled across the Pilbara outback before it was stopped early Monday.Local media reports said the train literally ran away...Read More

The conventional wisdom is that if you go to school and get good grades, you'll be successful. In reality, the only success doing well in school guarantees is success in school. Many valedictorians have learned the hard way that success in school does not mean success in the real world of business and investing. The real world is a whole new game-an exciting, fast-paced game where different rules...Read More

Most forecasts before tomorrow's midterm elections in the US, which sees Senate and House of Representative seats up for grabs, are forecasting a change in the House and no change in the Senat...Read More

In one of the few exploration projects it is funding next year, Cameco Corporation (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) and its joint-venture partners Orano Canada and Purepoint Uranium (TSXV: PTU) are planning a 36 km ground electro-magnetic survey and 6,000 metres of diamond drilling at their Hook Lake uranium project in Saskatchewan.Cameco owns 39.5% of the project in the province's Patterson uranium district...Read More

Forecasting elections is more art than science. One of the problems in forecasting elections is the nature of polls. Many polls are misleading and suffer from flawed methodology.I was flying around the world just before the 2016 presidential election, telling audiences in Europe, Australia and here at home that Trump would win. I got a lot of funny looks and gasps from the anchors, who didn't take...Read More

Unless you've been living under a rock somewhere, you know the critical midterm elections are tomorrow. The outcome will likely have a major impact on President Trump's future in office.For months, we heard talk of a coming blue wave that would put Congress back in Democratic hands. Basically, the idea was that Democratic voters were more motivated than Republican voters, that their disgust with T...Read More

The De Beers Group Designers Initiative is inviting jewellery designers to participate in the 2018/19 Shining Light Awards, which will, for the first time, be open to Canadian participants.The latest edition of this biannual jewellery design competition, which has existed for over 22 years in South Africa and for more than ten years in Botswana and Namibia, will be held under the theme of heroines...Read More

It feels good when it buzzes.The 2018 New Orleans Investment Conference just wrapped up, and despite a challenging resource space, the attendance at the conference this year leads me to believe there are better days ahead.Outsider Club founder Nick Hodge and I presented on the good, the bad, and the ugly in the junior resource space.Needless to say, there's a lot of bad and a lot of ugly out there...Read More

Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd sits down for an in-depth interview with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More

Agnico Eagle CEO Sean Boyd sits down for an in-depth interview with Northern Miner publisher Anthony Vaccaro at the 2018 Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto, presented by The Northern Miner and Canadian Mining Journal.Read More

So stocks dropped a little in October. Ok they actually dropped a lot and all of a sudden the S&P 500 was miles away from the all those optimistic 3,000+ year end targets. And what happens when...Read full newsRead More

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Is it time to prepare for the next financial crisis?Something strange is going on in the financial system.And according to The Wall Street Journal, it's causing some investors- including the biggest banks in the world- to move massive amounts of money out of the banking system.What exactly is going on?Former hedge fund manager, Dr. Steve Sjuggerud, one of the most widely-followed financial analys...Read More

Looking for the top gold mining stocks going into 2019 and 2020? Should you buy or sell? Click to learn more about these interesting golden stocks!Read full newsRead More

With the Basic Materials sector poised to log strong growth in the third quarter, it will be interesting to see how miners Alamos Gold and First Majestic Silver fare when they report quarterly results.Read full newsRead More

Marijuana stocks are in "early internet" territory.Amazon's early investors walked away with over 79,000% in profits. And this same phenomenon is happening in the cannabis space right now.Remember, the dotcom bubble separated out the real companies from the fake.Which is why it's so important to "weed" out the companies that might not survive this volatile but opportune time.Now, the race has ser...Read More

Secretary of State Michael Pompeo defended the temporary waivers granted to eight countries to continue buying Iranian crude oil for now against Congressional critics and others who say the U.S. is being too lenient on the Islamic Republic.The comments on "Fox News Sunday" come a day before U.S. sanctions on Iran's energy and shipping are due to snap back following President Donald Trump's decisio...Read More