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

NEW DELHI, Oct 30 (Reuters) - India's finance minister Arun Jaitley criticised the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for failing to prevent lending excess in a speech on Tuesday."The central bank looked the other way when banks gave loans indiscriminately during 2008 to 2014," Jaitley said while speaking at an event in New Delhi.Tensions between the finance ministry and the RBI have risen since the bank...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices fell on Tuesday as the safe haven demand for the dollar was boosted by concerns over the pending trade dispute between the U.S. and China.At 10:25 AM ET (14:25 GMT), gold futures for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange lost $6.80, or 0.55%, to $1,225.80 a troy ounce.Meanwhile, the U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback&rs...Read More

* European stocks stumble back into the red* French consumer spending data, Italian GDP weighs* Dollar at 2 1/2-month high, Wall Street futures point higher* Yuan at 10-year low, metals sink on trade war worries* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVhBy Marc JonesLONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - European shares laboured in the red and China's yuan hit a 10-year low on Tuesday as the pr...Read More

Almost exactly one year ago today, I'd discussed the rise of cryptocurrencies as an alternative to precious metals. Crypto has fallen out of favour after suffering a precipitous drop in late 2017 and early 2018, but the debate over its future as an asset class has raged on. Some crypto enthusiasts have argued that price stabilization will only add to its value as an alternative safe haven in compa...Read More

It has been a tough year for investors in intermediate gold miner New Gold (TSX:GLD)(NYSE:GLD). Despite gold only losing around 7% since the start of 2018, the miner has seen its stock collapse, plummeting by 73% because of shortfalls at its Rainy Creek mine and management revising its 2018 guidance downward. The miner, however, delivered a solid third quarter 2018, beating analyst estimates, indi...Read More

Gold has whipsawed wildly over the course of 2018, hitting a high over US$1,362 per ounce in January only to plummet to a low of US$1,177 an ounce by mid-August. While the yellow metal has recovered in recent weeks to trade over the psychologically important US$1,200-an-ounce mark, it is still down by just under 5% for the year to date. Despite gold's negative outlook because of poor fundamental...Read More

The view north downslope from the old Lone Star Mine at the Lone Star Zone. Source: Klondike Gold Corp.Klondike Gold Corp. [KG-TSXV] on Wednesday October 31 released assay results from drilling at the company's Klondike District property near Dawson City, Yukon.The assays are from a further 12 holes that targeted the Lone Star Zone. It said highlights include 1.32 g/t gold over 47 metres and 1.11...Read More

Logging diamond drill core at the Eskay Creek Project core shack. Source: Skeena Resources Ltd.Skeena Resources Ltd. [SKE-TSXV; SKREF-OTC] on Wednesday October 31 released additional gold-silver assays for six holes from the continuing phase 1 surface drilling program at the Eskay Creek Project located in northwest British Columbia's Golden Triangle region.The multi-faceted Phase 1 program is bein...Read More

(left to right) Shaun Pollard, Ed Balon, and Gareth Thomas. Photo taken from the top of Shovelnose Gold Property. Source: Westhaven Ventures Inc.Westhaven Ventures Inc. [TSX-V:WHN] is pleased to report further drill results from its recently completed drill campaign at its 15,542 hectare Shovelnose gold property, located within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), which borders the Coq...Read More

TORONTO - Barrick Gold Crop. has enriched its offer to shareholders of Randgold Resources Ltd. ahead of a vote on a proposed merger.Toronto-based Barrick says Randgold shareholders will receive US$2.69 per share, up from the original proposal of US$2 per share.The company says the increased offer would match what Randgold shareholders would expect to receive as dividend payments without the merge...Read More

In line with its strategy of the early detection of large diamonds and reducing diamond damage, LSE-listed Gem Diamonds has approved the construction of a $3-million pilot plant, at Letšeng, in Lesotho, that will use innovative technology to identify diamonds within kimberlite ore and nonmechanical means of liberating the encapsulated diamonds.The pilot plant will be commissioned in the sec...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Gemfields said it has discovered a 5,655-carat emerald crystal which it says has "remarkable clarity and a perfectly balanced golden green hue" which it has named the 'Inkalamu', the Lion Emerald.   Inkalamu was discovered at Kagem, the world's largest emerald mine, which is 75% owned by Gemfields and 25% by the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia which belongs to the...Read More

Petra Diamonds has appointed former Diamond Trading Company CEO Varda Shine as an independent non-executive director with effect from 1 January 2019.   The mining firm also appointed Bernard Pryor to the same position, saying that the appointments were made in accordance with the Nomination Committee's three year Succession Plan which is in line with Petra's development "from a phase of inten...Read More

PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedGalan Lithium scores coup in Argentina's 'Pilbara of lithium'SPONSOREDgalan lithiumWhite Rock sets cracking Alaska pace in first field seasonSPONSOREDwhite rock minerals The combined sector helped push the real gross domestic product (GDP) up for a seventh consecutive month, edging up 0.1% in August.StatsCan said growt...Read More

Amerigo MVC plant ramp-up on courseSPONSOREDamerigo resourcesThe higher grade scenario is focused on 54Mt grading 0.86% copper equivalent, with the scoping work due for completion this quarter.Xanadu will also now look at the potential of definin...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipPolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedGalan Lithium scores coup in Argentina's 'Pilbara of lithium'SPONSOREDgalan lithium The best intercept was 583m at 0.59g/t gold and 0.41% copper.Seabridge said it had intersected some "exceptional w...Read More

It's a good thing October is coming to an end. It's been a particularly lousy month for the markets. October has seen about $5 trillion in value erased from global markets.Reasons for that sell-off range from fear over Fed rate hikes, trade wars, elections and buyback "blackout" periods during earnings.Buyback blackouts are ending, which should provide markets some needed lift over the next month....Read More

Most people know they should invest, just as most people know they should watch their diet and exercise. Nonetheless, millions of people don’t invest at all. Barely one-third of families in the bottom 50% of earners own stocks, according to the Fed-they aren't active investors.An active investor is someone who actually lives off their investments as opposed to wages from a job. My investment...Read More

“If only I could go back and invest at the start of this 10-year bull market...”It seems like every week I hear some variation of this statement. People are frustrated that they didn’t invest when the market was on sale in the wake of the financial crisis ten years ago.Missing out on a 10-year bull market is a tragedy, especially for my friends who promised themselves they would...Read More

Agnico Eagle Mines vice-chair and CEO Sean Boyd accepts The Northern Miner's Mining Person of the Year Award for 2017, with an introduction by Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming.Boyd touches on his firm's corporate culture, its role in cancer research, and Agnico's multi-decade ties to the Miner, starting with the deep friendship between Agnico founder Paul Penna and long-time TNM publish...Read More