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

Teenagers already live in a dystopia. Their lives are controlled by the government and their parents. If legal adults were treated like American teenagers, that government would be considered one of the most oppressive on Earth.The government requires 6-16-year-olds to attend a government institution that subjects them to unconstitutional searches. Here, in public schools, they must ask permissio...Read More

Teenagers already live in a dystopia. Their lives are controlled by the government and their parents. If legal adults were treated like American teenagers, that government would be considered one of the most oppressive on Earth.The government requires 6-16-year-olds to attend a government institution that subjects them to unconstitutional searches. Here, in public schools, they must ask permissio...Read More

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Canada's Guyana Goldfields is set to invest $120 million to conduct underground gold mining for the first time in Guyana's history.In an event held Sunday in the South American country, the company's President and CEO, Scott Caldwell, said that by the end of the month he will provide the results of an ongoing feasibility study on underground mining at the Aurora Gold Mine. The project, 100%-owned...Read More

Canada's Guyana Goldfields is set to invest $120 million to conduct underground gold mining for the first time in Guyana's history.In an event held Sunday in the South American country, the company's President and CEO, Scott Caldwell, said that by the end of the month he will provide the results of an ongoing feasibility study on underground mining at the Aurora Gold Mine. The project, 100%-owned...Read More

Miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pulling out the heavy artillery in their fight against the country's new mining code which, they say, will stifle investment in the copper and cobalt-rich nation.Today, Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) issued a press release saying its executives are engaging "at the highest level" with the Joseph Kabila government t...Read More

Miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pulling out the heavy artillery in their fight against the country's new mining code which, they say, will stifle investment in the copper and cobalt-rich nation.Today, Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) issued a press release saying its executives are engaging "at the highest level" with the Joseph Kabila government t...Read More

Miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pulling out the heavy artillery in their fight against the country's new mining code which, they say, will stifle investment in the copper and cobalt-rich nation.Today, Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) issued a press release saying its executives are engaging "at the highest level" with the Joseph Kabila government t...Read More

It looks like a hybrid between a golf cart and Wall.E. Its main function is to move through collapsing, rubble-strewn tunnels at mine sites to map them and analyze pollutants in groundwater.It can do what humans cannot: penetrate thousands of feet into a mountain, creep through very narrow areas with poor air quality and gather data of poorly understood subterranean flows, many of which contain to...Read More

It looks like a hybrid between a golf cart and Wall.E. Its main function is to move through collapsing, rubble-strewn tunnels at mine sites to map them and analyze pollutants in groundwater.It can do what humans cannot: penetrate thousands of feet into a mountain, creep through very narrow areas with poor air quality and gather data of poorly understood subterranean flows, many of which contain to...Read More

BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - The comments from industry groups and native corporations in support of the waste and wastewater plans of a proposed mine in western Alaska have contrasted the opposition voiced by area residents.KYUK-AM reports the industry groups and native corporations gave public comments that expressed trust and support for the Donlin Gold mine project during a hearing with state regulat...Read More

Marlin Gold Mining Ltd (TSXV:MLN), a metals and mining company based in Canada, received a lot of attention from a substantial price increase on the TSXV over the last fewRead More...Read full newsRead More

The South African workers had been stuck since Wednesday, when a power cut stopped the lifts.Read full newsRead More

All of the nearly 1000 miners trapped in the Sibanye-Stillwater's Beatrix gold mine in South Africa due to a power outage were brought back to the surface.Read full newsRead More

The rescue team faced the difficult task of bringing up hundreds of workers one at a time from the 700-meter deep mine. The workers had been trapped in the mine since Wednesday evening.Read full newsRead More

The optimistic outlook for gold makes now the time to acquire mining junior Seabridge Gold Inc. (TSX:SEA)(NYSE:SA).Read full newsRead More

As I keep saying: the status quo has locked the working and middle classes out of today's economic benefits.The reason why the status quo has failed and is fragmenting is demonstrated in wages, employment and assets: wage earners (labor) are in a rowboat trying to catch the yacht of those who own assets (capital).Wages of those employed full time are up a gargantuan $4/week in the 18 years since 2...Read More

The tail is now where the head was generations ago, said 19th-century British historian Thomas Macaulay.Today, the American "tail" wallows in opulence once reserved for the "head" of society.The late political scientist James Q. Wilson:The poorest Americans today live a better life than all but the richest persons 100 years ago.Before air conditioning, for example, even the industrial titan hemorr...Read More

Canada's Guyana Goldfields is set to invest $120 million to conduct underground gold mining for the first time in Guyana's history.In an event held Sunday in the South American country, the company's President and CEO, Scott Caldwell, said that by the end of the month he will provide the results of an ongoing feasibility study on underground mining at the Aurora Gold Mine. The project, 100%-owned...Read More

Miners operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo are pulling out the heavy artillery in their fight against the country's new mining code which, they say, will stifle investment in the copper and cobalt-rich nation.Today, Africa-focused gold producer Randgold Resources (LON:RSS) issued a press release saying its executives are engaging "at the highest level" with the Joseph Kabila government t...Read More