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

Via SovereignMan.comIn 1869, a 48-year old Jewish immigrant from the tiny village of Trappstadt in Germany's Bavaria region hung a shingle outside of his small office in lower Manhattan to officially launch his new business.His name was Marcus Goldman, and the business he started, what's now known as Goldman Sachs, has become the preeminent investment bank in the world with nearly $1 trillion in a...Read More

The best kind of looter is the kind that you can shoot.Especially in emergency situations, those coming onto your property and stealing from you are a serious threat to your life. You must have the ability and means to protect yourself and loved ones.What other kinds of looters are there, you may ask? In many places, you can protect yourself and your property without fear of prosecution.But someti...Read More

The best kind of looter is the kind that you can shoot.Especially in emergency situations, those coming onto your property and stealing from you are a serious threat to your life. You must have the ability and means to protect yourself and loved ones.What other kinds of looters are there, you may ask? In many places, you can protect yourself and your property without fear of prosecution.But someti...Read More

In China, Foreigners Can Buy a MarriageChina is a dystopian nightmare for many who live there. Yet even the hardcore communist regime cannot keep a little freedom off the black market.For many immigrants and foreign workers in China, they are even lower on the social ladder than the peasants. These people cannot own property, and often their children are not allowed to attend school.But someone fo...Read More

In China, Foreigners Can Buy a MarriageChina is a dystopian nightmare for many who live there. Yet even the hardcore communist regime cannot keep a little freedom off the black market.For many immigrants and foreign workers in China, they are even lower on the social ladder than the peasants. These people cannot own property, and often their children are not allowed to attend school.But someone fo...Read More

Federal agents set up shop in New Hampshire last week. They ran a Constitutionally-illegal checkpoint, violating the Fourth Amendment rights of countless Americans.The big reward? They arrested 25 illegal immigrants, seven of them children. More than half of those detained had overstayed visas. That means they came to the U.S. legally in the first place and did not leave when their visa expired.Wh...Read More

Federal agents set up shop in New Hampshire last week. They ran a Constitutionally-illegal checkpoint, violating the Fourth Amendment rights of countless Americans.The big reward? They arrested 25 illegal immigrants, seven of them children. More than half of those detained had overstayed visas. That means they came to the U.S. legally in the first place and did not leave when their visa expired.Wh...Read More

The downfall of freedom and happiness: dependence on institutions out of your control.I’ve always blamed the government.Governments start the wars, carry out the genocides, steal from the people. Governments lay the foundation of an unjust society, by creating a hierarchy from the beginning. Some make the laws, and some must live by them.But the government is only half of the picture.I alway...Read More

The downfall of freedom and happiness: dependence on institutions out of your control.I’ve always blamed the government.Governments start the wars, carry out the genocides, steal from the people. Governments lay the foundation of an unjust society, by creating a hierarchy from the beginning. Some make the laws, and some must live by them.But the government is only half of the picture.I alway...Read More

“Is this patient under arrest?” Alex Wubbles asks the officer, being instructed by legal counsel on the phone.“Nope,” the officer says.“Do you have an electronic warrant?” She asks, searching for a way to legally comply with the officers.“No,” The officer admits bluntly, getting annoyed.The police did not have a warrant. The police did not have proba...Read More

“Is this patient under arrest?” Alex Wubbles asks the officer, being instructed by legal counsel on the phone.“Nope,” the officer says.“Do you have an electronic warrant?” She asks, searching for a way to legally comply with the officers.“No,” The officer admits bluntly, getting annoyed.The police did not have a warrant. The police did not have proba...Read More

Would you let a five-year-old smoke a joint? I certainly hope not. Yet that would probably be less harmful than loading kids up on pharmaceuticals.Currently, over a million American children UNDER SIX YEARS OLD are taking psychiatric drugs. Babies are literally being doped up by the pharmaceutical industry. Over 274,000 babies UNDER ONE-YEAR-OLD are given drugs, mostly for anxiety.Anxiety drugs fo...Read More

Would you let a five-year-old smoke a joint? I certainly hope not. Yet that would probably be less harmful than loading kids up on pharmaceuticals.Currently, over a million American children UNDER SIX YEARS OLD are taking psychiatric drugs. Babies are literally being doped up by the pharmaceutical industry. Over 274,000 babies UNDER ONE-YEAR-OLD are given drugs, mostly for anxiety.Anxiety drugs fo...Read More

South32 is attracted by the district potential of its Bornite property in Alaska, on the edge of the Arctic Circle, and is investing US$10 million a year over three years, with the possibility of forming a 50:50 joint venture in the future.Read More

Copper Investor Hub: Firstly, you've accelerated the drilling programme at Kharmagtai, which already has a historical JORC resource of over 1,533 million pounds of copper and 2 million ounces of gold. Xanadu has used predictive 3D modelling to improve its understanding of the porphyry system under cover and at depth and identified large-scale targets - how is the exploration program ramping up?Read More

As the world becomes more environmentally aware, all eyes are on finding sustainable, long-term solutions to replace the use of non-renewable materials such as fossil fuels. Great steps are being taken to reduce greenhouse gases, notably carbon emissions, with recruiters like NES constantly looking to place talented individuals into key positions within the energy industry - but what could Europe'...Read More

As the world becomes more environmentally aware, all eyes are on finding sustainable, long-term solutions to replace the use of non-renewable materials such as fossil fuels. Great steps are being taken to reduce greenhouse gases, notably carbon emissions, with recruiters like NES constantly looking to place talented individuals into key positions within the energy industry - but what could Europe'...Read More

Did the hotel crew need the rooms? No. They came to “cover” the storm.But people fleeing Hurricane Harvey were in desperate need of hotel rooms. And the news crew was complaining about paying a high price.The news team reported on the terrible incident of gouging. But they actually demonstrate exactly why prices need to go up when demand goes up.I wonder if they decided to bunk up toge...Read More

Did the hotel crew need the rooms? No. They came to “cover” the storm.But people fleeing Hurricane Harvey were in desperate need of hotel rooms. And the news crew was complaining about paying a high price.The news team reported on the terrible incident of gouging. But they actually demonstrate exactly why prices need to go up when demand goes up.I wonder if they decided to bunk up toge...Read More

Space police. When is it too soon to make a new federal policing agency to make sure no one is illegally mining asteroids?We can call it the EPA, Extraterrestrial Protection Agency. They can ignore newly structured interplanetary property rights, and insist that space-dust runoff from the asteroid mining operations are causing mass extinctions on Mars.You might think space would be vast enough so...Read More