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) - Kim Kardashian has bought the amethyst and diamond pendant famously worn by the late Princess Diana.The American socialite and media personality paid $197,453 for the Attallah Cross after fierce bidding at Sotheby's London yesterday. The estimate was $97,000 to $145,000.The The Fleuree cross, circa 1920, set with square-cut amethyst and accented by circular-cut diamonds belong...Read More

Talon Metals (TSX: TLO; US-OTC: TLOFF) says it has found a new system of nickel and copper mineralization just 3.2 km from its Tamarack project in central Minnesota.Talon is calling this new area at the northern end of the 18-km-long Tamarack Intrusive Complex the Raptor Zone."The company's recent drilling in the Raptor Zone has suggested that the intrusive depositing the high-grade nickel mineral...Read More

B2Gold (TSX: BTO; NYSE-AM: BTG) produced 1.03 million oz. gold last year with 367,870 oz. or about 36% of the total coming from the fourth quarter.Annual production, which included 54,871 oz. of attributable production from Calibre Mining (TSX: CXB), was within B2Gold's production guidance for the year of 990,000-1.05 million oz. and marked the seventh consecutive year that the company has met or...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Israel Diamond Exchange is to host its first international events since the Covid pandemic.The inaugural Israel Diamond Conference will take place on March 27, bringing together mining ministers, major diamond producers, finance and banking leaders and other key industry figures. A tender of white and fancy color polished goods, Diagurus, the Israeli branch of the South Africa...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy Indian diamond merchant has relinquished her share of a $61m inheritance, to become a Jain nun.Devanshi Sanghvi took part this week in the 'diksha' ceremony, abandoning all material possessions, after a lavish four-day ceremony in which she rode in a carriage pulled by an elephant.She was heiress to the Sanghvi and Sons jewelry bus...Read More

As I was sitting in my chair steaming over the latest World Economic Forum tweet, one question popped into my head.Why do the Swiss put up with it?Let's face it: there's a cartoonish Bond villain sitting in his mountainous lair, just short of a mustache to twirl, plotting to remake the world in his own image.And if that's not bad enough, the man who taught Klaus Schwab about geopolitics during his...Read More

First Majestic guided AISC for its Mexican operations at US$16.69-17.83 silver equivalent oz (EqAg oz), compared to its previous guidance of $15.48 EqAg oz and analysts' estimates of around $15.Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Victoria Gold Corp. [VGCX -TO] on Thursday released assay results received to date from the 2022 Raven distal exploration program at the Dublin Gulch gold camp in the Canadian Yukon.Victoria's flagship Eagle gold mine is situated on the Dublin Gulch gold property in the central Yukon Territory, about 375 kilometres north of Whitehorse and approximately 85 kilometres...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsWhile the company said it was "hard to find words" to describe how impressive the latest headline drill hit in Quebec was, the numbers do most of th...Read More

Yukon-focused explorer Granite Creek Copper's (TSXV: GCX; US-OTC: GCXXF) Toronto-quoted equity closed in positive territory Thursday after it released strong initial economics for the Carmacks copper-gold-silver project.Located in the Minto Copper District within the traditional territories of Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation and Selkirk First Nation, Granite's preliminary economic assessment s...Read More

An underground-only feasibility study for Fission Uranium's (TSX: FCU; US-OTC: FCUUF) Patterson Lake South (PLS) project in Saskatchewan has increased its mine life from seven to 10 years while improving its economics.Located on the southwest rim of the Athabasca basin and 160 km north of La Loche, Sask., PLS consists mainly of the Triple R deposit, a set of five mineralized zones sitting between...Read More

Two-time Vale president Eliezer Batista diesLeadershipLook beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadership4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAnglo Asian, which is progressing plans to become a mid-tier copper producer, produced 57,618 gold equivalent oz in 2022, which compared to guidance...Read More

Assays from Victoria Gold's (TSX: VGCX) exploration drill program at the near-surface Raven gold target, 15 km east of its Eagle gold mine in the Yukon, include 83.5 metres grading 3.59 grams gold per tonne starting from 213.5 metres.The broad intercept from drillhole NG22-155C included 6.26 grams gold over 47 metres, 20.24 grams gold over 14.5 metres and 45.84 grams gold over 5.3 metres. The hole...Read More

Tiehm's buckwheat has become a totem issue in the federal permitting of new mines that could potentially supply critical minerals, including lithium.Read More

Today we bear grim news:Uncle Samuel has rammed his whelky head against the "debt ceiling" - the debt ceiling set presently to $31.4 trillion.Unless Congress votes to haul the jacks out of storage... and elevate the ceiling once more... the United States government can issue no additional debt... and risks default as its cupboards run bare.Come the evil day when the china is at last depleted...Eve...Read More

Thesis Gold (TSXV: TAU; US-OTC: THSGF) says its latest drill results expand the mineralized footprint at the Bonanza-Ridge zone on the Ranch project in north-central British Columbia. Step-out drilling at the 180-sq.-km project in the Golden Horseshoe area about 750 km north of Vancouver continues to intersect mineralization intervals of 10-25 metres wide, Thesis said in a news release on Thur...Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAlien Metals accelerates toward productionSPONSOREDalien metalsMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingDecember quarter production of 66.9 million tonnes (attributable) took half-year output to a record 131.9Mt (attr...Read More

Patriot Battery Metals (TSX-V: PMET; ASX: PMT; US-OTC: PMETF) saw its stock surge Thursday following the release of drill results from its wholly owned Corvette property, located in the James Bay region of Quebec.The highlight was drill hole CV22-083, which returned CV5's strongest interval to date with 156.9 metres at 2.12% Li2O, including 25 metres at 5.04% Li2O or 5 metres at 6.36% Li2O. The...Read More

Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD; US-OTC: MPVD) has increased the 2023 production outlook for its Gahcho Ku?(C) mine in Canada's Northwest Territories despite reporting a slight miss on the mine's production targets for 2022. For the December quarter Mountain Province recovered 1.6 million carats at an average grade of 1.96 ct. per tonne, taking full-year output to 5.52 million carats agains...Read More

4 Emerging Trends Driven by the Global Mining BoomSPONSOREDproudfootRed Dirt rockets toward mining in 2023SPONSOREDred dirt metalsAlien Metals accelerates toward productionSPONSOREDalien metalsMetalla poised to flourish amid royalty M&A frenzySPONSOREDmetalla royalty & streamingThe benchmark S&P/ASX 200 resources index added 13.1% over 2022 for a total return of 22.3%.Read More