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

What if the “black swan” of 2023 is the Federal Reserve succeeds? Two stipulations here:1. “Black swan” is in quotes because the common usage has widened to include events that don’t match Nassim Taleb’s original criteria/definition of black swan; the term now includes events considered unlikely or that are off the radar screens of both the media and the alt-med...Read More

Saudi Arabia aims to start construction by December on the world's first integrated battery metals complex built and fed with raw materials by the same company.Perth, Australia-based EV Metals Group, which is controlled by Saudi Arabia, wants to construct the battery metals complex on a 1.3-sq.-km plot in Yanbu on the Red Sea about 1,000 km west of Riyadh, EVM chief executive officer Michael Naylo...Read More

Two weeks ago, Southwest Airlines had a massive meltdown but they weren't the only airline affected. Flight delays ruined vacations and travel plans for millions the world over. It was never clear why.Oh sure, blame the weather but that has become a strangely opaque excuse. You look outside and the weather seems fine but then someone snaps at you: Can't you see that the snow is bad in Buffalo?So o...Read More

Streamsong Resort, one of the world's leading golf destinations, and approximately 7,000 acres of land in which it sits were sold to a subsidiary of Chicago-based KemperSports.Read More

The proposed loan is to be made under the DOE Loan Programs Office's (LPO) Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing programme for a term of about 10 years with an interest rate fixed from the dateRead More

Record fourth-quarter production brought total annual output last year to 460,400 oz. of gold for Alamos Gold (TSX: AGI; NYSE: AGI), with its three mines in Canada and Mexico expected to produce between 480,000 and 520,000 oz. this year and should remain at similar levels in 2024 and 2025.In the fourth quarter, Alamos produced 134,200 oz. of gold, a 9% increase from the third quarter, the miner sa...Read More

"We are pleased to receive positive recommendations from ISS and Glass Lewis, which reaffirm our strategic rationale for the Arrangement and the resulting benefits to shareholders," said MichaelRead 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 & streamingStreamsong Resort, one of the world's leading golf destinations, and approximately 7,000 acres of land in which i...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 & streaming Threats to local wildlife and plants are rapidly again dominating news headlines, court time, and local protest...Read More

Lundin Gold beat guidance and produced a record 476,329oz of gold in 2022 from its Fruta del Norte mine in Ecuador. "For the second year running, Lundin Gold has beaten its production guidance.Read More

Saudi Arabian state miner Ma'aden inked a major new deal with the kingdom's sovereign wealth reserve the Public Investment Fund (PIF) at the Future Minerals Forum 2023 in Riyadh this week.The deal was among more than 20 agreements and memoranda of understanding signed between the state mining entity and other international companies at the three-day summit, Ma'aden said in a news release Thursday....Read More

There's no denying the world is an entirely different place compared with a year ago, says Cambridge House International's president and CEO, Jay Martin, as more than 300 mining juniors prepare to attend the Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC) on Jan. 29-30."The era of trust is over," he declares. "We are entering a new era of de-globalization. The trust that allowed for global trade o...Read More

With renewed interest in the discovery potential of the eastern Yukon and the western Northwest Territories, accomplished mineral explorer and mining financier Simon Ridgway Rackla Metals (TSXV: RAK) CEO is returning to his roots with a focus on the region's Tombstone Gold Belt.Throughout his colourful career, broadly entailing playing poker by night and researching or 'kicking rocks' by day, Ridg...Read More

I hate to sound jaded, but living in Baltimore, I hear about a lot of shootings. And it kind of just becomes noise after a while.At least until it happens at a school. Unfortunately, school shootings have become devastatingly routine on a national level. Yet they never cease to disgust. That was the case for me last week when a double shooting sent a Baltimore high school into lockdown.In that...Read More

Space never ceases to fascinate, whether it is our reaching the extra-terrestrial or the extra-terrestrial reaching us.We experienced a taste of the former on Jan. 9, when the U.K. Space Agency initiated a new era of domestic spaceflights with the first orbital mission from a British spaceport. The 'Start me up' program (named after the 1981 Rolling Stones hit) plans to make Britain the first nati...Read More

Alfaro said the mine cannot continue to operate without a contract between operator First Quantum Minerals and the government and that the company must comply with a government decree issued inRead More

Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; LSE: TKO) has secured US$25 million in additional financing to pay for the solvent extraction and electrowinning (SX/EW) plant for its Florence copper commercial production facility in Arizona.The latest funding agreement, with Bank of America Leasing & Capital LLC, follows an initial investment of US$50 million made recently by Japan's Mitsui for construction of the in-sit...Read More

High potash prices will likely persist as the world scrambles to bring more production online amidst concerns over food security, privately held developer Brazil Potash says.Protectionism from some countries has been a wakeup call to the global community, spurring it to work towards ensuring food security needs are met amid a tightening of fertilizer supplies, says CEO Matt Simpson in an intervie...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 shift in sentiment is evident in two investment bank research reports circulated earlier today (Friday) with...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Marathon Gold Corp. [MOZ-TSX, OTC-MGDPF] on Thursday released positive infill drill results from the Berry deposit at its Valentine Gold Project in Newfoundland.Last year, Marathon completed 20,931 metres of infill drilling at Berry, none of which was included in the project's June 2022 mineral resource estimate. This in-fill drill program targeted gaps within the exi...Read More