News and Reports

Year Ahead 2025

January 06, 2025

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

Year in Review 2023 and Outlook for 2024

January 04, 2024

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

Year in Review 2022 and Outlook for 2023

January 2023

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: The Heart of Global Copper

October 2021

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 Gold

June 2021

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 Gold Mining and Canadian Juniors

April 2021

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

An Overview of the Golden Triangle

July 2020

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

An Overview of Quebec Gold Mining

April 2020

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

An Overview of the Red Lake Mining District

January, 2020

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

Perpetua enters Stibnite permitting home stretch

October 29, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

"When I say we are now on the downhill side of this permitting process, which we have been involved in since 2016, it is true.Read More

Nicaragua approves Calibre's EBP scheme

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

The approvals come just days after the US Treasury Department extended sanctions against the Nicaraguan General Directorate of Mines on 24 October  in an attempt to isolate the country'sRead More

Perpetua gets US Forest Service backing for Stibnite...

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Identification of the preferred alternative by the USFS is a major milestone in the advancement of the project and provides clarity for the remainder of the Read More

More US Fed pain seen next week

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to raise interest rates for a fourth consecutive meeting next week as its tackles 40-year high inflation.Read More

N.America miners cautiously see inflation dip

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Cost inflation has been a major drag on the financial performance of miners since COVID-19 disrupted global supply changes.Read More

Yamana Gold Q3 backs case for Gold Fields takeover...

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Yamana Gold reiterated its 2022 production guidance of 1 million gold equivalent ounces (GEO) and indicated all-in sustaining costs (AISC) costs would be at the upper end of its target of US$1,080/oz.Read More

War in FSU hits Glencore zinc, boosts trading revenues...

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limited"Following...Read More

Global Atomic homes in on Dasa financing

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

With steady progress being made on the ground,company president and CEO Stephen Roman, CEO, Global Atomic Corp.Stephen Roman hopes to wrap up project financing shortly as his team vies to bring what is Africa's largest highest-grade uranium project online in a little over two years from now. Several pieces must fall into place in order for that to happen, but favourable uranium market co...Read More

Canada boosts protections for critical minerals

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, today issued additional direction with regard to the application of the Investment Canada Act in cases involvingRead More

LME Week shows mood surprisingly upbeat

October 28, 2022 / www.mining-journal.com

Digital capital raising platform opens doors with over 100 ASX offers completedSPONSOREDblue horseshoe ventures pty limitedStudy points to more copper-gold potential for PolarX in AlaskaSPONSOREDpolarx limitedPurepoint Uranium Group Well Positioned to Make Next Athabasca DiscoverySPONSOREDpurepoint uraniumSheffield flashes a green light at ThunderbirdSPONSOREDsheffield resources limitedTypically a...Read More

Spac started by ex-Rusal M&A wiz hunts for green metals giant

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

ACG Acquisition (LSE: ACG), a new company founded by a mining executive who helped create aluminum giant Rusal, says it plans to buy a critical minerals producer valued at several hundred million dollars as soon as possible.The new asset will form the core of ACG, a special purpose acquisition company, or "spac", chief executive officer Artem Volynets said in an interview. "Our intention is to ac...Read More

Federal government stiffens guidelines on foreign involvement in Canada's critical mineral sectors

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

The federal government immediately plans to significantly tighten the approval process for major transactions by foreign state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Canada's critical minerals sectors.In a joint news release issued Friday, Fran??ois-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said that under the updated guidelines for ho...Read More

Calibre granted environmental permits to develop Eastern Borosi project in Nicaragua

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Nicaragua authorities have granted critical environmental permits to Calibre Mining (TSX: CXB; OTC: CXBMF), greenlighting the open pit and underground mine developments at its Eastern Borosi gold project (EBP).Calibre is advancing the development of the high-grade EBP deposits, which are scheduled to be in production by next year, feeding into the company's Libertad processing facility."Approval o...Read More

Argonaut completes financing package for Magino

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Argonaut Gold (TSX: AR) has closed the sale of a 2% net smelter return royalty on its Magino project and surrounding land package in Ontario to Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV) for US$52.5 million and a US$10 million equity private placement. Argonaut issued 34.69 million common shares to Franco-Nevada at a price of $0.3931 per share.In addition, the company has closed its previously announced US$250 mill...Read More

Teck Resources hikes cost of QB2 copper project in Chile again

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Teck Resources (TSX: TECK.A | TECK.B; NYSE: TECK) has once again raised its construction cost estimate for the Quebrada Blanca phase 2 (QB2) copper project in Chile by at least US$500 million.Canada's largest diversified miner now expects QB2 to cost between US$7.4 billion and US$7.75 billion, up from a July 2022 guidance of US$6.9 billion to US$7 billion, and an earlier estimate of US$4.7 billion...Read More

Indigenous-led EAs are on the horizon

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

At the recent Indigenous Led Projects Forum in Toronto in late September - the first event of its kind - co-host Michael Fox shared some of the big changes that he's seen in Canada's Indigenous communities over his lifetime.The 54-year-old said it wasn't until the 1980s that an Indigenous family member owned a car - - - a symbol of success. Later, the high water mark was the first Indigenous perso...Read More

Osisko Mining bulk sample averages 65.5 grams gold per tonne

October 28, 2022 / www.northernminer.com

Osisko Mining (TSX: OSK) continues to explore at its Windfall gold project in the Abitibi greenstone belt, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Que., between the towns of Abitibi and Chibougamau.Recently it mined a 4,809-tonne bulk sample from the 600 level of the Lynx deposit. The sample averaged 65.5 grams gold per tonne. The actual grade of the material processed was 169% higher than the block model predi...Read More

It's Just Noise!

October 28, 2022 / dailyreckoning.com

Finally, the pundits and government people get a positive GDP report they can get excited about. Q3 GDP grew at a 2.6% annualized rate, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).Happy days are here again, folks! And right before the midterm elections, no less.But in reality, the report is basically noise. As Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says:If you take a step b...Read More

Why Elon Musk Is Suddenly Afraid of Putin

October 28, 2022 / www.outsiderclub.com

A few weeks ago Elon Musk took me - and really, all of us - by surprise when he tried to broker an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Twitter.Because sensitive geopolitical matters are best solved by crowdsourcing on social media platforms, Musk tweeted:Now, there's a lot to unpack here, but one thing that really stood out to me was the parenthetical "(until Khrushchev's mistake)."That is...Read More

Newrange Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Coricancha Au-Ag-Cu-Pb-Zn Mine in Peru

October 27, 2022 / bit.ly

(TheNewswire) TSXV:NRG ) (OTC :NRGOF ) ( Frankfurt:X6C) Newrange Gold Corp. (Read full newsRead More

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