The precious metals all soared in 2025, and while a continued monetary expansion and geopolitical risk could still drive gains especially for gold in 2026, a pullback in silver, platinum and palladium is possible after recent partly speculative surges.Read More

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

Qu?(C)bec-focused gold miner Abcourt Mines (TSXV: ABI) has entered into a non-binding agreement to acquire all issued and outstanding shares of Pershimex Resources (TSXV: PRO) by way of a three-cornered merger. Abcourt says the proposed transaction is part of the company's vision to create a larger and more diversified emerging gold producer and explorer in the province.Pershimex shareholders wil...Read More

Perpetua Resources (Nasdaq: PPTA; TSX: PPTA) is building momentum on its legacy cleanup in Idaho, and has selected IMCO Construction as a partner to begin water quality improvements in the historical Stibnite mining district this summer.Known as Midas Gold until last year, the company moved its headquarters from Vancouver to Boise, Idaho, where it is restoring the historic brownfield site of its...Read More

New ETFs in Europe, billions of dollars raised and spent on physical uranium by Sprott, aggressive reactor construction programs, mine restarts, rising contract pricing, positive turns in public sentiment: Driven by powerful geopolitical and climate related trends, nuclear energy has finally moved out from the shadow cast by Fukushima and is bringing fundamental change to the uranium sector.The st...Read More

Today's red-hot inflation numbers only reinforce the notion that the Fed will aggressively raise rates at next week's FOMC meeting, and also at July's meeting. We don't have to guess at that. The Fed has already told us that's their intention, even before today's report.It may even "shock and awe" investors with a 75-basis-point hike this month or next month. Markets are predicting 50-basis-point...Read More

Vladimir Putin stood at a pristine white podium, addressing the collective Russian government - oligarchs and all - as well as millions of Russians watching the State of the Nation address at home.A screen behind him showed a computer-generated simulation of a nuclear attack, with a barrage of missiles pouring down on the Florida peninsula."With the new system, there is no limitation," said Putin....Read More

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The move by the MFA follows legal action taken by US hedge fund Elliott Management and Jane Street in taking legal action at the English High Court against the exchange.Read More

The additional share purchase will bring total shareholder payments to around $4 billion this year under its existing normal course issuer bid.Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Sitka Gold Corp. [SIG-CSE, SITKF - OTCQB, 1RF-FSE] has raised $4.7 million from an oversubscribed private placement financing and will use the proceeds to fund exploration on its Yukon projects."The main focus this year will be aggressive development of our new Blackjack Zone gold discovery at the RC Gold Project, where we are currently conducting a 10,000-metre d...Read More

Drilling at the newly discovered Tesla zone encountered 200 metres of continuous massive and disseminated sulphides and assays received to-date highlight significant copper-zinc-gold mineralization,Read More

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IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesCopper Fox is brim-full of potentialSPONSOREDcopper fox metalsOrford eyes massive nickel sulphides at West RaglanSPONSOREDorford miningThe additional share purchase will bring total shareholder payments to around $4 billion this year under its existing normal course issuer bid.Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesCopper Fox is brim-full of potentialSPONSOREDcopper fox metalsOrford eyes massive nickel sulphides at West RaglanSPONSOREDorford mining The newly elected Australian government says the country relies too heavily on China as a market.  In its place, the freshly minted ministers want...Read More

(IDEX Online) - This year could prove to be a tipping point for lab growns, say IDEX Online's expert analysts in their new 2021 Pipeline report.The industry enjoyed a "dream year", but the mined sector lost a potential revenue of $20bn to lab growns, they say.Sanctions on Russian rough - around 30 per cent of global supply - could now force high-end jewelers to start using lab growns in their...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Chow Tai Fook today reported a 41 per cent increase in revenue, despite ongoing Covid lockdowns and their impact on sales.China's biggest jewelry retailer said earnings for the year to 31March 2022 were HK$98.9bn (US$12.6bn) and gross profit was up by 11.3 per cent to HK$22.3 (US$2.8bn).Despite "the lingering effects of the pandemic and global economic uncertainties," the reta...Read More

IsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixChinese Strategic AllianceSPONSOREDxanadu minesCopper Fox is brim-full of potentialSPONSOREDcopper fox metalsOrford eyes massive nickel sulphides at West RaglanSPONSOREDorford miningAs part of the company's support for the transition to a more sustainable world, Vale plans to acquire minority stakes in startups focused on decarbonisati...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has announced a US$10-million investment in Nano One Materials (TSX: NANO), a technology company with a patented process for production of cathode materials used in lithium ion batteries. Under the agreement, Nano One will issue 4.6 million common shares or about 4.9% of the company's issued and outstanding shares to Rio Tinto for its investment. The d...Read More

Vale, the world's top nickel and iron ore producer, has completed a prefeasibility study for its proposed nickel sulphate facility in B?(C)cancour Que., the company said on June 9. The facility is expected to process 25,000 tonnes of nickel into nickel sulphate annually to supply the lithium-ion battery market for electric vehicles. The project's final investment decision and schedule, however, w...Read More

Anglo American (LSE: AAL) has agreed to a US$100 million, 10-year loan from the International Finance Corporation in what is understood to be the mining industry's first known sustainability-linked financing focusing exclusively on social development indicators.Anglo American will use the funding to build its so-called Sustainable Mining Plan further. The initiative aims to support community devel...Read More

My first half century on this planet was filled with the great joy, and occasional terror, of having a Scottish mother. Gladys brought to Canada an arsenal of words and phrases that explored gradations of foolishness, from "numpty" to "daft." Once, when the vice-principal sent home a letter asking my mother to explain my recent absence - I'd skipped school with friends to watch our high-school bas...Read More