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

The first hole intersected multiple mineralised horizons over the first 110.6m of the hole with highlights of 28m grading 4.5 grams per tonne gold equivalent and 23.9m grading 5.3g/t.Read More

Dear Outsider,There's been so much insider buying activity over the last few months that I don't even know where to start.I guess we'll start with a man who's been manipulating stock prices his entire career... Elon Musk.His chickens may finally be coming home to roost.The Feds are after him.They say he delayed reporting his recent Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) purchases so he could buy more on the cheap.H...Read More

The latest estimate of U.S. GDP growth for the first quarter of 2022 from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is 1.3% (annualized). That's a notably weak reading and it comes just days before the final number is published by the Commerce Department.It's true that the first quarter is behind us, but the first quarter was relatively unaffected by the war in Ukraine, which began Feb. 24. The impact o...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot is the face of Tiffany & Co's campaign for its new high jewelry collection.She wears a dandelion-inspired diamond necklace, an orchid brooch and a diamond and sapphire thistle necklace from its spring Blue Book collection, entitled Botanica. She also wears several of Jean Schlumberger's masterworks, including his iconic Bird on a Ro...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Bulgari has crafted a platinum, diamond and emerald tiara to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne.The Italian jeweler says a a team of five, led by a master goldsmith, spent over 1,500 hours creating the piece, which is to be sold privately. No price has been disclosed.The tiara features a 63.44-carat Zambian emerald, carved with a blooming lotus flower.  It i...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The Jewelers' Security Alliance (JSA) is offering a reward of up to $5,000 after a pawnshop owner in New York was bludgeoned to death with a metal pipe.Arasb Shoughi, 60, was so badly beaten that police initially thought he'd been shot in the head.He was attacked during a jewelry robbery at the Global Pawn Shop, on Jamaica Avenue, Queens, on 28 March, and died in hospital...Read More

Libero saw its stock jump 33% this week after it reported an intercept of 251m grading 0.75% copper and 0.114% molybdenum for 1.Read More

A conversation with Sue Ennis VP of Corporate Development and Ronnie Yu HUT8 Head of Power. We discuss recent comments made by Kevin O'Leary about bitcoin mi...Read full newsRead More

A conversation with Sue Ennis VP of Corporate Development and Ronnie Yu HUT8 Head of Power. We discuss recent comments made by Kevin O'Leary about bitcoin mi...Read full newsRead More

FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX; OTC: FPOCF) is in the process of completing an internal scoping study to further evaluate the option to [...]Read full newsRead More

Share this articleVANCOUVER - Pure Gold Mining Inc. [PGM-TSXV] on Friday announced details of an agreement with Sprott Resources Lending that will provide the company with additional liquidity while it works to overcome operational challenges at its Red Lake, Ont., gold mine.In Friday's news release, the company also provided an operations update and said director Mark O'Dea will assume the role o...Read More

The project is expected to yield an after-tax net present value of US$412 million at a 5% discount rate and a 27% internal rate of return at a $1,700/oz gold price and $21.50/oz silver price.Read More

A low-carbon electricity grid, and the electrification of almost all transport and industry, will need to take place on an eye-wateringly tight timeframe if the terms of the legally-binding ParisRead More

The additional credit facility matures on September 30 and accrues interest at a rate of 14% per annum.Read More

Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIsoMetrix launches pioneering ESG applicationSPONSOREDisometrixHistoric assays build hype for Alicanto at SalaSPONSOREDalicanto mineralsBlackEarth Minerals boosts graphite asset in MadagascarSPONSOREDblackearth mineralsThe scale of transformation in the industry, for Africa and the world, since February 2020, is hard to compreh...Read More

In a close vote, the report and its 52 articles was rejected by five votes and returned to the Committee for further revision.Read More

The reform, approved in a record two days, defines lithium as a strategic mineral with the state having the exclusive right to explore, exploit and use lithium, despite the state lacking the abilityRead More

But behind the surge in earnings there remain deep seated challenges for the sector, including the cost and availability of electricity delivered by state-owned Eskom and a deterioration in key railRead More

It's a year of many firsts for Australia's Vital Metals (ASX: VML; US-OTC: VTMXF) and its rare earth elements operation in the Northwest Territories. Following the establishment in 2021 of Nechalacho, Canada's first rare earths mine, Vital's Yellowknife-based subsidiary Cheetah Resources will this week ship its first load of mixed rare earth concentrate to a processing facility in Saskatchewan....Read More

Chile's constitutional assembly has rejected a proposal from the environmental committee seeking to tighten up rules related to the protection of the country's natural resources, which would have hit the mining sector if they became law.Among the changes suggested, there was one granting nature the status of a legal subject with rights, keeping environmental crimes free of any statutes of limitati...Read More