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) - Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is due to discuss diamond and other trade links with India when he visits the country for the first time.Cut and polished diamonds are India's second-largest export to Israel ($1.1bn) behind processed petroleum products ($1.3bn).Bennett's is due to visit this coming weekend. However he has tested positive for Covid and is not y...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Beyonce served up a fashion grand slam with a pair of tennis ball-colored dresses (one citron, one lime) and almost 400 carats of diamonds at the Oscars.She wore shoulder-length earrings by Lorraine Schwartz, her jeweler of choice, featuring seven rows of diamonds, weighing in at 150 carats.The 40-year-old singer also showed off a pair of 150-carat diamond bangles and two diamond r...Read More

Udd said the company is looking to continue investing if Chile continues to provide the "right conditions" which Udd said are fiscal stability, legal certainty and a clear pathway to permitting.Read More

The minister said the government of Gabriel Boric plans to work with the 2050 national mining policy developed last year by the administration of Sebastian Pinera, but with changes as, "the policyRead More

In Chile, the company is completing a cycle of investment with the Los Pelambres seawater plant and additional milling capacity 70% complete. It has also recently finished a project at Zaldivar to increase recoveries. Its next big investment decision will be whether to develop a second concentrator at Centinela, once it has a greater line of sight on changes to the fiscal regime and the process to...Read More

US deputy secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo warned that firms supplying the Russian military and those that helped Russia's richest escape sanctions would be targeted.Read More

Canada's Kinross Gold Corp (TSX: K; NYSE: KGC) has entered exclusive negotiations with an unnamed third-party mining company after receiving several proposals to sell all its Russian assets.As part of the exclusivity agreement, Kinross' Russian subsidiaries will continue to operate the Kupol mine and other assets to maintain them properly.Kinross noted in a media release Tuesday afternoon that any...Read More

S&P Global Ratings has upgraded Barrick Gold's (TSX: ABX; NYSE: GOLD) long-term corporate credit rating a notch from BBB to BBB+.With a 'stable' outlook, S&P in a note said that the upgrade reflected Barrick's significant financial flexibility, noting a favourable view of Barrick's operating efficiency and breadth.S&P analysts expect Barrick's credit profile to remain highly resilient, even in a l...Read More

This week's episode features InTheMoneyStocks.com chief market strategist Gareth Soloway in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on recent developments in financial markets. Gareth explains the nature of technical analysis while giving his view on interest rates, the stock market, commodities and speculative asset bubbles. He also shares his take on recent movements in gold, which have a remark...Read More

The Toronto-quoted equity of Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX: MPVD) has achieved a new 12-month high on March 29 after the company overnight reported record free cash flow in 2021 and a massive impairment reversal attributable to positive changes in market sentiment and diamond prices.During the year 2021, Mountain Province sold a total of 3.16 million carats at an average price of $94 per carat (...Read More

Shares of Inomin Mines (TSXV: MINE) traded at its highest price in the last five years as the company reported new discoveries of nickel, magnesium and chromium at its Beaver nickel-cobalt property in south-central British Columbia. Highlights of the drilling from the early-stage property included 175.26 metres grading 0.178% nickel, 93 parts per million (ppm) cobalt, 0.362chromium and 21% magn...Read More

Osisko Development (TSXV: ODV) has closed the second tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement. More than 9.4 million subscription receipts of the company were issued under this tranche at a price of US$3.50 each, for additional gross proceeds of approximately US$32.8 million.This, together with the US$84.8 million brought in under the first tranche, brings the total size...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has completed the acquisition of the Rincon lithium project in Argentina for $825 million, following Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) approval of the transaction.The world's second-largest miner saw its lithium ambitions partially crushed in January after Serbia revoked Rio Tinto's licence for the US$2.4 billion Jadar project on environme...Read More

Canada Silver Cobalt Works CEO Frank Basa and President Matt Halliday joined Steve Darling from Proactive to share news the company has received the first th...Read full newsRead More

Share this article TORONTO - York Harbour Metals Inc. [YORK-TSXV, YORKF-OTCPK, 5Deo) has released another batch of drill results from Phase 2 drilling at the York Harbour copper-zinc project in Newfoundland.The company described the results released on Monday as the best intersections of grade and length to date.Drilling highlights include hole YH21-24, which returned 29 metres of 5.25% copper, 4...Read More

The Gold Bar Integrity Programme is designed to produce a traceable chain of custody for gold bars, allowing them to be tracked from the mine, through the smelter, to buyers.Read More

In a very brief speech to open the Exploration Forum, the first event in Cesco week in Santiago, Chile, mining minister Marcela Hernando stressed that communities need to know about mining projects inRead More

Belgium does not Oppose Sanctions on Russian Diamonds, says PM(IDEX Online) - Belgium has not opposed EU sanctions against Russian diamonds, its prime minister told national radio.Alexander De Croo (pictured) was responding to calls within the federal government -from the Flemish Green party Groen and French-speaking socialist party PS among others - to stop the importation of diamonds from Russia...Read More

The US$25 million payment will be paid by way of issuance of a convertible note to Glencore, giving the firm an equity stake in the Canadian junior.Read More

West Africa an improved opportunitySPONSOREDWorld Copper has economics to back Escalones resource in ChileSPONSOREDworld copper ltd.Marvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining   The "doctor" in this case is not really a doctor, it's the global management consulting firm McKin...Read More