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

For more than a century, Canada has been the global leader in capital formation for the mineral exploration and development industry. However, in the wake of modern demand for niche technology minerals, a general underperformance in mining equities and dwindling investor interest, the mining finance sector needs to innovate to help keep its participants engaged and keep them from considering listi...Read More

What we're seeing now is the very definition of volatility. The market's in a highly unstable state right now. These violent swings show the inadequacy of the standard models that the Fed and other mainstream analysts use.The Fed assumes so many things about markets that are simply false, like that markets are always efficient, for example. They're not. Under volatile conditions like these they ga...Read More

Today is March 15 - the ides of the month."Beware the ides of March," the soothsayer warned Julius Caesar... presciently. Should investors likewise beware the ides of March?Today and tomorrow the Federal Reserve's Open Market Committee - so-called - huddles at Washington.These are the questions presently hanging in the air:Will Mr. Powell and his mates finally push the federal funds rate up from z...Read More

Share this article TORONTO - Rio Tinto Rio Tinto Plc [RIO-NYSE] said Monday it has made a non-binding proposal to acquire the 49% stake in Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd. [TRQ-TSX] it does not already own for US$2.7 billion.Under the all-cash proposal, Turquoise Hill minority shareholders would receive $34 per share, an amount that represents a 32% premium on the last closing price of the shares on...Read More

The drill hole targeted the down dip extension of a steeply dipping, structurally controlled mineralised zone and intercepted 8.6m grading 5.10 grams per tonne gold and 24.85g/t silver within 17.Read More

As part of the financing, a four-person technical advisory committee will be formed with two members from each company, to advise on the upcoming drilling programme at the high-grade zone within theRead More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDMarvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperIn consideration for the loan, Bluestone has issued 150,000 shares and will issue an additional 4,000...Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDMarvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperRussia and Ukraine account for 29% of global wheat exports and 19% of maize exports, but Simpson said...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Hong Kong's Jewellery & Gem World (JGW) trade show will relocate to Singapore in September, where Covid restrictions are less stringent.Organizers Informa Markets Jewellery said the new venue would be more accessible.Hong Kong currently bans flights from nine countries including the United States and Britain, operates a "dynamic zero" strategy to curb infections and has be...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A pair of Boucheron earrings featuring 14.00-ct and 13.75-ct pear-shaped diamonds sold for $1.26m at Sotheby's New York.They led the Important Jewels auction last Wednesday, which raised a total of $12.4m.The detachable pear-shaped diamonds are both Type IIa, a 14.00-ct D/VS1 and a 13.75-ct D/VVS2, as certified by GIA. They are set in 18K gold, together with around 7.80-ct of...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A lab grown diamond made from salad seasoning is being sold for the charity Feeding America.Chicago-based Hidden Valley had its Original Ranch Dressing used as the graphite carbon seed to begins the growing process.After five months growing in the lab, the rough stone was cut into a 2.01-ct G/VVS1 round and set in a 14K white gold band.It has the initials HVR LVR ???,?" for "Hidden...Read More

Tudor enlisted Research Capital Corporation as lead agent for the private placement—while high-profile investor Eric Sprott is expected to participate in the offering, Tudor said.Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDMarvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperDescribed as one of the next major sources of copper for an electrifying world, Udokan is expected to...Read More

Mining Journal and MiningNews.Net Copper Outlook ReportSPONSOREDMarvel Gold stepping up exploration after resource upgradeSPONSOREDmarvel goldAnglesey Mining sharpens focus on the Parys Mountain projectSPONSOREDanglesey mining Ero Copper touts green focus and shareholder returnsSPONSOREDero copperThe SMA said the infractions occurred in February and March 2021, of which it deems one as a minor inf...Read More

Rio Tinto has offered around US$2.7 billion for the outstanding 49% of shares, at a 32% premium to share prices at close on Friday, leaving it will with full ownership of Turquoise Hill, which owns 66% of Oyu Tolgoi, with the balance held by the Mongolian government."Rio Tinto strongly believes in the long-term success of Oyu Tolgoi and Mongolia, and delivering for all stakeholders over the long-t...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has offered US$2.7 billion for the 49% of shares it doesn't already own in Turquoise Hill Resources (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) in a move that seeks gaining direct controlling ownership of the vast Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine in Mongolia.The world's second-largest miner is offering $34 per each outstanding share of Turquoise Hill Resources it does not already ow...Read More

As exploration continues on its Valentine gold project in central Newfoundland, Marathon Gold (TSX: MOZ) has purchased for cancellation the historical 7.5% net profit interest royalty covering certain mineral resource areas on the property.The royalty relates to certain properties at the Valentine project initially granted to Reid Newfoundland Company in the early part of the last century, in conn...Read More

FPX Nickel (TSXV: FPX; US-OTC: FPOCF) has released results from its summer 2021 infill drill program at the Baptiste project, part of the company's 100%-owned Decar nickel district in central British Columbia.The Decar district covers 245 sq. km of area in the Mount Sidney Williams ultramafic/ophiolite complex, and is located 90 km northwest of Fort St. James. The Baptiste nickel deposit is the mo...Read More

Australia's Mineral Resources (ASX: MIN) will pump A$13.6 million (US$9.80 million) into fellow explorer Global Lithium Resources (ASX: GL1) as part of a A$30 million (US$21.61 million) placement that seeks to speed up exploration programs at Marble Bar and Manna lithium projects in Western Australia.The move gives Mineral Resources 10.1 million shares or a 5% stake in Global Lithium. It also gran...Read More

The U.S. and its allies in the EU and others around the world have imposed the harshest economic sanctions on Russia that have ever been used. In the past, even nations directly at war with each other would continue to pay the debts they owed each other.Since this war is in Ukraine, let's look at another war that took place in present Ukraine from 1854-56, during the Crimean War.Britain (and Franc...Read More