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

THIS NEWS RELEASE IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. NEWS AGENCIES VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Asante Gold Corporation (CSE:ASE/ FRANKFURT:1A9/U.S.OTC:ASGOF) ("Asante" or theRead full newsRead More

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Vinci Capital Group - Striking Gold The Vinci Capital Group is a BVI based company with subsidiaries in Asia focused on gold and copper. The Vinci Capital Group co-owns mining exploration licenses with a combined surface area of 3 times the surface area of the country of Liechtenstein. The company has recently struck gold, with [...]Read full newsRead More

In the last trading session, 3.78 million Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (NYSE:HMY) shares changed hands as the company's beta touched 1.00. With the company's per share price at $3.74 changed hands at -$0.02 or -0.53% during last session, the market valuation stood at $2.33B. HMY's lastRead full newsRead More

(IDEX Online) - The Natural Diamond Council (NDC) is targeting consumers with a series of nine ads highlighting the industry's commitment to sustainability.The omnichannel campaign, called Thank You, By the Way, is supported by the Responsible Jewellery Council (RJC).It focuses on socioeconomic and community benefits, and carry tag lines such as:"Your natural diamond helps provide access to h...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A 24.45-carat heart-shaped diamond fetched just over $2m in an online auction by Christie's.The Type IIa stone was graded by GIA as D color, internally flawless, excellent polish and symmetry.It was set in a platinum pendant necklace with a 1.37-carat, D-color, internally flawless pear-shaped stone.The piece, headlining the Summer Sparkle sale, sold for $2.01m.  Its pre-s...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Lightbox is to sell bigger lab grown diamonds - up to two carats - at the same flat rate of $800 per carat.It is also introducing a premium lab grown range, called Finest, of stones guaranteed to be VVS clarity, colorless D, E, F with an excellent cut.Both moves suggest the De Beers company sees increasing potential in the lab grown sector.Last November it opened a $94m factory nea...Read More

At the end of the latest market close, Harmony Gold Mining Company Limited (HMY) was valued at $3.58. In that particular session, Stock kicked-off at the price of $3.71 while reaching the peak value of $3.815 and lowest value recorded on the day was $3.655. The stock current value is $3.76.RecentlyRead full newsRead More

Investors are starting to look at the ESG credentials for the stainless steel feedstocks ferronickel and nickel pig iron with greater weight.Read full newsRead More

Lebanon's energy ministry said it had picked Dubai's ENOC in a tender to swap 84,000 tonnes of Iraqi high sulphur fuel oil with 30,000 tonnes of Grade B fuel oil and 33,000 tonnes of gasoil.Read full newsRead More

Share this article TORONTO - Orocobre Limited [ORL-TSX; ORE-ASX] reports completing a merger with Galaxy Resources Limited [GXY-ASX].Under the terms, all Galaxy shares have now been transferred to Orocobre, and eligible Galaxy shareholders have been issued the scheme consideration of 0.569 Orocobre share for each Galaxy share held on the scheme record date. The 292,598,572 newly issued Orocobre...Read More

China's Ganfeng Lithium, one of the world's top producers of the battery metal, is going ahead with the takeover of Bacanora Lithium (LSE: BCN) as the Mexico-focused explorer and developer has accepted a sweetened ?284.8 million (about US$391 million) cash offer. Ganfeng increased its original bid, submitted in early May, to 73.6 pence a Bacanora share in cash and Germany-focused Zinnw...Read More

Canada's Silver Elephant Mining (TSX: ELEF; US-OTC: SILEF) is splitting its battery metals assets into several new companies that will be spun-out to its shareholders to focus on precious metals exploration. The Vancouver-based company said its Minago nickel project in Manitoba and the Gibellini vanadium project in Nevada, and certain battery metals royalties, will become separate entities a...Read More

A few weeks ago, when the 20-year Afghanistan project first started to circle the drain, my friend, colleague, and Crow's Nest editor Jimmy Mengel asked me if I thought defense contractors would suffer as a result. It was clear from his intonation that he thought they would.I think my response caught him off guard because it was an emphatic "NO.""I'm still bullish," I told him.And I have every re...Read More

Red Pine Exploration Inc. announces results from its 2021 surfaceRead full newsRead More

Gold stocks have underperformed so far this year but the group's fundamentals remain attractive as inflationary pressures continue to build and monetary policy remains dovish. Additionally, the increase in coronavirus case counts increases the chances of more stimulus. Finally, gold tends to outperform during periods of economic and political turmoil as we seem to be going through now. Below, w...Read More

The syndicate of underwriters exercised their over-allotment option in full for the offering, which was priced at $11.39 per flow-through share.High profile investor Eric Sprott participated for about 19.9% to maintain his interest in the company, New Found said.Despite an industry-wide lag in receiving assays, the company has been reporting a series of "phenomenal" results from an ongoing 200,000...Read More

(IDEX Online) - The De Beers Group has unveiled its new strategy to connect consumers to its social purpose and engage them directly with its Building Forever mission to achieve ambitious sustainability goals by 2030.   The new approach was presented at the JCK Luxury Breakfast during the keynote speech by De Beers Executive Vice Presidents Stephen Lussier and David Prager under the theme Th...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Sarine Technologies Ltd has announced that diamond retailers and wholesalers can now easily search for Sarine traced diamonds on IDEX Diamond Trading Network.   Sarine, a worldwide leader in the development, manufacturing, marketing and sale of precision technology products for the evaluation, planning, processing, measurement, grading and trading of diamonds and gems, said th...Read More