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

Centerra Gold (TSX: CG) remains "financially strong" with solid performance and a healthy outlook at its other operations three months following the Kyrgyzstan government's seizure of the Kumtor mine, says CEO Scott Perry.In its June-quarter financial report, Toronto-based Centerra noted its cash position at the end of June was up by almost US$60 million quarter-on-quarter at US$883 million.It giv...Read More

Talisker Resources (TSX: TSK; US-OTC: TSKFF) has reported very long mineralized intervals from drilling at its 100%-owned Bralorne gold project, where it is preparing an initial resource estimate due out in 2022.In the Pioneer block, Hole 2021-040 extended mineralization 140 metres down plunge and intersected 114.2 metres grading 1.02 grams gold per tonne. This represents part of a longer, 200-met...Read More

Nutrien's (NYSE: NTR) shares are trading in the black on Tuesday after the company released strong June-quarter operating and financial results and guided for full-year earnings per share well above average Wall Street expectations.The Saskatoon, Saskatchewan-based crop nutrients giant cites its strong year-to-date operating performance and significant leverage to higher fertilizer prices for the...Read More

This week's episode features Cameco's Q2 conference call with CEO Tim Gitzel, who discusses the company's ongoing challenges with low uranium prices. Despite optimistic forecasts for a uranium supply crunch, Gitzel explains how the market remains oversupplied, with the company continuing its strategy to buy uranium off the spot market to reduce available supply. He also discusses how the European...Read More

Australia's Vital Metals (ASX: VML), the first rare earths producer in Canada, has announced a trading halt until August 12 on reports of alleged negotiations to acquire two projects in Quebec, one of which is considered to be the world's fourth largest dysprosium deposit. The company, AFR reported, is said to be in final talks to acquire the Zeus project and a 68% interest in Kipawa, two rar...Read More

A new report by Wood Mackenzie predicts that the usage of aluminum, copper, and zinc in the solar power sector will double by 2040, thus prompting an increase in demand. "Base metals are an integral component of solar power systems," Kamil Wlazly, Wood Mackenzie's senior research analyst, wrote in the report. "A typical solar panel installation requires aluminum for the front frame and a combin...Read More

Following a rejection of the Grassy Mountain metallurgical coal project in Alberta from a joint review panel last month, Benga Mining has now received a second "no" - this one from the federal government.In a decision released on Friday, Jonathan Wilkinson, Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change, said that a review of all relevant information, including the joint panel's June 17 repor...Read More

I've been analyzing currency wars for years. In fact, I've written a book called Currency Wars, so I have some expertise in the subject.A new front in the currency wars is emerging, but it has not yet erupted into blatant currency manipulation. That will probably come in early 2022.First, we'll likely pass through a major market disruption that will force the dollar significantly higher against ot...Read More

Dear Outsider,I spotted a large X in the middle of a busy street and carefully ambled through traffic to stand on it. I cast my eyes upwards, to an open window in the Texas School Book Depository. Yes, that book depository. I was in Dealey Plaza standing on the very spot where John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. It was quite surreal, as the window that Lee Harvey Oswald alleged...Read More

Kyrgyzstan's nationalization of Centerra Gold's large mining operation is one of the most brazen moves in recent years by a country to assert control over valuable natural resources, mining and legal experts say.Read full newsRead More

Australian gold miner Resolute Mining Ltd said on Thursday it would sell its Bibiani mine in Ghana to Canada's Asante Gold Corp for $90 million.Read full newsRead More

The US payroll figures were "a game-changer", Pepperstone head of research Chris Weston said, adding "this is progress and the US economy no longer requires the level of support it once did."Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 943,000 in July, with figures also revised upwards for both May and June, and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%.The precious metal fell below US$1,700 an ounce on the...Read More

Solar panels require aluminium for the front frame and a combination of aluminium and galvanised steel (zinc) for structural parts.Read More

Share this article VANCOUVER - Ethos Gold Corp [ECC-TSXV] shares rallied in active trading Monday after the company released impressive sampling results from its Toogood property in Newfoundland.The company said samples taken from an area located 420 metres east of a new high-grade surface trend on the Toogood property assayed at 7,877 g/t gold. Other sub-crop grab samples also contained visible...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Russian authorities are investigating allegations of widespread tax fraud at jewelry factories, after production increased sharply - but employee numbers in the sector fell.The governor of the Kostroma Province, home to 60 per cent of Russia's jewelry industry, is concerned that workers who returned after Covid lockdowns have not been registered, and tax is not being paid.Serg...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A painting that incorporates 500 polished diamonds has sold for $87,000 - almost 10 times its high estimate  - at Phillips London.The US artist known as Genesis the Greykid, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, started using diamonds in his work when the pandemic struck.His abstract work, entitled Computer Love and described as acrylic, latex and diamond dust on canvas, went to an ano...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A jewelry company in Canada claims it's offering "price transparency" by allowing customers to choose how much they pay for an engagement ring. Lovelri says rival brands have profit margins of over 50 per cent. It offers consumers three prices on each ring - which will, it says, mean a profit for the company of C$50, C$100 or C$150.The Toronto-based retailer brands itself...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipFuture remains golden for Rox ResourcesSPONSOREDrox resourcesCashed-up Karora is doubling gold production at a blistering paceSPONSOREDkarora resourcesZinc-lead discovery helps Zenith double market capSPONSOREDzenith mineralsFairfax - whose subsidiaries are engaged in insurance, reinsurance and investment management - has acquired...Read More

Privately held U.S. explorer-developer Arizona Sonoran Copper Company (formerly Elim Mining) is completing a preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on its Cactus porphyry copper project in Arizona before year-end, recently installed president and CEO George Ogilvie tells The Northern Miner.The company is working to reactivate the brownfields copper deposit in the shortest possible timeframe. In con...Read More

Chesapeake Gold (TSXV: CKG) has done for the Metates project in Durango, Mexico - one of the world's largest undeveloped gold-silver projects - what others before it could not. CEO and director Alan Pangbourne tells The Northern Miner that the company has cracked the code to undertake the heap leach processing of sulphide material that ultimately has the potential for Chesapeake to disrupt and enh...Read More