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
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The firm said budgetary nonchalance, the merging of monetary and fiscal policy and the creation of new tasks for monetary policy mean that inflationary forces are now stronger than deflationary ones.Read More
(IDEX Online) - A 73.11-carat fancy vivid yellow diamond will lead The Roaring Twenties 2.0 auction at Sotheby's New York next month.The Sienna Star, a VS2-clarity, natural color, cut-cornered square step-cut stone, is set in 18 karat white gold ring with about 4.45 carats of near-colorless F-G color, VS clarity diamonds.It is a described as one of the most important creations by London-...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi was arrested yesterday in Dominica, three days after he disappeared from Antigua, about 120 miles away by sea.There is media speculation that after arriving on the tiny island by boat he was intending to travel by sea to Cuba, 1,150 miles away.He is wanted in his home country of India, where he and nephew Nirav Modi are accused of defrauding the...Read More
(IDEX Online) - A former Pandora worker says she's exposed a cheating customer who bought one ring for his girlfriend ... and another for his "sidepiece".The video, posted on TikTok, has attracted 2.6m views in 10 days.Eli from Montreal, Canada, says the customer came clean and explained who the rings were for when she asked if he wanted one receipt or two for the $45 and $50 silver and cubic...Read More
Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationSpeaking on company webinar on Wednesday morning, Jonathan Barnes, Roskill's principal copper consultant, said e-scrap was an "undervalued and unappreciated resource, which is being wasted".Read More
South America is home to rich deposits - not only of gold and silver, but of copper, zinc and lithium. Here are eight Canadian companies that are making the most of the potential.ALDEBARAN RESOURCESHigh in the Argentinian Andes Aldebaran Resources (TSXV: ALDE) has brought is Altar porphyry copper-gold project to the advanced exploration stage. The project has several deposits, but only two (Altar...Read More
79North (CSE: JQ; US-OTC: SVNTF) has made a new discovery at its 20,000 hectare Nassau gold project in Suriname, about 20 km south of Newmont's (TSX: NGT; NYSE: NEM) Merian gold mine and 60 km east of Iamgold's (TSX: IMG) Rosebel gold mine.The new discovery called the Carbonara gold zone - mostly concealed by jungle - is contained in a quartz vein-like body that is at least 1,600 metres long and s...Read More
Australia's Danakali (ASX: DNK; LSE:DNK) says filtered seawater is a reliable, unlimited and economic option to use in the sulphate of potash (SoP) production process at its Colluli project in Eritrea.The Perth-based miner said it will now rely on a combination of beach well intake, smaller pumping station and greater renewable energy to pump filtered seawater to the processing plant at the Coll...Read More
Frontier Lithium (TSXV: FL; US-OTC: LITOF) said the Ontario government is injecting $363,000 (about US$300,000) into the company's pilot of a proprietary process that seeks to overcome certain risks linked to conventional lithium chemical processing used commercially outside North America.Frontier is developing the PAK lithium project in northwestern Ontario, said to host the province's largest a...Read More
Great Panther Mining is a precious metals miner in the AmericasSPONSOREDgreat pantherStellar metrics just the start for near-term developer Theta GoldSPONSOREDtheta gold minesPAM puts itself in the middle of Thailand 4.0SPONSOREDRemembering the lessons from the last gold bull marketSPONSOREDsrk consultingIn 2015, Bannerman Resources was painting itself as the leading candidate among new uranium pr...Read More
Mr. Biden will issue his first budget proposal tomorrow morning. Under his scheme:The federal government would ladle out $6 trillion in fiscal year 2022. Annual portions would expand to $8.2 trillion by 2031.The United States government has not spent so deliriously since the Second World War.The New York Times:President Biden will propose a $6 trillion budget on Friday that would take the United S...Read More
I just returned from our annual Angel Investment Summit. It was held at the beautiful Chesapeake Bay Resort and Marina on Maryland's Eastern Shore.Here's a shot of the docks taken from our company drone:Much like the sunset on the calm waters of the bay, the vibrant reflections that took place over the three days we spent there could not have been clearer or more serene.You see, the event was the...Read More
For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where each night she was forced to sleep with dozens of men for less than $2 a person.The madam who lured Blessing to the landlocked West African nation of Burkina Faso with promises of a hair salon job, threatened to kill her if she tried to run away."Nobody comes to your re...Read More
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Vancouver, BC - Venzee Technologies Inc. (TSX-V: VENZ, OTCQB: VENZF) ("Venzee" or the "Company")announces that it will file 2021 first quarter results after market Monday, May 31 and hold a conference call to discuss these financial results on June 1, 2021.John Sexton Abrams, Chief Executive Officer, and Darren Battersby, Chief Financial Officer of Venzee Technologies, will discuss the results in...Read More