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

Vancouver, BC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (NasdaqCM: SYTA, SYTAW) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), a global vendor of Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC) devices and cellular booster systems, announces today that, on May 18, 2021, it received a notice (the "Notice") from the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC ("Nasdaq") indicating that, as a result of not having timely filed its Annual Report on Form 20-F (the "Form 20-F"...Read More

"That the Bloomberg dollar index sells off to levels not seen since the multi-year lows on the 6/7th January 2021 has been further supportive of this risk bounce since last week's inflation inspired risk off," Marex Spectron's Alastair Munro said."And once again we can see from these price gains across the ferrous, LME and wider commodity space as well as the stock markets how they are all trading...Read More

The bulk of China's REE consumption is used as material to manufacture permanent magnets that are used in everything from electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines to consumer electronics andRead More

Share this articleMONTR??AL - Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. (TSXV: NOU, OTCQX: NMGRF, FSE: NM9) reported that it has received approval for the listing of its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The Company expects its common shares will open for trading on the NYSE on May 24, 2021, under the symbol "NMG".Arne H Frandsen, Chairman of Nouveau Monde, commented: "An extraordinary journey has...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa reported a Q1 increase in net profits to $326m, up 13 per cent on Q4 2020.That's despite an eight per cent drop in quarter-on-quarter revenue (to $1.23bn) and a nine per cent drop in sales volume to 15.5m carats (gem quality and industrial).Its year-on-year performance hugely exceeded that of 2020, when the global pandemic brough the industry to a virtual halt. Net prof...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers reported a fall in rough sales for a third consecutive month as India's Covid crisis hit midstream capacity. Provisional sales at its fourth sight of 2021 were $380m, the lowest this year. Sales in January peaked at $663m, a three-year-high. They fell to $550m in February and again to $450m in March. De Beers said it was still offering sight holders increased flexibi...Read More

(IDEX Online) - GIA has highlighted another fraudulent attempt to pass off an "impostor" lab-grown diamond as a higher-value natural stone.The lab has already reported a number of gems being submitted for grading with fraudulent inscriptions.In the latest incident a 3.075-carat lab-grown was submitted for update in Antwerp, bearing the girdle girdle inscription of a 3.078-carat natural stone.The a...Read More

Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationWith an expected start-up output of 37,000 tonnes of copper a year and 51,000 ounces of gold, Winu will barely make a dent in the global metals market.Read More

Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationThe delays have meant the company has not been able to take full advantage of the rising copper price, which last week hit an all-time high of US$10,747.50 per tonne.Last year's planned ramp-up to 5,000t per day was hobbled by COVID-19 impacts, the need for a geotechnical review and financial difficulties.&nb...Read More

Look beyond market approach to project valuations: van ZylLeadershipStellar metrics just the start for near-term developer Theta GoldSPONSOREDtheta gold minesPAM puts itself in the middle of Thailand 4.0SPONSOREDCopper supply struggling to match forecast demandSPONSOREDIt planned to use "a significant proportion" for opex and capex at its 30%-owned Red Chris mine, to repay debt and for general wor...Read More

First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) is selling a 30% stake in its Ravensthorpe nickel operation in Western Australia to South Korean steel giant POSCO for US$240 million.The funds will be used to help pay down debt.Under the deal, POSCO, South Korea's largest steel maker and the world's fourth-largest, is also securing 7,500 tonnes of nickel in mixed nickel-cobalt hydroxide precipitate (MHP) a year s...Read More

British Columbia-focused base metals producer Imperial Metals (TSX: III) has announced a rights offering to raise $60.2 million, (US$49.6 million) which it will use to fund its portion of work at the Red Chris copper-gold mine and repay debt.Imperial will issue rights to subscribe for 12.85 million common shares at $4.70 each.Insiders and their affiliates, including major shareholder and Alberta-b...Read More

Labrador Gold (TSXV: LAB) has closed a non-brokered private placement, raising $15 million from the sale of 16.7 million working capital units at a price of $0.90 each. A single unit consists of one common share and one-half share purchase warrant. Each full warrant is exercisable to acquire a common share at $1.05 until May 18, 2023.The units were taken up one-third by New Found Gold (TSXV: NFG;...Read More

A wall of platinum production from South Africa coming back online following Covid-19 disruptions is expected to offset demand growth this year and push the market into surplus territory, new data released by PGMs (platinum-group metals) specialist Johnson Matthey shows.A 27% gain in autocatalyst demand, according to estimates published in the latest PGM Market Report, is not enough to stem the im...Read More

Canada has a "once-in-generation" opportunity to establish itself as a major player in the global battery sector, but it needs to act fast to seize the opportunity, a new report reflecting the views of stakeholders across the electric vehicle (EV) supply chain shows.The Clean Energy Canada's study compiling opinions of major actors in the sector, such as General Motors Canada, Lion Electric, the...Read More

"Unethical"… "dystopian"… "totalitarian"…These are the words of the British government's primary scientific advisory bunch - the Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour, by title.These scientific advisors presently droop their heads in shame. For these are the very words they employ to describe their own conduct.They concede: Last March their wicked counsel encouraged go...Read More

SECACO, Burkina Faso (AP) - For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing,...Read full newsRead More

Located in one of Russia's most prolific gold mining provinces, Polyus' Olimpiada reigns as the top producing operation.Read full newsRead More

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