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

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"I don't know what the [expletive] I'm doing."Here you have the confession of a stock trader. A stock trader with three days' experience."I just know I'm making money," - perhaps $300 per day, he gloated.Analyst Jason Zweig best tells this fellow's tale:You could have made good money even with bad stock picks. It was like being invited to bet on black, without limits, at a roulette wheel on which...Read More

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.- S?,ren KierkegaardI've come to the point in my life where I am really starting to question my own existence...What am I doing here? Why do I do the things I do? What is the meaning of this absurd journey we call life?Maybe it's because I am getting older. Maybe it's because I'm raising children. Or maybe I'm suffering from the existential angst that we all ha...Read More

The company picked up three Epiroc D65 down-the-hole drill rigs, comprising two blast-hole configuration rigs and one reverse circulation rig.DDB said the introduction of RC capabilities provided additional growth potential to carry out grade control drilling."With the current strong tendering pipeline, Dynamic continues to ensure access to the right fleet to undertake new projects, as well as ser...Read More

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With gold's reputation as a store of value and recent gold-focused merger and acquisition activity, there is renewed investor interest in companies active in this exploration.Read full newsRead More

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Disruptions in Brazil, the world's second biggest supplier of seaborne iron ore, were initially caused by the collapse of tailings dams, compounded by the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus and aRead More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers sales slowed at its March sight, down to $440m as pent-up demand appeared to flag.In January the UK-based miner sold $650m of rough - a three-year high - followed by $550m in February. It has reportedly been increasing prices at recent sights at the midstream restocks, while maintaining flexibilities introduced to help holders earlier in the pandemic.New supply contra...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A bride and groom used their smartphones to exchange virtual rings in a blockchain wedding.Peter Kacherginsky and Rebecca Rose authorized the Ethereum transactions at a traditional Jewish ceremony in San Francisco, California, USA.The couple, who both work for the cryptocurrency company Coinbase, swapped specially-designed NFTs (non-fungible tokens) named Tabaat - the Hebrew word f...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Rocksbox, the pioneering jewelry rental company, has been acquired by Signet, the world's largest retailer of diamond jewelry.Signet says the move should help it reach new customers - primarily young women - following the success of its three-year Path to Brilliance recovery program. Rocksbox, founded  by Meaghan Rose in 2012, provides subscribers with three rented p...Read More

Lift-off for Highfield ResourcesSPONSOREDhighfield resourcesKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdHot Chili rises to the topSPONSOREDhot chiliThe hole was designed to extend mineralisation closer to sulphide zones identified in historical drilling and it returned 116m gr...Read More

Lift-off for Highfield ResourcesSPONSOREDhighfield resourcesKodiak Copper: A New Copper-Gold Discovery in CanadaSPONSOREDkodiak copperCapella to bring new life to Norway's historic copper sectorSPONSOREDcapella minerals ltdHot Chili rises to the topSPONSOREDhot chiliBaimskaya is located within a designated Territory of Accelerated Social and Economic Development (TASED) - one of 19 such region...Read More

A snap election on April 6 focused on mining, fishing and the environment, saw Greenland's Inuit Ataqatigiit (Community of the People party) secure 37% of the votes, giving it 12 seats in the 31-seat national assembly (Inatsisartut).Inuit Ataqatigiit opposes the development of Greenland Minerals' (US-OTC: GDLNF; ASX: GGG) Kvanefjeld rare earths project, which would produce uranium oxide as a by-pr...Read More

A preliminary economic assessment on Osisko Mining's (TSX: OSK) Windfall project in Quebec's James Bay region outlines a 3,100 tonne-per-day two-ramp underground mine with a process facility that would produce an average of 238,000 gold oz. a year over an 18-year life. The gold development company is targeting first production from the gold deposit by 2024.In its first seven years, Windfall would...Read More

Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO; ASX: RIO) has kicked off lithium production from waste rock at a plant located at a borates mine it controls in the state of California.The demonstration facility is the next step in scaling up a breakthrough lithium production process developed at the Boron mine. The method allows Rio Tinto to recover the critical mineral and extract additional value out of waste p...Read More

First Mining Gold (TSXV: FF; US-OTC: FFMGF) has entered into a definitive agreement with Big Ridge Gold (TSXV: BRAU), allowing the explorer to earn up to an 80% stake in the past-producing Hope Brook gold project in southwestern Newfoundland.Big Ridge may earn up to 80% in Hope Brook through a two-stage, five-year earn in that calls for a total of $20 million in spending on the project, the issu...Read More

Rupert Resources (TSXV: RUP) has reported new drill results from the Ikkari prospect at its 100%-owned Pahtavaara project, about 1,200 km north of Helsinki in Finland's Central Lapland greenstone belt.Highlights include drillhole 121019, which intersected 110.4 metres grading 6.1 grams gold per tonne starting from 183.6 metres, including 3 metres of 28.7 grams gold; and drillhole 121016, which re...Read More

Aurelius Minerals (TSXV: AUL) has reported its highest-grade interval ever from underground drilling at its Aureus East gold project in Nova Scotia, about 140 km northeast of Halifax.Drillhole AE-20-007 intersected two metres grading 132.4 grams gold per tonne starting from 335 metres downhole, including 1 metre of 264 grams gold. That hole also hit multiple high-grade zones to a depth of 472 met...Read More