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

The Federal Reserve sat idle on its hands today.And so the federal funds rate stays nailed to the floorboards. Monthly asset purchases will roll on at $120 billion the month.Markets feared that Mr. Powell and mates might telegraph hawkish hints today as growth - and inflation - bubble and percolate.But the reign of doves is extended yet again. Mr. Powell, today:Following a moderation in the pace o...Read More

Gold is set to experience one of its greatest and most powerful bull markets in history.Forget the run-up in prices back in 2011 - that was just an appetizer.And forget the bull market of the 1970s.The 2021 gold market is positioned to blow all others out of the water.There's little doubt you've heard gold analysts in the past calling for $5,000... $10,000... or even $50,000 gold prices.Heck, I re...Read More

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Vancouver, BC - FinCanna Capital Corp. (CSE:CALI) (OTCQB:FNNZF) (the "Company" or "FinCanna"), a royalty company for the U.S. licensed cannabis industry, is pleased to announce growing demand and onboarding of state leading cannabis brands for its investee company QVI, Inc. doing business as "The Galley", a cannabis infused product manufacturer located in Sonoma County, California.Andriyko Herch...Read More

Vancouver, BC - Siyata Mobile Inc. (Nasdaq: SYTA, SYTAW) (the "Company" or "Siyata"), a global vendor of POC (Push-To-Talk over Cellular) devices and cellular booster systems, and leading mission-critical communications (MCX/MCC) enabler Softil today jointly announce that Softil's BEEHD technology will be used to develop a new innovative mission-critical communications push to talk (MCPTT) handset...Read More

Benchmark says some Chinese lithium carbonate producers are putting up sold out signs as domestic prices surge to two-year highs.Read full newsRead More

Results include 4.9m at 7.99% Cu-eqRead full newsRead More

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February 18, 2021- New Gold Inc. ("New Gold" or the "Company") (TSX and NYSE American: NGD) provides its annual operational outlook for the New AftonRead full newsRead More

PHOENIX, March 15, 2021- 4Front Ventures Corp. (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF) ("4Front" or the "Company") announced today that it has entered into definitive agreements with both the land owner and an affiliate of Innovative Industrial Properties, Inc., ("IIPR") to build an up to 558,000 square foot cultivation and production facility in Illinois. This would mark the largest such facility in the state...Read More

Under the C$343 million deal, Evolution is offering $2.65 per share, a 46% premium to the Friday close. Battle North (TSX: BNAU), which is the rebadged Rubicon Minerals redeveloping its Bateman (formerly Phoenix) gold project, reached an all-time high of $2.62 intraday before closing at $2.60. Still in Toronto, uranium play Denison Mines (TSX: DML) rose 14.79% ahead of its shares being a...Read More

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Share this article VANCOUVER - Golden Independence Mining Corp. [IGLD-CSE] reported the next series of drill results from its recently completed 2020 resource expansion drill program at the Independence Project, south of Battle Mountain, Nevada. Results from these four reverse circulation (RC) holes include 9.11 g/t gold and 25.2 g/t silver over 80 feet (24.4 metres), including 12.06 g/t gold and...Read More

(IDEX Online) - VILLAGERS in south-eastern Zimbabwe claim they're being evicted from their homes to make way for gold and diamond mining - rather than dairy farming.Over 12,000 residents of Chilonga Village, in Chiredzi, say the project proposed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a "cover story".They say the real reason they're being removed is to allow large-scale mineral extraction in...Read More

(IDEX Online) - A jeweler was robbed of his $500,000 Richard Mille watch by an armed gang as he sat at a restaurant table in Beverly Hills, California, USA.Shay Belhassen reportedly grabbed a gun from one of the three hooded raiders and wrestled them to the ground but they made off with his RM 11-03 rose gold Flyback Chronograph.Four shots were fired in the daylight robbery, one of which struck a...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers boss Bruce Cleaver and two other Anglo American directors have sold $5.5m of their shares in the company.The share price has surged by almost 40 per cent since the commodities rally began last November.Cleaver (pictured), CEO of De Beers, sold 25,000 shares for just over ?, ?$1m, according to a report in Shares magazine.Didier Charreton, Anglo's director of peopl...Read More

Micon Awarded Front End Engineering Design and Definitive Feasibility StudySPONSOREDmicon internationalRex ready to rollSPONSOREDrex mineralsDavyhurst back producing gold; can it produce a lot more?SPONSOREDora banda miningSolaris Resources on winning streak in EcuadorSPONSOREDsolaris resourcesThe latest payout meant a full year dividend of 54.7c/sh, equating to 100% of underlying earnings per sha...Read More

Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPONSOREDhuntsman explorationYesterday's results included 4.9m at 7.99% copper-equivalent within 25.9m of continuous mineralisation.Foran said the MS zone had delivered copper-equivalent grades roughly double the average grade of the overall resource estimate for that zone.Huntsman Set to Expand Nickel Sulphide Discovery at CanegrassSPON...Read More