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

(IDEX Online) - Alrosa sold $372m of rough and polished in February, a modest seven per cent increase on last year.By contrast De Beers, its biggest rival, saw comparative sales rise more than 50 per cent.Alrosa described the current balance between supply and demand as "comfortable" both for miners and rough buyers."The recovery in demand for diamond jewelry in key markets well continued in early...Read More

(IDEX Online) - De Beers reported sustained midstream demand as it sold $550m (provisional) from its latest sight, 52 per cent up on last year ($362m).The figure was down, as expected, on January's $663m - a three-year high buoyed by strong US sales from the US holidays, Valentine's Day and the Chinese New Year. De Beers extended Sight 2 in Gabarone beyond its usual week because of...Read More

(IDEX Online) - Family-owned Gunderson's Jewelers has bought the 135-year-old watch and jewelry retailer JB Hudson, based in Minneapolis, USA. Gunderson's, founded by watchmaker George Gunderson in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1945, now has five stores in the Midwest and is owned and run by his grandson Brian Gunderson.It bought JB Hudson from the Pohlad Companies, a holding company for mor...Read More

"From where I sit, the opportunity in front of us is huge," BHP's (NYSE: BHP; LSE: BHP; ASX: BHP) chief technical officer Laura Tyler told the PDAC's virtual convention. "I see great prosperity as we collaborate to discover the commodities of the future ... faster, more efficiently, and more sustainably than ever before."Speaking from Adelaide in Australia, Tyler noted that the last year had been...Read More

London-based Rio Tinto (L:RIO) has signed an agreement to provide the first commercial batch of aluminum-scandium alloy to Amaero, a leader in metal additive manufacturing.The alloy - given the brand name of Element North 21 - will be delivered by the Rio Tinto Fer et Titane metallurgical complex in Sorel-Tracy, Que. The delivery will be made as alloy billets, and Amaero will process them into pow...Read More

S&P Global Market Intelligence's annual World Exploration Trends Report was released this week and shows that the global budget for nonferrous metals exploration decreased 11% to an estimated $8.7 billion in 2020 from $9.8 billion in 2019.The total exploration budget of $8.7 billion includes estimates for companies budgeting less than $100,000 and private companies. Over half of that amount was de...Read More

The front-end loading engineering (FEL-1) analysis for the second phase of Nouveau Monde Graphite's (TSXV:NOU; OTCOX:NMGRF; FRANKFURT:NM9) lithium-ion anode project in B?(C)cancour, Que., is complete. The study concludes that the new plant will produce 42,000 tonnes of anode material and 3,000 tonnes of purified flake graphite can be produced annually. It will also produce micronized graphite by-p...Read More

Franco-Nevada's (TSX, NYSE: FNV) fourth-quarter and full-year results release includes 'record' annual results, two new stream and royalty additions as well as a 15.4% increase to the quarterly dividend, starting in June.The company has also announced that it has adopted a goal of at least 40% of diverse representation at the board and senior management levels.Last year, Franco-Nevada sold 521,564...Read More

NexGen Energy (TSX: NXE; NYSE: NXE) has closed its previously announced $150-million bought deal financing. The company issued 33.4 million common shares at a price of $4.50 per share. The underwriters, led by BMO Nesbitt Burns and Canaccord Genuity were also granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 5.0 million shares under the same terms.The proceeds of the offering will be used to...Read More

Micon Awarded Front End Engineering Design and Definitive Feasibility StudySPONSOREDmicon internationalSolaris Resources on winning streak in EcuadorSPONSOREDsolaris resourcesLynn Lake the next major nickel sulphide discovery?SPONSOREDcorazon miningDavyhurst back producing gold; can it produce a lot more?SPONSOREDora banda miningOccasionally, the mining industry is so unquestioningly dominated by...Read More

Junior gold developer Bluestone Resources is changing tack as it looks to bring its Cerro Blanco project in Guatemala into production through an open pit development scenario which promises to deliver higher returns and more benefits to local stakeholders.The company recently released a "game changer" preliminary economic assessment for a compact open pit mine which doubled the Cerro Blanco gold r...Read More

Is the world on the brink of a fourth wave of increasing coronavirus infections and deaths?Based on the latest data, that's a possibility that cannot be ruled out right now. Here's why…After the virus broke out in Wuhan, China, it spread rapidly to Milan, Italy, where a new strain called the Italian Strain became much more contagious. The Italian Strain spread through Europe and then to New...Read More

If not for the pandemic oil might have been the biggest financial story of 2020. As you might remember, just before everything went to hell in a hand basket, Saudi Arabia and Russia got into a huge pissing match. Instead of cooperating to stabilize oil prices as they had for so long, they flooded the market and slashed their oil prices in an effort to drive higher-cost producers from the market....Read More

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