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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Investing.com - Gold prices gained on Friday as Asian stocks traded mostly lower after China reported disappointing third-quarter GDP data.Gold futures for December delivery on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange slipped 0.08% at?EUR?$1,226.4?EUR?a troy ounce by 1:19 AM ET (05:19 GMT).China’s economy grew 6.5% in the third quarter from a year earlier, its weakest pace sinc...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices were flat on Thursday as investors paused to digest the latest meeting minutes from the Federal Reserve.Comex gold futures for December delivery inched up 0.06% to $1,228.10 a troy ounce as of 8:02 AM ET (12:02 GMT).The hawkish Fed minutes showed that while the central bank had some doubts about the economy, it still planned to gradually increase interest rates in Decem...Read More

Silver remains a prime target for mineral explorers and miners, particularly those active in Mexico and other Latin American countries. Here is a look at five silver-focused companies plus a palladium producer.BEAR CREEK MININGBear Creek Mining (TSXV: BCM; US-OTC: BCEKF) has long been active in silver exploration and development in southern Peru.The Vancouver-based junior describes its flagship, w...Read More

There isn't much at the proposed mine site right now: just a long airstrip, with clusters of sturdy buildings in the middle of green mountains close to the Middle Kuskokwim River. But if completed, the Donlin gold mine would be one of the biggest in the world. Listen nowRead full newsRead More

Investing.com - Gold prices were lower on Friday as the greenback recovered from a two-week low as inflation pressures eased.Comex gold futures for December delivery fell 0.39% to $1,222.80 a troy ounce as of 8:58 AM ET (12:58 GMT), after recording its largest daily percentage gain on Thursday since June 2016 amid a selloff in equities.Cooling inflation data and rate hike expectations lead to a ri...Read More

Investing.com - Gold prices extended gains on Thursday on safe-haven demand after global markets tumbled. A weaker dollar was also cited as supportive.Gold futures for December delivery were up $3.30, or 0.3%, at $1,196.8 a troy ounce by 1:20AM ET (05:20 GMT). “Investors might start to look for alternative investments to equities, as factors such as high country debt levels and emerging infl...Read More

Ancient skulls often have perfect teeth.This may seem strange.Because for 99.99999% of human history, we didn't have toothbrushes or braces. No orthodontic surgeons to remove wisdom teeth.So how were ancient people's dental health so good?Much of the answer lies in how they were used.Gnawing on bones, chomping cartilage, and chewing on roots from a young age.These actions create small stresses whi...Read More

Over the past 5 years, the S&P 500 is up an impressive 83%.Meanwhile the Vanguard Emerging Markets ETF (VWO) has only risen 6.8% over that period.Once you factor in inflation, emerging markets (EMs) are basically flat in real terms over the past 5 years.And this trend of U.S. stocks outperforming has been going on for more than a decade. The chart below covers 1990 to July 2025. The red line i...Read More

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is taking place in Davos, Switzerland, this week.Presidents, PMs, CEOs, bankers, and other "elites" have hopped in their private jets to lecture us peasants about climate change. And of course there will be plenty of plotting, scheming, and discussing geopolitics.Having so many swamp dwellers packed into such a small area only happens once a year.Given the chaotic st...Read More

My goodness...Gold and silver just keep going.Silver just hit $101/oz, while gold rose above $5,000/oz.Two huge milestones in a single day.For silver, we described this move pretty well as it developed. Industrial demand is soaring from electronics and solar panels. And now that investors are jumping on board, this explosive move is the result.But gold is arguably sending an even more urgent messa...Read More

My old friend Steve used to write stories about "Old Turkey". He was a character from Jesse Livermore's Reminiscences of a Stock Operator.Old Turkey was known for his patience in a bull market. Because the hardest thing for most investors to do is nothing. His advice was always to "sit tight" and don't sell during a bull market.When younger traders would tell him to sell and buy back in cheaper, h...Read More

If Ibn Khaldun parachuted into Washington in 2026, he wouldn't ask for directions. He'd ask for a whiteboard.The man spent the 14th century explaining why empires rise, rot, and fall apart under their own weight.The awkward truth? His framework maps onto modern America a little too cleanly.Debt binges. Bloated bureaucracies. Culture-war bread and circuses. Elites who talk about "the people" the wa...Read More

Friends (and even one enemy) have been texting me about silver.And based on the fact that we just hit $92/oz here in the U.S., and over $105 in Shanghai, it's not about to ease up."Is it too late to buy silver?""Should I sell?""Are miners a buy here?"I imagine many of you are wondering the same things.So today, let's cover these bases.Is it Too Late to Buy?This is the toughest question.Let's take...Read More

I spent years in the financial wilderness, waiting for the sky to fall.You see, the Chicken Little Austrian School forgets to remind its adherents to gather ye rosebuds while ye may. That is, there's a boom before the bust, and one has to make hay while the getting's good, no matter how much you disagree with the prevailing fiscal or monetary policy.Yes, the state is a gang of thieves writ large,...Read More

It's been exactly a year since January 20, 2025, when Donald Trump was sworn in for Term 2.0 as President.Today we'll look both back and ahead. We'll consider key events from the past 365 days, and what we can expect could happen next.And right up front: If any modern American President has ripped away the political Band-Aids and exposed the raw, bleeding, longstanding, unhealed, infected, suppura...Read More

Is Donald Trump an emperor? Of course not. Still, the more interesting question is whether Trump personally rules like an emperor, at least the "good emperors" of Roman history. That question requires some in-depth analysis. The answer may surprise most readers. At the same time, the answer offers some valuable clues as to Trump's policy choices over the coming years. That's an invaluable aid to i...Read More

The scale of fraud allegedly being committed by Somalian immigrants in Minnesota has shocked the country.It started with an independent journalist named Nick Shirley and his viral investigation into government-funded daycares.As I'm sure you all know by now, he visited a bunch of them on camera, and most were empty on a school day.Many had boarded-up windows, and no outdoor play areas. And the sta...Read More

First, welcome to new subscribers who signed up for a Paradigm Press subscription over the holiday season. Thank you for being part of what we do, and absolutely we do it for you.Today we'll look at recent, eye-popping moves in precious metals. Then we'll segue into how President Trump is shaking up the entire structure of both the internal U.S. and external global order (aka the "old" order)... w...Read More