Preciousmetals markets are ticking lower this week amid an ongoing summer lull ininvestor demand. Theupshot of soft market conditions for gold and silver is favorable buyingopportunities for bargain hunters. Not only are spot prices down, but so arepremiums on popular bullion products available through Money Metals. Overthe past three years, premiums on Silver Eagles have been especially elevated...Read More
Simply put, the road to reaching net zero begins and ends with copper. All infrastructure built to support renewable energy uses large amounts of copper, as the metal is a highly efficient conductor of electricity and heat.To keep the energy transition going, millions of feet of copper wiring will be required for strengthening the world’s power grids, and hundreds of thousands of tonnes more...Read More
The white metal is priced for aneconomic outcome that’s unlikely to materialize. AI OptimismWith liquidity-fueled assetsoutperforming in 2023, they’ve decided that QT and higher interest rates arenot going to spoil their party. Moreover, with silver and goldalso liquidity beneficiaries, they have adopted similar attitudes.However, while the gambit can persist in the short ter...Read More
Gold-stock technicalsare dramatically improving, turning increasingly bullish. After slumping to major support zones in thesummer doldrums, the gold miners’ stocks have surged sharply in the past coupleweeks. That strong advance has achieveda decisive breakout above the main gold-stock benchmark’s key 50-day movingaverage. Similar breakouts in recent yearshave heralde...Read More
LONDON, 3 January 2024 - German personal finance site Finanz Nachrichten today features the latest Gold Investor Index data and comment from BullionVault.On an annual average basis, both the Gold and the Silver Investor Indices set new all-time lows in 2023 as profit-taking jumped and new demand fell hard.Click through to read the full story, in German, here:Deutsche Edelmetallinvestitionen erreic...Read More
LONDON, 2 January 2024 - BullionVault's latest Gold Investor Index features today at UK personal investing site The Armchair Trader."The split in gold between private investment and central banks couldn't be starker," says BullionVault director of research Adrian Ash. "While central banks are buying gold like it has returned as the lynchpin of the global monetary system, private investors are sell...Read More
LONDON, 2 January 2024 - Comment and data from BullionVault feature today in a look at the investing year ahead from ThisIsMoney, the popular UK financial news-site from the Daily Mail group of newspapers.Reviewing the outlook from expert commentators for global shares and bonds, "Gold has set a run of new all-time records and the underlying direction clearly points higher," says the report, quoti...Read More
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This session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Copper Mine Cost Service, how to access and use them to:Analyse copper mines cost and look at the global cost curveBenchmark the mines using various production related metricsRegister nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Tuesday, 5 December 2023 - 4pm L...Read More
This session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Copper Mine Cost Service, how to access and use them to:Analyse copper mines cost and look at the global cost curveBenchmark the mines using various production related metricsRegister nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Friday, 1 December 2023 - 1pm Si...Read More
Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Monday, 4 December 20...Read More
Metals Market Service - CopperThis session will provide you with an understanding of the key deliverables of Wood Mackenzie's Metals Market Service - Copper, how to access and use them to get information and analysis of global copper market, looking at the supply, demand and price.Register nowPlease click on the relevant link below to register for the session of your interest.Thursday, 30 November...Read More
Both nickel and copper possess properties that give them a central role in the drive for a greener future. While demand from existing use cases will continue to grow steadily, electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage applications will underpin a huge increase in long-term demand.At the recent Future Facing Mined Commodities Forum, we looked at the importance of these two metals for the energy tran...Read More
How much copper is needed to successfully meet the climate targets set out by the Paris Agreement? Wood Mackenzie quantifies the scenario in its latest research report, ‘Red metal, green demand: copper’s critical role in achieving net zero’, finding that the global energy transition presents an almost unattainable mine supply challenge, with significant investment and price incen...Read More
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(IDEX Online) - The US department store JCPenney says it saw a 50 per cent increase in lab grown diamond jewelry last year.It was one of the first mass retailers to embrace lab growns, with the launch in 2018 of its bridal Grown with Love collection aimed at "ethically-minded shoppers".Pam Mortensen, head of fine jewelry, said bridal was driving the increase in its lab grown sales."You've hea...Read More
(IDEX Online) - Lab growns and natural diamonds will coexist in the future, says Vipul Shah, chairman of the Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council (GJEPC).He was speaking at the IIJS Signature, which opened in Mumbai on Friday (5 January 2024)."With natural diamonds, there is an aspiration, whereas lab-grown diamonds are for affordability, and for fun and fashion," he said."So, it's a c...Read More
(IDEX Online) - The G7 sanctions are unlikely to have a significant impact on exports of Russian diamonds, according to analysts quoted by Tass, the state-owned news agency.They say Russia, the world's biggest diamond producer by volume, will simply sell to other markets.They also say it will take years to properly develop the technology needed to outlaw the diamonds it produces.Alexey Kalach...Read More
Copper #Mining #stockmarket Christian Kargl-Simard, CEO of Adventus Mining Corporation (TSXV: ADZN) (OTCQX: ADVZF), ...Read More
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