Digging Deep

A Bird in The Hand

February 10, 2026

End of Banks in Canada?

September 16, 2024

Defense Metals in the Media

February 16, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 2

January 11, 2024

Our 2024 Predictions, Part 1

January 02, 2023

Can Gold Hit $3,000 in 2024?

29 December, 2023

Will Bitcoin ETFs Kill Gold?

November 21, 2023

What's Next for Gold?

06 June, 2023

Platinum and Palladium

February 2022

Transition to Production

June 15, 2021

Silver Suppression?!

February 02, 2021

Gold: Year in Review 2020, and 2021 Outlook

January 04, 2021

Gold has big year in 2020 and outlook for this year robust. Learn about monetary expansion and gold future prices.Read More

AbraPlata: CMR's full analysis of an Argentina focussed gold and silver junior

May 2020

The gold futures price reached US$1,767/ounce this week before retreating, which was the second time it has surpassed US$1,760 in the past two months, marking some of gold's highest levels in several years.Read More

Newmont sees growth and reduced costs

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesThis became adjusted net earnings of $1.7 billion after including&n...Read More

Rio Tinto turns its attention to growth

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resources"We're turning ourselves into a company that is again growing after quit...Read More

Albemarle and MinRes restructure lithium JV

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The companies have restructured the MARBL joint venture, which owns the Wodgina lithium mine in the Pilbara and the Kemerton hydroxide plant in Western Australia's South West.Read More

Chinese mine collapse leaves devastating task ahead...

February 24, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resources"The rescue operation is complex, as the mining area is located within a...Read More

Lithium Americas looks to derisk Thacker Pass with...

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The letter determines that all the information for the loan is in order and means that the company can now progress with due diligence and term sheet negotiation.Read More

Explorers celebrate conference freedom

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

New World's Antler points to high-return copper productionSPONSOREDnew world resources Nordic Nickel gears up for Pulju pushSPONSOREDnordic nickelSaudi builds foundation for world-leading mining sectorSPONSOREDsaudi ministry of industry and mineral resourcesAruma sprinting through lithium field raceSPONSOREDaruma resourcesWith thousands registered, hundreds of attendees continually weaved thei...Read More

Lucapa Recovers 150-ct Diamond at Lulo

February 23, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - Lucapa has recovered a 150-carat Type IIa D-color white diamond at its Lulo alluvial mine, in Angola.The Australian miner says it's the 36th +100-carat diamond (pictured) from the mine since it began commercial production in 2015.The recovery, the fifth +100-carat from block 28 of the mine, was made with partners Endiama and Rosas & Petalas.Lucapa, which also operates the...Read More

Back to Work at India's Only Diamond Mine

February 23, 2023 / www.idexonline.com

(IDEX Online) - India's mothballed diamond mine at Majhgawan-Panna is due to resume production this July, with a forecast output of up to 84,000 carats a year.Work was halted at the country's only industrial mine at the end of December 2020 when environmental clearances lapsed following concerns from the nearby Panna Tiger Reserve.But the National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC),...Read More

First Quantum suspends Cobre Panama

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

The company said it believes that all of AMP's requirements under to allow concentrate loading have been met and exceeded, but the authority continues to block export operations.Read More

Trident sells gold royalties, to focus on new acquisitions...

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Trident has a strategy of investing in a range of commodities, differenting it from most other royalty companies Trident has sold gold royalties for Rebecca2, Spring Hill3, and three other projects toRead More

Jetti eyes more primary sulphide leach deployments...

February 22, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

"We are laser focused on the conversion of our commercial pipeline and the potential of several of our projects transitioning from pilot to commercial status.Read More

Copper production to rise as Gilar and Zafar mines openCopper News

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Anglo Asian guided for 2023 gold production of 30,000-32,000oz, down from full-year 2022 production of 43,114 oz. Copper production is guided for 4,100- 4,300t, up from 2,516t in 2022.Read More

Atalaya releases new Riotinto PEA

February 23, 2023 / www.mining-journal.com

Atalaya noted strong potential economic results, after the PEA showed a net present value (NPV) of US$1.57 based on a base case range of copper, zinc and lead prices, and up to US$1.Read More

CORRECTED-UPDATE 4-AngloGold Ashanti CEO resists gold M&A temptation

February 22, 2023 / www.kitco.com

(Corrects to remove $1.4 bln capital expenditure figure fortailings dam work and makes clear when details will be releasedin paragraph 11) * AngloGold Ashanti to suspend Brazil plant * Production likely to fall, miner says * 2022 costs under control despite inflation * Shares down 7% By Helen Reid and Nelson Banya Feb 22 (Reuters) - AngloGold Ashanti has noplans to make acquisitions or t...Read More

Tech Talk for Thursday February 23rd 2023

February 23, 2023 / www.timingthemarket.ca

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 22 points in pre-opening trade. Index futures moved lower following release of second estimate of fourth quarter real GDP at 8:30 AM EST. Consensus was unchanged at an annual growth rate of 2.9%. Actual was growth at 2.7%.NVidia advanced $18.06 to $225.60 after reporting higher than consensus fourth quarter earnings. M...Read More

"How Are People Paying for This Shopping Spree?"

February 23, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

"How are people paying for this shopping spree?"Here market analyst Michael Maharrey makes indirect reference to the "strong" economy presently in existence.And we are assured this economy bulges with the highly striated musculature of a he-man.MarketWatch, for example, informs us that:"Mortgage Rates Rise Again on Signs of Strong Economy"…No less an authority than The New York Times exults...Read More

The Lesser Rewriters of a Great Author

February 23, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

Good morning on this fine Thursday.I bring news from my other adopted country, the United Kingdom.You may know I lived in London for nearly ten years and consider myself a cultural Anglophile. (But not a political one; the British polity lost the plot ages ago.)The UK is the home of European Woke, especially London. If you think Prince Harry (that ginger idiot) is a one-off, you'd be wrong. He was...Read More

The Geoeconomics of Modern Conflict

February 22, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

Geopolitics play a major role in the outlook for global economies. But more importantly, today, we must look at the world through the prism of geoeconomics.What is "geoeconomics"? Obviously, it's a portmanteau from the words geopolitics and economics. There's nothing new about considering those disciplines in the same context.Wars are geopolitical and are often won through industrial capacity, whi...Read More

War By Other Means

February 22, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

"Geopolitics is now geoeconomics impacting markets... and the rest is commentary."Here you have the measured and discernful conclusion of Rabobank's Mr. Michael Every. More from whom:Japan's Kyocera already says China is no longer viable as the world's factory due to U.S. technology restrictions, and that production there only makes sense to sell in China rather than to export from it. Bloomberg r...Read More

A Bunch of Hot Air

February 21, 2023 / dailyreckoning.com

It's amazing - we haven't heard about any balloon shootdowns over the past several days.White and silver, plastic and metallic, large and small, the sky has suddenly been filled with balloons. And they've been getting shot down almost daily by fighter aircraft (not always on the first try).Of course, I'm not referring to just any balloons. Some of these "objects" are probably sophisticated espiona...Read More

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