VANCOUVER — It’s been a tough run the past few years for people involved with base metals and industrial commodities. Recessions among leading global economies combined with oversupply concerns to…
Jeffrey Christian is the managing partner of CPM Group, a commodities research and management, consulting and financial advisory firm in New York. He founded the company in 1986, spinning off…
The following are highlights from The Silver Institute’s 2016 Interim Silver Market Review. For more information, please visit www.silverinstitute.org. The silver market is expected to be in an annual physical…
Metal price prognosticators came out almost as badly as the pollsters in the wake of the U.S. presidential election, with most metal analysts predicting a post-election rise in gold prices,…
Born between 1981 and 2000, the millennial generation will reach their highest earning potential in another 10 years. That makes them an important age group in terms of current and…
With a dismal 2015 in the rear-view mirror, the first half of 2016 saw surprisingly strong demand for rough diamonds. However, with new production coming online from several mines in…
It’s been nearly a decade since Canada, the world’s third-largest diamond producer, has added any significant new production. But this fall has seen two new mines come online within just…
JAMES BAY REGION, QUE. — On a blustery grey day in mid-October, as Stornoway Diamond (TSX: SWY) welcomes 200 visitors to the official opening of its Renard diamond mine in…
Uranium companies are staying upbeat, given what they see are strong long-term fundamentals for uranium as the number of nuclear reactors around the world increase, despite the current situation of…
The following is an edited summary of a release by the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) after its meeting in Lisbon, Portugal in late October, where government delegates and industry…
The following is an edited market analysis released by the World Gold Council in early October. For more information, please visit www.gold.org. After a remarkable performance year-to-date, the gold price…
As 2016 wore on, gold miners and investors were getting pretty comfortable assuming that spot gold prices would hold firmly above US$1,300 per oz. for the foreseeable future, and that…
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