Stornoway opens Quebec’s first diamond mine
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…
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Uranium firms remain optimistic amid low demand
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…
ICSG: Copper surplus coming in 2017
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…
World Gold Council: Price drop likely to spur demand
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…
Editorial: Price drop catches gold investors off guard
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…
Cobalt demand to surpass 100,000 tonnes in 2017: CRU
Our commodities research and consultancy firm CRU estimates that global consumption for refined cobalt is set to reach 100,000 tonnes in 2017. Whilst demand growth for most metals has stalled…
Editorial: Metallurgical coal prices go through the roof
While so much attention this year has focused on gold, it’s metallurgical coal that has suddenly become the unlikely star performer of 2016. Traders in metallurgical coal, also known as…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 28: Our eyes on autumn ft. Mickey Fulp
Matt is joined by the Mercenary Geologist, Mickey Fulp, to talk the U.S. economy, elections, and a potential interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve. We ask if gold stocks are…
Editorial: Texas to build its own gold depository
When the average person thinks about Texas, a few words and phrases quickly come to mind: old-school, wealthy, isolationist, entrepreneurial and open-carry. Happily we can roll all these elements into…
Editorial: LME shakes up gold world with gold and silver trading
Metal trading in the historic centre of London has had a pretty-clear cut dichotomy in recent years: base metals trading including futures are carried out on the giant London Metal…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Gold demand nears new record, WGC says
The following is a release by the World Gold Council detailing global gold demand in the second quarter of 2016. The full 26-page Gold Demand Trends report is available for…
Editorial: Gold gains appeal in UK as interest rates hit 322-year low
One of the features of the gold bull run from 2001 to 2011 was the divergence in enthusiasm for gold on either side of the Atlantic. Gold bugs taking in…