The Top Ten 2021 financings of juniors headquartered in B.C.
With AME Roundup in Vancouver starting this week and running through February 3, we’re taking a look at the top ten largest financings completed last year by junior exploration companies…
Analysis
Global coal use to hit record high despite climate fight
Global coal-fired power generation is expected to rise 9% and hit an all-time high by the end of 2021, despite efforts to slash carbon emissions, the International Energy Agency said…
BMO’s Colin Hamilton looks at the year ahead
As a commodities analyst for BMO Capital Markets, Colin Hamilton covers base metals, bulk commodities, precious metals and battery raw materials. He also focuses on China and global trade flows….
Tantalum supply and demand after the pandemic
While the world slowly returns to some form of post-Covid normality, the tantalum industry is transitioning to an entirely new normality, one where reliability, stability and transparency are replacing the…
Pandemic initially decimated financings for gold projects, but market has rebounded, Mining Intelligence says
A review of capital raisings for gold projects around the world between February 1, 2020 and February 28, 2021 conducted by The Northern Miner’s sister company Mining Intelligence, has found…
Battery metals are critical over the next decade, Roskill says
The growing adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is driving the increasing demand for lithium, nickel and cobalt – critical metals used as cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries in the automotive,…
Canaccord Genuity raises Q1 copper price forecast
Canaccord Genuity mining analyst Dalton Baretto has raised his copper price forecast for the first quarter from US$3.50 per lb. to US$3.75 per lb. “Given the average quarter to date…
Institutional investors turn to gold
In the face of historically low interest rates and chronically depressed bond yields, institutional investors are turning to gold as a portfolio diversifier. Gold has been largely shunned by institutional…
Geology Corner: The nuts and bolts of feasibility studies on gold
Of the 123 global gold projects with completed feasibility studies or ones being worked on, 50 projects are orogenic deposits; 24 are epithermal deposit types, and eight are porphyry deposits,…
Base metals prices forecast to rise sharply in 2021, less so in 2022
As the world’s economies start to pick up following the impacts from the Covid-19 pandemic, CPM Group’s director of commodities and asset management Carlos Sanchez expects base metals markets to return…
Roskill forecasts demand for cobalt to double by 2030
Cobalt watchers can expect demand for the blue metal to double by 2030, says Ying Lu, senior analyst at Roskill. The forecast comes even as this year saw a significant shift…
Precious metals and PGM prices forecast to rise next year
Although a change in the U.S. government is unlikely to ease tensions between Washington and Beijing, says CPM Group vice-president of research Rohit Savant, incoming president Biden’s approach to negotiations with China…