Gold and silver's upward run has reignited, with bullion topping $4 600 an ounce for the first time and big brokerages predicting $5 000 as a range of factors intensify, boosting the metal's safe-haven cachet. Spot gold traded as high as $4 629.94 per ounce on Monday, while silver climbed to a record of $86.22/oz in the same session.
TSX-V- and Aim-listed Thor Explorations produced 23 719 oz of gold in the quarter ended December 31, 2025, bringing its full-year total to 91 910 oz, from the Segilola mine, in Nigeria. The company announced a special dividend payment of C$0.015 apiece for the fourth quarter of the year, in addition to the standard C$0.0125 dividend, which brings the total payable dividend in the period to C$0.0275 apiece.
TSX-listed Ivanhoe Mines says development of its Platreef mine, in South Africa, is rapidly advancing after the first production of concentrate was achieved in November last year. The company advises that the ramp up of the Phase 1 concentrator on site is advancing on schedule, with the first sale of concentrate having been completed.
Africa does not have the luxury of treating regional cooperation and regional beneficiation as afterthoughts. If the continent continues to negotiate in small, fragmented units, the result will be a patchwork of export restrictions and incentive schemes that strain investor confidence without building the connective tissue of shared infrastructure and industrial capacity. If, instead, leaders use projects such as the Lobito Corridor as prototypes for how to align geology, logistics, and industrial policy at a regional scale... Читать дальше...
Chilean State-run miner Codelco is expected to produce 1.344-million metric tons of copper in 2026, up about 10 000 tons from last year, Chairman Maximo Pacheco said on Monday. Speaking to Reuters on the sidelines of the Future Minerals Forum in Riyadh, Pacheco said that Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, achieved copper output of 1.33-million tons in 2025. It also produced 100 000 tons in partnerships with other companies.
BHP Group’s bold bid to buy rival Anglo American in 2024 was supposed to set it up as the clear winner in a copper boom it had long predicted. Two years later, the copper market is indeed booming. And yet the world’s biggest miner is left sitting on the sidelines of an M&A frenzy it began. People familiar with BHP’s thinking said the news that Rio Tinto Group and Glencore are closer than ever to a deal that would leapfrog BHP to become the world’s most valuable mining company has caused consternation within the Australian mining giant. Читать дальше...
British Columbia is seeking to deepen its commercial ties with India in sectors including liquefied natural gas, critical minerals, lumber and technology, the Canadian province's Premier David Eby said on Monday at the start of a six-day Indian visit. Both countries are seeking to rebuild trade ties after a two-year freeze and to diversify their supply chains in reaction to US tariffs.
