A new report by S&P Global Market Intelligence predicting that gold production worldwide is likely to set a fresh record in 2019 after a decade of growth in output. Debunking peak gold More than half of the additional output in 2019 will come from new mines expected to come on stream or from recently commissioned ... Global gold production to hit fresh record in 2019
MINEX Forum | April 19, 2019 A new report by S&P Global Market Intelligence predicting that gold production worldwide is likely to set a fresh record in 2019 after a decade of growth in output. Debunking peak gold More than half of the additional output in 2019 will come from new mines expected to come on stream or from recently commissioned ... 
Le Figaro: Serbian copper in Chinese hands China’s acquisition of the Mining and Smelting Combine (RTB) in Bor is just one in the series of Chinese investments in the countries of the former Yugoslavia, under the One Belt, One Road strategy – the renowned French daily, Le Figaro writes. After 20 years of agony and ... 
VIENNA – Back in the 1970s and 1980s when he was keeping America’s nuclear weapons up to date, Robert Kelley didn’t pay much attention to their source of uranium. But then he was reassigned to lead the international team that accounted for the hundreds of tons of the heavy metal Iraq secretly extracted at a ... 
Summary: As fears of a global recession ratchet higher, the economic calendar for the week ahead offers a bunch of key indicators that may provide further fuel to the thinking that bad times lie ahead. The dovish signal from the Fed last week is likely to drive EM FX and stocks higher in the short and ... 
* Nornickel sees 2019 palladium market deficit at 800,000 oz * Sees 2019 global palladium consumption up by 500,000 oz * Reports 2018 EBITDA of $6.2 bln, highest level since 2011 Norilsk Nickel, the world’s largest palladium producer, said on Tuesday tighter emissions regulations in all major markets and flattish primary supply would widen a ... 
Palladium surged above $1,500 an ounce to a record, extending a powerful rally that’s been driven by an acute shortage of supply as car manufacturers scramble to get hold of the material to meet stringent emissions controls. The advance will benefit top suppliers in Russia and South Africa. Spot palladium surged as much as 1.7 ... 
Kazakhstan will remain the world’s leader in uranium mining despite the complicated situation in the global market, said Minister of Energy of Kazakhstan Kanat Bozumbayev, Kazinform correspondent reports. “Despite the difficulties in the global uranium market, we intend to maintain leadership in uranium mining. Now there is an oversupply of uranium and this trend continues,” ... 
Russia’s Finance Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia had produced 314.42 tonnes of gold and 1,119.95 tonnes of silver in 2018. In the previous year, Russia’s gold output was 306.9 tonnes and the country’s silver output 1,044.3 tonnes. by 
Against a backdrop of continued stock market volatility and geopolitical risk, gold demand surged in Q4 of 2018, according to a new report released today from the World Gold Council. Annual gold demand increased 4% on highest central bank buying in 50 years. Gold demand in 2018 reached 4,345.1 tonnes, up from 4,159.9 tonnes in 2017.Central banks’ demand for ... 
The new gold mine in Krumovgrad boasts environmental performance and social responsibility, yet there are black spots along the path of the Bulgarian gold around the globe. The technologies applied in the new gold mine in Krumovgrad rate among the most advanced in the world, states Lyubomir Haynov, Operation Director of the local branch of ... 
Azeri state oil fund SOFAZ said on Thursday that it plans to increase the share of gold in its holdings to 10 percent this year from 5 percent at the end of 2018. SOFAZ, which has been buying gold since 2012, holds the former Soviet country’s proceeds from oil contracts, oil and gas sales, transit ... 
It all started so well in 2018 for investors in European metal and mining stocks, as copper led a base-metals rally to multi-year highs in a time before trade turmoil gripped markets. But, as the year closes, the sector index is languishing about 25 percent below its June peak. Fractious rhetoric between Washington and Beijing ...