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Gold often dominates the conversations at the annual Vancouver Resource Investment Conference (VRIC), but silver’s price rally, which began in 2025 and continued into January, put the metal firmly in the spotlight. During this year’s Silver Prediction Panel, Commodity Culture host and producer Jesse Day spoke with Maria Smirnova, senior portfolio manager and senior investment […]
Copper prices rose to a new record high on Tuesday (Jan 6), with continued supply disruptions and trading uncertainty pushing the metal to a nearly 30 percent rally since October. Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) rose as much as 3.1 percent in early trading to a record high of US$13,387.50 a […]
Oil prices moved uneasily at the start of the week as market participants digested the fallout from a sudden US intervention in Venezuela over the weekend. Brent crude fell as much as 1.2 percent in early trading on Monday (Jan. 5), falling to around $60 a barrel before recovering modestly to trade just above $61. […]
Oil prices were little changed on Wednesday but are expected to fall more than 15% in 2025 as supply exceeds demand in a year marked by wars, higher tariffs, OPEC+ production and sanctions on Russia, Iran and Venezuela. Brent crude futures, down nearly 18% – the most substantial annual percentage decline since 2020 – are […]
Speak at Benchmark weekIola Hughes, head of battery research at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, outlined a market that is experiencing “very strong growth” and is becoming essential for energy security. Hughes described energy storage as the fastest growing segment in the battery sector today. Benchmark expects the market to grow by about 44 percent this year, […]
China’s lithium market strengthened sharply on Monday (Nov 17) after Ganfeng Lithium (OTC Pink:GNENF,HKEX:1772) chairman Li Liangbin said at a domestic industry conference that demand for the key battery metal could grow by as much as 40 percent by 2026. The most traded lithium carbonate contract on the Guangzhou Futures Exchange rose 9 percent on […]
Researchers have documented the first known recovery of naturally formed monazite at the nanoscale from a living plant, potentially opening new avenues to recover highly sought-after rare earth metals. The studypublished this month in Environmental Science & Technology, identifies nanoscale monazite crystals within Blechnum Orientalean evergreen fern known to collect rare earth metals in unusually […]
Shortages are most damaging when it comes to basic needs, such as housing or groceries. But they do not have to reduce overall prosperity. AFP via Getty Images In recent years, the United States has been embroiled in a heated debate over how policymakers can best lower prices. Housing has reached crisis levels of unaffordability, […]
The Democratic Republic Congo (DRC) announced that it will cancel its eight -month Cobalt Export Ban on October 16 and it will replace it with annual quotas designed to stabilize global delivery and prices. Bloomberg reported That the authority of the country for the regulation and control of the markets of strategic mineral substances (Arecoms) […]
Kazatomprom, The Uranium giant of Kazakhstan, which is owned by the State, said that it will scales back production in 2026, and notes that current demand and supply dynamics do not justify a return to full capacity, even if the prices are firm in the long term. The company, which is good for more than […]
