Gold has rebounded sharply higher in the past month, taking the early lead as 2017’s best-performing asset class.

Met coal prices are already down 23% in 2017 as US producers plan to add 9m tonnes to export market.

Prior to the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam International made waves with its latest report on global inequality.

Years of underinvestment in top producer South Africa affecting supply.

Today, we have identified a few Yukon gold juniors that could be targeted for takeover by a bigger gold miner.

Takeover would make of Sibanye Gold the world's third largest palladium producer and fourth biggest platinum group metals miner.

Moves is expected to help the copper giant cope with a recently passed law that forces it to give 10% of its revenues to the armed forces.

Markets are expecting a Trump economic miracle with real GDP growth estimates of 4% per year and more. The cheerleaders cite tax cuts, infrastructure spending and deregulation unleashing a wave of new economic activity. But that's not where growth comes from, argues Rudi Fronk and Jim Anthony, cofounders of Seabridge Gold, as they discuss some basic contradictions in Trumponomics.

Fracking is poised to increase under the Trump administration, and with it will come the need for larger quantities of fracking sand.