June 12, 2025

Gold price surges to one-month high on Middle East tensions

Spot gold is closing in on the $3,400 mark for the first time since early May.

June 12, 2025

Column: Demand destruction can help break China’s rare earths chokehold

Western automakers have chosen to ignore the historical precedent and doubled down on a technology that remains almost totally beholden to Beijing's export whims.

June 12, 2025

Infographic: Who controls the rare earths shaping the future?

This graphic breaks down global extraction at the mine level.

June 11, 2025

Perpetua Resources secures $400M equity financing for Stibnite project in Idaho

The Stibnite project holds an estimated 148-million-pound antimony reserve — the only identified in the US.

June 11, 2025

Canada eyes further moves to counter foreign steel dumping

ArcelorMittal, Cleveland-Cliffs and Algoma Steel Group are among Canada’s top producers.

June 11, 2025

Gold rises on bets of Fed interest rate cuts; platinum surges

Bullion rose 0.3% while platinum extended this year’s surge to more than 40%.

June 11, 2025

From boom to bust: battery metal prices tumble as supply floods market

Despite rising EV sales, the market fundamentals for lithium, cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite and recycled materials worsen.

June 11, 2025

Gold surpasses euro as second-largest reserve asset: European Central Bank

Bullion made up about 20% of the global official reserves at the end of 2024, surpassing the euro's 16%, the ECB says in its annual report.

June 11, 2025

Cyclic Materials to open $25M rare earths plant in Canada

The facility in Kingston, Ontario, will mark the startup's first commercial-scale processing and research centre unit.

June 11, 2025

Trump confirms rare earth deal with China

Officials will finalize the agreement once outbound materials begin flowing.