Other Commodities
Navigating the Nickel Surge: The Rise of Tier-1 Junior Mining Companies
Base metal traders woke up this morning to a board bathed in green, with nickel leading the charge. Futures on the London Metal Exchange have surged roughly 10% since the onset of the Iran conflict, catapulting the battery metal to an intraday peak of $19,350 …
The $22 Billion Feedgas Play: Shell Inks Megadeal for ARC Resources’ Decades of Natural Gas Inventory
The Canadian energy patch just experienced the equivalent of a tectonic shift. On a seemingly ordinary April morning, global energy titan Shell plc (LSE: SHEL) announced it was swallowing up top-tier producer ARC Resources Ltd. (TSX: ARX) in a mammoth …
Breaking China's Grip: US and EU Sign Landmark Critical Minerals Deal
The global scramble for the fundamental building blocks of the 21st century just got a massive Western firewall. For years, Beijing has treated the global rare earth and critical minerals market like its own personal thermostat, cranking up cheap supply to …
Canada’s 1-Million-Barrel Pipeline Pivot: Why Alberta is Weighing Three Northern Routes to Ditch the US Market for Asia
For decades, the Canadian oil patch has played the reluctant role of a captive supplier to a single, occasionally capricious customer: the United States. But with Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith actively mapping out a 1 million …
How Saskatchewan is Capitalizing on the Global Fertilizer Crisis
If you want to understand the future of global food security, skip the boardroom agricultural tech pitches and look about a kilometer beneath the Canadian prairies. Saskatchewan is sitting on the world's largest known reserves of potash, a potassium-rich …
USA Rare Earth's $2.8B Move to Break the Global Critical Minerals Monopoly
Forget the gold rush; the modern economic battlefield is fought over magnets. Today, USA Rare Earth (NASDAQ: USAR) dropped a $2.8 billion bombshell on the global supply chain by announcing a definitive agreement to acquire Serra Verde Group and its prized Pela …
Critical Metals Secures 92.5% Stake in Greenland's Massive Tanbreez Rare Earth Project
The Western world’s relentless quest to wrest control of the global rare earth supply chain just hit a massive, icy milestone. Greenland’s ministry for mineral resources and business has officially approved the indirect transfer of the mining license for the …
The Six-Week Warning: How the Strait of Hormuz Blockade is Grounding Global Markets
Buckle up, investors, because the geopolitical turbulence is officially spilling from the tarmac straight onto the trading floor. International Energy Agency Executive Director Fatih Birol dropped a bombshell on the global economy this week, warning that …
New IP Data Reveals Massive Copper Anomaly for Super Copper in Chile
Sometimes in the mining industry, you can be standing right on top of a massive discovery and still miss the main event entirely. That is precisely the geological drama playing out for Super Copper Corp. (CSE: CUPR | OTCQB: CUPPF), a company that just …
U.S. and Allies Revive Historic European Mines to Secure Critical Antimony Supply
For decades, the global supply chain for antimony, a critical mineral required for everything from armor-piercing munitions to advanced semiconductors and high-capacity batteries, has rested comfortably in Beijing's pocket. But as export restrictions tighten …