Other Commodities
Investors Buy the Dip as Gold Recovers from Selloff
Gravity took a brief holiday on Wednesday as opportunistic traders snapped up discounted bullion, pushing gold back above the psychological $4,900 mark. After a bruising two-day tumble that shaved off more than 3%, the precious metal found its footing, …
Friedland’s Vault: Unlocking the US Treasury with African Keys
If there were a crown for the King of Cape Town this week, Robert Friedland would likely have melted it down to assay its copper content before considering wearing it. The founder of Ivanhoe Mines (TSX: IVN) did not merely arrive at Mining Indaba 2026 to …
Trump Invokes Cold War Powers to Mandate Pentagon Coal Purchases
The 1950s are calling, and they are bringing the power grid with them. In a bid to resuscitate an industry he has long championed, President Donald Trump is dusting off Cold War-era authorities to force a marriage between the Department of Defense and the …
Is the Nickel Bear Market Finally Over?
If you were waiting for a press release to announce the bottom of the nickel cycle, you missed it. It wasn’t a shout; it was a whisper from Jakarta that just violently recalibrated the global supply chain. While the mainstream financial news is still busy …
What is the price of 60 days’ worth of mineral security for General Motors and Google?
The United States has long kept a rainy-day fund for crude oil, tucked away in salt caverns to ward off the ghost of 1970s gas lines. Now, the Trump Administration is applying that same logic to the lithium and cobalt powering your iPhone and electric vehicle. …
Clive Thompson Reports Major Swiss Inventory Failure
Switzerland is where the world’s money goes to hibernate. It is the fortress of finance, the land of unnumbered accounts, and home to the most sophisticated refining capacity on Earth. But if you walked into one of the largest bullion dealers in Zurich this …
Why Robert Friedland Says the S&P’s 1% Mining Weight is a National Risk
The most alarming statistic uttered in Washington this week wasn’t about the deficit, inflation, or polling data. It was a simple, stark percentage dropped by mining magnate Robert Friedland while sitting across from President Donald Trump: one percent.
Operation Mineral Independence: Retired Officers Lead the Charge for Critical Minerals
Forget the traditional prospecting tools of the trade. In the modern mining industry, a geological map and a rugged pair of boots are no longer enough to strike gold, or, more accurately, to strike tungsten, lithium, and rare earths. Today, the most valuable …
Resource Wars 2026: Copper Joins Gold and Silver in Record Surge
Forget the glittering allure of gold bars or the speculative frenzy of silver coins for a moment. The most electrifying action in the commodities pit right now is happening with the humble wiring inside your walls. Copper, the industrial workhorse turned …
Staring Down the Barrel: Bears Scramble as U.S. Carriers Crush the Oversupply Bet
It turns out that geopolitical risk is a lot like a dormant volcano: you can ignore it for months while enjoying the view, but when it starts smoking, you suddenly remember exactly where the exit is. For the better part of late 2025, oil traders were seemingly …