December 16, 2023

Billionaire Miner Friedland Warns of a Copper ‘Train Wreck’ as Supply Stalls

By James Attwood and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg Copper is poised to follow other commodities upended by […]
December 16, 2023

Billionaire Mining Magnate Friedland Says $15,000-a-Ton Copper Needed to Spur New Mines

By Alix Steel, Dani Burger, and Jacob Lorinc – Bloomberg Copper prices need to nearly double in […]
December 15, 2023

The State of Copper Recycling in the U.S.

By Visual Capitalist In 2022, the total copper scrap recycled in the U.S. […]
July 25, 2023

The global copper market is entering an age of extremely large deficits – Richard Mills

2023.07.25  Simply put, the road to reaching net zero begins and ends with […]
June 26, 2023

Max Resource samples high-grade copper-silver from newly discovered AM-7 target – Richard Mills

2023.06.26 In mineral exploration, a promising discovery can often be validated by the […]
June 26, 2023

Max Resource 从新发现的 AM-7 目标中提取了高品位铜银样品

2023.06.26 在矿物勘探中,一个有希望的发现通常可以通过随后的采样/钻探结果来验证。这就是 Max Resource Corp. (TSX.V: MAX; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2))在其全资拥有的位于哥伦比亚东北部的 CESAR 铜银项目中新发现的 […]
June 26, 2023

Copper Road Resources announces summer drill program – Richard Mills

2023.06.26 Copper Road Resources (TSXV:CRD) has prioritized drill targets at the JR Zone […]
June 17, 2023

New copper supply offset by multiple hits to existing operations – Richard Mills

2023.06.17 For years we’ve been reporting on how a decline in productivity from […]
June 1, 2023

Copper Road Resources – Richard Mills

2023.06.01 Copper Road Resources (TSXV:CRD) Batchewana Bay project sits on the northeastern flank […]
May 28, 2023

Max Resource discovers another significant copper-silver zone at its massive CESAR project in Colombia – Richard Mills

2023.05.28 Max Resource Corp. (TSX.V: MAX; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2) announced this week […]
May 28, 2023

Max Resource 在其位于哥伦比亚的大型 CESAR 项目中发现了另一个重要的铜银矿区

2023.05.28 Max Resource Corp. (TSX.V: MAX; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2) 本周宣布发现另一个重要的铜银系统,称为 AM-7,位于其在哥伦比亚全资拥有的 CESAR […]
April 21, 2023

Copper: indispensable but under-appreciated – Richard Mills

2023.04.21 For years AOTH has been reporting on how a decline in productivity […]
April 1, 2023

Copper is the missing ingredient of the energy transition

By The Economist The pressures of industrial development in the emerging world, as […]
March 11, 2023

Graphite One’s Graphite Creek deposit a generational graphite resource USGS says among largest in the world – Richard Mills

2023.03.11 Modeling by the International Agency shows that global EV adoption must surpass […]
February 11, 2023

S&P report on copper supply is misleading – Richard Mills

2023.02.11 Copper is one of the most important metals with more than 20 […]
February 11, 2023

Why Copper Is a Critical Mineral

2023.03.11 Copper is critical for everything from the electrical grid to electric vehicles […]
February 10, 2023

Zinc: the essential element in increasingly short supply – Richard Mills

2023.02.10 Zinc is among the most important of base metals, constituting an essential […]
February 9, 2023

There isn’t enough copper in the world

By Lee Ying Shan 2023.02.09 Gold has been regarded for a long time […]
February 3, 2023

Copper’s fight for critical mineral status gets political push

By Jacob Lorinc 2023.02.03 Some of the biggest names in copper have found high-ranking […]
January 25, 2023

Max publishes first assays from CESAR drilling; highlights include 3.4% copper and 48 g/t silver over 10.6m – Richard Mills

2023.01.25 Max Resource (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) has drilled into what appears to be a […]
January 24, 2023

Violent demonstrations roil Peru’s southern copper and tourism heartland

By Stephan Kueffner 2023.01.24 The focus of Peru’s violent unrest shifted back to the […]
December 9, 2022

Why the upcoming copper supply deficit can’t be easily fixed – Richard Mills

2022.12.09 Some of the largest copper mines are seeing their reserves dwindle; they […]
November 22, 2022

Tight lead-zinc market keeping a floor under prices – Richard Mills

2022.11.22 Lead-zinc is among the most important of base metals, constituting an essential […]
November 20, 2022

Maiden drill program update: Max pulls up visibly mineralized core from URU-C, the first drill target at CESAR copper-silver project – Richard Mills

2022.11.20 Max Resource (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) is currently drilling its highest-priority target, URU, within […]
October 27, 2022

Copper: the most important metal we’re running short of – Richard Mills

2022.10.27 Copper is one of the most important metals with more than 20 […]
October 4, 2022

The case for low-grade sulfide nickel deposits

2022.10.04 Nickel deposits come in two forms: sulfide or laterite. About 60% of […]
October 3, 2022

Max to drill URU in October; geophysical survey results correlate with surface geochemical anomalies

2022.10.03 Max Resource (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) is less than two weeks away from drilling […]
September 28, 2022

Strong hands buy at bottoms and sell at tops – Richard Mills

2022.09.28 Copper is one of the most important metals with more than 20 […]
September 8, 2022
copper silver

Copper fundamentals strong despite price weakness

2022.09.08 Copper fundamentals strong despite price weakness Although the copper price has retreated […]
August 24, 2022

Two charts show copper price drop may have been overdone

By Frik Els  2022.08.24 Copper is on track for its worst monthly run […]
August 14, 2022

Max Resources identifies two very significant initial drill targets at CESAR’s URU District

2022.08.14 Max Resource (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) is one step closer to drilling its CESAR […]
August 10, 2022

Core Asset drills 48.5m of 1.03% CuEq within 95m of 0.54% CuEq from surface at the Laverdiere skarn-porphyry project, and intersects 1.5m of 4.49 g/t Au in the Lewellyn Fault Zone

2022.08.10 The first two holes of the 2022 drill campaign at the Laverdiere […]
July 20, 2022

Copper mines becoming more capital-intensive and costly to run

2022.07.20 Capital inputs account for about half the total costs of mine production […]
July 11, 2022

Core Assets finishes drilling at Laverdiere Skarn-Porphyry Project; moves on to Silver Lime

2022.07.11 Core Assets (CSE:CC) (FSE:5RJ) (OTC.QB:CCOOF) has just completed Phase 1 drilling at […]
July 8, 2022

Norden Crown kicks off 3-5,000m drill program at Burfjord, Norway

2022.07.08 Based in North Vancouver with an office in Sweden, Norden Crown Metals […]
June 25, 2022

Core Assets: Drilling at Laverdiere intersects extensive iron-copper skarn and copper-porphyry mineralization; assay results pending

2022.06.25 Only two weeks into drilling its Laverdiere Skarn-Porphyry Project, Core Assets (CSE:CC) […]
June 15, 2022

Max closes $17.7M financing, setting up a busy summer at CESAR

2022.06.15  Max Resource (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) has just closed the final CAD$2.4 million of […]
June 3, 2022

Core Assets ready to drill BC’s most northerly, district-scale CRD-porphyry deposit

2022.06.03 Core Assets’ (CSE:CC, OTC.QB: CCOOF, Frankfurt: 5RJ) Blue property commands 1,116 km² […]
May 25, 2022

Max Resource Fully Financed

2022.05.25 For today’s article I’m going to do something very unusual, and that […]
May 17, 2022

Fully-funded Core Assets eyeing next phase of exploration at Blue

2022.05.17 Flush from the exercise of warrants connected to a 2021 private placement, […]
May 7, 2022

Pampa Metals exploring potential porphyry district on trend with Escondida, the world’s largest copper mine

2022.05.07 Around 80% of Chilean copper production comes from copper-moly porphyry deposits, with […]
May 6, 2022
Copper wire

Top 5 reasons copper is heading higher

2022.05.06 Copper is one of our most important metals with more than 20 […]
April 29, 2022

Top 5 reasons to ‘think zinc’

2022.04.29 Zinc is the fourth most used metal today in terms of annual […]
April 28, 2022

Core Assets finds multiple large-scale geophysical anomalies at Laverdiere prospect

2022.04.28 Shortly after its discovery of copper occurrence at the Laverdiere project, Core […]
April 15, 2022

Core Assets identifies new copper outcrop at Laverdiere Cu-Fe skarn-porphyry target

2022.04.15 BC-focused explorer Core Assets (CSE:CC, OTC.QB: CCOOF, Frankfurt: 5RJ),currently advancing the province’s most […]
April 13, 2022

Palladium: 5 reasons stronger for longer

2022.04.13 One of the clearcut winners of the 2022 commodity rally has to […]
April 11, 2022

Max Resource, eyeballs, prospectivity and entval

2022.04.11 At AOTH we believe Max Resource Corp’s (TSXV:MAX; OTC:MXROF; Frankfurt:M1D2) CESAR property has […]
April 8, 2022

Top 5 Uses of Copper

2022.04.08 As the oldest metal known to man, copper has been an essential […]
April 2, 2022

EV affordability confronted by rising component costs

2022.04.02 High fuel prices may have a lot of motorists thinking about how […]
March 29, 2022

Max Resource seals cooperation agreement with Endeavour Silver

2022.03.29 As a follow-up to its major announcement earlier in the month, Max […]
March 26, 2022

Under the Spotlight – Mills, Beale: Pampa Metals

2022.03.26 Rick Mills, Editor/ Publisher, Ahead of the Herd: Today I’m here with […]
March 22, 2022

Backpack drilling confirms grade consistency and continuity of mineralization at Core Assets’ Blue property

2022.03.22 Emerging BC-focused explorer Core Assets Corp. (CSE: CC) (FSE: 5RJ) (OTCQB: CCOOF), […]
March 4, 2022

New copper discoveries becoming pressing matter with production from top producer drying up

2022.03.04 The global copper supply crisis is getting deeper with each passing day. […]
February 17, 2022

Getchell returns ‘stunning result’ at North Fork Zone, as gold nears 3-month high

2022.02.17 Geopolitical tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border pushed gold to its highest in […]
February 16, 2022

As copper supply approaches “extreme scarcity”, GSP looks to reboot former producing mine with bulk-tonnage potential

2022.02.16 “I’ve been doing this 30 years and I’ve never seen markets like […]
February 16, 2022

Transformative year for Max Resources

2022.02.16 In exploration, a number of techniques are employed to gather information about […]
February 15, 2022

Nickel Market Update

2022.02.15 The nickel market is currently experiencing its biggest squeeze in recent memory. […]
February 15, 2022

Copper market update

2022.02.15 The copper industry is threatened by a looming global supply crisis, as […]
February 15, 2022

Core Assets: Maiden sampling program at Blue project returns high-grade carbonate replacement mineralization

2022.02.15 In the northwest corner of British Columbia, Core Assets’ (CSE:CC, OTC.QB:CCOOF, Frankfurt: […]
February 12, 2022

World’s running short on nickel supply for battery use

2022.02.12 The nickel market is currently experiencing its biggest squeeze in recent memory. […]
February 10, 2022

Pampa Metals lands deal with AI tech company to explore more copper-gold prospects in Chile

2022.02.10 For a technology to have a transformative effect on the mining industry, […]
February 2, 2022

Max Resource granted additional mining concession contracts in Colombia, the most of any in the country

2022.02.02 Having made significant progress over the past year at its flagship CESAR […]
January 31, 2022

Norden Crown searching for high-grade VMS deposits in Sweden’s historic mining district

2022.01.31 In mining, the term “mineralization” is typically referred to as the deposition […]
January 29, 2022

Core Assets’ Blue project: A potentially massive CRD deposit in northwestern BC

2022.01.29 Carbonate replacement deposits (CRD) are some of the most interesting assemblages of […]
January 18, 2022

Junior resource companies on a global hunt for new copper supply

2022.01.18 Copper is coming off a historic year during which its prices broke […]
January 17, 2022

Copper boom likely to last for decades, prompting a global hunt for new supply

2022.01.17 Copper is coming off a historic year during which its prices broke […]
January 3, 2022

Pampa Metals rounds off successful first year with at least two potential deep porphyry copper systems identified

2022.01.03 Global consumption of copper, an essential ingredient in modern society and one […]
December 11, 2021

GSP’s 2021 drilling expands historical Alwin mine

2021.12.11 GSP Resource Corp (TSXV:GSPR, FRA:OYD) has completed its 2021 drill program and […]
December 9, 2021

Pampa Metals zoning in on copper-gold porphyry at Cerro Buenos Aires, Chile

2021.12.09 For years, Chile has been ideal “elephant” copper deposit hunting ground for […]
December 7, 2021

Max Resource; Colombian Gold Symposium 2021

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December 6, 2021

Pampa Metals has clear sight of several porphyry targets along Chile’s copper-rich mineral belts

2021.12.06 With each energy transition comes the new need for more materials. At […]
November 29, 2021
Copper wire

Emerging supply gap in second half of the decade necessitates new batch of copper mine projects

2021.11.29 Copper’s widespread use in building construction, power generation and transmission makes it […]
November 18, 2021

Max reaches major milestone in developing CESAR, receives first mining contract for URU Zone

2021.11.18 Max Resource Corp (TSX.V: MXR; OTC: MXROF; Frankfurt: M1D2) has opened up […]
November 12, 2021

BC’s Golden Triangle is the West’s solution to its copper supply dilemma

2021.11.12 A lot of our recent focus has been on the copper market, […]
November 3, 2021

Pampa Metals is an Outstanding Exploration Opportunity in One of the World’s Premier Mining Jurisdictions – Chile

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October 28, 2021

Historic squeeze shows just how tight the copper supply-demand equation has become

2021.10.28 Copper has been an essential material to man since prehistoric times. In […]
October 25, 2021

Pampa Metals’ surface geological work at Block 4 property leads to intense porphyry-related quartz-vein stockwork zone

2021.10.25 Pampa Metals Corp. (CSE: PM) (FSE: FIRA) (OTCQX: PMMCF) continues to make […]
October 9, 2021

Norden Crown proceeds with drilling at Burfjord project in Norway to test copper endowment, expand mineralization footprint

2021.10.09 Warnings of a worldwide depletion of copper reserves are not exaggerated. The […]
October 7, 2021

Temporary price weakness means contrarian-play opportunity for Quebec-focused iron ore junior

October 7, 2021 Iron ore is up and down like a bride’s nightgown, […]
October 1, 2021

Copper bull market far from over

2021.10.01 Copper has been one of the biggest winners in the commodities market […]
September 30, 2021

Copper bull market far from over as widespread supply challenges loom over industry

2021.09.30 Copper has been one of the biggest winners in the commodities market […]
September 24, 2021

Manning Ventures plans drilling at three iron ore properties in Quebec

2021.09.24 Iron ore is the primary source of the mineral substance that goes […]
September 17, 2021

Pampa Metals seeking major copper discoveries along the prime mineral belts of Chile

2021.09.17 When it comes to copper mining, there’s no better place than Chile. […]
August 27, 2021

Norden Crown Metals: Summer exploration follows up on Broken Hill Type (BHT) discovery in Sweden

2021.08.27 Junior mining companies historically offer the best leverage to rising metals prices, […]
August 26, 2021

The debt trap: Part 1 of 3

2021.08.26 The US Federal Reserve is severely constrained in how much it can […]
August 11, 2021

Max reports high-grade copper samples from URU zone, at flagship CESAR project, Colombia

2021.08.11 Max Resource Corp (TSXV:MXR, OTC:MXROF, Frankfurt:M1D2) is making good headway at its […]
August 3, 2021

ZincX Resources completes five-hole summer drilling program at Akie property

2021.08.03 Nearly two months into resuming exploration activities, ZincX Resources Corp. (TSXV: ZNX) […]
July 30, 2021

Manning samples outcrops greater than 25% Fe at three iron ore projects in Quebec

2021.07.30 Manning Ventures (CSE:MANN, Frankfurt:1H5) has taken a giant leap forward in its […]
July 28, 2021

Cashed-up Norden Crown to continue exploring ‘Broken Hill Type’ silver-zinc-lead deposit in Sweden

2021.07.28 The largest miner in the world, BHP Billiton (in 2018 shortened to […]
July 27, 2021

Forward-looking metals and the companies we’re invested in

2021.07.27 While there is little we can do to prevent climate change — […]
July 24, 2021

Renforth encounters highest concentration of visible nickel to date from summer drilling at Victoria West

2021.07.24 Exciting drill results have become a norm for Renforth Resources Inc. (CSE: […]
July 14, 2021

Getchell Gold preparing two-front drill campaign at Fondaway Canyon and Star, Nevada properties

2021.07.14 Getchell Gold (CSE:GTCH, OTCQB:GGLDF) just doubled its chances of making a discovery this […]
July 5, 2021

ZincX punches first of three holes into Cardiac Creek deposit

2021.07.05 ZincX Resources (TSXV:ZNX, FSE:M9R, US:ZNCXF) is off to a great start at […]
June 30, 2021

Commodity boom puts world’s copper supply to the test

According to business leaders who participated in this week’s Qatar Economic Forum, commodities like copper are likely to become more expensive as the rally resumes.
June 28, 2021

For industrial metals exploration, it’s game on

2021.06.28 As countries continue to vaccinate their populations, and infections drop due to […]
June 12, 2021

ZincX Resources commences 2021 drill program at Akie property

Following weeks of planning and preparation, ZincX Resources Corp. (TSXV: ZNX) this week announced that it has finally commenced the 2021 summer drill program on its flagship Akie property in BC.

This 2,000-metre diamond drilling program will focus on the Cardiac Creek deposit - ZincX’s primary asset - and build on the positive and robust results from the 2018 preliminary economic assessment (PEA).
June 4, 2021

Manning kickstarts 2021 exploration at Lac Simone, Hope Lake iron ore projects, Quebec

Manning Ventures Inc. (CSE:MANN, FSE:1H5) will soon have boots on the ground at its two iron ore projects in Quebec, collecting samples and mapping in preparation for an upcoming drill program.
May 31, 2021

Copper roars past $4.60 as resource nationalism grips market

A number of happenings in the copper market conspired to elevate the spot price beyond $4.60 a pound on Thursday, confirming Ahead of the Herd’s suspicions that a new wave of resource nationalism in some of the largest copper-producing nations is washing over the sector.
May 20, 2021

Getchell Gold poised to sink drills into Nevada projects Fondaway Canyon and Star

As an asset/ development stage junior, Getchell believes the deposit, the asset, is large and rich enough to start down a development path. An asset/development stage company is, in the opinion of management, and likely stockholders who are following the story, likely to become a mine. The risk has been greatly reduced, the wait time for a discovery non-existent, and the reward can be very nice, considering the much lower amount of risk, compared to an exploration-stage junior.
May 14, 2021

Global iron ore sector has robust dynamics

Iron ore prices recently broke a new record amid a sustained rally in commodities prices as demand from top consumer China remains as robust as ever.

At the center of the latest rally is rising steel prices, from Asia to North America. Steel demand remains strong as economies - China in particular - continue their massive investments in steel-intensive infrastructure.