Forecast: What will impact gold prices in 2025?
In order to focus on what will be important in determining gold prices in 2025, we first need to lay out three important points that help frame New York-based CPM…
Commentary
YMP Scholarship: Mining industry must narrow talent gap by spotlighting roles in green transition
The following essay was chosen as the winner of The Northern Miner’s 2024 Young Mining Professionals Scholarship. Mining is perhaps more crucial today than at any other point in human…
Covering mining’s projects, people and sticky challenges over a two-decade career
This will be my last editorial for The Northern Miner after 19 years here, and with its sister publications. In December, I’m off to start another adventure outside of mining. …
Charting the Trump train’s global economic trajectory
I’ve been on the road over the last few weeks, attending various mining conferences along Australia’s east coast. One of the key discussion points has been United States president-elect Donald…
How oil and gas will fare in the Trump era
Trump is back, and the threat of tariffs looms large over China’s economy. On Wednesday, base and precious metal prices took a dive. Resource markets are deeply concerned about Trump’s…
Clues to when the next commodity boom will start abound – if you know where to look
It’s important to understand that the boom phase of a commodity cycle doesn’t kick off overnight. While there have been some green shoots — record gold prices, and copper (briefly) spiking…
How junior miners can meet the new ESG funding hurdles
The conversation around environmental, social, and governance ESG considerations in mining has grown increasingly sophisticated over the last decade, giving rise to an evolving set of requirements that companies must…
Big tech’s nuclear option
Silicon Valley CEOs can get obsessed with some pretty weird things — colonizing Mars, ultra-ascetic diets, wearing the same outfit every single day, or living forever. But there’s nothing head-scratching…
Why choose stocks with large undeveloped deposits?
Before I became a mining analyst and editor at Fat Tail Investment Research in Melbourne, I worked as a geologist in the mining industry. But in all my time writing to…
What miners should know about the voluntary carbon credit market
Three years ago, the London-based International Council on Mining and Metals announced a bold commitment: the world’s 28 largest mining companies pledged to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. This…
Publisher’s note: The Northern Miner’s commitment to independent reporting
For over a century, The Northern Miner has stood as a pillar of journalism within the mining and metals industry. We recognize the vital role that mining plays in the…
How the natural diamond industry could have taken down its lab-grown competition
Years ago, I noticed a plaque hanging on the wall in a private equity group in London’s Mayfair that read: “The Roman Empire wasn’t built by holding committee meetings; it…