Canada is the only Western nation that has an abundance of cobalt, graphite, lithium, and nickel, essential to creating the batteries and EVs of the future.

This year’s dawning winter rally has exceptional upside potential after extreme gold-futures selling hammered gold and gold stocks to deeply-oversold levels recently.

The vehicles carrying Iamgold employees came under attack on the road between Dori and Essakane, where the company has its biggest operating mine.

"Core to our strategy is embedding ESG excellence as the way we do business and that’s evolved into a sustainability strategy," Neal Froneman says.

Agnico has reported third quarter net income of $114.5 million and a dividend of $0.47 per share.

Year-to-date demand is 9% lower, with the doubling of central bank buying and 50% growth in jewellery demand over the first three quarters only partly offset the decline in ETF demand.

The world's top gold producer cut its annual production target by 500,000 ounces.