Nearly 90% of Canadians support growing critical minerals market share — MAC

Miners and explorers are only spending a third of what they did four years ago – and proportion of greenfield exploration are at record lows.

Join me for a conversation with Simon Moores, an analyst at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, a London-based consulting and research firm focusing on niche critical and industrial minerals and metals.

Aside from iron, manganese is the most essential mineral in the production of steel. Which makes manganese the fourth largest traded metal commodity.

While companies face different outlooks and challenges depending on the commodity they mine and their size, Deloitte says they should all should be looking for the answer to one common question — “Going forward, where should we play and how can we win?"

Minerals and metals prices are rising, investor confidence in the majors is returning, and those majors are keen to restock depleting minable reserves.

The private space exploration firm has enough money to hit the moon by the end of 2017.

The country, however, was 100% import reliant on 20 mineral commodities, including rare earths, manganese and niobium, which are among a suite of materials often designated as “critical” or “strategic.”

Frank discusses the gold and bond markets and how they have been driven by global uncertainty.

Why lithium? Great question. In my opinion, it's simultaneously the simplest and most complex metal.