The closely watched final number had not previously been reported but Chairman Maximo Pacheco said earlier this week that 2024 output was “slightly higher” than the 1.325 million tons produced in 2023.
Source – Reuters
The ultra-wealthy are increasingly moving their gold offshore as economic and geopolitical uncertainty roils markets — and Singapore is emerging as a favored destination.
Not far from the city-state’s airport sits a six-story facility covered in onyx and fortified by tight security. Tucked behind its steel doors are gold and silver bars amounting to about $1.5 billion.
“A lot of very high net worth clients are looking at tariffs, looking at the world changing, looking at the potential of geopolitical instabilities,” Gregersen told CNBC.
“The idea of putting physical metal in a safe jurisdiction like Singapore with parties they can trust is becoming a big trend nowadays,” he said, adding that 90% of the new orders are coming from outside of Singapore.
Source – CNBC
Source – Money Metals
The price for Gold increased to INR 94,784.55 per tola from INR 94,440.36 per tola a day earlier.
Source – FXStreet
Peru’s mining ministry on Friday said copper output in 2024 amounted to 2,736,150 metric tons, down 0.7% from 2023. The drop marked the copper giant’s first decline after four straight years of recovery following the pandemic.
Source – Mining.com
This figure significantly exceeded consensus forecasts, as economists had anticipated job gains of around 164,000.
Adam Button, a market analyst, pointed out that the unexpectedly strong employment report is driving the U.S. dollar higher, which is consequently weighing on gold prices.
Source – KITCO NEWS
“This we hope will be reality in a three to five year period,” PolyMet’s Warren Hudelson told MPR News in 2004.
Now, 20 years later, the controversial mine in northeast Minnesota still hasn’t opened. It hasn’t even begun construction, because three key permits it needs to advance — approvals state and federal agencies granted more than five years ago — have since been revoked or suspended.
Source – MPRnews
