Lawrie Williams: Gold Mine Output Turning Down This Year. Is Peak Gold With Us?
Analysts at Metals Focus see mine supply as holding up reasonably robustly, at least in the near-term but even so they forecast that global gold mine production will fall marginally overall in 2017, bringing to a close nearly a decade of continued growth.

Jay Taylor: Turning Hard Times Into Good Times
America's Decline, the Dollar and Gold
Jay Taylor's, miningstocks.com, guests for this weeks’s broadcast include: William Engdahl and Michael Oliver. Brandon Macdonald visits for the first time. The “deep state” and its propaganda deprive Americans of the real reason we spend blood and treasury on unending foreign wars. Enabling the U.S. Empire to expand post WWII was the forced acceptance of a post 1971 fraudulent dollar. America could print endless amounts of intrinsically worthless money out of thin air and use it to fund a military that punished any leader who refused to accept dollar payments. But Russia, China and its allies who are seeking a peaceful economic coexistence with Washington, won’t go down easily. Oliver's work shows the dollar decline is now underway. As the dollar loses its hegemony, what will that mean for commodity prices? Engdahl will opine on relevant geopolitical factors. Oliver will update us on the dollar and gold, and Brandon will tell us about a very promising zinc-lead-silver discovery in the Yukon.

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Parity between Platinum, Palladium Prices Coming, but Not Yet
Parity between platinum and palladium prices is on the way as the latter metal’s market deficit breaches a million ounces a year – but it won’t be seen just yet.

World Sugar Supply Deficit Seen Fading in 2017/18
The global sugar deficit that sent prices soaring last year is expected to fade away in the upcoming crop year, though expectations of whether a surplus emerges remain mixed.

The Top Producing Diamond Mines in 2016
While diamond industry experts warn that demand is expected to outstrip supply as early as 2019, the largest mines keep producing the coveted rocks at full steam. Here are last year’s top 10 diamond mines in terms of output and value. Read full story.

U.S. Shale Oil Braces for the Unfamiliar in 2017: Inflation
U.S. shale producers are facing their first production cost increase in five years in 2017 as industry activity picks up and energy service providers hike fees to take a bigger share of the profits generated by higher oil prices.

Have The Majors Given Up On Canada’s Oil Sands?
Canada’s oil sands are incredibly expensive, some of the costliest sources of oil in the world. Unlike conventional oil drilling, or even drilling in shale, producing from oil sands is more like open-pit mining in many cases. In short, Canadian oil sands is struggling to remain competitive in a marketplace that has changed dramatically from three years ago.

Rising U.S. Shale to Rein in Oil Below $60 Despite OPEC Cuts
Oil may struggle to rise beyond about $60 a barrel by the end of 2017, even if OPEC extends its supply cuts and global demand continues to improve, as U.S. shale production ramps up.