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The Lassonde Curve and the Junior Mining Lifecycle
Nugget 55, 31 October 2026. Gold under 3,900, silver under 50, and the metal that kept moving east.
Copper is "sold out everywhere."
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It ended, apparently, in the spring.
Imagine spending more than a century convincing the entire world that a shiny little rock is worth thousands of dollars, only to have China trot in and figure out how to make the exact same thing in a factory for a fraction of the price.
For 150 years, one metal has quietly run the modern world: copper. It's in your walls, in every EV motor, and packed into every AI data center on Earth. Only silver conducts better -- and silver is far too expensive to string across a continent. So
This puts copper prices up over +70% since January 2025.
China spent decades building a dominant position across rare-earth mining, processing, and manufacturing.
One day after veteran commodities strategist Jeff Currie told investors to "get long and buckle up" for the next leg of the commodities rally, UBS strategist Sagar Khandelwal issued a similarly bullish call, urging clients to "position for a commodit
Plenty to delve into with this edition: a stockpile order nobody can fill, two factory shutdowns that should be on your radar and the awkward truth about how few tungsten projects will ever produce a single tonne. It's a busy one. In we go.
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Copper prices in London have held above $14,000 a ton for nine consecutive sessions, with steep backwardation signaling that near-term demand is outstripping available supply.
The US copper stockpile is the biggest in history.
We stand at the precipice of a monetary fracture unprecedented in modern history, and the signs are so glaring that only the ideologically blind refuse to acknowledge them.
Three years ago, the prevailing assumption across Wall Street, the City of London, and most government institutions was remarkably simple: inflation would normalize, supply chains would heal, interest rates would eventually decline, and precious meta
Iron ore futures in Singapore fell to their lowest intraday level in one year as deteriorating fundamentals continued to weigh on the market.
The rules also let Beijing bar citizens from leaving over security concerns and discourage tourism in 'high-risk' countries like Japan
For most of the last 30 years, gold miners were the worst-run businesses in the market.
The G7's critical minerals bloc.
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"Turns out, we weren't bullish enough on copper," Jefferies analyst Christopher LaFemina wrote in a note to clients, marking a notable shift from one of Wall Street's most seasoned metal voices.
Copper is inching closer to its mid-May all-time high of $14,153 a ton on the London Metal Exchange, trading around $13,832 on Tuesday morning, as Goldman raised its year-end price targets and HSBC warned...
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Most people don't spend much time thinking about copper. Or cobalt. Or manganese.
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