The world of minerals, August 31, 2026

Commodities

Gold         4,496.40  -0.74%
Silver          67.20  -0.86%
Copper           6.69  +0.45%
Platinum     1,799.90  -2.93%
Palladium    1,379.50  -4.66%
Titanium       161.91  +20.99%
GDX             98.51  -1.14%
GDXJ           127.93  -0.68%
BTC-USD     78,815.69  +1.44%
XME            118.13  -0.51%
VALE            15.09  +0.40%
LIT             76.37  +0.39%
TECK            68.12  -1.76%
REMX            77.52  +0.13%
UX=F            77.40  +0.00%

The pulse

• uranium: this-wk=81 last-wk=7 ratio=11.6x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[81, 7, 9, 2]
• "critical minerals": this-wk=66 last-wk=12 ratio=5.5x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[66, 12, 8, 8]
• "rare earth": this-wk=78 last-wk=4 ratio=19.5x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[78, 4, 4, 4]
• "canada us trade": this-wk=83 last-wk=17 ratio=4.9x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[83, 17, 0, 0]
• "trade war" tariff: this-wk=94 last-wk=6 ratio=15.7x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[94, 6, 0, 0]
• uranium stocks: this-wk=25 last-wk=9 ratio=2.8x SPIKE curve(newest->oldest)=[25, 9, 7, 2]

Narrative curve

• saskatchewan uranium: this-wk=14 last-wk=10 ratio=1.4x up curve(newest->oldest)=[14, 10, 13, 0]

Top headlines

• GOLD Court ruling backs Perpetua’s $1.3B Stibnite build Northern Miner
• GOLD Talamore gets key road permit for Coffee gold project Northern Miner
• GOLD First Mining Gold inks First Nations agreement Northern Miner
• GOLD Puma Exploration Announces Results of its AGM INN
• CRITICAL-MINERALS Mkango Completes Acquisition of Remloy INN
• COPPER Nicola Mining Receives Positive Silver and Gold Initial Assay Results from Red Eye Project INN
• COPPER Cupani Metals: Starting Drill Program at their Copper-Nickel-PGM Project in Quebec Soon Commodity TV
• COPPER Abitibi Metals: 45.000m Drill Program in 2026 at their Copper Gold Project in Quebec Commodity TV
• COPPER PTX Metals: Advancing a Polymetallic Project in Ontario, Canada, Towards Development Commodity TV
• IRON-ORE Iron ore price reaches multi‑month highs on mega‑dam announcement Mining.com

Drill results

• Puma Exploration Announces Results of its AGM
• Nicola Mining Receives Positive Silver and Gold Initial Assay Results from Red Eye Project
• Cupani Metals: Starting Drill Program at their Copper-Nickel-PGM Project in Quebec Soon
• Abitibi Metals: 45.000m Drill Program in 2026 at their Copper Gold Project in Quebec
• Drilling of deposition holes starts at Onkalo
• Defense Metals drills 6% rare earths in BC

Gainers

GT.V       GT Resources Inc                      0.03 +20.00% vol    193,700
QREE.CN    Quebec Rare Earth Elements Corp       0.06 +18.20% vol     36,900
PRNC.CN    Prince Silver Corp                    0.44 +10.00% vol     43,800
PRIZ.CN    Prismo Metals Inc                     0.06 +10.00% vol     52,000
NSU.V      Cosa Resources Corp                   0.22 +10.00% vol    132,200

Losers

GLDR.CN    Golden Rapture Mining Corp            0.03 -25.00% vol     66,000
MCL.CN     McLaren Resources Inc                 0.03 -25.00% vol    252,000
FNAU.CN    Four Nines Gold Inc                   0.49 -16.90% vol    702,900
NRED.CN    NovaRed Mining Inc                    0.12 -16.70% vol     81,800
AAZ.V      Azincourt Energy Corp                 0.04 -12.50% vol    758,800

Volume leaders

GDX        VanEck Gold Miners ETF               91.64  +1.90% vol  9,381,600
NXE.TO     NexGen Energy Ltd                    14.94  +3.80% vol  5,516,600
DML.TO     Denison Mines Corp                    4.42  -1.10% vol  5,137,300
BTO.TO     B2Gold Corp                           7.19  +1.10% vol  4,332,900
GSVR.V     Guanajuato Silver Co Ltd              0.52  -5.50% vol  3,804,900