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Exploration news (February 01, 2008)

Canadian Mining Journal Staff | February 1, 2008 | 12:00 am

World budgets rise again for fifth straight year, hit $10B

Metals Economics Group (MEG) of Halifax has polled over 1,800 companies and concluded that their combined global non-ferrous exploration budgets for 2007 total US$9.99 billion. This is the highest amount identified since MEG started its survey in 1989 and the fifth annual increase in a row.

MEG estimates that the reporting companies account for more than 95% of non-ferrous exploration expenditures around the world. The missing 5% would bring the total to US$10.5 billion, a 40% increase over last year’s total and more than double the previous high in 1997. The 2007 report was the first time MEG had included uranium exploration ($936 million) in its numbers.

Excluding numbers for uranium, the hottest exploration sector was gold, which received 41% of the total spending. It was followed by base metals (38%), diamonds (10%), PGMs (3%) and other (10%).The area of greatest interest is Latin America where spending will reach 24% of the total. Canada with 19% was second, and then Africa (16%), Australia (12%), United States (8%), Pacific and Southeast Asia (4%) and the rest of the world (17%).

A full description of the MEG study is available at www.MetalsEconomics.com.


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