Recent Work

20 miners for 2026 – Part II

2025 was a strong year for coal and precious metals driven by the sustained rally in the price of gold and silver, both of which reached multi-year highs

20 miners for 2026 – Part I

2025 was a strong year for coal and precious metals driven by the sustained rally in the price of gold and silver, both of which reached multi-year highs

10 oil & gas companies for 2026

2025 was a mixed year for the hydrocarbons sector with global oil supply exceeding demand – but there are brighter prospects for LNG and natural gas in 2026

10 companies to follow in 2026

A look at 10 companies from a variety of sectors that have performed well in 2025 or which may be positioned for a better year ahead

Aterian

Well positioned to rapidly build mineral trading operations in Rwanda after taking full control of the highly prospective critical metals HCK Project

Focus Xplore

A miner breaking new ground applying machine learning and data analysis to illuminate exploration opportunities imperceptible to classic geological technologies

AIM 2025: green shoots

After three tough years AIM seems to be turning the corner delivering a return of 9.4pc so far this year after falling by more than a third through 2022 to 2024

ECR Minerals

Set to make the leap from explorer to producer after laying the groundwork for revenue generating operations in Australia’s historic goldfields

Lexington Gold

Continuing to define the potential of projects highly prospective for gold and other precious metals in South Africa’s most prolific gold region

With acknowledgements to Unsplash for many of the images used in this section