Newly released 2020 global exploration budget data from S&P Global Market Intelligence shows that exploration sector optimism that began to appear in the second half of 2019 was snuffed out by COVID-19, resulting a second year of decreased nonferrous budgets of 11% to US$8.3 billion in 2020.

This analysis is based on our survey of 2,500 public and private companies.

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