Metals commentary: Platinum market balanced in 2010, says Johnson Matthey
The following was released by Johnson Matthey and is based on its Platinum 2011 report which can found at www.platinum.matthey.com.
Commodities Markets
Commentary: U.S. investors in Canadian miners may face tax surprises
Canadian-based mining companies commonly raise capital from U.S. investors. Even if they do not actively seek such investment, they often wind up with some (in particular, dual citizens, U.S. citizens living in Canada and Canadian citizens who…
Editorial: Maple knights table TMX bid
The brief but doomed manoeuvre by the TMX Group to be taken over the London Stock Exchange is thankfully coming to an end.
Metals commentary: Metal prices’ fall and the bin Laden effect
Friedrich Nietzsche opined that, in its essence, life is uncanny.
Editorial: Silver leads commodities rout
Commodities investors felt the pain during the first week of May, as the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs set off heavy selling in a wide spectrum of hard assets from precious and base metals to oil and gasoline.
BC shows strong mining revenue, new mines started in 2010: PwC report
Vancouver – The British Columbia mining industry saw more signs of recovery in 2010, but it was the new mines coming online that have prompted talk of a mining renaissance in the industry. Such were some of the findings of…
Back off Berukoff
As a former Western Editor of your newspaper, I was disappointed to read the Lion One Metals story (T.N.M., May 2-8, 2011).
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‘Osama effect’ deflates gold
Early May proved to be historic in global and Canadian geopolitics.
GFMS: Platinum, palladium prices to rise in 2011
The following was released by GFMS and outlines the highlights of its Platinum & Palladium Survey 2011. The summary draws from a briefing given by GFMS chairman Philip Klapwijk in London. For more information and to buy the full report…
Metals Commentary: Metal prices’ fall and the bin Laden effect
Friedrich Nietzsche opined that, in its essence, life is uncanny.
Editorial: Is Barrick tired of gold?
We keep getting surprised by the latest developments in the fate of newbie copper miner Equinox Minerals.