Metals Commentary: Metal prices’ fall and the bin Laden effect
Friedrich Nietzsche opined that, in its essence, life is uncanny.
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Editorial: Is Barrick tired of gold?
We keep getting surprised by the latest developments in the fate of newbie copper miner Equinox Minerals.
GFMS: Gold to pass US$1600 in 2011
The following was released by GFMS and outlines the highlights of its Gold 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 visit www.gfms.co.uk.
Gold cracks US$1,500, silver above US$45
Mid-April was one of those times when gold bugs ask themselves, “why is everyone else so slow to catch on?”
CDI: Cobalt sliding into oversupply
The following was released by Cobalt News, which is published by the Cobalt Development Institute. For more information visit www.thecdi.com.
U.S. markets fall, Apr. 11-15
U.S. markets took a turn for the worse during the Apr. 11-15 trading week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 38.22 points or 0.31% to 12,341.83 and the S&P 500 index slipping 8.49 points or 0.64% to 1,319.68. China’s…
Five perspectives on oilsands closure
Much of the discussion these days around oilsands extraction in Alberta has focused on what the area can and should look like after closure.
Gov’ts squeeze mining companies
With miners and their associates having been given a free hand for much of the past decade, one trend of the new decade is a renewed willingness on the behalf of national governments to step in and get involved in the high-level decisions of…
Metals commentary: UBS slashes near-term commodity price forecasts
Accelerated capital outflow from emerging markets and tighter liquidity as stimulus ends from the U.S. Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, a “rebalancing” in China where policy-makers are not actively stimulating private construction…
Another view of doing business in the DRC
For the past six and a half years, our company has been engaged in intensive mineral exploration in what many consider to be one of the less fashionable addresses on earth: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
Minmetals saves Lundin’s bacon
In what looks to be one of the major themes in mining this year, mergers and acquisitions again took centre stage in early April.
Surf’s up: Let’s ride (April 08, 2011)
When you ask Richard Briggs what he’s telling his clients about investing in base metals these days he says: “We’re advising caution — lots of caution.”