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Gold: The world's friend for 5,000 years
May 21, 2012
Investors have “defriended” gold recently in favor of the dollar, as Greek and French voters rejected austerity measures.
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BioteQ, a leader in the treatment of industrial wastewater, will be presenting a short course and technical paper at the 9th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage taking place in Ottawa, ON from May 21-26, 2012.
Attend to learn more about acid rock drainage and new technologies for its treatment.
You can also stop by the BioteQ booth #16 or visit for more information.
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How strong is global gold demand?
May 21, 2012
Even though gold prices can experience declines that appear to be unfounded, demand from various categories and parts of the world continue to provide support to prices.
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Facebook's weak IPO increases likelihood of inflows into gold stocks
May 21, 2012
Many of us in the gold bug community who have been holding on to our bullion and select stocks for at least several years now have been doing so in anticipation of a mania.
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An argument for a contrarian investment
May 19, 2012
While it might not look like it now, the most investable trend over the next 20 years is going to be in the resource sector, the renewable and non-renewable resources, the minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass a wealthier and growing global population is increasingly demanding from finite supplies and already strained production capabilities.
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China's rare earth quotas are a joke. 74% of oxides never left port this year
May 18, 2012
Chinese authorities added 10,680 tonnes to the country's export allowance this week but it is something of a meaningless exercise because during the first quarter China only exported 26.3% of the initial quota.
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'This is the bottom for gold' – John Hathaway
May 18, 2012
In an interview with Louis James, John Hathaway discusses the US's economic outlook and why he's delighted by the current bearish sentiment toward gold.
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Mining said to need 'image makeover' to attract workers. Paying average $40 an hour not enough
May 17, 2012
Despite paying the highest wages – average $40.42/hour vs a $25/hour across sectors – the mining industry faces an uphill struggle filling more than 100,000 new positions by 2021.
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Chilling real estate numbers from China
May 16, 2012
Business professor Patrick Chovanec, a firm believer that the Middle Kingdom is suffering from a real estate bubble, catalogues some of the latest economic numbers coming out of China and detects a severe contraction in the housing and commercial numbers.
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Benign neglect: Black Ops II, Obama and Molycorp
May 14, 2012
Even by the not very high standards of current US political discourse, the polemic is a little thin on logic.
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The recent stock and oil relationship – and how to trade it
May 14, 2012
Today's story comes from Cory Mitchell, who explains how the charts of oil and the overall market are now hauntingly like the 2006-2008 period—but in the short term, that means now could be a good time to own stocks.
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An Obama War on Coal?
May 14, 2012
Recent news that President Obama's re-election web page on energy policy didn't include coal on the list of "all of the above" energy sources sparked outrage in coal-producing states like Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Mulcair's resource sector attack is an electoral numbers game
May 13, 2012
NDP leader Thomas Mulcair recently criticized the resource sector for driving up the Canadian dollar and hurting manufacturing in Ontario, a Canadian Dutch disease.
Copper off to the races after Wen comments
Copper saw a strong start to the trading week adding 1.8% following pro-growth comments by the Chinese premier Wen Jiabao over the weekend.
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