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Where is gold heading?

February 3, 2012

Gold prices had a great time of things in January but, as Joel Anderson reports, both bulls and bears are out in full force when it comes to predicting its next move.

Xstrata tailings dam failure imminent?

February 3, 2012

This must be every miners nightmare: contradicting opinions on the safety of your tailings facility.  At this link is a report that is not all that specific about the technical issues, but pretty clear about the debate. 

Great deals on gold and silver: James Turk

February 1, 2012

GoldMoney Founder and Chairman James Turk knows how to find great deals on gold and silver.

Oil sands and other tailings trafficability

January 31, 2012

Rummaging through old papers this weekend, I came across a short hand-written piece that I penned in 1982.

Underpriced precious metals juniors due to move in 2012: Matthew Zylstra

January 31, 2012

After a tough year in 2011, there is definitely a good selection of underpriced junior resource stocks available for astute investors to focus on before the rest of the herd finally wakes up and smells the gold.

CIDA supports Canadian mining: the pros & cons of a rising debate

January 30, 2012

Soon after the fall of the Berlin wall, we descended on Wismut, East Germany with proposals to help them cleanup the old uranium mines, mills, and tailings impoundments that the Russians left behind.

Nuclear power, it’s no contest

January 28, 2012

The electricity needed for any country to successfully replace fossil fuels, both for transportation and everyday use, will have to come from nuclear generation.

New mining investment resource: Featured Mining Investment Opportunities

January 27, 2012

The quantity of information that is needed to make rationale mining investment decisions is immense.

An illustrated look at rare earth elements that power our electronic devices

January 27, 2012

Innovation News Daily published an infographic of energy critical rare earth elements.

‘Mania’ in Junior mining stocks predicted: Fayyaz Alimohamed

January 27, 2012

Fayyaz Alimohamed, CEO of Altair Ventures Inc. and publisher of the Acamar Journal, offers historical perspective and predictions on the global economic crisis.

Dr Caterpillar’s (excellent) prognosis for mining

January 26, 2012

With revenues of $60 billion last year and operations at the ends of the earth, few companies are in a better position to take the pulse of the global economy and the resource sector than Caterpillar.

But what is it saying about the outlook for 2012?

Gold junior a tantalizing takeover target?

January 25, 2012

The improbable feat of commercializing Latin America’s second largest undeveloped gold deposit has achieved a major milestone validation for its unlikely owner, a small Canadian explorer named Exeter Resource.

Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton shrug off doom and gloom and look to long-term expansion

January 25, 2012

On the surface, the increasingly shrill cries of financial Armageddon from the World Bank last week and the IMF this week sit strangely at odds with the actions and attitudes of the globe’s two biggest resource houses, which have committed themselves to massive expansions involving vast amounts of cash.

Should Apple buy gold?

January 25, 2012

Gold is a very controversial object.

Graphite applications expanding: Ryan Fletcher

January 25, 2012

Graphite, once the stuff of pencil lead, figures prominently in post-paper-age consumer electronics, and escalating spot prices reflect its critical role in electric vehicle manufacturing.

Super Mario

January 24, 2012

We are extremely comfortable that our prognosticating for 2012 may or may not work out. Which puts us in the same camp as most others. That said, a contrarian turn ahead of possible normalizing of the debt issues still with us that we suggested in December does seem to be gaining ground in the market. With that should come a greater focus on basic technical indicators like metal stockpile changes.