Soros and Paulson Like Gold and You Should Like Gold Too
Mineweb looks at Soros and Paulson’s interest in gold.
Cecilia Jamasmie , Editor-in-Chief
Posts by Cecilia Jamasmie:
The Strong Hand Theory
I’ll start off with an analogy. Let’s say you just bought a business, a small restaurant. You open for business on Monday […]
The Mine of the Future Might be a Thing of the Past
Automated operations are winning over today’s mining industry. Whether it is autonomous trucks, tele-operated drills and blasts or automated logistics applications, mines […]
Mining the Moon is Closer than Ever
For some it might sound like a futuristic tale, but for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Agency (NASA), the goal of […]
The Faces Behind the Wheel
They may look like easy-to-drive toy trucks when at the bottom of the mine, but the reality is quite the opposite. Mining […]
Tantalum: A Bloody Future?
First there were “blood diamonds,” the gems that fuelled conflict and human rights abuses in Liberia and Sierra Leone. Then there was […]
Potash Rush Fires Up
That a fertilizer may become the next gold may seem hard to believe. However, when Canadian company Potash Corp, a fertilizer producer […]
Nunavut: The Epicentre of a New Diamond Exploration Boom in Canada
Finding diamonds in Canada was, for many years, little more than a prospector’s hope. But with the discovery of diamonds in Nunavut […]
Chile, Codelco and the Copper Slump
I n early January 2009, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet announced a $4 billion plan to help Chile fight the global economic crisis […]
Victor Mine
In 1987, second-year Lakehead University geology student Brad Wood made the type of discovery that all prospectors dream about. He had been […]
Critical minerals diplomacy surges, but few deals have teeth
Over 50 bilateral and multilateral agreements have been announced in 18 months, involving major consumers like the US, EU, Japan, and Australia.