April 28, 2011 Sherritt’s Q1 earnings up 116% to $63.6 million Sherritt's Q1 earnings rose 116% over the same quarter a year ago. The company reported net earnings on Thursday of $63.6 million or 22 cents a share. A year ago,…
April 28, 2011 Russian metals firms constrained by rail Russia's two main rail lines into Asia and, in particular China, are increasingly overburdened which is causing a headache for metals firms looking to increase exports.
April 27, 2011 Trading the globe: let the copper wars continue News that gigantic gold miner Barrick (ABX) wants to buy junior copper miner Equinox (EQXMF.PK) keeps reverberating through the commodity markets.
April 27, 2011 A longer-term view of inflation: industrial metals vs. gold I found an interesting dataset at the IMF of commodity prices going back to 1980. What makes it interesting is to look at the longer-term price trends of some of…
April 27, 2011 Commodities: No bubble here With commodity prices up so much over the past several years, you can forgive long-term value investors for giving them a miss. Who wants to risk exposure to another asset…
April 27, 2011 Palladium: The white metal investors should have on their radar If you’ve been long palladium, you know much of the ride over the last two years has been remarkable. The white metal gained 350% in value between January 2009 and…
April 27, 2011 Today in Commodities: Status quo from Fed Nothing new to report from Uncle Ben and his cronies but at least there was more talk of inflation with rising commodity […]
April 27, 2011 Barrick’s Q1 earnings rise 22 percent to $1.0 billion Barrick's Q1 earnings rose 22% to $1.0 billion, up from $820 million a year ago. The company, which released its quarterly financial results on Wednesday, said the rise was due…
April 27, 2011 La Quinta enters LOI to acquire BC massive sulfide project with 171 g/t silver, 6.7% copper La Quinta Resources Corporation (TSX VENTURE:LAQ) ("La Quinta") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Letter of Intent (LOI) to acquire the Carruthers Pass, B.C. massive sulfide…
April 27, 2011 Has copper become the new gold? Soaring global demand for copper makes the metal a better bet than gold and explains a surprise bid by Barrick Gold Corp, the world's No. 1 bullion producer, for copper…
Gabon to audit mining deals as reforms start amid IMF talks As part of discussions with the multilateral lender, President Brice Oligui Nguema “has demanded the full publication of all mining agreements". December 19, 2025 | 10:51 am
