August 5, 2011 Major stock buying op It’s sure been an exceptionally-ugly week in the US stock markets! But these scary conditions are a contrarian’s dream, an ideal time to snatch up bargains.
August 5, 2011 The crime against silver In 1873, the Fourth Coinage Act was enacted by the US Congress. Western silver miners labeled this measure the "Crime of '73" because it stopped the printing of US silver…
August 5, 2011 Junior gold stocks suffer in market meltdown – is this 2008 over again? Comments yesterday from the president of the ECB on the spreading Eurozone debt crisis precipitated a general global stock market crash with the mining sector and metals amongst the major…
August 5, 2011 US new nuclear build before 2012 Southern Company is expecting to begin full construction of two reactors at the end of this year, having been given a licensing schedule by the nuclear safety regulators.
August 5, 2011 Fake Twitter accounts used to promote tar sands pipeline The Guardian has an amusing story about allegations that oil company lobbyists have set up fake Twitter accounts in support of Keystone XL. Here's an example of one Tweet: "If…
August 5, 2011 Uranium set to overtake diamonds as Namibia’s largest foreign currency earner According to a new report by Research & Markets high uranium prices, paralleled by growing global demand for energy, will result in Namibia doubling its uranium production to approximately 12,000…
August 5, 2011 Copper sinks to two-month low, demand fears dominate London copper fell to its lowest in more than a month on Friday as investors retreated from the industrial metal on escalating fears over economic and demand growth in the…
August 5, 2011 Pricking the carbon finance bubble Hazel Henderson writes for Reuters, after the first year of the Dodd-Frank reform in the USA, the too-big-to-fail financial bubble still looms. Missed by Frank-Dodd are the obsolete fossilized asset…
August 5, 2011 Thomson Reuters buys GFMS The news and information service announced Friday it had acquired UK-based, private metals analysis firm GFMS for an undisclosed sum in a bid to expand its metals information offerings News…
August 5, 2011 Denison Mines downgrades 2011 uranium, vanadium sales projections Mineweb reports on Denison Mines' (TSE:DML,AMEX:DNN) downgrading 2011 uranium sales projections.
Indonesia identifies eight blocks with large rare earth reserve potential The blocks will be mined by the new state-owned miner Perminas. February 10, 2026 | 09:51 am
