January 22, 2014

Key metrics before you invest: ‘Skin in the game’ and ‘smart money’

When searching for opportunities in the junior sector, we like the focus to be on quantitative and empirical data.

January 22, 2014

BHP posts record iron ore, coal outputs, but challenges persist

Despite record production figures, the world’s no.1 miner's shares dropped in the ASX today.

January 22, 2014

Experts see global mining equipment market improving

Study shows the market is expected to grow more than 8% a year through 2017.

January 21, 2014

BSGR wins battle in corruption probe over Simandou

Article published last year by a French newspaper, which said the magnate and his company had been part of a coup effort against Guinea’s current President, was based on fake…

January 20, 2014

VIDEO: Rosetta comet-chasing spacecraft wakes up

First spacecraft to land in a comet wakes up from 10 years of hibernation.

January 17, 2014

NASA wants your name in its first asteroid mission, leaving in 2016

Selected names will be etched on a microchip aboard the spacecraft headed to the asteroid Bennu in only two years.

January 17, 2014

Fortescue Metals addresses allegations of unsafe working conditions

Fortescue doesn't like what it's hearing and has published a video on YouTube addressing the concerns.

January 16, 2014

Rio Tinto’s record output another sign of shifting luck for miners

The positive results triggered the biggest one-day rally for the miner's shares since November.

January 14, 2014

Iron ore, coking coal prices are breaking bad

Iron ore sinks below $130 for the first time in 148 trading days and coking coal breaks long-held industry rule of thumb and dips below the iron ore price.

January 13, 2014

Is space mining commercially viable?

A researcher from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics says there are likely 'few' ore-bearing asteroids.