December 12, 2013

Miners warned about Indonesia, Brazil, India and South Africa investments

Terrorism, regime instability and resource nationalism, are the main risks mining investors will face in 2014.

December 11, 2013

What hard landing? Chinese bulk trade barometer surges to 3-year high

Baltic Dry Shipping Index has surged 220% this year as the iron ore and coal trade continues to defy Chinese bears.

December 11, 2013

Joy Global ends the year with 87% earnings drop

Share price drops more than 6%.

December 10, 2013

Simandou hearing delay hints at Vale-BSGR settlement

Work on half of the giant Simandou concession in Guinea has been halted amid a corruption probe, but the door to a settlement between the Western African nation, Brazil's Vale…

December 10, 2013

BHP Billiton cuts spending by 25%

Chief Andrew Mackenzie highlighted he will base future decisions on BHP's "four key pillars": coal, iron ore, petroleum and copper.

December 10, 2013

Alberta, oil sands lead the Canadian economy once again

But British Columbia is expected to become the fastest growing economy by 2015.

December 10, 2013

Employment prospects for Canadian miners don’t look good

Canadian mining companies are becoming increasingly unwilling to add employees to their payrolls and are reporting the weakest hiring intentions since Q3 2009.

December 6, 2013

Mining jobs in Australia to stage a comeback

Resource industry employment expected to grow 11% in the next five years.

December 5, 2013

Can Juniors borrow instead of raising equity? – Kenton Ralph Toews

Juniors usually raise cash to keep their operations going by issuing new shares.

December 5, 2013

Another big bank pulls out of commodities

Deutsche, Europe's number two bank, has joined the US exodus and is getting out commodities trading, although it is keeping precious metals in its portfolio.