August 12, 2015

Freeport cancels copper exports from Indonesia as permit expires

The company, which runs the massive Grasberg mine in Papua, has stopped exporting since last month.

August 5, 2015

CRA targeting mining-sector tax havens

It’s an issue that the Canadians for Tax Fairness and the Liberal Party of Canada appear to be hoping to make a federal election issue.

August 5, 2015

Work continues

There are good companies doing promising work. Yes, the news flow is slower than in better markets, but that doesn’t mean it’s crickets out there.

July 26, 2015

The nickel price can only go up

This trailblazing company is ahead of the game in the fastest growing region in the world.

July 23, 2015

Vale adds to iron ore supply glut — second highest ever quarterly output

The world’s largest iron ore producer continued to flood the market despite a current oversupply that has sent prices for the commodity plummeting to historic lows.

July 16, 2015

Stefan Ioannou’s ways to ride the next zinc and nickel waves

Base metals prices are feeling the undertow but Stefan Ioannou, mining analyst with Haywood Securities, says that this is temporary—and that investors may not have to wait long for the…

July 16, 2015

Planetary Resources’ first spacecraft begins testing asteroid prospecting technology

The Arkyd 3 Reflight (A3R) will spent its three-month orbiting mission sending back data to a group of scientists based at the firm’s headquarters in Redmond, WA.

July 14, 2015

Only permanent supply cuts can lift metal prices

The availability of cheap money has seen boards postpone hard decisions about uneconomic capacity says Macquarie in new report.

July 14, 2015

Wellgreen Platinum’s above ground advantage

"I think in general the investor who are interested in a development stage company tend to be the same group of investors. But if they are looking for that allocation…

July 7, 2015

China panic crushes mining stocks

Billions wiped from mining sector as gold, silver prices fall and copper, iron ore prices plummet to 2009 levels amid Chinese stock market collapse.