January 4, 2016 Happy New Year from The Mercenary Geologist Despite the ongoing and deepening bear market for commodities and the junior resource sector, MercenaryGeologist.com continues to produce valuable analysis and research on commodities and equities.
December 24, 2015 Mining in 2016: Six reasons to be cheerful No 3: "The return of inflation could revive demand for hedges including commodities, with gold in particular likely to benefit."
December 23, 2015 You’re too bearish on China growth Beijing has very ambitious 2020 growth targets. A new survey finds Chinese executives are much more confident than the rest of the world about hitting them.
December 11, 2015 Some think not too soon for Anglo obituary Anglo-American perceived as "the most likely of the diversified mining majors to go bust" even if it "goes down fighting".
December 11, 2015 Is platinum cheap or was it too expensive? Today, many in the industry claim that platinum is a bargain buy, citing its historic relationship to gold as evidence.
December 8, 2015 In January this guy launches a hedge fund to invest in metals Orion's Oskar Lewnowski: "For a long time, metals were driven by financial flows... With those guys out, we are back to fundamentals."
December 8, 2015 Anglo American to cut 85,000 jobs, dividend and assets in sweeping restructuring The job cuts, part of a major overhaul, are far greater than the 53,000 positions the miner said it would cut in July.
December 7, 2015 Responding to a depressed mining market The immediate reactive response from most mines is to cut: cut costs, cut employee numbers, and cut output.
December 4, 2015 Anglo American set to announce dividend cut next week One of the miner’s worst kept secret may be revealed as soon as Tuesday.
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