September 21, 2013

Fed unleashes gold

The Federal Reserve shocked the financial world last week, defying universal expectations.

September 20, 2013

First Quantum to speed up construction of world’s largest undeveloped copper deposit in Panama

The Vancouver-based firm will announce a revised investment figure and timeline for its $6.2 billion copper-gold porphyry Cobre Panama mine before the end of 2013.

September 20, 2013

Ben Bernanke is just stringing you along – Gold Miners Weekly

We think “taper talk” is a tactic utilized by the Fed to present and instil the perception that they will, one day, return to responsible monetary policy.

September 20, 2013

India’s gold imports to restart next week

Following a two-month holdup because of confusion over an amendment in the import procedure rule.

September 19, 2013

Republicans pass bill to speed up environmental reviews

Bill will likely die in Senate.

September 18, 2013

A ‘taper’ in a teapot

Precious metals have found a bottom.

September 18, 2013

Pro-or seizes market opportunity with platinum recycling technology

Every year, nearly 15 million North American cars expire—and recycling the platinum group metals within them is far cheaper than building a three-mile mine shaft in a faraway country.

September 18, 2013

Silver breaks into the memory storage market

Developing technology know as Resistive Random-Access Memory (RRAM or ReRAM) has embraced silver.

September 18, 2013

Canada to boost support for mining, but faces challenges

The government is fine tuning details of an aggressive campaign to promote Canada’s mining sector abroad, and so redirect trade spending and foreign affairs to core economic interests.

September 18, 2013

Scrap your Wall Street career plans, study mining and agriculture instead: Jim Rogers

"The power is shifting again from financial centres to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities: raw materials and natural resources."