June 17, 2012 End of the supercycle is also spelling the end of radical resource nationalism "Natural resources companies with a pipeline of, say, five projects in five different countries are now likely to build just two or three of those. Thus, executives have the power…
June 17, 2012 Australia: Mine, all mine By having too much of a good thing, the argument goes, Australia, or the “quarry in China’s backyard”, has become too dependent on commodity-led growth. That has made it lazy…
June 17, 2012 Why I’m buying this global mining giant Diversified Australian resources company BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) has its hands in nearly every commodity that can be pulled out of the ground.
June 15, 2012 Dia Bras announces termination of letter of intent to acquire Plexmar Plexmar announced that the letter of intent dated April 17th, 2012 between Dia Bras and Plexmar has been terminated.
June 15, 2012 End of an epoch as Hong Kong exchange takes over 135-year old LME The three losing bids were all from the US and the deal marks a decisive shift in the commodities trading business away from Chicago and London to Asia.
June 15, 2012 Gold-silver ratio path not necessarily bullish for silver investors Although the historic gold-silver ratio may be around 16:1 current patterns do not suggest any likely return to this level - indeed the ratio may yet get worse for silver…
June 15, 2012 The three highest paid executives in BC all worked at Ivanhoe Mines John Macken, who recently gave up being president of Ivanhoe Mines, was BC’s top paid executive and brought home a total $23.358 million […]
June 15, 2012 Prepare for a white knuckle ride with volatility being the ‘norm’ In the early days of this bull market in precious metals we all did well as most mining stocks sprang to life and made considerable gains.
June 14, 2012 Scathing report calls India’s 2,600 mines ‘out of control’ Illegality in the mining sector has deprived state governments of badly needed revenues, threatened the industry with costly and unpredictable shutdowns, and generated political chaos that helped bring down two…
June 14, 2012 Mirasol drills the Rio Seco prospect, Claudia gold-silver project, Argentina Mirasol recently reported it has initiated an aggressive surface exploration program focused on three large epithermal gold-silver prospects at the Claudia Project in Argentina.
Copper price heads toward $12,000 a ton as banks predict further gains With year-end approaching, copper on the London Metal Exchange is up nearly 40%, marking its biggest annual gain since 2009. December 22, 2025 | 07:00 am
