March 23, 2012 Early-stage investing opportunities: James West and Tobias Tretter The Midas Letter Opportunity Fund, a new niche fund, focuses on early-stage micro-cap miners in the junior resource sector.
March 23, 2012 Randgold highlights mining risk as Turkey seeks gold bullion On Thursday, gold prices declined to $1,642.50 per ounce, while silver fell nearly 90 cents to settle at $31.35.
March 23, 2012 Doug Casey: “It’s a dead-man-walking economy” In an interview with Louis James, the inimitable Doug Casey throws cold water on those celebrating the economic recovery.
March 23, 2012 Arizona’s copper mining challenges There is no doubt that copper mining is a big business in Arizona, supporting over 62,000 jobs and contributing about $7.5 billion to the state’s GDP. But for Arizona to…
March 23, 2012 Why gold can go the distance Gold’s been knocked down lately, but several enduring factors have conditioned the yellow metal for an inevitable comeback.
March 23, 2012 Shafter silver mine approaches production Reports that a giant new vein of silver was discovered in Shafter weren't completely denied by the Rio Grande Mining Company this week.
March 22, 2012 Silver Wheaton Reports Record Operating and Financial Results in 2011; Earnings and Operating Cash Flows Nearly Double Silver Wheaton Corp. (SLW.TO) announced its audited results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2011. It also announced that its Board of Directors has declared its first…
March 22, 2012 Metals Economics Group pipeline activity index, March 2012 Metals Economics Group (MEG) Pipeline Activity Index (PAI) slid for the third consecutive month in January to its lowest level since mid-2010, before showing some encouraging signs of recovery in…
March 22, 2012 Mining plans in Ecuador face indigenous backlash Mediaworks reports hundreds of indigenous people in Ecuador opposed to planned mining projects are marching towards the country's capital of Quito.
March 22, 2012 Global mining firms face energy crisis Global mining firms say energy vulnerability is a risk they worry about in one of the last relatively unexplored countries, which is thought to still have big undiscovered deposits even…
Disruption and dislocation: LME metals’ year in seven charts Supply disruption and tariff dislocation have defined the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this year. December 23, 2025 | 07:58 am
