May 17, 2011 Extorre’s Cerro Moro receives development go-ahead TSX and Amex-listed Extorre Gold Mines took a step closer to the development of its flagship mine Cerro Moro in Argentina on Tuesday with the approval of the Environmental Impact…
May 17, 2011 Why the silver price spiked – and crashed The market was meant to be in surplus but somehow investors were in the midst of a buying frenzy that flew in the face of fundamentals. Big banks such as…
May 17, 2011 HudBay Minerals increases first quarter profit by 59% HudBay Minerals Inc. has released its first quarter 2011 financial results. Net profit attributable to shareholders increased to $16.8 million or $0.11 per share in the first quarter of 2011,…
May 16, 2011 What’s driving the divergence of commodity prices As the chart below demonstrates commodity prices are driven by different factors. The precious metals prices have been the hyperbolic driver of headline commodities news relative to the broader based…
May 16, 2011 John Kaiser: alternative energy fuels mining boom Advances in energy and agriculture are creating demand for previously ignored metals such as scandium, tellurium and indium. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Mining Analyst John Kaiser,…
May 16, 2011 Gold options: going to the well again There are two markets where supply and demand fundamentals have gone out the window and where the value of the dollar and […]
May 16, 2011 Without QE3, commodities may suffer While China continues to make asset driven economic decisions and now looks like a traction control experiment where the economy is like a car that is driving on ice that…
May 16, 2011 Chart of the day: commodity flows QE, of course, only happens when interest rates hit the zero bound, so it’s impossible to disentangle the effects of QE from the effects of G3 interest rates all coming…
May 16, 2011 First Majestic earns a record $23.9 million in first quarter of 2011 First Majestic has experienced a new record for quarterly earnings for the first quarter of 2011 due to a 30% increase in average realized silver prices over the prior quarter…
May 14, 2011 Net gold and silver long positions cut last week Speculators in gold, silver and copper futures and options sharply cut their net long positions in the week ended May 10. Metal prices sold off during a commodities rout during…
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
