Iron ore price hits three-week low
But forward curve currently pricing 2017 at around $70 per tonne – around 25% higher than 2016’s year to date average.
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Global executives renewed optimism about Chinese economy
A new survey shows those heading some of the world's largest corporations are increasingly sanguine about China hitting growth targets.
Bush Trumps Reagan
The optimism that has followed the election of Donald Trump has pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average to the threshold of 20,000, a level that will be both a nominal record and a symbolic milestone.
Stockpools & Kitco put the fun back in investing
The boom and bust mining cycle can be a daunting obstacle for investors new to the world of mining and mineral exploration, but what if a potential investor could play the markets without risking their money?
CHART: China’s economy growing fastest since 2013
Turnaround in GDP expansion in world's top commodity consumer over the past few months "almost as sharp as in 2009" says new study.
U.S. shale is now cash flow neutral
The IEA says that in the third quarter of 2016, the U.S. shale industry became cash flow neutral for the first time ever. That isn’t a typo.
Gold price: The great year-end ETF liquidation sale
Heavy selling of gold ETFs is creating its own momentum – many investors are under water after buying 160 tonnes in GLD this year at prices above today's
Without China global mining would be smaller than in 2000
TABLE: China's copper demand grew 11-fold in 15 years – the rest of the world shrunk. Sans China, the nickel market would've barely broken a million tonnes.
Cost-saving nanotechnology set to disrupt gold processing industry
Widespread adoption of IXOS could add billions of dollars in profits to an industry that produces about 90 million ounces of gold each year, according to 6th Wave Innovations out of Salt Lake City, which recently launched its molecularly imprinted polymer ion exchange resin.
