February 9, 2012

Canaccord to raise a US$1-billion fund for Chinese investment in natural resources

Canadian merchant bank Canaccord Financial Inc. (TSX:CF) stocks were up almost 3 percent this morning after the company announced this morning that it will partner with the Import Export Bank…

February 9, 2012

Canada gets more than just pandas in black and white as Harper signs China uranium deal

Canada’s nuclear-energy industry generates some $6.6 billion in annual revenue, $1.2 billion in exports each year and employs roughly 31,000 people according to Harper's office.

February 8, 2012

Massive rise in China gold imports in 2011 – policy controlling the price

China continues to see rising gold consumption with a virtual tripling of gold imports through Hong Kong in 2011, but demand in December appears to have stuttered ahead of the…

February 7, 2012

Chinese companies hurling headlong into Sunshine Oilsands IPO

Reuters reports that sovereign wealth fund China Investment Corp (CIC) and state oil company Sinopec are among three cornerstone investors that will pledge $350 million towards Sunshine Oilsands Ltd's Hong…

February 7, 2012

Centerra Gold Kumtor Mine work stoppage

TORONTO, CANADA--(Marketwire - Feb. 6, 2012) - Centerra Gold Inc. (TSX:CG) announced that the unionized employees of its Kumtor operation in the Kyrgyz Republic have begun an illegal strike.

February 6, 2012

Ethical Coal: Mongolia’s sparkling potential amidst regional energy demand

Mongolia is land-locked country in East and central Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south, east and west. With a population of 2.8 million people…

February 6, 2012

In the bullring with gold

After prices fell 10 percent in December, many investors wondered if the bull market in gold was running out of steam. That was before Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke swooped…

February 5, 2012

Chinese on a bullion binge

Over the past month they've been impossible to miss. On billboards across Hong Kong, throughout its subway network and all over its buses have been huge advertisements for little gold…

February 5, 2012

US job growth ripples to Chinese copper and ore

Nothing is so salutary for the Chinese economy as growth in the United States, and nothing is so good for copper and iron ore prices as a strong Chinese economy.…

February 5, 2012

China gold output in 2011 was 360 tonnes

Interfax-China reported that China's gold bullion output grew by 5.89% in 2011 to reach a record high of 360.96 tonnes up by 20.08 tonnes from the previous year making the…