July 31, 2013

INFOGRAPHIC: Money – The cold hard facts

The US prints 26 million notes each day worth about $907 million. More crazy facts here.

July 31, 2013

Chris Berry’s strategies for profiting from a distorted reality: Investing after QE

Quantitative easing has created new problems for commodity investors — the systemic distortion of true supply-demand for commodities.

July 31, 2013

Tasmanian iron ore mine faces fresh threats of legal actions

Environmentalists claim mining in the region would imperil the survival of the only robust Tasmanian devil population still left in the wild.

July 31, 2013

Ancient gold of lost Egyptian city going on display

The ancient port city of Heracleion was lost underwater for 1,200 years.

July 31, 2013

Analysts expects several banks to follow JPMorgan commodities exit

Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs likely to be the next ones.

July 31, 2013

Mining CEOs sent packing planning comebacks: report

Aaron Regent (Barrick Gold) and and Mick Davis (Xstrata PLC) the two that might be back very soon.

July 31, 2013

BHP chooses to keep Australian coal mine

The Gregory Crinum coal complex is one of the several assets the world’s No.1 miner has been seeking to offload amid a slump in commodity prices.

July 31, 2013

African Barrick Gold shares hit by $727m charge and lawsuit

The mid-cap gold miner's impairment followed an operating review that also drove the company to announce $95 million of operating cost cuts.

July 31, 2013

The Bank of England’s dirty secret

BofE reveals that it helped Nazis sell stolen gold.

July 31, 2013

Mining support company Abitibi Geophysics has a new home

Today in Thunder Bay, almost a hundred business, government and industry came together to celebrate the opening of one of Canada's most progressive mining support companies, Abitibi Geophysics