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By Frank Holmes |
March 15, 2011
Global markets present tremendous opportunities to those who are able to sort out what's meaningful from the background noise. It also means going where others don't.
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By Gareth Hatch |
March 7, 2011
Exhibitors present included some with projects on the 300+ long TMR Rare-Earths Project List, with names that might not be as familiar to folks watching the rare-earths sector as others.
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By Gareth Hatch |
March 4, 2011
On the last day of the Mining Indaba event, I had the opportunity to accompany the management team and directors, analysts and others on a visit out to see the Steenkampskraal rare-earth project first-hand.
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By Ann Harrap |
March 3, 2011
The Australian government has recently compiled a database of Australian resource sector projects in Africa and the companies involved. There are over 220 Australian companies with nearly 600 projects in Africa spread across 42 countries.
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By Mark O'Byrne |
March 3, 2011
Gold and silver have recovered somewhat from slight falls in Asia overnight. With geopolitical instability looking set to climb and possibility of a military confrontation in the Mediterranean, any sell off of precious metals will likely be tentative.
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By Brett Hartke |
February 15, 2011
Severe and widespread flooding several weeks ago in Queensland - Australia's main coal producing region - sent shock waves through the already under-supplied coking coal market. Prices briefly ratcheted up to what some termed hysterical levels.
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By Minefund.com |
February 11, 2011
GoldMoney founder James Turk says the Dow Jones Industrial Average to gold ratio will again revert to one, and that's where his $8,000/oz prediction lands.
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By Philip Burgert |
February 11, 2011
Copper production is likely to continue to fall short of demand into 2012 and possibly 2013, driving prices to an average of $9,200 per tonne this year and $10,000 per tonne next year, an analyst with Standard Bank told the Mining Indaba conference.
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By Brett Hartke |
February 10, 2011
Diamonds were hard-hit by the global economic dislocations of 2008-2009, along with other asset-class commodities including gold, but the industry is now in a recovery phase that looks poised to accelerate.
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By Minefund.com |
February 10, 2011
Any appearance by Ivanhoe Mining's Robert Friedland is considered an actionable event. So when he asked to speak at Mining Indaba in Cape Town, it caught a lot of attention.