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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
January 11, 2013
Perhaps, for a New Year’s resolution we should all have on our radar screens the truth in regards to the many conspiracy theories floating around the internet in regards to gold.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
January 2, 2013
Resource extraction and agriculture are the primary sources of wealth. Exploitation of the United States own natural resources, combined with a solid manufacturing sector could be the economic drivers of a resurgent US economy.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
December 26, 2012
More than two-thirds of the world’s cobalt is supplied by the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Demand for cobalt is expected to rise at about 7% year over year to over 100,000 tonnes by 2016 and industry experts say more stable sources of cobalt are needed.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
December 21, 2012
You need to find the quality management teams with money in the treasury, the ability to raise more and having the advanced projects that are well along the development path towards a mine that is going to be a long life, lowest quartile all-in cost producer.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
December 17, 2012
Investors seeking leverage to precious metals should focus on junior resource companies who own the world’s undeveloped gold and silver deposits as they provide the best exposure to a rising precious metals price environment.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
November 19, 2012
Mining companies are now stepping back in time and are shifting exploration efforts to ever more remote, geo-politically challenged locations in a search for laterite ore because of a lack of discovery of new nickel sulfide deposits.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
November 9, 2012
Copper mining has become an especially capital intensive industry – the average capital intensity for a new copper mine in 2000 was between US$4,000-$5,000 to build the capacity to produce a tonne of copper, now capital intensity is north of $10,000/t.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
November 2, 2012
The issue of Canada diverting part of its fresh water resources to the US has never been on, or has long since faded off, most Canadians' radar screens, but the country with the world’s largest economy is also the world’s largest producer of corn, soybeans and wheat.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
October 25, 2012
It’s obvious that starting very soon, and continuing for at least a decade , there is going to be a significant shortfall of uranium supply. Where is the US, and the rest of the world, going to source its needed uranium from?
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
October 12, 2012
China has recently revealed the size of its copper inventories – and they scared the hell out of investors when they did it. Do you think China might have an interest in inflating the size of its stockpiles to push prices down?
