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By Will Bancroft |
March 14, 2012
Silver is a much smaller market than the gold market and quality research about the poor man’s gold can be less easy to find. One academic who stands out though is the late Professor Roy Jastram, whose works on gold lead him to an investigation into silver’s monetary history.
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By Karen Roche |
March 13, 2012
With more than 40 years as an economist to his credit and claiming gold as the "biggest position in my life," the Gloom Boom & Doom Report publisher assures us that gold is nowhere near a bubble phase, but cautions that corrections of 40% are not unusual.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
March 12, 2012
If you want to see what such a rolling top looks like, take a peek at the chart for my old friend, Dr. Copper, that great prognosticator of future economic activity. He shows that we have already been putting in a rolling top for the last two months.
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By Sally Lowder |
December 20, 2011
The worldwide hunt for new sources of critical metals has some miners hitting the beach, tapping sand and river placer deposits in search of naturally processed minerals, according to the scientist and rare earth expert.
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By Jack Barnes |
October 25, 2011
You might think you know everything you need to know about Vale SA, but you don't. Now that Vale has full control over its iron ore business, it can look forward to newer ventures. And it has a big-time market in its sights.
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By Keith Schaefer |
October 21, 2011
Retail consumers of oil - and retail investors - are the big losers now that oil has become a financial product, says the author of Oil's Endless Bid. The irony is they're doing it to themselves by buying ETFs and other financial derivative products.
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By Zig Lambo |
October 11, 2011
Despite the risks and unfavorable public opinion associated with offshore drilling, the truth remains that the keys to unlock the planet's vast remaining oil resources lie beneath ocean floors, in places like the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil and the Arctic.
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By Anthony J. Alfidi |
October 6, 2011
ARPA-E has selected a plethora of research projects for funding, including proposed alternatives to existing paradigms in energy and materials. The $31.6mm for Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies has quite a few irons in the fire.
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By Brian Sylvester |
July 1, 2011
As potash prices reach their highest levels, uranium prices have suffered. But the host of Ahead of the Herd online and editor of the Ahead of the Herd newsletter believes the prospects for both industries are bright.
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By Karen Roche |
June 24, 2011
The Mercenary Geologist has adopted a new prospector-generator model portfolio with an emphasis on good people. In this interview, he outlines the impact global volatility could have on junior mining companies.
