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By Chris Vermeulen |
May 15, 2013
Since the middle of April everyone, including their grandmother, seems to have been building a short position in the equities market. We know picking tops or bottoms fighting the major underlying trend is risky business, but most individuals cannot resist.
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By JT Long |
May 7, 2013
Although miners are far more technologically conservative than oil producers, today's tough financing environment may prompt technological advancements in a sector that has historically approached processing "with brute force rather than finesse."
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By Brian Sylvester |
March 28, 2013
The Guerrero Gold Belt, a sexy, new developing mining district in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, has attracted some exciting explorers that have unearthed key discoveries.
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By Sally Lowder |
March 19, 2013
Robert Cohen has been kicking up dust at conferences and in board rooms with his "revolutionary and simple" idea that gold mining companies should hold gold on their balance sheets and use gold-based loans.
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By Zig Lambo |
January 23, 2013
Geologist Alex Knox followed rare earths before they were Wall Street's darlings, and continues to do so, having seen stormy weather in this industry before. Demand for rare earths remains; it's just a question of who can supply them first — and at what cost?
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By Brian Sylvester |
November 21, 2012
There are few mining sectors where chemistry, metallurgy and the supply chain meet in such a complex yet potentially profitable way as rare earths. The founding principal of Technology Metals Research gives an update on projects are closest to production,
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By Jordan Roy-Byrne, CMT |
October 29, 2012
The commodities that represent mining cost inputs are not only trending bearish but are little threat to move much higher anytime soon. Meanwhile, gold is trading in a healthy range.
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By James Stafford |
October 19, 2012
Following record droughts across the United States the benefits of the ethanol subsidy were once again hotly debated. In this interview the editor and publisher of Biofuels Digest helps put the record straight on whether biofuels offer an affordable source of liquid fuel.
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By Jack Lifton |
September 17, 2012
Even the HREE producers coming on stream in the next two years will have little choice but to sell their products to Chinese or Japanese rare-earth metal and alloy producers. There is no other location for them to go.
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By Keith Schaefer |
August 16, 2012
The cheapest and most profitable oil North America has ever seen is now “flooding” into the market. Producers are using “waterfloods”pushing water into underground formations to flush a large amount of oil out to nearby producing wells.