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By Chris Munford |
August 15, 2011
In the 1970s, it was Three Mile Island. In the 80's it was Chernobyl. Now it's Fukushima. Each time, the viability of nuclear power was called into question and the uranium industry took a hit
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By Scott Wright |
August 1, 2011
Nuclear power has been a hot topic recently. And as a result, the price action of its input commodity has been quite schizophrenic. Investors and speculators are in a state of great wonderment over what to expect from this intriguing mineral.
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By Richard (Rick) Mills |
February 23, 2011
Currently 180,000 people a day move from the country to the city. Urban infrastructure devours copper. Over the next 12 months that demand might drive investment dollars into juniors with big resources like Catalyst Copper.
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By Minefund.com |
February 8, 2011
South Africa risks surrendering its leading position as a competitive coal exporter thanks to "underfunded and arthritic" infrastructure and logistics for the country's extensive "black gold" resources.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
December 23, 2010
World GDP will grow an average 3.1%/year through 2030, driving oil demand from the current 84 million barrels/day to 103 million b/d. That means we will have to find the equivalent to fill the gap or prices are going up, possibly a lot.
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By The Mad Hedge Fund Trader |
October 18, 2010
There is a gold rush underway in Iraq, with major implications for the rest of us. The success of the recent oil auctions in Iraq is creating a windfall for American oil services companies.
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By Brian Sylvester |
October 14, 2010
To avoid supply disruptions, companies in need of REEs for products are being encouraged to set up manufacturing in China in the interim. Of course, that's not going over very well because that's extortion, says Kaiser.
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By Oilprice.com |
April 8, 2010
n late February 2010, Romania , Azerbaijan , and Georgia finalized an agreement on the direct export of Azerbaijani natural gas to Romania .
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By Philip H. De Leon, Oilprice.com |
April 1, 2010
Rogun, conceived in Soviet days, was planned to generate 3,600 megawatts, but the collapse of the Soviet Union halted the completion of this project. Tajikistan wants to get it online.
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By Frank Holmes |
February 3, 2010
One more measure of China's growing global clout - so much Saudi oil is flowing China's way that it may soon replace the U.S. as the leading market for the world's largest oil exporter.
