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By Mickey Fulp |
November 27, 2012
It appears that graphite is next in line for a commodity boom. The market is driven by increasing demand from traditional applications, new technology uses, and China’s 75% control of supply, its depleting reserves, and efforts to consolidate operations.
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By JT Long |
November 14, 2012
Copper is often referred to as "Dr. Copper," the metal with a Ph.D. in economics. Yet most analysts don't view it as a critical metal. The Mercenary Geologist, gives his thoughts on why the experts are wrong.
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By Mickey Fulp |
October 30, 2012
Gold is money that maintains its purchasing power, and for this reason it should be viewed as insurance against financial calamity and a hedge in case of economic collapse. When money supplies are inflated, fiat currencies are devalued and the price of gold goes up.
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By Sally Lowder |
August 17, 2012
You'll never hear the Mercenary Geologist talk about electric metals, technology metals or rare metals. But he's got plenty to say about specialty metals. While the nomenclature may not seem important, he believes obscure definitions are confusing investors.
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By Mickey Fulp |
August 14, 2012
Frankly, I don’t get it. The euro, the currency without a country, has been nothing more and nothing less than an abject fiat fiasco since April 30, 2010 when the first Greek panic attack hit the stock markets.
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By Mickey Fulp |
August 7, 2012
Recently a plethora of alternative names have been proposed and promoted for what were once known as the specialty or minor metals. These mostly obscure elements span the gamut from the lightest to the heaviest on the periodic table.
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By Mickey Fulp |
July 10, 2012
A graphite company is no different than any other junior resource company. In addition to evaluating its flagship project, we must always assess a company’s share structure, the people, and its peer market valuation.
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By Mickey Fulp |
July 5, 2012
The data and charts reflect China’s 36% of world consumption and its dominance of global copper markets. It is apparent to me that as goes China, so goes Dr. Copper. I take the contrarian view that a hard landing is not going to happen anytime soon.
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By Mickey Fulp |
May 29, 2012
Oil, gold, and copper have shed roughly 10% of their unit values this month. Most experts have adopted a very bearish outlook to the point of jumping on the doom and gloom bandwagon. Not I, sayeth The Mercenary Geologist.
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By Mickey Fulp |
May 3, 2012
Now that we are in a bear market for juniors, most stocks, whether good or bad or ugly, will suffer in a like manner. Some writers and pundits have recently called the bottom or surmised that the bottom is near and now is the time to buy. I disagree.