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By Adrian Day |
April 29, 2013
Since our last update, gold has rallied 8%, retracing virtually 50% of the drop. The next week or two will tell us whether this is just a “dead cat bounce,” though, notwithstanding the possibility of a near-term pullback, I think not.
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 23, 2013
Killian Charles, an analyst with Industrial Alliance in Montreal, isn't too concerned if the gold price hits $1,300 an ounce or even $1,000. He's more concerned with the gold breaking point. How low can the gold price go without breaking a project?
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By Brian Sylvester |
April 10, 2013
Life is difficult for junior resource companies. Not only are stocks and commodity prices moving sideways, but tax changes in Canada may signal less friendly treatment for exploration investment.
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By Brian Sylvester |
March 18, 2013
It's been years since Quebec had a big discovery. Eric Lemieux, a mining analyst with Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, believes the province is overdue.
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By Brian Sylvester |
March 8, 2013
Stock picking can be an exercise in compromise, and investors who wait for a perfect zinc mining project could be sitting on the sidelines — and missing out on profits. Matthew O'Keefe talks about his criteria for choosing investments in the zinc small-cap space.
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By Tommy Humphreys |
February 19, 2013
Its no-rail advantage puts Oceanic’s Hopes Advance project before Asian steelmakers for potential partnership.
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By Brian Sylvester |
February 13, 2013
The U.S. and Europe may have been skirting the edge of financial peril for years, but Christopher Ecclestone, who is the principal and mining strategist of London-based Hallgarten & Co., says that the gold price should drop this year as investors realize that there's no more cause for panic.
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By Brian Sylvester |
February 7, 2013
Ian Gordon has said it before: We're on the edge of an economic maelstrom that will breathe new life into the gold exploration industry.Gordon talks about what he forecasts as an unprecedented period of growth and investment in gold, which is just about to get underway as the market sinks.
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By Richard Mills |
February 4, 2013
The truth, in regards to the world’s mineral resources, is that we in the western developed countries are not in control of supply. There are many serious concerns in regards to global resource extraction that we need to consider.
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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?