PDAC 2015: Why Rick Rule stays optimistic in bleak markets
Sprott US Holdings chairman Rick Rule says the current bear market will be remembered as “the good old days.”
Sprott US Holdings chairman Rick Rule says the current bear market will be remembered as “the good old days.”
Commodity prices this year have fallen below the previous recessionary lows of early 2009, and are now at levels not seen since January 2007, Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics at Scotiabank, said during a presentation at the…
The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee’s latest statement on March 18 after its two-day meeting drew attention from those keen on understanding the health of the global economy, including commodity investors and miners.
Ten weeks into 2015, and many of the world’s iron ore miners are on edge as iron ore prices set new lows, and the finger-pointing begins as to who is contributing to the problems besetting the industry.
With metal markets being the number-one indicator for the health of the global mineral exploration industry, a great way to kick off the technical program of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention in Toronto is to…
The Vancouver Resource Investment Conference in mid-January is usually a great way to gauge the mood of the Canadian junior mining scene in the year ahead, and this year was no different.
The following is an edited report from The Silver Institute, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit industry association. For more information visit www.silverinstitute.org.
The latest energy-market numbers from the Chinese government show an acceleration of a remarkable phenomenon that emerged from 2012 to 2014. The bottom line today is that the traditional nexus between real gross domestic product (GDP) growth,…
The following is a summary of the International Copper Study Group’s (ICSG) December 2014 Copper Bulletin. For more information and to buy the bulletin, visit www.icsg.org.
The following is an edited except from Société Générale and Thomson Reuters GFMS’s Global Hedge Book Analysis Q3 2014.
Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the mining sector should double in value this year compared to 2013, were deal volumes fell short of $90 billion, according to a new report by Grant Thornton.
An expected surge in the platinum price failed to materialize in 2014 because of a strong U.S. dollar and weak South African rand, say mining analysts with CIBC World Markets, who are slashing their platinum price forecast for 2015.
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