Up until the recent sell-off, there had been a prolonged run for copper prices. And the latest survey from Thomson Reuters GFMS says the recent drop in copper prices may not be a blip, but a sign of more weakness to come.
While private equity financing was the talk of the mining industry in the first quarter, heavy duty mergers and acquisitions are punching their way back to centre stage, as mining majors take advantage of depressed metals prices and share…
The following copper market forecast for 2014 and 2015 was released by the Lisbon-based International Copper Study Group (ICSG). For more information on the ICSG, visit www.icsg.org.
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The following is an edited excerpt of a speech about the global outlook for coal by Dean Dalla Valle, president of BHP Billiton Coal, at the CEDA Energy and Resources series in Brisbane, Australia, where BHP has consolidated its metallurgical…
There is an established history of capital-cost overruns in the mining industry stretching back at least 50 years, mining analyst Christopher Haubrich told the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) conference in Toronto in…
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VANCOUVER — In recent years, as prices for many resources slide, copper has held its ground. Gold and silver stumbled, uranium and iron ore deteriorated, and coal and potash dragged, but copper simply settled from a five-year high of…
Chrysalix Global Network, a venture capital fund based in Vancouver, is looking to be a player in the mining industry’s next wave of innovation.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch has lowered its price forecasts for a number of commodities — including copper and iron that are heavily imported by China — but it also believes gold could bottom out this year, while nickel and zinc…
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