Bargains To Be Had — For Patient Investors
If investors have money to spare and can afford to wait for prices to recover, then recessions can be a good buying opportunity. The question, of course, is how long one has to wait until stock and co…
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BHP Backs In On Peregrine’s Chidliak
BHP Billiton (BHP-N, BLT-l), the principal owner of Canada’s wildly successful Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, seems to think Peregrine Diamonds’ (PGD-t) Chidliak project, on southern…
Choice Spot, Tough Decision For Geologix
SITE VISIT Durango, Mexico — Geologix Explorations (GIX-T, GXEXF-o) is positioned on top of what could be Mexico’s next great polymetallic mine. Just an 85-km drive along a paved highway…
Second Time’s The Charm At Boyongan
Vancouver–The Boyongan copper- gold project’s second prefeasibility study this year has come to a different conclusion than the first.
Persian Gulf Region, India To Cushion Copper’s Fall
Vancouver — It’s hard to believe given the bleak numbers the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) is forecasting for 2009 copper use in the four major copper-using regions — Japan, China, North A…
Denison Slides On Midwest Deferral
Vancouver — Investors drove Denison Mines’ (DML-T, DNN-x) share price down 24% after the company announced plans to shut down the Tony M uranium mine in Utah and shelve development plans for the Midw…
Agnico Bewitched By Kittila
SITE VISIT Kittila, Finland — Finnish legend tells of a powerful witch named Paivio who lived in far northern Finland with the primeval Finnish shamans, famous for their magic. One…
Lme Warehouse Levels (December 08, 2008)
Metal stocks (in tonnes) held in London Metal Exchange warehouses at opening, Dec. 02, 2008 (change from Nov. 25 in brackets):
Spot Prices (December 08, 2008)
COURTESY OF SCOTIABANK
Producer And Dealer Prices (December 08, 2008)
Antimony: Mid-mkt US$5,700 /t.
Uranium Price Will Rebound: Analysts
Despite the negative outlook for many other commodities, many analysts now forecast that uranium prices will go up in the medium-to longterm due to strong fundamentals: expanding demand from more reac…
On The Greenback, Gold And Global Growth
Global economic growth will be weak next year and commodity prices will remain under severe pressure. The consensus among many in the mining industry seems to be that metal prices won’t recover until …