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One way or another it looks likely that we’re going to be hearing the phrases “highly opportunistic” and “grossly undervalued” a fair amount over the next twelve months or so. There are hundreds of companies out there sitting on
Full story...To many mining investors, rare earths are a little known obscurity, well off any radar screens, and deserving of little attention. That summed up my atttitude when I heard of a conference coming to Hong Kong in early September.
Full story...Companies contemplating M&A transactions might note a few salient points from the sad case of Perilya Mines. First and foremost, be extremely wary of placing too much faith in metal price forecasts, and secondly, moving fast once
Full story...What is it with the Aim regulators? Are they blind, ignorant or simply somnolent? To many it seems that amid the summer’s conflagration of valuation all the Aim authorities did was fiddle while the market burned. It may be more
Full story...The Olympics are done. What happens next? Well, for starters growth isn't going away. The Chinese economy is forecast to grow by 9.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to China’s State Information Center. That
Full story...This week features Dominic Frisby talking to James Turk of GoldMoney, Mish Shedlock of Global Economic Anaylsis and Michael Hampton of Global Edge Investors.
Full story...Sunny Tropicana: not a holiday destination but the site of a potentially significant new gold project that could become the scene of groundbreaking developments in mine solar power generation in Australia. Certainly, 70 per cent
Full story...What have we learned from this year’s Diggers and Dealers? For one thing, the mood grew visibly more downbeat as the week went on. Diggers is up there in the first rank of international mining conferences, but this year, as the
Full story...The commodity bull market has a long way to go. This bull market is not magic. It's not some crazy "cycle theory" I have. It does not fall out of the sky. It's supply and demand. It's simple stuff.
Full story...Bringing the crops through to harvest is difficult enough this century. Weather patterns have created havoc for farmers the breadth of the globe. For the Georgia farmers for whom, against the trends elsewhere, growing conditions
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