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Some Cold November Truths for Canada’s Junior Miners

The next three to six months is going to be make or break time for many Canadian-listed junior miners. With the equity markets boarded-up for the foreseeable future, the list of seriously ill or bankrupt companies is about to

When Your Broker Loses More Than You…

As a private investor who has enjoyed the fruits of the expanding resource market over the past several years, it is a sobering experience to see the markets breaking out in what appears to be a rash of boils from an unnamed

"Buy When There’s Blood In The Streets": Sprott and Altius Lead a Long List of Discounted Canadian Resource Plays

Many investors who entered the resource cycle late in the game have had their proverbial heads handed to them on a platter. But with a bevy of Canadian listed stocks currently trading at less than half their cash value, many

DRC Disaster Could Spell Serious Supply Disruptions To Tin, And Serious Issues Of Conscience To The World’s Mobile Phone Users

Who knows how it will go, up there in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where rebel soldiers marching in the name of their leader and aspirant leader of the whole of the Congo Laurent Nkunda now control large

Mining sector strategy: Where are we going from here? - A sharp and deep recession is upon us, so when will we see recovery?

Some banks have frozen lending to the market for the rest of this year. We hear lending will re-start in 2009.

Concern on the impact of recession and an ability to recover from recession is driving government policy around the

Small Cap Miners Look To Become Fewer In Number As Time Goes By And Credit Stays Away

When Bear Stearns became the first prestigious casualty of the credit crisis back in March some observers thought it would all be limited to the financial sector. Six months later, with retailers on their knees and the auto

What Is Going On With Gold?

The question I have been asked most over the last month is what is going on in gold? At US$711 per ounce as I write it has not performed as expected of a store of value at a time of financial uncertainty. Why not? This is a

Canadian Resource Companies Set To Benefit From C$143 Million Geo-Mapping Project

From the late 1400s until Roald Amundsen’s successful 1906 expedition, world powers competed to find the elusive Northwest Passage – hoping to reap the rewards of the quickest route to riches of the Orient. Many expeditions

Who Says Gold Is Not Going Up?

A picture paints a thousand words which is why we are including below charts of gold in several currencies other than the US dollar. In each case gold is clearly a measure of value and is pushing towards chart break-outs. Only in

China Is Growing Ever More Powerful In The Democratic Republic of Congo

China is now as embedded in the sociopolitical strata of the DRC as the diamonds are in its soil. It’s a strange relationship, compared to those that have gone before, a new paradigm, and – depending who you talk to here –