1. Watching with great interest as Glencore's stock tanks because a former partner who is close to the DRC's Kabila has maneuvered as asset seize,...
      


  2. Electric cars will drive higher electricity demand and higher coal and gas demand, too, says Forbes' Jude Clemente. Now, I rarely agree with Clemente's...
      


  3.  About 1% of their power comes from coal. Should we be cheering?


  4. So we've got a 10% tariff on imports of aluminum to the U.S., plus sanctions on Russia, which include it's Rusal aluminum company. Things...
      


  5. Anyone see this US coal deal with Ukraine? This is how Ukraine buys US support--by taking coal that Trump needs to offload to make...
      


  6. EXCERPT - ...The energy transition is driving the next commodity supercycle, with immense prospects for technology manufacturers, energy traders, and investors. Indeed, new energy...


  7. For years Rio Tinto has been the sole international copper mine operator in Mongolia, bound closely to a country where it has bet billions...
      


  8. Did you know about this? I just found out about it the other day. Sounds fascinating, extracting lithium from oil and gas wells. Here's...
      


  9. Hah! Now some uranium producers are trying to jump on the 'made in America' band wagon and get Trump to require that 25% of...
      


  10. I'm this week in Geneva at the UN for the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development. This year one of the...


  11. Gold up as dollar and bond yields pull back ahead of Fed activity ... check out these charts calling a breakout:    
      


  12. A Liechtenstein asset management company says gold is on the brink of a bull market but the funny thing, as in hilarious, is that...
      


  13. The IEA is very, very worried that Congo supplies 60% of the world's cobalt. It's also very, very worried that China has 90% of...
      


  14. interesting http://www.smh.com.au/business/mining-and-resources/industry-will-be-unrecognisable-robots-will-run-mines-within-decade-anglo-says-20171129-gzvliy.html


  15. Gold has retreated further ... treasury yields above 3% and firming dollar. But even when this isn't happening, nothing seems to be able to...
      


  16. it seems that a lot of miners want a piece of SQM, which holds the biggest lithium reserves in the world and recently got the...
      


  17. China-watching is a growing thing among people interested in where the world's economy is going and aluminium-watching, apparently, can help paint the picture, according...
      


  18. Chinese companies dominate the cobalt ore market in the DRC. Meanwhile, poor Samsung's battery-making unit has resorted to old battery recycling to save some...
      


  19. As we know Australia is one of the world’s largest commodity exporters, and so the ASX is full of mining stocks. Commodity consists of gold to oil to...
      


  20. According to this interesting study, US Electricity customers in four competitive power markets paid at least $1 billion per year more than they needed...


  21. Lead is the worst performer in terms of price on the LME this year despite conditions that would suggest a truly bull market, such...
      


  22. If you're portfolio includes big mining stocks in Africa this year, I would take a serious look at the weight of projects in key...
      


  23. yeah, I know how this sounds but it just goes to show you can do anything you like with numbers. From a certain perspective--the...
      


  24. Good Morning guys, First off, I must admit, when it comes to mining, my knowledge is extremely limited. I tend to be more interested in...
      


  25. Rare earth elements await in waste Rice lab’s flash Joule heating extracts valuable elements from fly ash, bauxite residue, electronic waste https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/942066 Quote So there’s plenty of incentive...


  26. The Philippine president is apparently fed up with landslides that kill people and are being blamed on mining. Environmental damage, he says, outweighs economic...
      


  27. The Trump administration on Tuesday made public the details of its new pollution rules governing coal-burning power plants, and the fine print includes an...
      


  28. Ireland is to join an international alliance committed to accelerating the end of coal use for power generation and for other forms of energy....
      


  29. Metal markets are preparing for a new world disorder "Donald Trump’s attempts to re-balance global trade have already sent the metals world into a tizzy....
      


  30. "Months into the Korean War, President Harry Truman capped wages and imposed price controls on the steel industry, seizing authority under a newly passed...
      

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