Graphene By The Ton
June 11, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Next Big Future] – Recently Columbia University worked out how to remove graphene from a copper substrate without damaging it. They have large sheets of graphene with a strength of 95 gigapascals. This is 90% of the strength of perfect molecular graphene and is stronger than molecular carbon nanotubes. Ningbo Morsh Technology is launching the [...]
Tips for Diversifying Beyond Gold from Brent Cook
May 16, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[The Metals Report] – Brent Cook Last month’s landslide at Utah’s Bingham Canyon, one of the world’s largest copper mines, triggered significant discussion on possible copper shortages. Brent Cook, veteran geologist and publisher of Exploration Insights, puts the landslide into perspective in this interview with The Metals Report. And for investors who want to dig [...]
Commodities: Be bullish, You’re Not Buying at the Peak
May 7, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[The Globe and Mail] – Gold has cratered into bear market territory. Ditto for silver and copper. Aluminum is in a big downtrend too, along with its metallic cousin nickel. The price of oil has been moving sideways and agricultural commodities are well off last year’s drought-induced highs. Glance at a list of commodities, and [...]
Why Smart Money Is Buying Junior Strategic Metal Miners
February 27, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[The Metals Report]-Jeb Handwerger Most investors have a tough time standing apart from the crowd. That’s why Jeb Handwerger says, “To be successful in the market, 99% of the people have to think you’re wrong.” While most investors are chasing overvalued equities, the smart money is acquiring assets that will benefit from the next uptick [...]
Gold versus Industrial Metals
February 20, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Speculative Investor] – The financial markets have begun 2013 in remarkably similar fashion to how they began 2010, 2011 and 2012. In each of these preceding three years the average market participant became optimistic about global economic growth during the first quarter, leading to weakness in gold relative to the industrial metals. Here we go [...]
Copper Seen Extending Rally With China Accelerating
January 25, 2013 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Bloomberg] – Copper traders are bullish for a third consecutive week as the fastest expansion in Chinese manufacturing in two years boosts confidence that the biggest buyer of the metal is leading a global recovery. Eleven analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect prices to rise next week, six were bearish and a further five were neutral. [...]
Base Metals May Rise Going Into Year’s End
November 21, 2012 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Kitco News] – Base metals prices may rise going into the year’s end, even as the macroeconomic outlook is cloudy. Copper’s rally on Monday on hopes that the U.S. might avert the “fiscal cliff” – the pending tax hikes and spending cuts that go into effect Jan. 1 if not reversed – might be a [...]
10 Junior Miners Doing Business With China
November 8, 2012 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Metal Investment News] – Despite jitters from Wall Street, China’s exports are rising at twice the rate predicted by economists. China’s foreign exchange reserves rose to $3.29 trillion at the end of September, 2012 from $3.24 trillion a month earlier. The FTSE China 25 Index Fund (FXI-NYSE) has $5.2 billion in assets under management. It [...]
Five Must-Haves for Junior Mining Companies
September 19, 2012 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE: [The Gold Report] – Valuation disconnects among producers, rising gold price and juniors facing funding crunches are among the factors fueling a spate of M&A activity. In her first exclusive Gold Report interview, Aleksandra (Sasha) Bukacheva, a mining research analyst with Fraser Mackenzie in Toronto, shares her list of likely targets and suitors in [...]
Copper rises to 4-1/2 month high after U.S. Fed stimulus
September 14, 2012 by Gold Editor · Leave a Comment
SOURCE:[Reuters]- Copper climbed to a 4-1/2 month high on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve launched a new round of aggressive stimulus that investors hoped would help bolster demand for industrial metals. The rally in base metals echoed a rise in risk appetite across financial markets after the Fed said on Thursday it would pump [...]
