Minews Story: September 03, 2010
It can be very frustrating to get proper recognition in the market for a junior mining company, as Demetri Manolis, the chief executive of Aim-traded Goldplat admits, but for his particular company that moment cannot be far off.
Full story...
Minews Story: September 02, 2010
Eventually the Red Rock stake in Australian-listed Jupiter Mines will be diluted to the point where the influence of Red Rock chairman Andrew Bell will be marginalised. But by that time neither Andrew Bell, nor the Red Rock
Full story...
Minews Story: September 02, 2010
“Bizarre”. “Astonishing”. “Jaw-dropping”. All are valid ways of describing the mining conference currently being held this week in the Australian city of Perth. That it’s about mining is not the reason for the excitement in the
Full story...
Minews Story: September 01, 2010
“This year’s a happier year than last year, that’s for sure.” So says Michael Carvill, managing director of Kenmare Resources, and given the bumps and scrapes that Kenmare incurred last year, it’s hard to disagree. Back in 2009,
Full story...
Minews Story: September 01, 2010
Oleg Deripaska, chief executive of Russian aluminium monopoly Rusal, is preparing for a series of presentations to institutional investors in Boston and New York next week, chaperoned by one of his largest creditor banks, BNP
Full story...
Minews Story: September 01, 2010
If Marius Kloppers, the young chief executive of BHP Billiton, was expecting a rousing cheer from shareholders over his US$40 billion takeover bid for Canada’s Potash Corporation he will have been rather disappointed. Since the
Full story...
Minews Story: August 31, 2010
Shares in Ovoca Gold have tacked on a handy 6p since they hit a year low of slightly less than 15p back in March. Since then, the recovery has been steady, and swift. The shares are now trading just shy of 22p, having tacked on
Full story...
Commodities: August 31, 2010
Jim Rogers has been saying it for a long time, but the evidence that he is right has slowly been increasing. Last week the dollar-yen exchange rate hit a 15 year high/low of Y84. That’s only a few cents away from the record Y79.7
Full story...
Minews Story: August 29, 2010
The run up to the long weekend at the end of August is normally one of the quietest weeks of the year on London's stock markets. However, this week continued the recent theme by being reasonably lively. Overall, the market ended
Full story...
Features: August 27, 2010
The talk of a possible double dip is now common banter on TV investment programs. And indeed, deflationary forces seem to have a stronger grip right now than inflationary ones. So if deflation is the next reality we have to face,
Full story...
Minews Story: August 26, 2010
“Things are really humming along at Tete”, says Ben James, managing director of Baobab Resources. Tete, for those not in the know, is Baobab’s flagship development project, one that already boasts a 47.7 million tonne resource
Full story...
Commodities: August 23, 2010
Chinese Walls were, and maybe still are, the mythical barriers established in investment banks to prevent the flow of price sensitive information from those departments that know something to those that can make money from
Full story...
Minews Story: August 23, 2010
If anyone spots a red-faced Scotsman wandering around the Saudi desert doing geophys and wearing Citadel Resources field gear, well, that’ll be our old friend Fraser Gardiner, late of Ormonde Mining, who’s moved on to pastures,
Full story...
Minews Story: August 22, 2010
August continues to be quiet in terms of trading activity, though it was an unusually busy week in terms of announcements and corporate activity. The overall tone though was negative with the usual concerns about the
Full story...
Minews Story: August 20, 2010
It’s the Highland Clearances again ... albeit on a rather lesser scale. In both cases no good for Scotland and even less for the people involved. Remember the Highland Clearances which took place back in the late 1700s and early
Full story...