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Features: July 14, 2010

Australia Moves Up The Political Risk Table For Miners, Despite Its Dependence On China

Brits who accepted the offer of £10 one way tickets to Australia after the Second World War could never have dreamed what a shrewd decision that would prove to be for their descendants… and why. Fed up with privation, rationing

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Features: July 07, 2010

Geological Anomalies Are Like Opinions: Everybody Has One

There’s a great deal of chatter in the press and online about the tremendous US$1 trillion mineral “discovery” in Afghanistan headlined by The New York Times recently. Most of the discussion seems to centre on whether or not this

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Features: June 29, 2010

What Will Become Of The Australian Mining Tax?

"It's a great day for redheads," Australia's new Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, is said to have proclaimed after her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, was ousted from the nation's top job.

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Features: June 11, 2010

What Will Happen To Gold Supply If Demand Remains Very High?

Investment demand for gold has never been so high, and it is likely to rise still further. Normally when a commodity is in high demand supply is accelerated and holders of that commodity often take profits, thereby increasing

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Commodities, Features: April 23, 2010

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Rare Earths, And More

At the beginning of this year the Independent newspaper ran a major piece on rare earths/metals. This came as a bit of a surprise as this is not a subject many people know much about. The object, however, was not so much to

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Features: April 01, 2010

Nuclear Power Is Vital For Maintaining Our Ongoing Global Energy Growth Profile

In the spirit of provoking a stimulating debate over Easter which could result in a profitable investment thereafter we offer a single word – uranium. There was an uptick of a dollar or so in the price of uranium last week to

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Features: March 04, 2010

Colombia: A New Gold Rush?

For many investors, Colombia remains a grey spot on their mental maps of South America. La Violencia, the 50-year dark age in its recent past, came to an end with the close of the 20th century. But the memories are fresh, and the

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Features: February 25, 2010

What’s A Company's Gold Worth?

At any given time, there's a single international spot price for an ounce of refined gold. Gold is priced in US dollars: $1,106.10 per ounce as we go to press. But what about the gold an exploration or mining company has in the

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Features: February 17, 2010

Private Equity, State Owned Entities, And Sovereign Wealth Funds: The New Arbiters Of Power In The Post Credit Crunch World

Over the last five or six years stock markets, and mining markets in particular, have managed to confound both bears and bulls in almost equal measure. No sooner had analysts caught up to the idea that the Supercycle wasn’t just

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Features: November 19, 2009

Australia Powers On, For The Time Being At Least

For a quick indication of the best that Australia’s had to offer in recent weeks, a retrospective look at the share price performances of three companies we’ve had occasion to mention more than a few times on Minesite lately

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