Features: July 14, 2010
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
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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