Pipeline plan decision may harm investment into Canada

The 12 Top Pick companies at the Metals Investor Forum all share an essential trait: momentum. Despite all that the markets have thrown at them, they continue to pragmatically advance their projects towards increased shareholder value.

Mining and logging was the big exception in Friday's payroll numbers with 18,000 jobs lost in May, the worst month since the global financial crisis.

A 40 to 60 per cent increase in productivity.

Mixed picture.

Markets are attempting to establish a trough.

But findings could have been limited due to insufficient amount of data and the presence of other possible contaminates that made it impossible to conclude fracking's effects on certain areas, says EPA.

Chilean company Mineria Activa is stepping up efforts to grab some of that market in a much greener way than China,

They shed $156 billion in market value last year, or about 16% of their combined worth, according to PwC.

To the non-expert eye they may seem a set of mirages, but these turquoise-purple-pink visions are what ground-level potash ponds look like near Arches National Park.