Technical issue disrupts BHP’s Olympic Dam copper smelter

Many are already likening the new Silk Road undertaking to the Marshall Plan

Mountain gorillas.

These reports today should be a loud warning for any investors and financier.

“Its use of offshore, low-tax jurisdictions in relation to its Australian operations, and the apparent uncertainty about ownership of the Abbot Point Port lease, raise questions about the ability of the public to scrutinize a project of such huge economic and environmental significance.”

If a junior mining company is in a dire enough situation, they may hit the “reset” button and rollback their stock.

Mongolia may give up government shareholding in mining projects altogether.

Expensive.

The DOE says there was some benefit from the $116 million already spent.

Uranium spot prices have shown more life recently, says David Sadowski, mining equity research analyst at Raymond James, and he expects upward pressure to continue as utilities resume buying to meet future needs. In this interview, he tells The Energy Report the time is ripe to invest in uranium company stocks.