Moon richer in metals than previously thought — NASA

For the companies that are doing well, it is a good time to grow within their markets.

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

"The investigation primarily focuses on offences in respect to the Environmental Management Act and the federal Fisheries Act, but it's not limited to those acts."

That reaction to the copper price drop was probably overdone in terms of the response of the equities and their valuations.

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

Embarrassment and financial harm.

Hardest hit of all B.C. commodities has been metallurgical coal, which is suffering from a double whammy.