March 22, 2013

Mine in Brazil set to produce gold 1/3 below average industry cost

Brazil mine to produce gold at 1/3 global average cost.

March 22, 2013

Five mining companies that meet Jamie Mackie’s success criteria

While Jamie Mackie, senior vice president and investment adviser with Macquarie Private Wealth, thinks the mining sector could sink further, he also believes now is the time to buy, carefully.

March 22, 2013

Regarding our current commodity super cycle

Commodity super-cycles are defined as decades long price movements in a wide range of commodities.

March 22, 2013

The essentials for miners in Canada’s 2013 federal budget

Both good and bad for Canadian mining in the 2013 federal budget.

March 22, 2013

Napoleon’s engagement ring to Josephine to go for $20,000 in auction

It will be auctioned on Sunday in France.

March 22, 2013

Harry Winston sells its luxury division to Swatch

The Swatch Group is paying $750 million plus the assumption of up to $250 million of pro forma net debt.

March 22, 2013

First Quantum takes over Inmet: a new copper giant is born

The new merged company projects a 1.3 million tonnes of copper output per year by 2018.

March 21, 2013

Investors must hold physical precious metals and store them outside the banking system

Don't hold your gold at the bank.

March 21, 2013

Breaking up is hard to do. Drumbeat for unbundling of gold majors gets louder

Hedge funder John Paulson set the ball rolling on the breakup of large gold producers. Some miners see it the same way.

March 21, 2013

FUN BREAK: Spanish photographer ‘set the sky on fire’ beneath mine

Images were taken at the popular mining zone by the Tinto river, in Spain’s Southwest.