JP Morgan: Commodities have begun new supercycle of “years-long gains”

BHP Billiton is looking for ways to shore up power supply and bring down power costs at its Olympic Dam copper mine in Australia, as it plans to expand following a string of electrical outages, the mine's head said on Friday.

The company will return a total of $3 billion to shareholders: $2 billion on the dividend side and $1 billion of share buybacks.

Brad Halverson has spent nearly three decades with the mining and construction equipment maker.

A torrent of retirements over the next 10 years is poised to wreak havoc on the mining labour market in Canada.

And vanadium has bottomed.

Operators dragging their feet on production cuts.

Cost cutting.

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It now expects adjusted earnings per share to come in at $5, significantly higher than the $3.75 it had forecast just three months ago and almost doubled the $2.90 it had originally projected for the year.