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As gold prices continue to rebound, a flurry of recent mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have breathed new life into a deflated global mining industry.

With a major global shake-up taking place in the ever increasingly-important potash world, one of the industry’s insiders talks to about what’s at stake and who’s making all the “potash power plays.”

The Milestone project in Saskatchewan is now the most advanced undeveloped potash asset in the world.

Vancouver-based Arctic Star Exploration Corp. may be on the verge of striking pay dirt in the Northwest Territories.

With the precious cargo slung over his shoulder, Vikram Singh strides through his field spreading the white granular stuff where it matters most.“I can't afford to waste any...I had to buy it on the black market,” says the 38-year-old farmer from Dostpur Mangroli village in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Though Nevada’s world-famous gold fields have historically yielded over 150 million gold ounces, they are still proving to be geologically fertile hunting grounds for exploration-minded junior mining companies.

Heightened global demand for vanadium, especially from China, is prompting the global steel industry to aggressively seek out new supplies, especially in the U.S. where this 21st century metal is becoming increasingly indispensible. Even U.S. President Obama is championing this metal’s promise for green energy applications.

Silver is increasingly becoming a global monetary metal, mostly due to inflationary concerns and the debasement of the world’s major currencies.

With gold prices continuing to shine as the fragile global economic recovery falters yet again, equally buoyant silver prices have given the […]

Latin America represents the world’s last great mineral frontier for prolific gold discoveries due to its vast land mass and its geologically […]

The inexorable onset of accelerating inflation, matched with a global decline in gold production, will underpin high-flying gold prices for years to […]