In the final part of our probe into the curious case of Khan Resources, we review events leading to the seizure of the company’s Mongolian assets and its chairman’s unusual death in an Ulaanbaatar hotel.
Don’t get too excited about a deficit. Copper is ever a tight market, an 18-million-tonne giant that always seems to finish the year with only a few hundred thousand tonnes of surplus or deficit.
In the second installment of the curious case of Khan Resources, we explore the company’s turbulent history in Mongolia and document a deal with Russia’s leadership to swap its uranium mines for hundreds of millions of dollars in aid and debt forgiveness.
March survey by McKinsey sees China trumping geopolitical instability, leadership change, terrorism, refugees and euro break-up as risks to global economy.
The more than 2,000 people who gathered in Ulaanbaatar's Freedom Square claimed foreign companies have exploited Mongolia's mineral wealth, which accounts for 94% of the nation's exports.
Lockheed lands $480m customer for aircraft combining power of helicopter, airplane and hovercraft dramatically altering mining and exploration economics.
Barclays says commodity gains this year not supported by fundamentals– sector vulnerable to wave of investor liquidation that could knock prices down 20–25%.
