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Silvercorp sets records in China as it emerges from short and distort saga

Silvercorp Metals along with the rest of the silver sector jumped on Thursday as the price of the precious metal recovered from […]

Frik Els | May 18, 2012 | 12:27 am

Copper price: Codelco says strong stomachs will be needed this year

Can it really be worse than last year, when the copper price dropped 26% in a single month?

Frik Els | May 15, 2012 | 7:43 pm

Renewed Molycorp sell-off

In lunchtime trade Molycorp was changing hands for $24.37, down $1.06 or 4%, in reaction to a downgrade and as investors continue […]

Frik Els | May 15, 2012 | 7:30 pm

Chinese ‘Pompeii’ threatened by coal mine

A forest of fossils that is being compared to a "vegetational Pompeii" is under threat from coal mining, says a story in China Daily.

MINING.com Editor | May 15, 2012 | 6:33 pm

BHP Billiton puts its money on the iron ore market and China

BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE:BHP) is betting on the iron ore market as one of the forces to drive the mining industry in the next decade, especially as developing nations such as China move from investment-led economic growth to consumption-led economic growth.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 15, 2012 | 4:00 pm

Sinopec to tap into shale gas market and rescue China from growing gas shortfall

Sinopec Group, China’s second biggest oil and gas producer, announced it has launched its first shale gas project, expecting to produce 300 to 500 million cubic metres a year by the end of 2012, said the conglomerate on Tuesday.

Cecilia Jamasmie | May 15, 2012 | 2:59 pm

Benign neglect: Black Ops II, Obama and Molycorp

Even by the not very high standards of current US political discourse, the polemic is a little thin on logic.

Frik Els | May 14, 2012 | 11:50 pm

Gold takes it on the chin…what’s next?

There was a strong reaction last week to the elevated debt crisis in Europe, with commodities and equities being indiscriminately sold. Gold fell 3 percent this week, losing its safe haven status as the dollar grew stronger and the 10-year government note headed lower.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | May 13, 2012 | 3:25 pm

Chart of the week: where global industrial production is coming from

Many have compared today’s economic recovery to the slow, stagnant growth Americans lived through in the 1970s.

Frank Holmes - U.S. Global Investors | May 13, 2012 | 11:40 am

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