Category: Metals & Mining
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Matt Badiali: Focus on the Mining Sector Prospect Generators / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
According to Matt Badiali, editor of S&A Oil Report, prospect generators represent the best opportunities in the mining sector. Instead of being cash-burning machines that dilute shareholder equity, they put up the initial investment on a property, "do the science," and then turn it over to a partner who puts up the money to drill the projects. He calls the power of the prospect-generating model "astonishing," and names some companies that he considers top-flight in the sector.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Is Copper Poised for a Sustainable Secular Bull Market? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Guy_Lerner
Over the last 4 months, copper has bounced about 70% from its lows. Yet it is only recently that such a significant price move is beginning to attract attention as pundits try to explain what is going on. With stocks roaring back over the past 5 weeks, the obvious (and wrong) connection is that the global recession is ending. To me, copper's price rise is more technical after a deeply oversold condition, and it appears that the pundits are only crafting a good story to explain its recent price movements.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, April 13, 2009
Obama’s Energy Revolution It’s Clean, It’s Green, and its Right Now / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Richard_Mills
As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information
“Finding the new driver of our economy is going to be critical. There’s no better driver that pervades all aspects of our economy than a new energy economy. … That’s going to be my No. 1 priority when I get into office.” President Obama
Friday, April 10, 2009
Emerging Copper Bull Market Signaling an End to the Recession? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Zeal_LLC
Most analysts believe this deep global recession has abruptly ended the powerful secular commodities bull that was born at the turn of the 21st century. And it is certainly hard to argue this point considering the dismal panic-selling-induced performance of nearly all commodities.
The volatility and fear that took hold of the markets have given traders the mindset that all economic activity has ground to a screeching halt. And the markets have discounted the idea that global economic growth is over, thus warranting the aggressive selling of all assets.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Copper Up 50% To date, Can China Save the Day? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Brent Cook writes: The copper price is on a roll having risen roughly 50% over the past three months to $1.95 lb (Fig.1 below). Unfortunately for analysts and specialists, the fundamentals driving copper pricing are opaque at best and therefore subject to a variety of interpretations and predictions. Here's my take. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, April 03, 2009
Good Reason for Optimism in Industrial Metals Investing / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Leonard Melman, prodigious writer (The Melman Report) and leading authority in the metals and mining arenas, sees opportunity for some "really good moves" and "fabulous returns" on the horizon, citing vibrant charts on random juniors whose values have multiplied during the last six months. Also noting the possibility of some "good price pops" in the metals themselves, Leonard considers the price of the base metals as a real key to the future of the economy. On the other hand, he shares some serious concerns about the economy in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report. For example, he is alert to several "ominous red flags" that warn of the potential for devastating hyperinflation and worries that the Humpty Dumpty of savaged financial assets may be beyond repair. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Gold, Copper and Uranium Stocks Outlook for 2009 / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
George Topping, a research analyst specializing in the mining sector at Blackmont Capital, pays closer attention to uranium and copper than he does gold and silver, but in this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, he shares what he foresees: gold flat at $950 per ounce (in real terms) through 2011, copper at $1.80 per pound in two years, and uranium nudging up $100 per pound within five years. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Lithium Demand, Pricing, and Supply Forecast Considered as Li-ion in Automotive Use to Surge / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Madison_Avenue_Resea
Current Lithium Production and Use - Well over 95,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent was produced in 2008, more than double the amount from a decade earlier. The USGS estimates the current global end-use markets for lithium as follows: batteries, 25%; ceramics and glass, 18%; lubricating greases, 12%; pharmaceuticals and polymers, 7%; air conditioning, 6%; primary aluminum production, 4%; continuous casting, 3%; chemical processing 3%; and other uses, 22%. Lithium use in batteries expanded significantly in recent years because rechargeable lithium batteries were being used increasingly in portable electronic devices and electrical tools. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, March 27, 2009
Copper Bull Market to Climb Much Higher / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Q1_Publishing
Exclusive Interview With the “King of Copper” Reveals “…Copper to climb 34% to 61%”
Editor's Note: Andrew Mickey, Q1 Publishing's Chief Investment Strategist, sat down for an exclusive one-on-one with one of the most experienced professionals in the copper industry. In this exclusive interview we reveal where the “King of Copper” believes copper prices are headed to… how China takes a different stand on copper prices and more…
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Success Stories: An Interview with Ross Beaty of Equinox Resources / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Little has changed in the soap opera being played out in the financial sector. Three more banks failed last week, bringing the total number of 2009 bank and thrift failures to nine. There were 25 failures during all of 2008, and nine in the first six weeks of 2009. Yes, this is a trend. Read full article... Read full article...
Sunday, February 08, 2009
COPPER- Upside Breakout Imminent, Implications for Commodities... / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Clive_Maund
Although copper may seem like a sideshow it is actually very important, for it is a barometer of changes in the world economy. In retrospect it is easy to see on its long-term chart below that its refusal to break higher for several years from what turned out to be a major top area was a warning that all was not well with the world economy. The breakdown from the lower support line of the top area led to a crash back to the first major support level where it has stabilized. It remains wildly oversold, as shown by the huge gap between the 50 and 200-day moving averages. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, January 30, 2009
Copper, Zinc, Nickel, Lead and Aluminum Base Metals Technicals / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Zeal_LLC
Not too long ago base metals were the hottest of commodities. In their bull markets the prices of these industrial-use metals had soared to lofty heights to reflect the speculative risk premiums brought on by greatly imbalanced markets. Copper, zinc, nickel, lead, and aluminum achieved staggering trough-to-peak gains of 574%, 523%, 1124%, 829%, and 151%!
A mixture of robust infrastructure growth and hoarding led to demand far outpacing supply. Global stockpiles were being drained to alarmingly-low levels, the world's smelters and refineries were operating at full capacity, and the mining companies couldn't bring their metals to market fast enough.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
China's Growth Story and BHP Billiton Cyclical Opportunity / Companies / Metals & Mining
By: Oxbury_Research
Year of the Ox - I want to wish a happy new year to everyone of Chinese descent. According to the Chinese calendar, 2009 is the Year of the Ox. The Ox is said to symbolize prosperity through fortitude and hard work. That description seems to be a very appropriate way to describe the country of China as a whole. Read full article... Read full article...
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Brent Cook on Junior Minors Upside Potential / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
Turning Rocks Into Money - Geologist Brent Cook, editor of Exploration Insights newsletter, has earned a reputation for recognizing which juniors have the best chance of beating the odds and where rocks have the greatest potential for producing profit. In this exclusive interview The Gold Report, Brent shares some of his insights about which juniors have upside potential in this volatile market. Brent has examined properties in more than 60 countries and learned the investment side of the business from master Rick Rule. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 28, 2008
Junior Mining Resource Stocks in Hell / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Zeal_LLC
Junior resources stocks reside in a realm that has long been considered the Wild West of the equity markets. And investors who speculate on the junior circuit are the consummate gamblers. Risks and rewards are realized in extreme fashion as juniors can either make you rich or rob you blind.
The allure of juniors will always captivate investors. It's exciting to own a portion of a company that is in effect a modern day treasure hunter. Whether it is searching for precious metals or petroleum, if a junior scores a find the owners of the company will be greatly rewarded. Speculating in juniors allows desk jockeys to become prospectors.
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Beryllium May Be New Kid on the Nuclear Block / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: The_Gold_Report
The potential of beryllium oxide as a better, safer, more efficient and longer lasting alternative to conventional nuclear fuels in an era that is likely to witness a renaissance in nuclear plant activity is one factor that may spike demand for what Denis Brady calls “the wonder element” in the not-too-distant future. Industrial requirements in emerging markets such as China and India are another. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Denis—who sold his beryllium metalworking and specialty alloy processing company to International Beryllium because he shares its vision for growth across the mine-to-market value chain—discusses hot prospects for this unusual material, which is simultaneously stiff and light, nonmagnetic and transparent to x-rays, with a modulus of elasticity almost 50% greater than steel, with only one-fourth the weight and an extremely high melting point of 2349°F. Read full article... Read full article...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Investor Capitulation in Metals and Mining Stocks Presents Great Buying Opportunity / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Justice_Litle
This is because the use of copper is so widespread throughout our lives. Most of the appliances in your house use copper: the fridge, the dishwasher, the microwave, and the washing machine just to name a few.
By the time you add up the electrical wiring, pipes and so on, the average home uses 400 pounds of copper. And your car? Another 50 pounds.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Commodity Super-Cycle, Mining Sector Rotation, China Economics, Copper Insight / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: Madison_Avenue_Resea
Commodity Super-Cycle - Recent commodity weakness could be explained merely as a huge sell-off within a longer-term bull market in basic materials, which has years to run. And while inflationary conditions are generally the most favourable for commodities, scholars note that this asset class did perform fairly well during the extreme deflationary era of the 1930s ( analysis of that era found here ). The Reuters CRB Futures Index is a bellwether physical commodities indicator, the 10 year weekly chart (seen to the left) shows the long uptrend from 2002 - 2008 and ferocious break down within the last few months. Read full article... Read full article...
Friday, November 07, 2008
Commodities Supply Destruction / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: HRA_Advisory
[ Editor's note : The following article was sent to subscribers in September. The intent was to remind readers what to look for in the various metals sectors in terms of supply going forward. Balance will return to the market not just from eventual demand increases but also (and perhaps mainly) from supply cut backs. We chose zinc to focus on as it has the largest percentage of uneconomic operations at current prices. For reasons we go into in the article, we expect a quicker supply response then in past cycles.Read full article... Read full article...
Monday, October 20, 2008
Zinc Two Year Bear Market Coming to an End? / Commodities / Metals & Mining
By: John_Lee
Centuries before zinc was discovered in the metallic form, its ores were used for making brass and zinc compounds, its ores were used for healing wounds and sore eyes. It is believed that the Romans first made brass in the time of Augustus (20 B.C. - 14 A.D.). In the 13th century Marco Polo described the manufacture of zinc oxide in Persia. At Zawar, India, both zinc metal and zinc oxide were produced from the 12th to the 16th century. From India, zinc manufacturing moved to China in the 17th century where it developed as an industry to supply the needs of the brass industry. Read full article... Read full article...