For subscribers of Metal Bulletin, Claire Hack published an article entitled "Tin pipeline hindered by costs, grades and lack of new projects" on 2nd October. The article follows up the press release by ITRI and Greenfields Research earlier in the day entitled "Good and Bad News on Tin Project Pipeline". The press release covers the findings of a new report by ITRI and Greenfields Research on… Read this post →
Based on data compiled by Greenfields Research and ITRI, and funded by Trafford Resources, I have been filmed for a video outlining "The Case for Tin Exploration". The 5 minute video outlines the simple five step argument for increased exploration targeting new discoveries of high quality tin deposits, preferably in low political risk jurisdictions: Tin prices are at 30 year… Read this post →
Behre Dolbear's ‘2010 Ranking of Countries for Mining Investment’ ranks 25 countries with major mining exploration and operations on seven criteria that focus on “political risk”. Seven criteria look at the country’s economic and political system, the degree to which social issues affect mining, delays in obtaining permits, corruption, the stability of the local currency and the tax regime. For… Read this post →
At the recent ITRI International Tin Conference, metals and mining consultancy CRU Group presented an update of its "Commodity Price Climate Change" forecast. This has nothing to do with which commodities would benefit from an anthropogenically warmed planet (we'll cover that another day), but is a way of summarising their views of whether commodity price outlooks will be “hot”, “warm”,… Read this post →
London's mining scene gathered in force at the Mining Journal's Gold Day. However, we left with concerns about the extent to which gold prices are being supported by investors, and about increasing political risk for gold miners, which is reducing some miners' leverage to the booming gold price. Investor-supported gold Just how much the current high gold price has been… Read this post →
