17th August 2006
What can China do about its coal mines which drive the country's electrical production? Although official figures are lower, as many as 6000 Chinese die in the country's 30,000+ coal mines every year. More suffer from air pollution and black lung.
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17th August 2006
In early July, Jimmy Rogers told us, "Longer term, natural gas production is declining in North America."
A few weeks later, in our interview with Sprott Asset Management CBM research analyst Eric Nuttall he echoed those remarks, saying, "North Americ...
17th August 2006
By 2005, Canadian public companies were awarded CBM concessions – the first Canadian publicly traded firm to obtain not one, but two, production-sharing contracts was Pacific Asia China Energy (TSX: PCE).
This has worked out well for this young compan...
06th August 2006
"I think the (natural) gas storage surplus is smoke-and-mirrors," said Phil Flynn, Energy Analyst for Alaron Trading Corporation in Chicago. "It masks an underlying problem with production." Mr. Flynn is not alone in his assessment of the natural gas mark...
06th August 2006
Experts have begun calling this the 'Cape Verde Hurricane Season,' because multiple storm systems are moving westward from Africa through the Cape Verde Islands. Hurricane scientists from Europe and the United States are now in Africa studying the cluster...
26th July 2006
Earlier this month, a reporter from Business Edge (Ontario edition) was pondering investment advice he might receive over a fantasy lunch with different financial gurus, such as Warren Buffet, Jim Dines and Eric Sprott. He said of Eric Sprott, "You'd be h...
26th July 2006
More than 60 percent of molybdenum mined comes about as a byproduct of copper production. Many commodity investors see the rally in molybdenum prices as an afterthought, because copper has soared. In fact, molybdenum may have strong reasons to remain firm...
26th July 2006
International Stainless Steel Federation has forecast even faster 5.5 percent annual growth up to at least 2010. Increased production of stainless steel would require a higher level of molybdenum consumption. A June 8th news item in MEPS Steel News foreca...
26th July 2006
Magyar analyzed the rapid rise of molybdenum's pricing and its drift since peaking in 2005. "Inventory was rebuilt by the end of 2005," he pointed out. "The seeds for this price level were sown in the fourth quarter of 2001." Molybdenum traded around $3/p...
26th July 2006
There is no commodities futures market in molybdenum. Yes, there are many more moly traders than trading companies buying and selling uranium. But, it is a small market. Because molybdenum mining is majorly a byproduct of copper mining, investments in Phe...
25th July 2006
We talked to Jon Indall, Executive Director of Uranium Producers of America, who told us U.S. uranium production could annually reach 20 million pounds in five to six years. Indall also told us the domestic uranium market is critical to the renaissance in...
25th July 2006
The Uranium Producers of America (UPA) was formed more than twenty years ago. Over the years, this trade association worked with Congress and state legislators to help improve the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle: uranium mining. Today, it has been re-...
25th July 2006
After interviewing SXR Uranium One Chief Executive Neal Froneman, we realized it was important to cover developments in Utah, particularly in the Lisbon Valley. Each time Mr. Froneman talked about Wyoming, he nearly always included Utah in the same breath...
25th July 2006
Why are the Uranium Companies
Exploring the Northeast Flank of the Fault?
While the west side of the fault has been the most productive uranium mining ground, Rio Algom discovered a mineralized zone in 1972 on the "nose" of the northeast side of the ...
25th July 2006
Lisbon Valley is Known for Continuous,
Flat, Tabular High Grade Uranium Deposits
"The deposits are amoeboid shaped and are generally longer parallel to the anticlinal axis," wrote engineer Ken Thorsen in a March 2005 report for Universal Uranium. I...
