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Mining Companies Will Continue to Face Challenging Market Conditions in 2014
Dec 5, 2013Mining companies operating in Australia and globally will continue to face challenging market conditions in 2014, including rising costs, low commodity prices, supply/demand imbalances, and decreased productivity levels. According to ...
Tags: Sustainable Cost Reduction, Innovation Critical, Australian
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Expropriation and Resource Nationalism Will Remain The Main Risks for Miners in 2013
Jan 11, 2013Expropriation and resource nationalism will remain the main risks for miners in 2013, according to a report published Wednesday by UK-based risk consultancy Maplecroft. Since the appropriation of mining assets by governments continues to ...
Tags: Miners, Myanmar, Tajikistan, Bolivia, Investments
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Venezuela Has Its Eye on Becoming a Major Minerals Producer
Dec 28, 2012According to Maplecroft's principal Latin America analyst James Lockhart-Smith,Venezuela has its eye on becoming a major minerals producer,though its capacity to do so is in question. Mr Lockhart-Smith told BNamericas that"Specifically ...
Tags: Maplecroft, Latin America, Venezuela, minerals producer
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Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Mining and in The US Mineral Processing Industry
Dec 26, 2012The following have all combined to limit control of foreign minerals by US companies: In 2011, Resource nationalism became the number one risk for mining companies Nationalization Expropriation Increased taxation Constraints on the degree ...
Tags: Cobalt, Rare Earth, USA, Metallurgy
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Financial Performance of Mining Companies and Stock Prices Headed in Opposite Directions
Dec 26, 2012A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) says the financial performance of global mining companies and their stock prices headed in opposite directions last year. The Toronto-based consulting firm says the top 40 global mining firms ...
Tags: Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, Coal, Copper, Diamond, Finance, Gold, Iron Ore
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Resource Nationalism Is Assuming More Subtle Forms as Governments Resort
Dec 25, 2012Resource nationalism is assuming more subtle forms as governments resort to measures outside of blatant asset expropriations to retain the benefits proffered by their geological bounties. In an interview with the Financial Times (paywall) ...
Tags: Resource Nationalism, geological bounties, oil, mining
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Resource Nationalism Is One of The Main Causes of The Current Commodity Prices Instability
Dec 25, 2012Resource nationalism is one of the main causes of the current commodity prices instability and it is threatening global security, warns London-based Chatham House in its latest report. The think-tank highlights the effects of a recent ...
Tags: Resource, miners, resource asset, bauxite
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Investors Are Betting on a Battle for Inmet Mining Corporation
Dec 7, 2012Investors are betting on a battle for Inmet Mining Corporation to control the coveted Cobre Panama project in Central America. Inmet shares have catapulted 23% in the two tradings sessions since the company disclosed it received and ...
Tags: Inmet Mining, new copper, Panama Canal