Anonymous war on Isis: Online activists claim to have foiled terror attack on Italy as part of 'Operation Isis' … Supporters of Anonymous have been working to shut down Twitter accounts and websites, but claims to have now disrupted attacks in the real world too. – UK IndependentDominant Social Theme: Anonymous is full of modern day heroes.Free-Market Analysis: Do we believe it...Read More
Chuquicamata, the world's largest open pit copper mine. (Courtesy of Codelco via Flickr)Chile, the world's top copper producing country, surprised investors by publishing for the first time ever detailed data related to costs for nearly its entire mining industry.According to the recently launched "Costs Observatory," the average cash cost per pound of copper produced in the country during the sec...Read More
What if saving the economy was the easy part? … If the past seven years have proven anything, it's that the biggest danger is often the one that no one sees coming. "You have to worry, otherwise you can't be a central banker," Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said in a speech this month. "What worries me most is that things happen: You've got a nice framework. It&...Read More
The truth is rushing out there: why conspiracy theories spread faster than ever … From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, from Ebola to Isis, every major global event attracts a corresponding counter-narrative from the 'truthers', some so all-encompassing that they take over people's lives. Are our brains wired to believe, as a new book argues? And could such thinking actually be benefic...Read More
What if saving the economy was the easy part? … If the past seven years have proven anything, it's that the biggest danger is often the one that no one sees coming. "You have to worry, otherwise you can't be a central banker," Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said in a speech this month. "What worries me most is that things happen: You've got a nice framework. It&...Read More
The truth is rushing out there: why conspiracy theories spread faster than ever … From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, from Ebola to Isis, every major global event attracts a corresponding counter-narrative from the 'truthers', some so all-encompassing that they take over people's lives. Are our brains wired to believe, as a new book argues? And could such thinking actually be benefic...Read More
Last week we showed you where the wettest mines in the world are located. Topping that list is the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea where an average of 6,636 millimetres of rain falls each year. This week we're looking at the driest mines in some of the most arid regions of the world. Nearly half the mines on this list get no precipitation at all.Visit IntelligenceMine and learn how you can run yo...Read More
Freeport-McMoRan's Tyrone mine in New Mexico.Shares in Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) were trading more than 7.5% lower on Monday morning at about $7 after the company announced its co-founder James Moffett was stepping down as chairman and quitting the board.The move comes a few months after the world's largest publicly traded copper producer added two new directors under pressure from billionaire...Read More
MMG's gigantic Las Bambas mine is the largest China-backed mining projects scheduled to come on stream in Peru next year.Mining projects worth more than $56 billion are expected to come on stream in Peru beginning next year, led mostly by Chinese, American and Canadian companies.According to the official Andina news agency (in Spanish), there are 47 ventures in the last stages of development in th...Read More
The bottom has fallen out of the commodities market and while Canadian mining firms look set to ride it out, there could be a hit to Canada's economy because of low metals and minerals prices.At the end of December:coal is down 32 per cent from its price at the end of last year;iron ore, -24 per cent;palladium, -30 per cent;copper, -25 per cent;zinc, -30 per cent;aluminum, -19 per cent.They're a...Read More
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears … Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote "Money, Money, Money," considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins. Few places are tilting toward a cashless future as quickly as Sweden,...Read More
Katie Couric reveals what it's like to work with Marissa Mayer at Yahoo … Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric tells INSIDER exclusively: "Marissa is in the spotlight … When you're a high-profile woman, I think that it can sometimes be uber-challenging, and I think she's putting her head down and trying to do the work, and I know it must be challenging at times for he...Read More
In Sweden, a Cash-Free Future Nears … Parishioners text tithes to their churches. Homeless street vendors carry mobile credit-card readers. Even the Abba Museum, despite being a shrine to the 1970s pop group that wrote "Money, Money, Money," considers cash so last-century that it does not accept bills and coins. Few places are tilting toward a cashless future as quickly as Sweden,...Read More
Katie Couric reveals what it's like to work with Marissa Mayer at Yahoo … Yahoo global news anchor Katie Couric tells INSIDER exclusively: "Marissa is in the spotlight … When you're a high-profile woman, I think that it can sometimes be uber-challenging, and I think she's putting her head down and trying to do the work, and I know it must be challenging at times for he...Read More
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For one of the oldest and most successful teams in Formula One racing, the 2015 season was a big disappointment for McLaren.The team that made Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost into champions finished second-bottom in the 2015 constructor's championship and didn't get a driver on to the podium once in 19 races.But then again, McLaren has more to focus on these days than just the Formula One circus.The...Read More
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I recommend the following Jim Rogers' books as the BEST place to start if you want to (eventually) make money in mining stocks. And also as 'pre-reading' for mining books. All of this stuff fits together, and this is how to launch out of the starting gates!Here's a list of the books presented:1. Investment Biker - http://www.amazon.com/Investment-Bike...2. Adventure Capitalist - http://www.amazon....Read More
Welcome to the MiningBookGuy Channel!I'm Nick the MiningBookGuy. I love to read, I love to think about and (sometimes) start businesses from scratch, and I love to try to predict where the world is headed. Oh, and I currently love to speculate on mining stocks, especially the tiny ones trying to make the next, big discovery!This channel combines all of my passions, with an extra focus on "mining b...Read More