Two giants of the global mining industry, already beset by plummeting metal prices, now face a new challenge - preparing their shareholders for sharply lower dividends.BHP Billiton Ltd. and Rio Tinto PLC have both said in the past that they are committed to the payouts, but most observers doubt that sticking to the dividends is practical in today's bleak environment for commodity producers.At thei...Read More

The Tambopata National Reserve, in the Peruvian Amazon Basin,was created in 1990 to protect the forests adjacent to the rivers Heath and Tambopata. It is home to two unique ecosystems and very rich in terms of biodiversity. (Image Wikimedia Commons)Recently released satellite images show that devastation from illegal gold mining activities in Peru is now reaching the Tambopata National Reserve, a...Read More

Hundreds of Greek gold miners and technical staff are preparing to stage "powerful demonstrations" directed against the left-wing Syriza government, unions told Al Jazeera. Their employer, Canada's Eldorado Gold Corporation, announced last week that it will lay them off and utilize a key mine in northern Greece after years of government obstruction."We're not going to take this lying down," the m...Read More

Why This Market Meltdown Isn't a Repeat of 2008 … The end isn't nigh … The U.S. economy and financial system are in a very different place. Notably, debt ratios within the U.S. aren't nearly as high outside the government. – Wall Street JournalDominant Social Theme: 2008 is ancient history. Let's focus on what's good about the present.Free-Market Analysis: The...Read More

Bowie's death marks the Twilight of the Rock Gods …With David Bowie's final curtain-call, we are witnessing the end of an era, as the original stars of the explosive rock culture that convulsed the world in the second half of the 20th century are slowly extinguished. We are entering the Twilight of the Rock Gods. – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: Where will we turn for great...Read More

Why This Market Meltdown Isn't a Repeat of 2008 … The end isn't nigh … The U.S. economy and financial system are in a very different place. Notably, debt ratios within the U.S. aren't nearly as high outside the government. – Wall Street JournalDominant Social Theme: 2008 is ancient history. Let's focus on what's good about the present.Free-Market Analysis: The...Read More

Bowie's death marks the Twilight of the Rock Gods …With David Bowie's final curtain-call, we are witnessing the end of an era, as the original stars of the explosive rock culture that convulsed the world in the second half of the 20th century are slowly extinguished. We are entering the Twilight of the Rock Gods. – UK TelegraphDominant Social Theme: Where will we turn for great...Read More

Skeena River Boats. - From 1889, sternwheelers and smaller craft, fought their way through the Coast Mountains, churning past such awesome places as "The Devil's Elbow" and "The Hornet's Nest". Men and supplies were freighted upstream, furs and gold downstream. A quarter century of colour and excitement began to fade in 1912, as the Grand Trunk Pacific neared completion.Read More

Find Dana Durnford TheNuclearProctologist live 10:30 am 6 days a week here on http://livestream.com/accounts/16291058. Please support these Fukushima videos and expeditions that take a massive amount of energy time resources we need support to have the material and ability to make a difference please donate at paypal https://www.paypal.com/ca/webapps/mpp... by typing in my email danadurnford@hotma...Read More

Albert Lu, host of The Power & Market Report joins me to talk about how he got into podcasting (and got me into it!), his adventures in peaceful parenting and unschooling, and his favorite NFL team the New England Patriots.PodcastRelease date:24 May 2015Read More

Gwen Preston of http://www.resourcemaven.ca/ discusses the recent downturn in the US markets and it's effect on the mining sector. She informs us that the recent Chinese market 'crash' is actually a correction in an over-inflated stock market, in reality the Chinese economy is doing fine. China is building an enormous number of nuclear reactors which is a strong signal to be looking into the urani...Read More

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A video tribute to 2016 Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inductee, Robert Friedland.Read More

Glencore's Middelburg South Africa chrome smelter. Image: GlencoreA feeble attempt at a rally yesterday evaporated on Friday with the copper price hitting a fresh six-and-half year low of $1.9365 a pound ($4,270 a tonne) after falling nearly 2% in New York. Following a 26% decline in 2015, copper is already down 9% this year and worth less than half its peak as commodity investors choose to ignore...Read More

BHP's Fayetteville Shale, Arkansas, USA. (Image courtesy of BHP Billiton)Mining giant BHP Billiton (ASX, NYSE:BHP), (LON:BLT) logged Friday its largest-ever write-down, a roughly US$7.2 billion pretax charge on its extensive US shale assets, as a persistent downturn in commodities continues to hurt the mining and energy sectors.The fresh disappointment from the company's $20 billion foray into the...Read More

Gold King Mine discharge. (Image from archives)The state of New Mexico plans to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over last year's toxic Colorado mining spill that sent 3 million gallons of waste into the Animas and San Juan rivers.In a notice of intent to sue filed by the state Thursday, officials claim the EPA is to blame for the the consequences of the blowout at the abandoned...Read More

For more information or to register: http://www.subscribersummit.comAt our last event, a number of leading producers, explorers and service companies presented to over 250 retail and institutional investors. Market caps range from $10 million to over $1 billion-with all companies having been hand-picked by the editors as timely investments.Presentations are limited to 10 minutes-as it's the two ho...Read More

Yellen May Let the Economy Run Hot … Fed officials could forgo another rate increase in March, a possibility reflected in futures markets where the probability of no change at that time is around 58 percent. A pause would fuel expectations of a much slower series of rate hikes than the four that policymakers projected for 2016. Short- and long-term interest rates would drop, resulting in che...Read More

President Obama's amazingly emotional speech on gun control … President Obama delivered a deeply personal and emotional appeal to the country to help curb gun violence on Tuesday at the White House. For Obama, who is often criticized for his overly clinical approach to heated issues, his tone – sad and mad in relatively equal measure – was remarkable. Toward the end of his re...Read More

Yellen May Let the Economy Run Hot … Fed officials could forgo another rate increase in March, a possibility reflected in futures markets where the probability of no change at that time is around 58 percent. A pause would fuel expectations of a much slower series of rate hikes than the four that policymakers projected for 2016. Short- and long-term interest rates would drop, resulting in che...Read More