BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP), the world's biggest mining company, has committed to spend just less than $200 million to get more copper out of its 57.5%-owned Escondida operation in Chile, the world's largest copper-producing mine.The expansion of the Los Colorados concentrator will help offset declining grades at the mine and add incremental copper production to reach an average production of 1.2 mill...Read More
International regulations have failed to prevent foreign firms and armed groups from profiting from illegal gold mining in mineral-rich eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a new report by Global Witness shows.Illegally acquired and exported gold from the mineral-rich eastern Congo keeps filling the pockets of some foreign companies as well as armed groups.According to the UK-based organization,...Read More
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe … FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday announced the agency is not recommending the Justice Department bring charges against Hillary Clinton, despite denouncing the former secretary of state and her colleagues for the way they handled classified information through private email servers. – PoliticoFBI director James Comey announc...Read More
Editor’s Alert: At time of publication, Hillary Clinton was not indicted by the FBI over mishandling classified emails.This conforms to what we have expected and additionally seems to make clear that she will indeed be the next President of the United States.Enormous political capital has been expended on ensuring her innocence. It is surely unlikely that the elite establishment, having prod...Read More
Raghuram Rajan: Why RBI needed more of him ... Finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke up to give outgoing RBI governor Raghuram Rajan a thumbs up. The endorsement that came a wee bit too late was welcome nevertheless ... – India.comWith economies worldwide in a mess, the mainstream media is increasingly concentrating on individual central bankers.This is propaganda, of course.Instea...Read More
Canaccord Thinks Private Prison Equities Could Break Out ... The first private prison emerged in 1984, and the industry has grown ever since. America continues to have the highest incarceration rates in the world. One financial services company sees significant upside in the private prison sector. - Benzinga.comIn this article we can see how private prison equity is being treated like any othe...Read More
Second EU referendum would be possible, former attorney general says ... Research suggests as many as 1.2 million Leave voters now regret their vote ... Dominic Grieve, a Conservative MP who was the Government's chief legal advisor until 2014, said the result of the first referendum had to be "treated with respect" but that it was not necessarily set in stone. - UK IndependentWhile most Brits wan...Read More
FBI recommends no charges against Clinton in email probe … FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday announced the agency is not recommending the Justice Department bring charges against Hillary Clinton, despite denouncing the former secretary of state and her colleagues for the way they handled classified information through private email servers. – PoliticoFBI director James Comey announc...Read More
Editor’s Alert: At time of publication, Hillary Clinton was not indicted by the FBI over mishandling classified emails.This conforms to what we have expected and additionally seems to make clear that she will indeed be the next President of the United States.Enormous political capital has been expended on ensuring her innocence. It is surely unlikely that the elite establishment, having prod...Read More
Raghuram Rajan: Why RBI needed more of him ... Finally, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke up to give outgoing RBI governor Raghuram Rajan a thumbs up. The endorsement that came a wee bit too late was welcome nevertheless ... – India.comWith economies worldwide in a mess, the mainstream media is increasingly concentrating on individual central bankers.This is propaganda, of course.Instea...Read More
Canaccord Thinks Private Prison Equities Could Break Out ... The first private prison emerged in 1984, and the industry has grown ever since. America continues to have the highest incarceration rates in the world. One financial services company sees significant upside in the private prison sector. - Benzinga.comIn this article we can see how private prison equity is being treated like any othe...Read More
Second EU referendum would be possible, former attorney general says ... Research suggests as many as 1.2 million Leave voters now regret their vote ... Dominic Grieve, a Conservative MP who was the Government's chief legal advisor until 2014, said the result of the first referendum had to be "treated with respect" but that it was not necessarily set in stone. - UK IndependentWhile most Brits wan...Read More
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Rio Tinto (ASX, LON:RIO) is selling its interest in Blair Athol coal mine to a small Australian miner for just US$0.75 (A$1), as part of the world's second largest miner's strategy to offload unprofitable assets and focus mostly on copper, a plan being carried out by the firm's brand-new CEO, Jean-S?(C)bastien Jacques.Buyer TerraCom (ASX: TER) said that as part of the deal it would also receive...Read More
The global mining equipment market is expected to garner $156 billion by 2022, increasing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.9% during 2016 - 2022, a new report published by Allied Market Research shows.According to the study, titled "World Mining Equipment Market - Opportunities and Forecasts, 2015 - 2022", the Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest revenue of over $50 billion...Read More
Nobody who knows the status of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s server is talking. ... The FBI interviewed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for many hours on Saturday morning. On Saturday afternoon CNN Senior Producer Teddy Davis tweeted “Sources tell CNN’s Evan Perez: expectation is that there will be announcement of no charges in Clinton email probe w/in next...Read More
Gold eases off near two-year high, silver crosses $21/oz ... Gold slides to two-week low as Brexit fears abate ... Gold eased off a near two-year high, while silver breached the $21 level for the first time since July 2014 in highly volatile trade on Monday, prompted by a burst of short-covering in China. – BloombergGold and silver are having great runs now that the monetary manipulation h...Read More
More Hole in the ozone layer is finally ‘healing’ ... Chlorine reacting with these beautiful stratospheric clouds over Antarctica is the cause of the hole in the ozone layer (Cynthia Spence/NSF) The ozone hole over Antarctica is finally “healing” almost 30 years after the world banned the chemicals responsible for its creation, researchers say. – ABCSo the Ozone hol...Read More
Review: 'Bush,' a Biography as Scathing Indictment ... If Mr. Bush eventually gets a more sympathetic hearing by history, as he hopes, it will not start with Jean Edward Smith's "Bush," a comprehensive and compelling narrative punctuated by searing verdicts of all the places where the author thinks the 43rd president went off track. -New York TimesThis review of a biography of Bush tracks some of...Read More
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