Can Technology Rescue Coal
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) tells us coal was first discovered in Australia in 1797 in New South Wales, followed by Victoria in 1825. Early efforts to mine and market coal were less than satisfactory until the government stepped in in 1889 to begin registering coal producing companies. Given the fact Australia now ranks…
Mining Service Providers to Watch
Newcomers to share market investing emboldened by the dramatic reversal in market movements in late March of this year have to remain dazed and confused. Months of tracking market movements could easily lead to the conclusion that negative economic news matters little to profit-hungry investors. It is the future that counts and to a large…
Saudi Arabia eyes total dominance in oil and gas
Saudi Arabia’s Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz claimed last week that the Kingdom will be the world’s biggest hydrocarbon producer “even” in 2050. “I can assure that Saudi Arabia will not only be the last producer, but Saudi Arabia will produce every molecule of hydrocarbon and it will put it to good use … It will…
Junior Gold Explorers to Watch
On occasion market experts have anointed wild swings in market volatility as a market with a “split personality.” It would be hard to argue that market movements since the potential scope of the COVID-19 Pandemic began to become obvious in mid to late February of 2020 has been anything but volatile. On 19 February markets…
U.S. To “Drown The World” In Oil
The U.S. could “drown the world in oil” over the next decade, which, according to Global Witness, would “spell disaster” for the world’s attempts to address climate change. The U.S. is set to account for 61 percent of all new oil and gas production over the next decade. A recent report from this organization says…
Will the Nickel Run-Up Last?
In February of 2016 the price of nickel hit a thirteen-year low. The price had been in a downward spiral with sporadic rallies since 2011. Then on 6 June of 2016 the perceived champion of the anticipated “revolution” in Electric Vehicles – Elon Musk of US-based Tesla Motors – commented that the batteries used in…
Reshuffling Lithium Supply
Futurists dating back to Alvin Toffler in the 1970’s and farther have provided investors with places to look for investing opportunities. Toffler’s ground-breaking book Future Shock paved the way for the decade later work of another futurist, John Naisbitt, who coined the now ubiquitous term megatrend. There are numerous definitions of the term but the…
