Showing posts with the label
Mining
There has been a series of informative articles and op-eds in Bloomberg discussing the plight of the American coal industry [RIP...sort of...read on]. Big Coal is fighting wars on two fronts. The fi…
Welcome to Zambia's Copperbelt. Commodity-based economies are often Johnny-One-Note economies: their fortunes rise and fall based on those of a single commodity (or at best, a handful of them). I…
To no one's surprise, investors say Sweden has the best mining policies. More so than the amount of extractable resources or the economic conditions in a particular country, I'd argue that th…
Like other extractive industries, mining elicits much hand-wringing among leftists about labor exploitation, environmental degradation, and the decimation of indigenous cultures in mining communities…
As in any number of other countries, mining remains a most controversial industry in Latin America. If you want an industry which has every possible controversy going with it--pollution issues, labou…
Little surfer, little one, make my heart come all undone...with your"Made in China" surfboard? Is there nothing sacred about beach culture that the Chinese won't infiltrate with their r…
Here's a worthwhile initiative I may not have mentioned yet that should nevertheless gain more attention for the work it does. I suppose that it's only fitting that an initiative that was lau…
Given several new developments, today's a mighty fine time to update our coverage [ 1 , 2 ] of worldwide rare earth metal availability provided its importance to modern industrial production. Beg…
It's somewhat odd that the whitebread commentariat hasn't made more of this event, especially since it's happening in their own backyard. While dependencia theory of Latin American count…
Think of Australia and China as star-crossed lovers. The former needs to find developing market customers as demand for its commodity exports fall in the developing world. Meanwhile, the latter needs…
In addition to Chinalco's stake in Rio Tinto, the relationship between the Australian mining giant and China's steelmakers is definitely a many-sided one that mirrors Australia's mixed r…
