Rumours of Tanzania mining Super Tax

2011/06/08

Tanzania has become one of the fastest emerging gold producers in Africa, and is now the continent’s third largest gold producing country after Sout... Read more »

Peru Election: the Aftermath

2011/06/07

Ollanta Humala is the President-elect of Peru. On Sunday June 5th, 2011 Ollanta Humala won Peru’s national election over Keiko Fujimori by a t... Read more »

Peru goes to the Polls: 10 Mining Stocks to Watch

2011/06/02

A cursory look at Peruvian mining will show you that many of the world’s senior mining companies have operations there. The list of majors in th... Read more »

Silver – star performer in early 2011

2011/05/29

Welcome to the June edition of the Highgrade Review. This month’s issue is completely dedicated to silver mining and exploration companies listed on... Read more »

10 Most Interesting Silver Stocks – Part 1

In the early 1970s two brothers from Texas, William Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt, began accumulating silver. By 1979, the pair had effectively corne... Read more »

10 Most Interesting Silver Stocks – Part 2

3. Alexco Resource Corp. (TSX:AXR) Alexco Resource is Canada’s newest silver producer.  The company is focused on the Yukon Territory of Nor... Read more »

10 Most Interesting Silver Stocks – Part 3

What’s at the root of silver’s volatile ride in 2011? We can’t blame it on the Hunt brothers so let’s blame it on China. On Ap... Read more »

10 Most Interesting Silver Stocks – Part 4

8. Pan American Silver Corp. (TSX:PAA) Pan American Silver is the world’s second-largest primary silver producer and has its sights set on Fres... Read more »

Bad news is good news for potash stocks

2011/05/26

The World Meteorological Organization predicts global food output may be impacted as climate change brings more extreme weather over the next decade.... Read more »

Investors enraptured with gold

2011/05/24

After reaching a recent high of $1,577 on April 30th, the price of an ounce of gold reversed course and dropped dramatically, hitting a low of $1,462 ... Read more »

The ghosts of Bre-X: mining in Indonesia today

2011/05/19

On March 19th, 1997 Michael de Guzman, the exploration manager for would-be miner Bre-X, jumped from an Alouette helicopter flying eight-hundred feet ... Read more »

Sprott still bullish on Silver

2011/05/17

Eric Sprott, founder of Toronto-based investment firm Sprott Asset Management, is generally considered to be of Canada’s best investment manager... Read more »

Gold + Silver + Copper + Zinc = Eritrea

2011/05/15

Eritrea, a funnel shaped country that borders The Red Sea, was, because of its unstable political history, a bit of a mystery to the international min... Read more »

Dogs of the downturn: worst performing TSX 60 miners in May

2011/05/13

Blink and you may have missed it. If the recent downturn in commodities is coming to an end, as some suggest, it was a brief correction. While the rec... Read more »

Is the bubble about to pop for Canadian rare earth stocks?

2011/05/12

Is rare earth metals mania another bubble that is about to pop, or a genuine shift in the supply demand curve? That question is the crux of a heated d... Read more »

Northwest Transmission Line unplugged?

2011/05/10

On May 8th, 2011, just two days after the federal government gave the environmental thumbs-up on the Northwest Transmission Line (NTL), two B.C. Firs... Read more »

Junior abandons “anti-mining” Panama

2011/05/05

On February 11th, Erin Ventures (TSXV:EV), a Victoria based junior miner, reported a mysterious website had surfaced belonging to a company called ... Read more »

Base Metals 101

2011/05/01

Welcome to the May edition of the Highgrade Review. This month’s issue is completely dedicated to base metals: copper, iron, nickel, lead, and zinc.... Read more »

10 Base Metal Stocks to Watch in 2011 – Part 1

Base metal mining companies have, for many years, operated in the shadows of precious metal miners. But with increasing demand from China and develop... Read more »

10 Base Metal Stocks to Watch in 2011 – Part 2

3. Mirabela Nickel Ltd. (TSX:MNB) By the end of 2008 Nickel prices had fallen by 80% from their May 2007 high of just over (US) $52,000 per tonne. In ... Read more »