An insider's view of Alberta's burgeoning oil sands industry from a recently retired engineer from one of Canada's leading oil sands companies.
An end-of-the-week round up of news on Canadian resource stocks posted after the close of trading each Friday.
Coal - and coal stocks - have had an impressive run-up since 2000. Will the trend continue?
Doug Casey explains his mid- to long-term views on the U.S. dollar (it's going down the drain) and, by extension, gold (it's going to the moon).
The latest in a series by Casey Research on "Troubled Titans"... huge deposits that have yet to be turned into a mine.
The world is consuming metals faster than they can be found, and mining companies are rapidly burning through deposits. The time and cost it now takes to discover, define, permit and build a mine often exceeds the normal business and metals cycles. Net-net, large mineral discoveries are destined to become more and more valuable in a deposit-starved landscape.
Unless you attribute the Republican victory to a vote fraud of unprecedented magnitude, the reality is that Americans thoroughly endorsed what President Bush stands for.