Archives for Commodities - Page 2
Corporate The company has 1,778 million shares on issue and a market cap of $39.1M at $0.022/share. The largest shareholders are a group of German investors with around 22% of the company, directors hold around 3%. The directors are: Peter Unsworth, Chairman, Mike Jones, MD, Paul Ingram and Markus Elsasser.…
Those who believe the planet will be saved by a switch to “renewable” energy, and that such energy would be “green” perhaps do not understand the true cost of renewables. It is a basic principle of life, and economics, that you “can’t get something for nothing” or “there is no…
In economics a real value is a value that has been adjusted for inflation, whereas a nominal value has not been adjusted. Gold and silver are quoted in USD, which is considered real as the USD is adjusted by the consumer price indices (CPI) produced by the US Bureau of…
Net smelter return (” NSR”) is a measure of net income for a tonne of metal concentrate. It is net of all costs such as concentrate treatment charges and penalties, refinery charges, freight costs, insurance, and marketing. It is also occasionally applied to gold doré, which is an impure form…
Pure or primarily PGE (platinum group elements) stocks are rare on the ASX. This is to be expected, given the dearth of PGE projects in Australia. A few companies have PGE prospects that are secondary to their main endeavours, three are listed. Numerous companies suggest they have PGE prospects, mostly…
Vanadium is typically traded as ferrovanadium (FeV)or vanadium pentoxide (V2O5). It is estimated that around 73,000 metric tonnes of vanadium was mined in 2019, with China, Russia and South Africa being the largest producers. Vanadium occurs in a variety of settings: phosphate rock, titaniferous magnetite, uriniferous sandstone, bauxite, coal, oil…