Silver Mines has a silver inventory of 144M oz of silver across three projects in New South Wales. In Australia, this is second only to South32’s Cannington Mine, which is an underground silver, lead, zinc mine in Northern Queensland. The company has a strong, well regarded board, headed by Non-Exec.…
Perth, a city of about 2 million in Western Australia, is largely dependent upon the resource sector. With the current downturn in that sector, more people are leaving the city than arriving. This, along with higher unemployment, has put considerable pressure on house prices. I was recently in Perth and…
In 1957, it was estimated that the Sydney Opera House would cost $7 million and be completed in 1963. In reality, a scaled-down version cost $102 million and did not open until 1973. This is an extreme example of Planning Fallacy. But it is just one of many examples from…
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MOD Resources set something of a record in 2016: it discovered the T3 deposit early in the year, then went on to define an initial resource and complete a positive scoping study in less than 12 months. T3 is one of two deposits in the Botswana Copper Project: T3 28.4Mt @ 1.24%…
Once, Saudi Arabia was a major producer of wheat, along with dairy, chickens and the like. This was achieved in desert conditions by massive use of ground water and desalinated seawater, paid for by the government. Not any more. The depletion of ground water has led to a cessation of…