Archives for Commodities - Page 17
This was originally posted by Wolf Richter over at Wolf Street. It is re-posted here with permission. This is a very worrying signal for the global economy. The Dow Jones Transportation index has been warning us: by August 25, it was down 19% year-to-date before bouncing. It’s now off 13%.…
Carbon is the basis of all life on Earth. and of an enormous array of organic chemicals; such as hydrocarbons, and inorganic chemicals, such as carbon dioxide. Carbon can also bond with itself to form graphite, coal and diamonds. Graphite is comprised of stacked two dimensional layers of carbon atoms…
I plan to commence a series of posts on specialty metals and minerals. There are various definitions – my definition excludes base and precious metals, bulk minerals such as iron ore and energy metals such as uranium. Specialty metals include those that are alloyed with other metals, such as antimony, titanium…
The following article is by Wolf Richter at Wolf Street, re-posted with permission. It is a great insight into the US fracking industry, where things are not quite what they seem. — Natural gas driller Samson Resources is planning to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy by August 15, when a…
Over the weekend Hilary Clinton, the Democratic front-runner for the 2016 US presidency, released a YouTube video in which she stated that, if elected, she would have more than 500 million solar panels installed in her first term. While she obviously means well, there are a number of issues with…
The Pagl Prospect is located 35 Km northeast of Mt Hagen with road access to the project boundary. It is a new discovery of porphyry-style mineralisation located in the New Guinea Mobile Belt. This belt hosts several large copper-gold deposits such as Grasberg, Frieda River, Ok Tedi and Wafi-Golpu. Recent…