Alexander Williams

Fraught Mining Asset Sales Are Creating Opportunities

Fraught Mining Asset Sales Are Creating Opportunities $10 billion. $25 billion. The cash that analysts expected Rio Tinto and BHP…

Glencore in Talks over South American Copper Mines

Exclusive: Glencore in Talks over South American Copper Mines Glencore is in talks with Silver Wheaton and Franco-Nevada over gold…

Hold Your Hats! Copper & Nickel to Resume Downward Slide

In a fascinating new study of metal prices on the London Metal Exchange, data compiled by Sanford Bernstein analyst Paul…

Brian Dalton’s Patience Rewarded

In part three of our series on mining companies warehousing assets at a cyclical low, we look at Newfound-based Altius…

China’s One Billion Tonne Question

The billion tonne question is raging. China's tumult has been well publicised in recent weeks, but for coking coal and…

Tyrone: A Ghostly Reminder of a Punishing Cycle

On the southern border of the United States, a string of elaborate buildings sit faded by the sun. Built in…

Keith Neumeyer’s Gold Deal Binge

Gold Canyon Resources, PC Gold, Coastal Gold and Sundance Minerals; the list of companies being bought by First Mining Finance…

Matthew Hornor’s Copper Ambitions

With commodities sitting at a six-year low, Master Investor looks at mining companies who are warehousing assets for cents in…

An Ode to Copper

Mining investors feeling the pain have been offered a rare spot of relief, intentionally or not, by a copper mining…

It feels as though this bear market in commodities has much further to run

Surveying the Damage Monday's China-led stock market sell-off (dubbed “Brutal Monday” by Reuters and “The Shanghai Shockwave” by City AM)…