It seems a bit strange, I will admit, to sit here writing about water shortages and droughts and rationing while my roof is leaking in two places, into a carefully positioned large blue bucket and a smaller yellow one. And the news is full of forecasts of the coming torrents of rain that El Niño […]
The Future for Small Producers in Australia
This week Investor Ideas spoke to Paul Adams, an analyst with the brokerage firm DJ Carmichael in Perth Australia. Given the excitement with junior mining companies in Australia lately, I thought it would be worthwhile to recount the interview here. For full interview details visit: http://www.investorideas.com/news/2014/mining/11031.asp. In regards to the Australian mining sector, particularly when […]
What’s Next For Norilsk Nickel?
I have brought up on this blog the new strategic plan from Russia’s Norilsk Nickel regarding it’s focus on large scale assets and limiting it’s engagement with smaller scale projects (hence the sale of their Australian assets to Poseidon over the last couple months and recent sales of African assets to BCL). Knowing the change […]
Chinese fighter jet preforms dangerous “barrel role” over US spy plane
On August 22, 2014 the Pentagon gave a press briefing concerning the “buzzing” of a American spy plane operating in the South China sea. Informal definition of “buzzing” – “To fly low over”, or fly buy: For example: “The […]
New Strategy and sale of Australian Assets
New Strategy and Sale of Australian Assets In early July Norilsk Nickel announced the sale of its Black Swan and Silver Swan assets in Western Australia to Poseidon Nickel, an Australian company. This is both a lucky break for junior player Poseidon Nickel and a strategic move for Russia’s Norilsk Nickel. Poseidon Nickel was […]