By Anna Hirtenstein November 30, 2017, 11:00 PM CST Recycling techniques can draw metal from lithium-ion batteries New source could meet 10% of car industry’s metal needs Why Electric Cars Aren’t Taking Over Yet Almost 9,000 miles from the dusty Congo savanna, miners have hit on an entirely new source of cobalt — the rare […]
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By MN Gordon Style Over Substance There are many things that could be said about the GOP tax bill. But one thing is certain. It has been a great show. Obviously, the time for real solutions to the debt problem that’s ailing the United States came and went many decades ago. Instead of addressing the
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By Alexander Green For years now, I’ve argued at investment conferences with dollar bears who insisted that the greenback had nowhere to go but down. They generally pointed to three primary reasons: The U.S. trade deficit Our sovereign debt The demise of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Of course, you can talk until
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By analyst By Cecilia Jamasmie A twice-refused permit to build an open-cut coal mine in Australia’s Hunter Valley became permanent Friday with a New South Wales Government order, though authorities did renew Malabar Coal’s (ASX:MBC) exploration licence, paving the way for the company to potentially build an underground operation in the area. Minister for Planning
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By Pater Tenebrarum A Twitch of a Toe In our recent update on credit spreads we proposed to use the seemingly deceased Monty Python parrot Polly as a stand-in for the suspicion of creditors in today’s markets. The question was whether Polly was indeed dead or merely in a deep coma. Depending on this, one
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By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Peregrine Diamonds Ltd. (TSX:PGD) announced that the CH-6 kimberlite deposit at its Chidliak diamond project, located 120 kilometres northeast of Iqaluit, Nunavut, is twice as deep as it previously estimated. “The 2017 resource expansion drill program at the CH-6 kimberlite has confirmed that the high-grade CH-6 kimberlite extends from
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By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Five-thousand-eight-hundred tonnes of lithium and 22,500 tonnes of cobalt from recycled batteries will reach global markets in 2025, a new report by Creation Inn states. According to the recently-launched strategy consultancy firm, China will lead the recycling activities for both metals. In detail, more than 66 per cent of
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By analyst By Valentina Ruiz Leotaud Vancouver-based Tasca Resources revealed that it is planning to conduct a Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) Survey over the Poplar Copper Project located in northern British Columbia, adjacent to New Nadina’s Silver Queen claim block. According to the miner, the new technology is a significant advancement in exploration tools, particularly
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By James Rickards This post The Fed Is in Limbo appeared first on Daily Reckoning. In yesterday’s analysis, I compared Janet Yellen to an athlete running the high-hurdles at a track meet. Her finish line is a rate hike on December 13. The hurdles are inflation data, the Trump tax cut, and a government shutdown
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By Brian Maher This post Slouching Toward Utopia appeared first on Daily Reckoning. Dear Reader, North Korea launched another missile Tuesday. Some estimates give it a range of 8,100 miles — bringing every U.S. state of the 50 within its fiery reach. Markets were so shaken by the news… the Dow gained 256 points on
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