{"id":1280,"date":"2013-02-09T17:01:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2013-02-09T17:01:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T22:01:23","slug":"mali-turmoil-bad-for-canadian-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Mali turmoil bad for Canadian miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Mike Blanchfield<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The Canadian Press<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mali160.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1283\" title=\"mali160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mali160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>OTTAWA &#8212; As Islamist rebels controlled a chunk of Mali the size of France late last month, Toronto-mining analyst Pawel Rajszel honed his advice to investors on a leading Canadian mining company in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Rajszel had previously told investors to \u201ctake their money and run.\u201d His note of Jan. 24 concluded with one word: \u201cSell.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even after French and African troops routed al-Qaida terrorists from major cities in Mali\u2019s north this week &#8212; and after French President Francois Hollande basked in the euphoria of a liberated Timbuktu \u2014 Rajszel was still unmoved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe haven\u2019t changed our opinion,\u201d Rajszel, head of the precious metals team at Veritas Investment Research, told The Canadian Press.<\/p>\n<p>The Mali crisis and its spillover into West Africa are a monkey wrench in the Harper government\u2019s ambitions for Canadian firms, especially in the mining sector.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.680news.com\/2013\/02\/08\/mali-turmoil-bad-for-canadian-mining-ambitions-in-west-africa-analysts\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> As Islamist rebels controlled a chunk of Mali the size of France late last month, Toronto-mining analyst Pawel Rajszel honed his advice to investors on a leading Canadian mining company in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}