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Demand for these exotic metals is expected to rise along with their use in technological innovations

  • April 6, 2010 October 31, 2019
  • 13:27

Despite the precipitous decline in the prices of certain commodities, the bust should last for a matter of quarters, not years

  • March 10, 2009 October 31, 2019
  • 12:59

New technologies are helping to create lower-emission electric cars with higher speeds and ranges

  • December 2, 2008 December 2, 2008
  • 12:23

Although the steep correction of commodities prices has depressed small-cap mining stocks, they soon could be on the way back up

  • December 2, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 09:45

New technologies are helping to create lower-emission electric cars with higher speeds and ranges

  • December 1, 2008 December 1, 2008
  • 11:27

There are myriad reasons for the growing gap between the prices of metals and of shares in the companies that mine them

  • October 15, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 09:52

Players large and small are expanding capacity, but that won’t affect markets until the next decade

  • July 28, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 14:54

Despite depressed prices, the long-term fundamentals remain sound for companies mining the radioactive metal

  • June 2, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 10:07

South Africa’s failure to increase power-generating capacity has slowed mining activity for the precious metal

  • March 4, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 15:08

Asia’s appetite for steel’s main ingredient is turning investors’ attention to junior miners

  • January 21, 2008 October 31, 2019
  • 14:21