Mining

Pumps and valves provider to the oil and gas, mining, and energy sectors, Weir Group (LSE:WEIR), beat market expectations after ending 2012 with annual profits beyond market consensus, pushing shares up on the London Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The FTSE 100 engineering firm gained as much as 5.5% to £22.84 by 13:00 GMT, following the […]

AIM-listed Rare Earth Global Limited (LSE:REG) did not meet market expectations and will report a loss for the year ended 2012, the China-focused miner, refiner, and trader of rare earth elements forewarned today ahead of the preliminary results to be reported in May. REG sustained more losses in the second half of 2012 after the […]

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s said late Monday Rio Tinto plc’s (LSE:RIO) debt may further rise in the current year and the next unless the diversified global miner sells off large assets or iron ore price stabilises at a certain price, pushing the London-listed firm’s shares down on Tuesday. S&P revised its outlook from stable […]

Affero Mining (LSE:AFF) has been in a downtrend and would continue thus. When the price is under serious pressure, you see it start to fluctuate on the chart. The more the pressure is high, the more lasting and more significant the trend would be (as it goes down from an equilibrium zone). The ADX period […]

Nat Rothschild left the Bumi shareholders meeting in London yesterday, 21 February, having lost a major battle, but vowing to fight on.  Nineteen of Rothshild’s 22 proposed resolutions were  rejected by shareholders.  The Bumi share price followed by continuing its year long 60% decline with a 21.3 pence plunge (5.44%) to 370.0 shortly past midday […]

I managed to make even more friends in the Bulletin Board Moron community on 4th February when I explained why anyone with half a brain cell should short Baobab Resources (LSE:BAO) at 35.75p. Since then the company has issued 2 RNS releases about its flagship Tete study blathering on with all the usual guff and […]

There were those who wrote AIM and ASX listed gold miner Norseman Gold (LSE:NGL) off as an investment. That may still prove to be accurate. This has been a sorry tale and one which has made many of us, myself included, look like total prats. But we are not at write-off as yet as a […]

The share price of mining giant BHP Billiton (LSE:BLT) has traveled an upward trajectory since May 2012, from 1,681 on 23 May to 2,236 at 19 February 2013.  Although the stock remained above its 90 day moving average from 25 July onward, the price hit a number of pitfalls along the way.  Today was one […]

What would be the eventual fate of the shares on StartMin Global (LSE:STGR)? Would they go south or north? The expected outlook is explained below and would need a thorough plan to be followed. When initial trading plans are followed faithfully, gains normally result. On the chart above, 4 Exponential Moving Averages are used. They […]

I seem to have rather riled Sirius Minerals (LSE:SXX ) with a suggestion last week that it urgently need to issue equity.  The company has issued a statement today which says that “ The Directors of Sirius Minerals Plc, the globally diversified potash development group, would like to correct current misinformation about the Company’s financing […]