Jake Klein, the CEO of Evolution Mining. came out with a warning to the world at the company's annual meeting, saying that the mining industry is struggling to attract young people to one of the world's most important industries. While this is an problem for the industry, there are a number...

By now pretty everyone knows two things about Electric Vehicles (EV's), and the elements that make them possible. Firstly, there isn't supply of them at the moment, and secondly, many of them come from places that aren't stable. Cobalt and The Democratic Republic of the Congo illustrate...

It looks like the dog days in the natural resource and precious metals sector are over. With the exception of silver, just about every other widely used metal is showing positive price movement. The industrial metals like copper, nickel and zinc have rallied hard off their summer lows, and gold has...

Most accepted economic theories rely on the idea of scarcity to function. The reasons for this are easy to understand, but today, the idea of energy scarcity may be changing. While sustainable energy sources like wind and solar power are not new to the marketplace, they have recently shown that it...

Industrial metals like copper, nickel and zinc have really picked up steam over the last few months. This has prompted chatter about a new bull market in the base metals, and according to legendary resource investor Rick Rule, the fun has only just begun. The last few years haven't been kind to...

It would appear that the nickel market is heating up. It recently rose by its daily limit in Shanghai, and in London, the price has eclipsed the highs of 2015. The primary driver is thought to be robust demand from steel makers in China, but the market for nickel sulfides is also growing at a...

The world is moving towards a very new energy mix. Over the last few years the cost of producing electricity from wind power has dropped substantially. Over the weekend Germany's wind farms produced so much electricity that rates actually went negative. That means that when someone turned on...

Don't ever let anyone tell you that hard work doesn't pay off. When Marin Katusa first sat down with Rick Rule in 2004, it hadn't been long since left a job teaching calculus. Not to say that teachers aren't important, but the position he currently occupies is a far cry from that...

About a week ago a 5.4 magnitude earthquake shook the Antofagasta region of Chile, which is home to some of the world's most productive copper mines. The news was probably responsible for the pop in copper's price that we saw last week, but the rise we are seeing in the copper market now...

It is fair to suggest that the low and high for copper's recent rally are probably in place. Copper opened the month well above $3usd/pound, and as the week draws to a close, it has fallen below $2.90usd/pound. The red metal started its rise from below $2.50usd/pound, which is a pretty hefty...

Copper prices have been tearing higher lately. Over the last week the red metal traded over $7,000usd/tonne, which logged some of the highest prices in years. There has been a lot of speculation that the rise in prices isn't justified by market fundamentals. But over the medium term, there are...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2jI6Hx0wu0&feature=youtu.be&list=PLFDJWb6LJdV5FfXTHdJQmhSN9CUZrObbx 00:00:09 As the introductions that start up my name is Paul West-Sells. I'm the president CEO of Western Copper and Gold. Western Copper and Gold is that a very simple company...

Copper rose Monday, and came within a few pennies of the $3/pound mark in New York trading. This is the highest price for copper since 2014, and there appear to be a number of factors supporting its rally off June lows. Most of the other base metals have followed copper higher, and zinc is close to...

00:00:09 I'm going to talk about copper as Ellis led you to know. Nice pun by the way. I'm the mercenary geologist basically geologist for hire. You can find me at mercenarygeologist.com. My Twitter feed is @mercenarygeo, 681,000 Twitter followers, about 6,500 subscribers to my...