Snap quiz: who knows what zinc is? No – too easy (it’s a metal). Who knows what zinc does? Answer: it’s an anti-corrosive added to iron or steel to…
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The spot price of manganese has been climbing steadily for a year. Manganese demand is surging because of a recent innovation in the way lithium-ion batteries are made. You…
In 1856 a 34-year old French microbiologist named Louis Pasteur discovered that heating wine stopped it going bad. Through scientific experimentation Pasteur determined the optimum time and temperature to…
Twenty-five years ago, a drug overdose victim was typically from an inner city neighbourhood. No longer. Like a cloud of mustard gas, drug addiction has swept across the manicured…
I grew up in Kitsilano, Vancouver, British Columbia. In my teens, 4th Avenue (our main street) smelled like marijuana. Long-haired men and bra-less woman smoked joints in doorways. After…
Trying to “Make America Great Again” by reviving the coal industry – is like trying to extinguish a house fire by spitting on it. If coal employment was restored…
If bankers knew how to read drill logs – “streaming companies” wouldn’t exist. Lacking the geological expertise to accurately assess risk – big banks typically tremble at the knees…
Global money printing and “quantitative easing” have damaged the integrity of paper currency while creating trillion dollar equity, bond and real estate bubbles. It doesn’t take a genius to…
Some investment stories are inherently sexy: electric cars, on-line gambling, ride-sharing and diamond mines – to name a few. Other stories lack obvious sex appeal: waste-management (WM.NYSE), Industrial chemicals…
If Leagold Mining (LMC.V) was an animal, it would have a giraffe’s neck, shark’s teeth, and a cheetah’s hind legs. LMC -straight up- reaches higher, bites harder, and runs…