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JP Morgan fund manager, Ian Henderson explains why there has been so much activity within the potash sector of late and takes us through some of the more important points of the potential deal
The outlook for the copper market remains robust with the supply demand roughly balanced this year and moving into deficit in 2011
As metals prices surge once more the mining sector and particularly management, needs to ensure it learns some lessons from the last few years
A Look at the impact of the SA government's directive on bord and pillar mining on Aquarius Platinum, the Kumba ArcelorMittal saga and volatility in the gold price
A look at the appointment of Cynthia Carroll as chair of Anglo Platinum, the switch from RSPT to Rent tax in Australia and a bit more about the price of aluminium
A look at the new Australian Prime Minister and her impact on the RSPT debacle, the implications of the Sundance crash and more on US rare earths policy
A look at the difference between steel industry metals and LME metals, the impact of a relaxed yuan, a bit on precious metals and the outlook for Mongolia
Commodities are currently floating in no mans land and it could well be a good example of "sell in May and go away"
In this edition of the podcast we discuss, the turmoil in global currency markets, Gold Fields' Peru announcement and the state of the aluminium sector
A look at a few happenings in the zinc and aluminium markets and the potential impacts of the proposed Australian mining tax
A look at differences in outlook for base metals, iron ore and coal prices, the impact of Australia's new mining tax and the potential of West Africa
A look at Chinese consumption and its impact on commodity prices; some of the reasons why the big BHP/Rio Iron ore JV is stuttering and Chinese investment into the mining sector
This week we take a look at some of the reasons behind the rise in prices of among others, aluminium and iron ore. The sharp moves in gold following the Goldman Sachs debacle and also the diamond sector
A look at the controversial world bank loan to eskom, the consensus coming out of the copper sector and why aluminium isn't as exciting as people think
This week's edition covers the mining disaster in West Virginia, the move to quarterly iron ore pricing arrangements and the recent strong surge in base metals prices
China and iron ore have once again dominated the headlines but, in a wide ranging discussion we also look at shale gas, economic empowerment in South Africa and rare earth metals
We speak to Tim Goldsmith about the state of the Asian engine, the Rio Tinto case and the curent round of iron ore price negotiations
Frank Holmes talks about the impact of China and India on commodities, what he looks for in a gold miner and what the power outage and earthquakes in Chile tell us about the sector
In this week's edition of te weekly News Wrap, we take a look at the iron ore and coking coal negotiations in China; US jobs data, the gold price and a decoupling of gold and the dollar.
In this week's edition we take a look at the impact of the Chilean earthquake on copper markets, gold miners' never-ending search for new reserves, why Chinese interest in IMf gold became such a talking point and the re-emergence of bond financing