Boomtown Mongolia
Source: Financial Times, Leslie Hook  (7/11/11)
"With over $1,000B in probable mineral deposits, Mongolia's just starting to boom." More >

Swiss Parliament to Discuss Gold Franc
Source: MarketWatch, Agnese Smith  (7/11/11)
"The fringe initiative will likely trigger debate on gold's role." More >

China's Copper Demand Comeback
Source: Reuters, Fayen Wong  (7/11/11)
"China's copper imports snapped two months of decline in June." More >

REE Battle Ahead?
Source: Resource Investing News, Michael Montgomery  (7/11/11)
"Does a rare earth trade dispute loom?" More >

China Calls for Offshore Oil Risks Review
Source: CTV, Ben O'Hara-Byrne  (7/11/11)
"Bohai Bay spills weren't formally announced until early July—weeks after the first leak was noticed." More >

Historic Rare Earth Discovery
Source: Wealth Daily, Ian Cooper  (7/11/11)
"Only, it's 20,000 feet under the sea." More >

Indonesian Coal Miners Plan $70M Investment
Source: Jakarta Globe, Ririn Radiawati Kusuma  (7/11/11)
"The government wants the local industry to add value to low-ranked coal." More >

Why Republicans Are Fighting to Save the 30-Cent Light Bulb
Source: Christian Science Monitor, Mark Clayton  (7/11/11)
"House will debate legislation to roll back energy-efficiency standards that would outlaw Thomas Edison's incandescent light bulbs." More >

Resort Developers Turn Titanium Explorers
Source: Vietnamnet Bridge  (7/11/11)
"Vietnam developers have been mining titanium at sites for over a year." More >

Market Astrology: Rare Earth Heads Up!
Source: Zen Trader, Karen Starich  (7/11/11)
"China is holding the cards in this poker game." More >

China Threatens Russia Bid for Potash Control
Source: Bloomberg, Henry Meyer and Ilya Khrennikov  (7/11/11)
"China may thwart Russian efforts to control half the potash market as Belarus sells its assets to stave off a deepening economic crisis." More >

China's Grip on REE Supply Won't Last Forever
Source: Telegraph, Rowena Mason and Garry White  (7/11/11)
"Japan scientists' 100 Bt. REE find equals one-fifth of global supply." More >

Carbon Nanotubes Visible to the Naked Eye
Source: PhysOrg  (7/11/11)
"Lanthanide compounds are very attractive for photonics." More >

Fukushima: Nuclear Power's VHS Relic?
Source: BBC, Richard Black  (7/11/11)
"Have we been guilty of rejecting the nuclear Betamax in favor of an inferior quality VHS?" More >

China Unlikely to Yield on REEs Despite WTO
Source: Reuters, Juliane von Bismarck  (7/11/11)
"EU negotiators to pressure Beijing into relenting on REE exports." More >

Biomass Furnace Provides Alt. Energy Source
Source: Leader Post, Dan Yates  (7/11/11)
"A Saskatchewan-based pilot project is looking for an alternative fuel source in a familiar form—wood." More >

Brazil's Ethanol May Have Hit Bottom
Source: Platts, Guilherme Kfouri  (7/11/11)
"Brazil's swap curve for hydrous ethanol follows the sugarcane harvest, which spans from April to December." More >

DOE Grants Another $11M to Geothermal
Source: Renewable Energy World, Marc Favreau  (7/11/11)
"Advanced geothermal projects were selected as part of the department's efforts to reduce the cost of this energy source." More >

Why Mining Investors Must Follow Peru
Source: Jeb Handwerger, Gold Stock Trades  (7/8/11)
"What we are witnessing is no less than the ongoing sophistication of the developing world." More >

Kryptonite to the Gold Price
Source: Adrian Ash, BullionVault  (7/8/11)
"When real headwinds blow for the gold price, they'll blow from the East, not from falling gold ETF sales." More >

Silver Bottoms Amid Subtle but Bullish Factors
Source: Jordan Roy-Byrne, The Daily Gold  (7/8/11)
"The silver's complex seems to have put in a bottom." More >

The Greek/B.I.S. Currency Gold Swap
Source: Julian Phillips, Gold Forecaster   (7/8/11)
"The Bank of International Settlement holds 500.7 tons of gold as of the end of 2010. Why?"

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Politics of Default: Road Map to Debunk the Dollar
Source: Axel Merk, Merk Funds  (7/8/11)
"Old Europe's currency may debunk the dollar. Not convinced? Let's look at what is and what isn't working on both sides of the Atlantic." More >

Eric Hommelberg: A 2,000 Dow or $10,000 Gold?
Source: Brian Sylvester of The Gold Report  (7/8/11)
Eric Hommelberg has called a few in his day. In 2009, he predicted gold would reach $1,300/oz. the following year. And it did. But $1,800/oz. gold by the end of the year? Gold has recently come off its high of $1,580/oz., but Hommelberg, a principal of ValcambiGold.com, isn't discouraged. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Hommelberg makes a few more predictions. More >

Gold, Silver Prices Ease Lower
Source: Kitco, Jim Wyckoff  (7/8/11)
"Gold and silver prices are slightly lower as the U.S. awaits the release of the employment report. More >