GLG News by Gold Mining Experts

If we believe the news out of Russia then there must be palladium aplenty residing in the vaults of, or under the control of, Norilsk, the world's largest palladium producer.

General Motors may not actually have a plan to compete with Toyota in the hybrid market. General Motors engineering and purchasing was disastrously shortsighted in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and its product planning group remains so even now. All of GM's product planning and sourcing errors were...

Is it ridiculous to assume that a marked change in the value of the US dollar in relation to the resource backed currencies of all or even some of the BRAC countries, Brazil, Russia, Australia, and Canada, will not affect the immediate dollar price of the natural resources produced in...

Gold has no utilitarian value whatsoever. Oil, however, is intrinsically the single most valuable commodity in the world and will remain so until the production of electric energy and the fueling of ordinary passenger and freight carrying vehicles in a nation no longer uses more oil than that nation...

Mercedes is leading the green charge in European luxury cars. It is bringing its Bluetec diesel engines to the market to improve fuel efficiency and lower emissions for its premium cars. Mercedes also keeps talking about a plug-in hybrid using a 'lithium' battery that is supposed to be coming soon....

Liberal politicians and overpaid executives seem to have exactly the same solution to all problems whether they be environmental, cultural, or scientific: Throw somebody elses's money at them. Isn't it obvious that the presently touted solutions to old problems may not be the correct ones? Isn't it...

As James Carville might say to GM's Bob Lutz, "It's the battery, stupid, we don't have enough reliability and longevity data to put it on the market. That'll take at least five years after we finally choose a specific technology based in great part on initial reliability and longevity testing which...

Reuter's has now reported the official statement of a ranking official of China's Ministry of Economics, http://gateway.andohs.net/player/?sid=826&nid=2920 , to the effect that China's treasury must follow Chinese 'private' business and use its immense reserves of US dollars to obtain ownership...

Wind turbines can be used to produce electricity but in order to do so they must use permanent magnets and batteries. Building even the 'modest' 17 gigawatts  of wind power generated electricity that Texas alone projects would add so much demand for rare earth metals as to be impossible to...

In order to maximize the range of a hybrid or all electric car it is important to minimize the drain on the battery from any load but that of the drive train.