GLG News by Mining Experts

The very well compensated, well dressed, and well fed long serving executives of General Motors and Ford are lamenting at the North American (so-called) International Auto Show, in the economically and physically devastated (former and fading) Motor City of Detroit, that they are worried about the consumer...

The Toyota Prius has turned out to be an exceptionally long lived reliable car. Why is this a problem?

The public money so far spent on constructing a hydrogen fuel distribution infrastructure in California has been wasted. In fact it has resulted in fewer hydrogen fueling stations now than there were just two years ago.

Chrysler now has multiple deals to sell cars and trucks designed and manufactured by other OEM automotive companies. None of these deals required its own in-house, fading, engineering or design skills, and so none of them added to Chrysler's American costs.

The automotive press is confused or just technologically illiterate. It should not be relied upon for analysis or technology. It is OK for reporting the results of test drives and repeating what public relations flacks tell it.

If General Motors plan to sell 75% of its cars and trucks outside of the US comes true it will no longer be either the largest American OEM domestic seller of cars and trucks, nor even an American company any longer, because in order to remain an American company it must repatriate accurately and truly...

The era of the American OEM automotive industry being able to suppress raw material price increases is over. Car pricing increases are on the way. Michigan's recession in one state is already looking as if it will become a depression in one state

Ford sold 216,000 cars in China in 2007 including a few thousand Jaguars, Land Rovers, and Aston Martins, brands it will shortly no longer own or manufacture. This number represents neither a large market share in China, some much smaller Chinese car companies have larger unit sales, nor any...

The tech 'revolutions' in the period since World War II have been numerous and monumental. Just the advances in electronics and  structural materials and the resultant engineering advances made possible by them have changed our civilization globally and forever. Now we are moving from the study...

The US is not currently realizing any economic value from its large untapped reserves of oil, oil shale, iron, tungsten, copper, chromium, nickel, thorium, rare earths and many other metals and minerals, deposits of which are already proven and feasible to extract technologically? In...