Resources

The key resources on the mining/smelting economy are extensive. They include:

Corporate and linked non-governmental resources: associations, networks, market defense/expansion, investing and news services. It’s not always clear how these networks and organizations connect, overlap or interact with each other. Note attention to market/pricing/peak-copper (and other metals), predictions about the market, and geo-politics as impacting mining economy. These sites are not likely to be strong on critical analysis; they represent the business and promotion of the mining/smelting sector.

A mining company’s main assets are its reserves and resources, which are the ones that contain economic materials that are viable to mine.  It is important to be able to read a reserve and resource statement and understand what information needs to be pulled from it to make the financial model