Experts in the industry, and executives of operating and exploration projects, cover subjects from risks in mining to new prospective areas for mining around the world to commoditymarket outlooks.
Thanks to fracking, the United States can become not energy independent of the rest of the world (oil will still a global commodity with prices set on the worldmarket) but definitely more energy secure.
However, should the global gloom lead to a drop in worldcommodity prices in the months ahead, market bearishness towards Russian assets should justifiably rise, driving equities into deeper into a hole they have been stuck in all year.
Experts on London's commodity exchanges claim that so much Russian nickel, aluminum and copper is being dumped on the market that world prices are depressed.