Mining companies and mining funds (aka miners) are a very popular way to play gold.
But we do believe there remain contacts between Chinese state companies and mining companies.
Silver Wheaton signs long-term purchase agreements with mining companies (typically gold and copper mining companies) that produce silver as a by-product.
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The Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF ( GDX) focuses on the larger mining companies and includes companies like Newmont Mining and Silver Wheaton in their portfolio.
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Mining4Life, made up of mining executives from different mining companies, sets its mandate as demonstrating a commitment to the development and social well-being of the communities where their mining companies do business.
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Shares of big mining companies like Newmont Mining and Barrick Gold, down 17% and 30% respectively in 2013, are getting hit hard as the market takes a less sympathetic view of any operational hurdles they are facing.
That was the year the government was formulating a draft mining charter, proposing that companies be at least 26% black-owned in order to get a government mining license. (The draft became law in 2005.) Since then Motsepe has diversified, swallowing up or forming partnerships with several other old mining companies and adding a swath of minerals: precious metals (platinum and its cousins), nickel, chrome, iron, manganese and coal.
It also builds robots for automotive paint shops and packaged food companies and automation systems for mining companies and cementmakers.
As it pumps out many more gadgets, the consumer-electronics industry is starting to attract the kind of scrutiny typically reserved for oil companies and mining firms.
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Like junior companies in mining, the independents now conduct much of the industry's exploration for oil in relatively uncharted areas, their share price rocketing if they strike lucky.
Further articles on www.forbes.com have shown that of the 2, 000 biggest companies in the world, the majority are oil and gas companies, mining firms, automobile conglomerates, finance and banking multinationals and consumer-focused corporations.
Most of the mining companies that Silver Wheaton works with produce silver as a by-product of their mining operations and so is a win-win arrangement for both the participating companies.
Some traders are also buying up the stocks of gold mining companies, like Barrick Gold Corporation and Newmont Mining Corporation , and gold mining ETFs like Market Vectors Gold Miners .
Nevertheless, her campaign has echoed Mr Humala's pledges to levy a windfall tax on mining companies and give Andean Indian communities veto rights over mining and oil projects on their land.
The married father of three took millions of pounds of investors' funds, promising to invest the money in lucrative rights-issue releases from companies such as HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and the mining companies Xstrata and Rio Tinto.
So it can buy royalty streams from coal mining companies (most collect royalties from reserves as well as mining their own coal) at five to seven times cash flow and still boost returns to its own unit holders.
While it is an ongoing issue, mining companies have been able to find deposits and turn them into mining operations.
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Several mining companies are treading lightly with the new incoming government, and many mining executives declined to comment on the prospect of taxes being raised.
The sentiment to mine and produce rare earths outside of China does not fall squarely on the shoulders of these two companies but it is still believed that bigger companies will gain more control of mines and production compared to smaller mining companies.
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Commodity-based stock investments are investments in companies that seek to profit from rising commodity prices including investments in the equity of mining companies, or companies that grow cotton, livestock, or produce fertilizers.
One is for the large mining companies, which have excellent safety standards, and the second is for the medium-sized and small mining operations, which have lower standards.
Mining companies had filed thousands of claims in recent years, but it is unlikely that any of the 3, 500 mining claims in the area will receive federal permits when the 20-year ban goes into effect.
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Silver Wheaton has long-term contracts with other mining companies to buy silver at very cheap prices.
Cost inflation for mining companies is likely to rise further this year, Meader said.
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Cummins blamed the weak results on little demand from oil, gas and mining companies.
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He looks for the top-performing shares to be a mix of junior and senior mining companies.
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Through EBX, Batista controls companies spanning from mining, shipbuilding, energy, logistics, tourism and entertainment.
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He has shared the latest extraction data with no fewer than 16 mining companies.
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