“Iraq will ramp up oil production to 4.5 million barrels per day by year-end in 2014, an increase of about 1.6 million that the country currently produces, an Iraqi senior official announced,” Rigzone reports.  At the rate it’s going, Iraq may challenge Saudi Arabia as top OPEC producer by 2020, but first more than half…Read More…

“Nicaragua’s parliament is due to vote on Thursday on one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Latin America’s history – a trans-oceanic canal that is to be built and run by a Chinese company,” reports PRI’s World News.  By 2018, the completed Nicaragua Canal could dwarf the current Panama Canal, which is scheduled to be…Read More…

Late last week I was in New York, attending a conference — a small affair with some of my favorite names in the junior resource sector. Specialty metals, technology plays and something I call “dirty gold”… this intimate gathering had them all. I gave the kickoff talk at the event. In short, I offered some…Read More…