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Large-Cap Canadian Energy and Materials Stocks

November 19, 2009 · 2 comments

in Canadian, Canadian economy, S&P/TSX, TSX, commodities, energy, indexes, investing, metals, mining, resources, stock exchanges

If you’d like to make your own Canadian commodities ETF, or be more selective than iShares ETFs like XMA (Materials), then choose your stocks from this list of all the energy and materials stocks currently composing just over one third of the S&P/TSX 60, Canada’s large-cap index.
If you’re looking for Canada’s largest gold companies, Canada’s [...]

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Investing in Diamond Mining and Production with TSX and TSXV-Listed Diamond Stocks

November 16, 2009 · 0 comments

in Canadian, diamonds, investing, mining, resources, stocks

When all the attention is on gold investing and the boom in gold prices, you might also want to look elsewhere in the mining markets to expand the resource portion of your portfolio.
In this post I’ll give you a summary of some of Canada’s best diamond stocks – including information on Canada’s largest diamond mine [...]

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Investing in Canadian Lithium Mining Companies

September 14, 2009 · 6 comments

in Canadian economy, commodities, metals, mining, penny stocks, resources

Bolivia is probably more well known for its lithium deposits than Canada is, but there’s still a lot of lithium potential in the northern hemisphere, as well.  Whether you’re a metals speculator or penny stock fan, there’s lots of choice in Canada, especially in Quebec.  Here’s a selection of a few companies to get you [...]

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Raytec Metals’ New Potash Permit

August 5, 2008 · 2 comments

in Canadian, agriculture, commodities

There’s a new potash player on the scene. (The whole Canadian potash scene is starting to remind me of the old gold rush!)
Raytec Metals Corp. (TSXV: RAY) recently (back on July 15, 2008) received its first exploration permit on its potash claim in Saskatchewan (that’s where most of the world’s potash is), a province [...]

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Top Junior Silver Mining Companies

July 17, 2008 · 1 comment

in mining, silver

In a previous post I said I’d talk about some of the smaller silver mining companies.  Here they are.  It’s just a quick list to get you started on your own research.  These are some of the companies that interested me.  They’re all silver-focused and interestingly, they’re almost all Canadian-based.  You’ll see that many of [...]

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Top Silver Mining Stocks

July 6, 2008 · 5 comments

in ADRs, investing, mining, precious metals, silver

With the growing concern over the future of the US dollar, and global inflation more generally, owning physical gold and silver is a wise insurance move.  Owning gold stocks can be part of that strategy, as they soared during times like the Great Depression.  Here’s a quick compilation of some basic starting points for those [...]

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Gold Dividends: 11 Mining Stocks That Pay Them

June 24, 2008 · 12 comments

in dividends, gold, mining

So, you’e a cashflow investor. And you want to be a part of the commodities boom. The problem is that a lot of agriculture and resource stocks don’t pay dividends. Many of them can’t, I imagine, because they’re capital-heavy and need to reinvest all funds into their future projects because the [...]

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