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Remember, Africa’s not a country, it’s a continent.  So you can’t directly compare it to “investing in Brazil” or Russia or some other emerging market.
But recent reporting has revealed that some managers are looking past the traditional emerging markets anyway – citing the lack of high-yield opportunies – and have turned their attention to the [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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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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