Hewlett Packard is to publish a list of all the smelters worldwide which supply it with the metals used in HP products, according to the New York Times. HP is one of the first big companies to buckle under the global push to ban the use of “conflict minerals” dug from the earth by coercion, […]
“While greed and fear, trust and mistrust have an influence over the price of many assets, like houses and stocks, those ultimately produce some income, which provides a fundamental base from which markets can infer prices. Gold, on the other hand, neither toils nor spins, but just sits there looking pretty. That means gold is […]
JUST UPSTREAM FROM LHASA……… The disastrous waste of 83 human lives at China’s copper and gold mine in Tibet, at Gyama, is a reminder of China’s plans for intensive extraction of Tibetan wealth, for China’s lowland factories. So big was the landslide down the steep terrain of Gyama, the 83 mine workers may never be […]