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While the prices mining companies receive for their products are soaring, so are the costs of expanding production.
Emerging markets that are highly dependent on commodity prices, mining wealth or global manufacturing needs are finding little to cheer about in the spot prices or demand data – and their stock markets are reacting accordingly.
Moreover, thanks to high commodity prices, mining firms are flush with cash.
There is still a lot of natural resource equipment demand, and with the improvement in copper and gold prices, mining equipment sales should be improving.
With China a major consumer of commodities, and any weakness putting more pressure on prices, mining shares are again among the leading losers.
And with anaemic demand sapping metals prices, mining companies have been hit hard: on January 14th shares of Glencore and Anglo American, FTSE-listed miners, both fell 9%.Ominously, even hitherto strong economies are showing signs of weakness.
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Existing mines, numbering perhaps a dozen within the three blocs of land that make up the million acres in question, will probably be able to continue operations or to restart them when uranium prices make mining worth the effort again.
The stock market slipped on Thursday, ending a seven-day winning streak for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, as a drop in precious metal prices dragged mining shares lower.
Commodities producers advanced on a rise in prices, with mining giant Rio Tinto jumping 12.2%, to 74.36 Australian dollars ($50.98), and its would-be suitor, BHP Billiton, increasing by 10.65%, to 29.31 Australian dollars ($20.09).
Some people say this is why the currency has kept falling.People in the industry are already discussing at what price mining becomes unprofitable.
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