Category Archives: Commodities

Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation BIM – Speculation Increases

Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation (TSX: BIM ) is a Canadian publicly-traded junior mining company that is focused on its 100%-owned Mary River iron ore deposits located about 160 kilometres south of Pond Inlet, Baffin Island, Nunavut Territory, Canada. 
This company has had major increases in the volume of stock traded over the past 3 months.  Below [...]

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TFSA 2010 – Potential Investments

2010 is fast approaching and with the New Year comes an extra $5000 of Tax Free Savings Account Room.  The TFSA is a great way to employ any spare cash you have to work for you.  There have been a number of articles written about the TFSA on this personal finance blog and this article [...]

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China Continues to Buy-Up Canada FT.TO

China Mining Resources Group Limited aka “China Mining” recently announced their indirect acquisition of Fortune Minerals Limited (FT.TO).  The purchase was conducted by Best Tone Holdings Limited “Best Tone”, which is wholly owned by China Mining.  This procurement is a combination purchase of common shares and warrants.  Now China Mining holds 15.31% ownership of Fortune [...]

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Westshore Terminals Income Fund (WTE.UN) Profits to Soar over the next 3 years

Westshore Terminals Income Fund (TSE:WTE.UN) is the premier shipping terminal for metallurgical coal for the North American Market to the Pacific Rim. An announcement by Western Coal Corp. (TSE:WTN), a major coal mining company, on Tuesday will turn into a windfall bonus for shipments from the Roberts Bank Coal Terminal. Westshore Terminals Income Fund earns [...]

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Bakken Oilfields to Out Perform Canadian Oil Sands

Bakken Oilfield Producers likely to be much more profitable than Oil Sands
The Bakken Oilfields make up a gigantic oil formation with over 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil. This oil fields stretch across southeaster Saskatchewan, North Dakota, and Montana and was not technically or economically accessible in the past; however, new technologies have made this [...]

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Commodities in Canada

Commodities in CanadaCommodities play an important role in the Canadian economy. Over one quarter of exports in Canada are derived from Base Metals, Forestry Products, or Crude Oil. When researching investment opportunities in Canada it is always good to gain some insight into trends occurring within the commodity dominant sectors of the economy.
Current issues affecting [...]

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