Category Archives: Commodities

Reliance Industries acquires Marcellus Shale Gas from Carrizo Oil & Gas

Reliance Industries (RIL) will buy its third shale gas asset in the US for $392 million. RIL will pay $340 million in cash to acquire a 60 per cent stake in the Marcellus shale-gas acreages held by Carrizo Oil and Gas Inc and its partner, and the remainder $52 million would in Carrizo’s drilling cost [...]

Iron Ore Prices Likely To Double in 2010 with Quarterly Pricing System

The iron ore prices are very likely to double this year with the new Quarterly Pricing System, which will provide more price volatility due to the spot price market. Very interesting update from March 30th is that there is now an agreement between the top iron ore miners like Vale of Brazil and BHP Billiton [...]

Global Sugar Prices Look Weak And Likely To Fall Further

The global sugar prices have fallen off a cliff literally in the last few weeks and if you see the five-year chart for sugar prices they have been in a band between US $300 and $400 for much of the time in last five years.
In 2006 the prices did go as high as US $500 [...]

Iron Ore Prices Set To Double in 2010-2011

According to media reports, major iron ore exporters, including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, have reached a preliminary agreement to move away from annual contract pricing to quarterly arrangements.
The short term iron ire pricing contracts would be linked to the iron ore spot price, which would see iron ore prices more than double from the [...]

Resurgere Mines & Minerals – Iron Ore Supplier From India

Resurgere Mines & Minerals India Limited is an India-based company engaged in the mining and trading of iron ore and bauxite. The Company’s main business is mining and processing of iron ore products of various qualities, such as lump ore and size ore, and is a manufacturer of calibrated lump ore (CLO) and iron ore [...]