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Challenging the consensus is quite difficult and requires guts of steel. Contrarians have to shut out the allure of stories, interviews in the financial media, and other distractions in order to focus on valuation.

Rigid environmental and licensing regulations in Brazil could limit Vale's ability to expand production and develop new mines in its homeland.

I'm not all that thrilled to be owning Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold right now.

Highest Earnings Yield in the Diversified Metals & Mining Industry Detected in Shares of Freeport-McMoRan May 27, 2012 News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Diversified Metals & Mining industry with the highest earnings yields.

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Copper prices hit four-month lows Wednesday. Copper on the Comex in New York touched $3.3865, the lowest it has been since Jan.

Do you consider yourself a value investor, always looking for potentially undervalued stocks? For a closer look at stocks that may be trading below their fair value, we ran a screen.

Commodity companies can do nothing to change the sometimes-devastating cyclicality of their markets, but that same cyclicality gives investors multiple chances to play the same stocks.

By Adrian Day, Global Analyst The gap between gold bullion and the stocks of companies that produce the stuff has widened.

Millrock Resources Inc. is pleased to announce that it has entered into an exploration and option agreement with Inmet Mining Corporation concerning Millrock's Rainville exploration permits.

As expected, copper output at Chilean state copper company Codelco's wholly owned mines fell 10% in the first quarter to 373,000 metric tons from 414,000 tons in the same quarter last year, Codelco Chief Executive Diego Hernandez said Wednesday.

With global populations continuing to grow at rapid pace, commodities investing has become a popular portfolio destination.

Timken : "...is a great company. It's fabulous. It's terrific. I want to own it.

The much-anticipated initial public offering for Facebook finally took place, and even though it received massive media coverage, the stock had a relatively small initial pop at the open, and closed just about 23 cents above the IPO price of $38 per share.

Industrial metals posted losses for a third straight week on Friday, losing 4.5 percent of its value over the past five days, on fears Europe's spiraling debt crisis and China's slowdown will erode demand for metals.

Illegal mining and organized crime is a huge threat to mining industry profits that many of us are not thinking about.

Facebook's flotation on the US stock market was an entertaining distraction from what has been the worst week for equities this year.

Violence at the giant Grasberg copper and gold mine in Papua, New Guinea, could disrupt Freeport-McMoRan's operations there and send the mining giant's stock prices tumbling.

Throughout Wednesday's trading session, large blocks traded between the May 34 and June 29 put strikes as traders rolled out existing long puts to a later-dated and lower-striked series.

India, the economy of the world's largest consumer market for gold, appears to be hurting badly.