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Investment Banks Moving To Neutral on Mining Stocks At least for a few investment banks like JP Morgan Cazenove and Citigroup, the negative tides for mining stocks appear to shifting towards the positive as they have changed their views from bearish to neutral. JP Morgan Cazenove is still taking a guarded position towards mining stocks but sees companies within the industry aggressively cutting costs which is one of the reasons why mining stocks rise. Citi analysts stay negative in their short-term outlook of the sector except furthermore observe some positivity in mining stocks in six months. "We believe that the large miners, such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are now reaching yield support as they are trading on higher yields than the market," Citi said. Eric Lemieux, mining analyst with Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, remains bullish on mining stocks, saying that the commodities super cycle has not ended and despite slowdowns in the economy, there is still strong metals consumption. The hit that commodity prices and miners have taken in 2013 may not necessarily be a bad thing, he said. "With this downturn, in the scope of things, I think it's positive for the industry because we did have a period of micro inflation where costs had gone up tremendously in terms of labor and engineering firms; it just overheated," Lemieux said. "This retreat and decline in commodity prices, although it hurts, there's some positives here in terms of cost settling down." JP Morgan mentioned a bottoming out in Chinese commodity import volumes and Chinese commodity inventories coming off recent highs as a possible catalyst for stronger metals demand. While it boils down to consumption and a need for commodities for Lemieux. "If you look at what's going on in Asia, even though there's been a slowdown in China, they're still consuming, they still have to modernize," Lemieux said. "I have a sense that things will eventually bounce back up. "I thin

At least for a few investment banks like JP Morgan Cazenove and Citigroup, the negative tides for mining stocks appear to shifting towards the positive as they have changed their views from bearish to neutral. JP Morgan Cazenove is still taking a guarded position towards mining stocks but sees companies within the industry aggressively cutting costs which is one of the reasons why mining stocks rise. Citi analysts stay negative in their short-term outlook of the sector except furthermore observe some positivity in mining stocks in six months. "We believe that the large miners, such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, are now reaching yield support as they are trading on higher yields than the market," Citi said. Eric Lemieux, mining analyst with Laurentian Bank Securities in Montreal, remains bullish on mining stocks, saying that the commodities super cycle has not ended and despite slowdowns in the economy, there is still strong metals consumption. The hit that commodity prices and miners have taken in 2013 may not necessarily be a bad thing, he said. "With this downturn, in the scope of things, I think it's positive for the industry because we did have a period of micro inflation where costs had gone up tremendously in terms of labor and engineering firms; it just overheated," Lemieux said. "This retreat and decline in commodity prices, although it hurts, there's some positives here in terms of cost settling down." JP Morgan mentioned a bottoming out in Chinese commodity import volumes and Chinese commodity inventories coming off recent highs as a possible catalyst for stronger metals demand. While it boils down to consumption and a need for commodities for Lemieux. "If you look at what's going on in Asia, even though there's been a slowdown in China, they're still consuming, they still have to modernize," Lemieux said. "I have a sense that things will eventually bounce back up. "I think the end game is that commodities have some way to

"If you look at what's going on in Asia, even though there's been a slowdown in China, they're still consuming, they still have to modernize," Lemieux said. "I have a sense that things will eventually bounce back up. "I think the end game is that commodities have some way to go and I wouldn't be neutral," he added. RELATED LINK: http://blackhawkmines2.livejournal.com/ http://blackhawkminesbulletin.blogspot.co.uk/

SYDNEY, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Australian shares fell 0.7 percent on Friday, with big banks and miners weighing as investors took profits at the index's 6-week highs after seeing signs weakness in Chinese manufacturing data. China's factory activity slowed in December, official and private manufacturing surveys showed, reinforcing views that growth in the world's second-largest economy moderated in the final quarter of 2013. "We saw that Chinese PMI number yesterday was a little bit lower than expected, so expect the material base to trade a bit weaker today," said Simon Twiss, a dealer at Arnhem Investment Management. Top miners BHP Billiton Ltd and Rio Tinto Ltd fell 1.2 percent and 0.6 percent respectively. Fortescue Metals Group Ltd lost 1.8 percent. The S&P/ASX 200 index lost 34.9 points to 5,333.0 by 0020 GMT. The benchmark rose 0.3 percent on Thursday, touching a six-week high. Related Sites: http://promotion.blackhawk-mining.com/ https://www.facebook.com/BlackHawkMinesBulletin http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Blackhawk-Mines-Corp-wakkyped-4584760

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The epic proportions of the illegal mining scam that was uncovered by the Karnataka Lokayukta in its 2011 report may actually have been just one act of a much larger, more complex and multi-layered drama. There is now new evidence to suggest that the Lokayukta's final report on illegal mining - a political game-changer that sent the powerful to jail and catalysed a regime change in the state - is just one part of the mining story. A six-month-long investigation by The Hindu, with help from whistleblowers in the Railways, the Karnataka Commercial Taxes Department and the CBI, points to losses to the State exchequer between January 2006 and December 2010 that are, at the very least, Rs. 1 lakh crore or eight times the estimated figure given in the Lokayukta report. The investigation also shows that the State lost Rs. 2,000 crore in commercial taxes. The new information suggests that the dominant narrative on illegal mining, namely, that illegal ore was mainly exported to China to feed an infrastructure boom triggered by the Beijing Olympics, is actually a very partial telling of the mining scam story. The new data with The Hindu furthers the depth and reach of the mining scam, a part of which was so exhaustively covered in the Lokayukta report. http://blackhawk-mining.com/