Pub date: 11 May 2012 Africa / Angola Mining Industry Report
Overview We forecast that Angola's Mining industry will grow by 3.1% year-on-year (y-o-y) in 2012 in real terms. Growth is expected to remain stable thereafter with diamonds providing the main thrus... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Latin America / Argentina Mining Industry Report
Argentina's mining sector holds some of the largest potential for development in the Americas region. Large natural resources and minimal historical mining presence suggest that major mineral deposit... Read More
Pub date: 24 Feb 2012 Asia / Australia Mining Industry Report
Australia is a leading player in many segments of the global mining industry. Owing to its substantial deposits, the country possesses an array of minerals including iron ore, nickel, bauxite, copper... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Africa / Botswana Mining Industry Report
Diamonds To Remain Mainstay Of Mining Sector For Now In line with the Botswanan government's plans to diversify away from diamond revenues, there has been a swathe of new mining projects announced i... Read More
Pub date: 15 May 2012 Latin America / Brazil Mining Industry Report
BMI View: Brazil's mining sector is poised for a period of strong growth as domestic and foreign demand for mineral resources spurs investment. The country's large untapped reserves and relatively s... Read More
Pub date: 22 Jul 2011 Europe / Bulgaria Mining Industry Report
Bulgaria’s mining industry grew slightly faster than the country’s economy in 2010, as both continued to emerge from deep contractions. Europe’s poorest country by GDP per capita has a relatively sma... Read More
Pub date: 03 May 2012 North America / Canada Mining Industry Report
Canada's mining sector will continue to expand with an eye towards supplying global demand for metals and minerals. Because historical production has focused primarily on serving North American marke... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Africa / Cameroon Mining Industry Report
Central Africa's mining sector is set to follow much of the continent by developing its substantial mineral wealth. As yet, the region is still far from achieving its full potential, but these recent... Read More
Pub date: 27 Mar 2012 Latin America / Chile Mining Industry Report
Despite Price Volatility Mining Sector Outlook Is Favourable With several mining projects coming online in 2012, we expect the mining sector will recover from lower 2011 production due to strikes an... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Asia / China Mining Industry Report
As 2012 ushers in the second year of China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), we expect the changes and reforms enacted in 2011 to continue. Smaller and more inefficient mines will be closed, mid-siz... Read More
Pub date: 16 Mar 2012 Africa / Congo, Dem. Rep. Mining Industry Report
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)'s vast mineral resources will continue to attract greater international interest, given the country's huge untapped and high-grade reserves and an improving... Read More
Pub date: 18 May 2012 Europe / Czech Republic Mining Industry Report
As the global economy continues a protracted recovery, demand for metals has bounced back and BMI expects the Czech mining sector to post growth in 2011 as a result. The resumption of growth in 2011 ... Read More
Pub date: 04 May 2012 Europe / Germany Mining Industry Report
We expect Germany's mining sector value will decline over the coming years, falling to US$5.0bn by 2016, from US$5.6bn in 2011. This decline will be driven by falling coal production as the country ... Read More
Pub date: 02 Mar 2012 Africa / Ghana Mining Industry Report
The revision to our Ghana mining growth forecasts in Q212 reflects the release of new data from the World Bureau of Metal Statistics (WBMS), as well as news of further expansion within the gold and ... Read More
Pub date: 09 Mar 2012 Asia / India Mining Industry Report
India hosts a wide range of globally significant mineral resources, including: four fuel minerals (such as coal and uranium); 11 metallic minerals (such as iron); 22 minor minerals; and 52 non-metall... Read More
Pub date: 20 Apr 2012 Asia / Indonesia Mining Industry Report
We expect Indonesia's mining industry value to almost double from US$82.6bn in 2010 to US$143bn in 2016. Growth will be driven by coal and nickel production, with annual average growth rates of 10.4%... Read More
Pub date: 20 May 2011 Asia / Japan Mining Industry Report
Japan remains a major player in the global mining industry, primarily as a consumer and processor of raw materials as opposed to a producer. The vast majority of domestic mineral production has ended... Read More
Pub date: 18 May 2012 Europe / Kazakhstan Mining Industry Report
We forecast the value of Kazakhstan's mining industry to grow at an average annual rate of 9.3% in real terms between 2010 and 2015, to reach US$64.2bn. Growth will be led almost entirely by the coal... Read More
Pub date: 11 May 2012 Asia / Malaysia Mining Industry Report
We forecast that Malaysia's mining industry value will reach MYR109.3bn by 2016, an annual average growth of 1.1% from 2011's estimated MYR103.7bn. Growth will be led by the country's nascent gold m... Read More
Pub date: 04 Oct 2011 Latin America / Mexico Mining Industry Report
BMI believes the outlook is bright for the Mexican mining sector in 2011 and beyond. We are forecasting average annual growth of 6.43% in the value of the mining sector over the coming five years, to... Read More
Pub date: 23 Mar 2012 Europe / Mongolia Mining Industry Report
Growth in Mongolia's mining industry will be led by a rampant increase in coal, copper and gold production. The bulk of this growth will occur in 2013 as the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine begins comme... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Africa / Morocco Mining Industry Report
Growth in Morocco's mining sector will remain steady over our 2012-2016 forecast period and is set to average 3.1% y-o-y. Aided by significant investment by state-owed miner Office Cherifien de Phos... Read More
Pub date: 23 Mar 2012 Africa / Mozambique Mining Industry Report
We maintain our medium-term forecasts for Mozambique's mining sector as a number of major projects remain on course to enter the fray over the next few years. We expect the value of the country's min... Read More
Pub date: 27 Mar 2012 Africa / Namibia Mining Industry Report
Executive Summary In Q212, we are sticking with our mid-term forecasts for Namibia's mining sector. We project the industry to grow by 4.0% in 2012 in real terms, following an estimated 23.3% increa... Read More
Pub date: 04 Apr 2012 Latin America / Peru Mining Industry Report
We maintain our view that Peru's mining sector will grow strongly over our forecast period driven primarily by investments into copper and gold mine projects. We forecast Peru's mining sector to grow... Read More
Pub date: 24 Nov 2011 Asia / Philippines Mining Industry Report
BMI believes that the outlook for the Philippines mining sector is decidedly mixed at present. On the one hand, big investment projects, such as Xstrata’s US$5.9bn Tampakan copper and gold project (o... Read More
Pub date: 27 Apr 2012 Europe / Poland Mining Industry Report
Restructuring efforts in the coal mining sector and a general lack of new base metal prospects lead us to forecast a slow decline in Poland's mining industry. We expect industry value to decline to P... Read More
Pub date: 28 Jul 2011 Europe / Romania Mining Industry Report
Finally emerging from a two-year recession in Q111, with economic growth reaching 1.7% and industrial growth leading to an upturn in economic activity, Romania will see its mining sector pick up in 2... Read More
Pub date: 04 May 2012 Europe / Russia Mining Industry Report
We expect Russia's mining industry value to reach RUB4.16trn (US$160bn) by 2016. Strong growth during 2009 to 2011 will be followed by years of stagnation as palladium and platinum production growth ... Read More
Pub date: 28 Jul 2011 Europe / Slovakia Mining Industry Report
BMI holds a largely optimistic outlook for Slovakia’s economic growth prospects in 2011 and we expect GDP to grow at 3.2% thanks to the strength of the country’s exports. However, we do expect to see... Read More
Pub date: 09 Mar 2012 Africa / South Africa Mining Industry Report
The past decade of stagnation and decline in South Africa's mining sector is set to end as several projects across South Africa's vast mineral wealth come online in the next five years. We expect Sou... Read More
Pub date: 29 Jul 2011 Asia / South Korea Mining Industry Report
South Korea has small reserves of antimony, gold, copper, iron ore, lead, molybdenum, silver, tin, tungsten and zinc. The country's domestic coal reserves have been exhausted, although it holds reaso... Read More
Pub date: 27 Mar 2012 Africa / Tanzania Mining Industry Report
The Tanzanian mining industry is relatively small in terms of value, but its importance is highlighted by the fact that mining earns a significant share of the country's export revenues. The mining s... Read More
Pub date: 28 Jul 2011 Europe / Turkey Mining Industry Report
Just as Turkey’s economy risks overheating with 11% y-o-y growth in Q111, BMI sees the country’s mining industry easing on the 8.3% real growth rate seen in 2010 to 4.9% in 2011, when the industry wi... Read More
Pub date: 05 Aug 2011 Europe / Ukraine Mining Industry Report
Ukraine’s mining industry continues to muddle through a protracted process of restructuring, which in 2011 led it to simultaneously sign major deals with China on revamping coal mines and cooperate w... Read More
Pub date: 18 May 2012 North America / United States Mining Industry Report
Unlike many developed world countries, the US still maintains a sizeable mining sector, with an estimated value of US$322bn in 2010. The US remains rich in deposits of many minerals and metals, inclu... Read More
Pub date: 08 Jul 2011 Latin America / Venezuela Mining Industry Report
The administration of President Hugo Chávez continues to nationalise companies working across the mining sector. Consequently, the operating environment for privately-owned domestic or international ... Read More
Pub date: 03 May 2012 Global / Africa Mining Industry Report
West Africa's mining sector is set to grow rapidly as investment pours into the region's phenomenal mineral wealth. Much of this growth will be focused on iron ore and gold as the region has untapped... Read More
Pub date: 27 Mar 2012 Africa / Zambia Mining Industry Report
Zambia's mining sector is set to continue the recovery seen over the last decade. The country had declining copper output throughout the 1990s but a mixture of low taxes, privatisation and elevated ... Read More
Pub date: 27 Apr 2012 Africa / Zimbabwe Mining Industry Report
Zimbabwe's mining sector is set for rapid development as the country dramatically recovers from two decades of declining output. Zimbabwe is richly endowed with deposits of chrome, gold, nickel and ... Read More
Pub date: 08 Jun 2011 Global Mining Special Report
High Commodity Prices To Drive Frontier Investment Perceived Benefits Outweighing Perceived Risks The coming years should see a flurry of investment in frontier mining sectors. A number of factors... Read More