Well labour is a major factor, especially when you can't get any, as in northern BC at the moment ... at least, the market is pretty tight and high-cost, or so they say ... same factors work on labour as are working on the loonie - resource values go up so work needs to get done on getting them out, plus their home currency trades up, so you get less of it for your product, which trades in usd ... also you can't get assays done because there are trucks full of samples lined up outside the lab door, lol ... all part of the same phenomenon, a market for metals that was resurrected after a long painful death during which there was no infrastructure improved, little project advancement, no training of personnel, and no jobs for those who had been trained previously
Boom or bust, feast or famine ... not that i'm very familiar with ng.to details, maybe they screwed up too, they wouldn't be the first in history to do so ... but as to one of the items you mention, machinery - the other day i was absolutely astounded at what they wanted now for a piece of new forestry/construction iron, same increases as in the late seventies |
