RE:RE:Soaring costs in miningAll resource producers are price takers, not price makers. It's easy to say what should be but it's not reality. If you make a widget and your widget is better than your competitors you can charge more for it. If you dig something out of the ground, forest etc, it's the same stuff as the other guy is digging out. Coal is coal, nickel is nickel, oil is oil etc. You can't make your price for that stuff. You have to take the market price if you want to sell it