New hurdle for Pebble: Lawsuit charges Alaska’s exploration permits are unconstitutional
Vancouver – The Pebble deposit in southwest Alaska is one of the largest undeveloped ore bodies in the world…
Court Cases
NI 43-101 To Get An Overhaul
For anyone in the mining business and for many investors, the 1990s is synonymous with the Bre-X Minerals scandal.
Editorial: Crimes And Rumours Of Crime
The 25th trading week of the year was one that made us wonder if we should set up a “crime page” in our paper.
Open Letter: From Felderhof With Love
— The following is the full text of an open letter from John Felderhof, former vice-president of exploration with Bre-X Minerals, after his acquittal on four charges of illegal insider trading and fo…
Editorial: Southwestern Heads South With Rest of Market
Miners and their investors endured another period of pain in the week ended Sept. 1, the 35th trading week of 2007, as the mining sector gasped its way through its third straight week of market-cap co…
Editorial: Hopes for retribution for Busang keep fading
What had most mining people talking during the week ended Aug. 4, the 31st trading week of 2007, was the acquittal on July 31 of former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof,…
Editorial: No, Boka’s not another Busang
A little more than a decade after Bre-X Minerals’ Busang sample salting fiasco, the junior mining industry was hit with another serious case of alleged assay manipulation with news that Southwestern R…
Felderhof trial stalls … again
The long trial of John Felderhof, Bre-X’s former chief geologist, continued on Wednesday with the prosecution’s cro…
Defence begins for Bre-X’s Felderhof
The defence began to build its case on Wednesday in an effort to exonerate John Felderhof, Bre-X Minerals’ former c…
Editorial: Felderhof — prodigal son?
Well, look who’s back in town! John Bernard Felderhof, former vice-chairman of Bre-X Minerals, was spotted in Toronto in mid-March, accompanied by his lawyer, Joseph Groia. The pair were walking into…
Thom Calandra settles fraud charges with SEC (January 24, 2005)
In early January, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission brought and settled civil fraud charges against Thom Calandra, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the web site www.cbs.marketwatch.com and edi…
Eldorado pulls plug on Greek project; stock tanks
Eldorado Gold (TSX: ELD; NYSE: EGO) is suspending construction at its Skouries gold-copper project due to a continued lack of government support, and cautions it will halt its Olympias underground mine, if the Ministry of Energy and Environment…