Newmont Mining Corporation

Nevada means never being out of sight of a headframe

Moira Smith has clocked more than a decade working on gold and copper projects in Alaska, Panama, Argentina, Mexico and Peru. But the senior geoscientist says Nevada “leads the pack” in terms of gold …






Resettlement at Gold Fields' Tarkwa gold mine in Ghana.

Human geology 101

A smouldering controversy over the resettlement of villagers in South Africa to make way for the expansion of an Anglo Platinum (AMS-J, AGPPF-O) mine underscores the importance of getting relocation e…



Frontier rejects hostile bid by Eldorado

VANCOUVER–The board of Frontier Pacific Mining (FRP-V) is recommending that shareholders reject an unsolicited takeover bid from Eldorado Gold (ELD-T, EGO-A) valued at about $148 million, or $157 mil…


More consolidation likely in oilsands

News reports that India’s biggest oil producer, Oil & Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) is negotiating to buy a 100% interest in an unidentified mid-sized Canadian oilsands company has unleashed a flood of…




Southern Arc pulls long interval in Indonesia

VANCOUVER — Some investors seem to be regaining confidence in Indonesia: a long copper-gold porphyry intercept from Southern Arc Minerals’s (SA-V, SOACF-O) Selodong intrusive complex (SIC) prospect i…


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