As everyone involved in natural resource extraction in B.C. is now well aware, the June 26 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada declaring that the small Tsilhqot’in First Nation holds aboriginal title over 1,750 sq. km in central B.C….
The surprisingly strong majority win by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal party in the provincial election in mid-June has given a boost to potential infrastructure development in the Ring of Fire chromite and base metals camp in…
In a rare turn, mining has emerged as an issue in a provincial election campaign in Ontario: the ruling Liberal party is promising to unilaterally pump up to $1 billion into infrastructure development in the remote Ring of Fire chromite camp in…
For gold bugs, a less pithy corollary of Joseph Heller’s dictum “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you,” could be: Just because you imagine gold-price suppression in every corner of the gold…
Gold’s poor cousin silver got its reputation a little more tarnished in mid-May, with London Silver Market Fixing Ltd. announcing that it would stop administering the London silver fix as of Aug. 15, 2014. On this date, the company will…
Outside of the all-too regular horrors of China’s underground mines, the coal mine explosion on May 13 at Soma, 250 km south of Istanbul in western Turkey, is the worst mine disaster in recent memory.
The first week of May was a deadly one for Canadian miners and mineral explorers.
In our last issue, I asked whether there had been a shift in sentiment toward the diamond sector, which survived 2013 in much better shape than the rest of the…
It’s gotta rank right up with the worst “first dates” in recent mining history: the proposed merger between gold titans Barrick Gold and Newmont Mining broke off a week after it was made public through media reports in April, and then…
While much of the global mining industry has been limping along under sagging commodities prices and looming oversupply, one of the brightest spots has been the Canadian diamond-mining industry, which has weathered its wild, rocky youth and…
While private equity financing was the talk of the mining industry in the first quarter, heavy duty mergers and acquisitions are punching their way back to centre stage, as mining majors take advantage of depressed metals prices and share…
Businessman and Bay Street veteran Peter Crossgrove, the one-time Placer Dome CEO and long-time Barrick Gold director, published his memoirs last year, and it makes for some lively and insightful reading, especially in light of Barrick’s…
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