Growing up in Zimbabwe after World War II, completing an engineering degree at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, and working at Jones & Wagener, a specialist firm of consulting engineers and scientists based in South Africa,…
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Two recent lawsuits brought in B.C. by foreign plaintiffs against two Canadian mining companies for alleged human rights abuses abroad have raised the stakes for mining projects in foreign jurisdictions.
Christine Meilton, principal consultant on copper supply and raw materials at independent commodities research firm CRU Group, predicts that supply side losses and slow ramp-ups in the smelting and refining sector will put a squeeze on supply…
The following is an edited excerpt from the World Gold Council and the Boston Consulting Group’s report The Ups and Downs of Gold Recycling. For more information and to access the full report, visit www.gold.org.
The era of double-digit growth in demand for metals is over, as China’s economy moves from investments in fixed asset growth and industries that are metal-intensive towards domestic consumption and the service sector, Barclays Bank states…
Colombia’s mining sector makes up 3% of the country’s gross domestic product. It is the world’s fourth-largest coal producer at 90 million tonnes per year, the tenth-largest nickel producer, and it is rich in copper, precious…
With coal prices sitting at multi-year lows, almost 17% of coal production this year in the U.S. could be at risk of idling or closure, as total cash costs plus sustaining capital expenditures exceed current market prices, Wood Mackenzie says…
The recent annual convention in Toronto of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada saw a diverse group of mining personnel scoop up this year’s awards.
Retail investors, historically the “lifeblood” of the junior mining sector, are largely gone from the picture, but need to return for the sector to survive the current downturn, John Kaiser argues.
Each year in Toronto, at the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada mining convention, chief executive Mark Bristow holds court at an early morning breakfast meeting for some of the industry’s top bankers, analysts and…
Commodity prices this year have fallen below the previous recessionary lows of early 2009, and are now at levels not seen since January 2007, Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics at Scotiabank, said during a presentation at the…
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