Editorial: Deutsche Bank to pay US$38M for silver price manipulation
The silver market saw a little bit of history being made on Oct. 17, with German megabank Deutsche Bank filing papers in Manhattan Federal Court agreeing to pay $38 million…
Articles by John Cumming
TSX Venture edges down, Oct. 10-14
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index saw its third straight week of declines, falling 7.78 points to a 773.02-point close, as the market prepares for an interest rate hike in December….
Editorial: Price drop catches gold investors off guard
As 2016 wore on, gold miners and investors were getting pretty comfortable assuming that spot gold prices would hold firmly above US$1,300 per oz. for the foreseeable future, and that…
Tom Caldwell: ‘Regulatory strangulation’ is killing economic strength
The following is a condensed and edited transcript of a speech given by Thomas S. Caldwell at the Mines and Money Americas conference in Toronto in late September on the health…
Editorial: Colombians reject peace deal, Uribe re-emerges as a force
On Oct. 2, Colombian voters in a national referendum narrowly defeated a peace agreement negotiated between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, throwing the…
TSX Venture pulls back, Sept. 26-30
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index shed 10.66 points over the period close at 800.23, as gold prices slipped on a stronger U.S. dollar. The spot gold price lost US$21.69 before…
Editorial: Gold miners find room to breathe
With gold prices holding steady for months above US$1,300 per oz., and years of painful cost-cutting and writedowns now firmly in the past, the mood of gold miners in attendance…
Canada’s territories on diverging GDP paths: Conference Board of Canada
It’s tough enough to have an economy dependent on commodity cycles, but doubly so in the small economies of Canada’s three territories, where the opening or closing of a single…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: Playing high stakes poker for Fruta del Norte
The following is the second of two parts of the abridged first chapter of an upcoming memoir entitled “The Last Great Adventure,” for which any profits will go to the…
Editorial: Metallurgical coal prices go through the roof
While so much attention this year has focused on gold, it’s metallurgical coal that has suddenly become the unlikely star performer of 2016. Traders in metallurgical coal, also known as…
Odds ‘n’ Sods: An introduction to bush life
I spent my first summer in the bush in 1958, soon after graduating from MIT with a bachelor’s degree in geology and geophysics. McPhar Geophysics had hired me as chief…
Editorial: Faulty design behind Samarco tailings disaster
A review panel tasked with determining the cause of the Samarco tailings disaster in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 10 months ago has released its report on the immediate causes of the…