Canada’s benchmark index slips, March 21-24
A terrorist attack at the airport and a subway station in Brussels that left 35 people dead just before the Easter holiday chilled global markets. The S&P/TSX Composite Index closed…
Articles by Trish Saywell
Lower taxes in Argentina help NGEx Resources
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Argentina’s recent elimination of an export retention tax on copper concentrate exports improves the economics of NGEx Resources’ (TSX: NGQ; US-OTC: NGQRF) Constellation copper-gold-silver project, the company…
CEO interview: Rubicon’s Winship discusses Phoenix error
Michael Winship, a mining engineer, joined the board of Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCF) in 2011 and was appointed the company’s interim-president and CEO in October 2015. Rubicon started…
Rubicon’s Phoenix unlikely to rise again
Rubicon Minerals (TSX: RMX; US-OTC: RBYCF) says there is “significant doubt” that it can continue as a going concern. The junior has breached a technical covenant on a US$50-million secured…
Canada’s benchmark index dips slightly, March 14-18
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates on hold, spot gold rose to US$1,255 per oz. (up US$4.90) and the April contract for North American benchmark crude dropped in price…
Barrick fined for Veladero cyanide spill
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) has been fined $9.8 million for a cyanide spill that took place at its Veladero gold mine in Argentina’s San…
Building confidence in Argentina will take time: Charles Koppel
For the last twenty-five years, Charles Koppel, a law student turned businessman born in South Africa and based in London, has evaluated and invested in business opportunities around the world….
Bristow chides gold producers
You can always count on Mark Bristow to tell it like it is, which frankly is why The Northern Miner gets up at the crack of dawn to attend Randgold…
John Felderhof’s new life after Bre-X
John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010.
Residents of Oklahoma town sue over historic pollution
Kaylee Jernigan and her mother Kim live less than half a mile from the site of a smelter that refined zinc and cadmium ore concentrates for 58 years before it was closed down in 1974.
Residents of Oklahoma town launch class-action lawsuit against Phelps Dodge
Kaylee Jernigan and her mother Kim live less than half a mile from the site of a smelter that refined zinc and ca…