Kevin Thomson is a senior partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg and has acted in a number of proxy battles on behalf of both activist shareholders and target companies. Last year Davies represented Bill Ackman and his hedge fund…
The shift from quantity to returns have led to numerous headaches for miners with project delays, hefty write downs and CEO departures as companies struggle to tackle escalating costs that have caught up with the rising commodity prices, said…
Phil Newman, CEO of metals consultants CRU Strategies in London, kicked off the “Commodities and market outlook” technical session that launched the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada convention with a relatively…
The first week of March was dominated by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s mega-convention in Toronto, with 30,147 investors, analysts, mining executives, geologists, government officials, students and international…
In a market where majors are struggling to perform, there seems little hope that all juniors will weather the storm, making strategies to survive a popular theme at this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)…
Spot pricesCourtesy of ScotiabankTuesday, March 12, 2013 Precious MetalsPrice…
The first week of March was dominated by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s mega-convention in Toronto, with 30,147 investors, analysts, mining executives, geologists, government officials, students and international…
Resource nationalism is infectious, and as more mining jurisdictions take resource nationalist measures, others come under domestic pressure to do the same, said Peter Leon, head of Africa Mining and Energy projects at Johannesburg-based law…
VANCOUVER — The mining sector has seen more than its fair share of writedowns of late.
Imagine this: a small mining company in Denver hires a consultant in a small African country to buy mining rights to a promising gold acreage. The company feels lucky to have hired the consultant because he is well known and connected in the…
The iconic symbol of mining in the Maritime provinces, the Brunswick zinc-lead mine in northern New Brunswick’s Bathurst camp, is ceasing mining operations this month after 48 years and four different owners.
Finland has taken the heavyweight title as the world’s best mining jurisdiction, fending off last year’s winner, New Brunswick, which slipped to fourth behind Sweden and Alberta, the Fraser Institute reports in its annual mining…
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