Editorial: Shuffling the deck
As many predicted in mid-year, mergers and acquisitions activity in the gold sector continues to be the name of the game as the global economy limps along to the end of the year.
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Commentary: New rules, new tools in Ontario’s Mining Act
In 2006, the Ontario government introduced its first-ever Mineral Development Strategy, which provided the foundation for the sustainable management and stewardship of Ontario’s mineral resources.
Editorial: Pacific Booker snookered
The unfolding of the global mining boom over the past decade has pushed the industry right to the edge in ways both technical and political. Moreover, we’ve all seen the sharp truth that there are inevitable limits to all expansions,…
Facts ‘n’ figures: Fostering new mine development in northwestern Ontario
The following is an edited version of the executive summary from the study Mining in northwestern Ontario: Opportunities and challenges, commissioned by Ambassadors Northwest and written by professors Bahram Dadgostar, Sam Garofalo, Nikola…
Odds ‘n’ sods: Seabee, The little mine that beat the odds
In the late 1980s, veteran northern Saskatchewan bush pilot Bill MacNeill turned resource developer.
Editorial: Iron ore market gets anemic
Unto everything there is a season; a time to hustle and sell off your vast, frozen iron ore assets in remote parts of the country to foreigners from the tropics, and a time to throttle back production at actual iron ore mines in Canada’s…
Metals commentary: Constrained copper supply spells trouble, analysts say
There won’t be enough copper to meet Chinese demand by the middle of the next decade, Adrian Day, president of Adrian Asset Management in London, told a group of investors at the Cambridge House conference in Toronto.
Editorial: South Africa on the brink?
Post-apartheid South Africa has provided duelling optimists and pessimists with plenty of fodder to back up their long-standing positions. There have been unabashed triumphs — such as the country’s avoidance of Zimbabwe-style…
Commentary: The new US rules for ‘conflict minerals’ and their impact on miners
On Aug. 22, 2012, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a final rule establishing new disclosure and reporting obligations on companies whose products contain so-called “conflict minerals.” This new disclosure requirement will…
Commentary: The new SEC rules for disclosing payments
New measures requiring public disclosure by U.S. issuers of payments to governments for mineral exploration and development rights were announced on Aug. 22, 2012, by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Act….
Commentary: ‘Dutch Disease’ diagnosis oversimplistic and wrong
The following is an edited excerpt of a speech on the so-called “Dutch Disease,” made by Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of Canada, at the Spruce Meadows Round Table in Calgary on Sept. 7, 2012. For the full speech, including charts and…
Editorial: MAC pitches transparency, free trade
For Mining Association of Canada (MAC) president and CEO Pierre Gratton, the future of the nation’s mining industry lies in clear-cut regulatory reform, and in cultivating global free-trade arrangements geared towards expediting the flow…