Editorial: A golden year – the top stories of 2011
With commodity prices strong, it was another highly dynamic year for miners and mineral explorers. Here’s our list of the year’s top mining stories:
With commodity prices strong, it was another highly dynamic year for miners and mineral explorers. Here’s our list of the year’s top mining stories:
If you ask Mark Bristow what it takes to build a successful gold mining company in Africa, he’ll start by telling you what it doesn’t take.
Mid-December was filled with substantial news about some of the world’s largest gold deposits.
Brian Menell, heir to the South Africa-based Anglovaal mining fortune and a speaker of the Mines and Money conference here in December, states the obvious when he says increased government intervention in the mining industry is not generally…
There are only three ways a mining company can provide growth, contended Graham Brown, head of geosciences and exploration for Anglo American (AAL-L), during a presentation at the recent Mines and Money conference in London: You can discover,…
It is no easy task to find junior exploration companies these days with tangible assets and a steady share price able to withstand any mighty downdrafts that could accompany a wide-scale financial system collapse similar to the one seen in the…
The article about this office (“Canada’s new CSR Counsellor not feeling the love,” TNM, Nov. 28-Dec. 4, 2011) misrepresents our review process in many material aspects. I can only imagine that Excellon Resources’ CEO was misinterpreted in his…
If you’re wondering how the Quebec mining industry’s lobbying efforts are coming along to amend the provincial government’s mining-restrictive Bill 14, tabled in May to update the Mining Act, look no further than the increasingly frustrated and…
A massive appetite for gold across India is causing the country’s account deficit to widen, with most of the South Asian nation’s gold demand met through imports, a new study by Macquarie Economics Research says.
Over the last 25 years, Vancouver-based mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty has started 12 public companies and sold eight of them, converting about $1 billion of investment capital into shareholder wealth that exceeds $5 billion. Mr. Beaty…
After recent trips to China and India, Glenn Ives, the Toronto-based chairman of Deloitte, is more convinced than ever that the urbanization and modernization taking place in Asia will continue to drive demand for metals, while dwindling…
Despite analysts facing some of the most difficult markets in years, Patricia Mohr, economics and commodity market specialist with the Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS-T, BNS-N), agreed to delve into the difficult job of predicting where metal…
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