London, U.K. – It was another roller coaster ride of a week in London over the Dec. 5-9 period, culminating in the profound split on Friday by eurozone leaders over debt crisis plans. British Prime Minister David Cameron has refused to enter…
London, U.K. – There are only three ways a mining company can provide growth, contends Graham Brown, head of geosciences and exploration for Anglo American (AAL-L), in a recent presentation at the Mines and Money conference in London.
Over the last twenty-five years Vancouver-based mining entrepreneur Ross Beaty has started twelve public companies and sold eight of them, converting about $1 billion of investment capital into shareholder wealth of more than $5 billion. Mr….
Canada’s diamond mining and exploration industry, like many a 20-year-old, has just sensed for the first time its own mortality.
Royalties in the mining industry look pretty straightforward, but dig a little deeper and the complexities are soon apparent.
London, U.K. – Ahead of this year’s Mines and Money conference in London on Dec. 6th & 7th, your Northern Miner correspondent spent the week in Europe’s financial capital, where the late November sky was not the only thing to be slightly…
Analysts from Goldman Sachs (GS-N) have forecast commodity prices will increase by 15% in 2012, with the influential investment bank maintaining an ‘overweight’ recommendation on commodities for the next 12 months.
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 at the same…
If Marketa Evans thought the mining industry would be her biggest critic, imagine the counsellor’s dismay at her efforts being called “toothless,” a “bogus public relations job” and a “cover for business as usual” by the very type of activists,…
A big chapter in the corporate life of NovaGold Resources came to a close, with long-time president and CEO Rick Van Nieuwenhuyse bowing out of the company. The charismatic executive will stick around as a NovaGold director and as president of…
Resource developers in Canada were dealt a heavy blow in mid-November, with the Obama Administration’s State Department in the U.S. failing to approve TransCanada’s relatively benign Keystone XL oil pipeline mega-project, which would have…
Discovery of the massive “Ring of Fire,” a chromite-rich mineral deposit in a remote area of northern Ontario, is the first and perhaps easiest step in realizing the site’s potential.
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