Editorial: Majors pour billions into Eastern Canada
It’s not as exciting as a mine built from scratch on a substantial mineral discovery, but the recent expansions announced by majors in eastern Canada all add up to significant economic activity.
Commodities Markets
Metals commentary: Copper demand to outpace supply, says ICSG
The following was released by the International Copper Study Group (ICSG) as part of its Copper Market Forecast. For more information visit www.icsg.org.
Editorial: Mont-Wright iron mine to double in size
Eastern Canada’s reborn iron ore mining industry had another big growth spurt in mid-May.
Metals commentary: Platinum market balanced in 2010, says Johnson Matthey
The following was released by Johnson Matthey and is based on its Platinum 2011 report which can found at www.platinum.matthey.com.
Commentary: U.S. investors in Canadian miners may face tax surprises
Canadian-based mining companies commonly raise capital from U.S. investors. Even if they do not actively seek such investment, they often wind up with some (in particular, dual citizens, U.S. citizens living in Canada and Canadian citizens who…
Editorial: Maple knights table TMX bid
The brief but doomed manoeuvre by the TMX Group to be taken over the London Stock Exchange is thankfully coming to an end.
Metals commentary: Metal prices’ fall and the bin Laden effect
Friedrich Nietzsche opined that, in its essence, life is uncanny.
Editorial: Silver leads commodities rout
Commodities investors felt the pain during the first week of May, as the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs set off heavy selling in a wide spectrum of hard assets from precious and base metals to oil and gasoline.
BC shows strong mining revenue, new mines started in 2010: PwC report
Vancouver – The British Columbia mining industry saw more signs of recovery in 2010, but it was the new mines coming online that have prompted talk of a mining renaissance in the industry. Such were some of the findings of…
Back off Berukoff
As a former Western Editor of your newspaper, I was disappointed to read the Lion One Metals story (T.N.M., May 2-8, 2011).
Exchange rates (May 09, 2011)
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‘Osama effect’ deflates gold
Early May proved to be historic in global and Canadian geopolitics.