Exploration spending in the twelve months ended June 30 increased 115% year-on-year while total production costs have more than quintupled since 2006, rising more than 23% between 2010 and 2011, PwC concludes in its annual study of the top 100…
Executives and shareholders of foreign mining companies who slept soundly over the past few years thinking they had smartly navigated the murky waters of Argentine politics, regulations and tax policy got a rude awakening in late October.
Investors hoping to cash in on Taseko Mines’ second bid to develop the the New Prosperity copper-gold mine should think back a year. At that time, despite assurances from the company and its president that the original Prosperity mine proposal…
During the 1970s I worked at the Geco copper mine in Manitouwadge, Ont. With 650 employees, it was about half the size of a big diamond mine in Canada today.
If anything underscores the inherent risk of mining, it was the past week for Agnico-Eagle Mines.
As a retired Manitoba exploration geologist and physical scientist, I’ve come to the conclusion that most junior exploration companies are merely mining and milking the markets.
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province continues to be a deadly place, with three contractor workers being murdered and two security personnel suffering gunshot wounds on Oct. 14.
The following is an edited excerpt from the report Global Hedge Book Analysis Q2: 2011, which is produced by Thomson Reuters GFMS and available in full at www.gfms.co.uk.
Over the past few years we’ve seen booms and busts for niche-market metals like uranium and molybdenum. Now it’s time for the rare earth elements (REE) subsector to endure a similar correction.
The federal government-funded Mining Industry Human Resources Council (MiHR) and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) have released a report that analyzes the labour market for mineral exploration in Canada and the human…
The final week of September saw wave after wave of selling pressure across a wide range of commodities.
When I hear about a stock, I have a quick checklist that I use to determine if I am going to spend time researching it. This simple checklist is not comprehensive, but it is a good way to filter out stocks that you don’t want to own. Once you…
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