The following is the edited text of a speech given by the Assembly of First Nations’ National Chief Shawn Atleo in early September, at a joint luncheon in Toronto between the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Indigenous Bar Association. For…
In a presentation at this year’s Denver Gold Forum, Minefinders president and CEO Mark Bailey summed up the spirit of this year’s event – a place where the lobbying and meetings continue non-stop over three days from 7 a.m. over a continental…
Vancouver – British Columbia’s new premiere, Christy Clark, unveiled a new jobs plan for the province on Sept. 22. Long on rhetoric and short on details, the plan is titled, “Canada Starts Here,” a coy reference to how B.C. is both Canada’s…
The following is the edited text of a speech given by Alex Henderson, general manager of mines and mill technology for Vale’s North Atlantic region in Sudbury, Ont., to announce a $49-million investment in Vale’s Copper Cliff Mine 114 Orebody…
Renowned columnist George Will was there and heavyweight investors such as John Hathaway and Thomas Kaplan were there, but a certain sage from Omaha was missing from the inaugural Precious Metals Summit in Vail, Colo.
Moderated by pension fund manager and published gold bull Shayne McGuire, a robust discussion on the finer points of the yellow metal unfolded at the Precious Metals Summit in Vail Colorado last week between Thomas Kaplan and John Hathaway….
The year 1966 was a banner one for exploration, at least for the village of Peachland and the Central Okanagan in B.C.
The governments of another four large mining jurisdictions are pressing forward with new plans to hike mining taxes and steer more miners’ profits into government coffers.
Signs point to a slowdown in global mining mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the second half of 2011 after a strong start to the year. Deal values and volumes have already decreased by 32% and 19% month over month in July, and a further 25%…
An article in last week’s issue (T.N.M., Aug. 29-Sept. 4/11.) on the difficulties experienced since the start-up of Goldcorp’s Penasquito mine in Mexico contains a statement implying that these problems are related to the high-pressure grinding…
Mining companies and mineral explorers in northern Ontario woke up to a whole new heightened level of legal and bureaucratic uncertainty in late August, with the rendering by the Ontario Supreme Court of a decision in Keewatin v. Minister of…
An Ontario Superior Court, in Keewatin v. Ontario, has cast doubt on the validity of provincial forestry licenses in the Treaty 3 area of northwestern Ontario, which includes the Red Lake gold camp. Mining could also be at risk of litigation in…
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