Canada’s uranium began a whole new chapter in its history in early February with the landmark agreement to open wide the country’s uranium production and nuclear technology to customers in China, undoing decades of Cold War-ish…
During my forty years in the mining business I have listened to hundreds of stories about lost mineral showings, rich gold deposits just over this hill or that, odd-looking rock types that elude scientific description and even fur trappers…
The month of January closed out with Vale having temporarily halted all underground mining at its five nickel mines in Sudbury, Ont., following the death of a miner at the Coleman mine on Jan. 29.
There always has been, and still is, a problem integrating geophysics into geology.
Showing just how hard it is these days to find high-quality primary silver prospects to buy, Pan American Silver has turned some silver bugs’ heads by easing up on its long-held silver purity and tabling a friendly $1.5-billion offer for the…
The first article in this series (TNM Dec. 5-11, 2011) examined what a royalty is, the different ways it can be structured and used and its history in Canadian mining. The series continues with a look at which royalty structure is appropriate…
A report by Thomson Reuters-owned metal market analysis firm GFMS predicts the price of gold will rally to all-time highs later this year before reaching the closing stages of its decade-long bull run sometime in 2013.
Mid-January served up a good example of how downward lurches in the world’s sovereign debt crises don’t automatically translate into upswings in gold and silver prices.
B.C. is on the cusp of regaining its rightful position as one of the best jurisdictions in the world to explore and develop mineral resources.
London, U.K. – A report by Thomson Reuters and metals analyst firm GFMS predicts the price of gold will rally to all-time highs in late 2012 before reaching the closing stages of its decade-long bull run sometime in 2013.
As the first large mining company to release its financial results every quarter, Alcoa has always been a pacesetter among the majors.
Canada is on the edge of a historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the U.S., or to continue with the status quo.
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