I read with astonishment the commentary “NI 43-101 gives false sense of security” ( T. N. M., Aug. 31-Sept. 6/09). While largely correct, in fact the recommendations for yet more rigid supervision of …
In their commentary “NI 43-101 gives false sense of security” ( T. N. M., Aug. 31-Sept. 6/09), Joseph Groia and James MacNeil make a number of comments and conclusions about the sources of fraud in th…
We read with considerable interest your editorial entitled “Crimes and rumours of crime” ( T. N. M., July 6-12/09) and the front page story “NI 43-101 to get an Overhaul” ( T. N. M., July 20-26/09) –…
Vancouver – The Pebble deposit in southwest Alaska is one of the largest undeveloped ore bodies in the world…
For anyone in the mining business and for many investors, the 1990s is synonymous with the Bre-X Minerals scandal.
The 25th trading week of the year was one that made us wonder if we should set up a “crime page” in our paper.
— The following is the full text of an open letter from John Felderhof, former vice-president of exploration with Bre-X Minerals, after his acquittal on four charges of illegal insider trading and fo…
Miners and their investors endured another period of pain in the week ended Sept. 1, the 35th trading week of 2007, as the mining sector gasped its way through its third straight week of market-cap co…
What had most mining people talking during the week ended Aug. 4, the 31st trading week of 2007, was the acquittal on July 31 of former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof,…
A little more than a decade after Bre-X Minerals’ Busang sample salting fiasco, the junior mining industry was hit with another serious case of alleged assay manipulation with news that Southwestern R…
The long trial of John Felderhof, Bre-X’s former chief geologist, continued on Wednesday with the prosecution’s cro…
The defence began to build its case on Wednesday in an effort to exonerate John Felderhof, Bre-X Minerals’ former c…
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