YMP’s Eira Thomas Award: Geology, finance fuel Liu
Vicky Liu started at UBC with the “naïve science student aim” of potentially going into medicine, but geology pulled her in. “It became really clear to me about a year or…
People in Mining
Podcast: AME BC’s Todd Stone on mining policy, Roundup preview
This week’s episode features Todd Stone, president and CEO of the Association for Mineral Exploration, in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on mining policy in Canada. Stone explains why access…
Canadian Mining Hall of Fame inducts Harquail, Lindsay, McLeod-Seltzer, Morrison
For Franco-Nevada (TSX, NYSE: FNV) co-founder and board chair, David Harquail, his life in mining has taken him almost everywhere, even to discuss gold with a communist dictator. Harquail recalled…
London Symposium video: Rick Rule on gold
The surging gold price over the past two years marks a catch-up based on a bull market going back to 2000 that few recognized then, veteran investor Rick Rule says…
London Symposium video: Cutifani on connections
Mining companies must do a better job of connecting with youth, First Nations, recycling and new technology, former Anglo American (LSE: AAL) CEO Mark Cutifani says in a new video….
Serial wealth creator Lassonde still having fun
Franco-Nevada (TSX, NYSE: FNV) co-founder Pierre Lassonde hasn’t let retirement from the C-suite dim his love for the yellow metal. Think $4,000 gold is high? Lassonde, the former Newmont (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) president, has news for you. He predicts the yellow metal…
Podcast: ‘Carpe Diem’—Pierre Lassonde receives Northern Miner Lifetime Achievement Award
This week’s episode features Pierre Lassonde, co-founder of Franco-Nevada, as he receives The Northern Miner Lifetime Achievement Award for pioneering the modern royalty model and helping reshape mine finance. Lassonde…
U.S. lawmaker questions Ivanhoe Atlantic’s China ties
A senior American politician is pressing the State Department over what he calls troubling links between Ivanhoe Atlantic and Chinese state interests. In a letter to Secretary of State Marco…
Lundin laces up
Marathons seem to be held almost anywhere these days, and the World’s Deepest Marathon aimed to be the first to do one more than 1 kilometre underground in October. The…
CEO Tristan Pascall on First Quantum’s future
The highs and lows of copper are not quite as far apart as memecoins or stonks, but in the last couple of years more than the usual number of fires…
Podcast: Jack Lundin on mining policy and the World’s Deepest Marathon
This week’s episode features Lundin Mining President and CEO Jack Lundin in conversation with host Adrian Pocobelli on the major challenges facing miners as the world races to secure critical…
Deepest marathon on Earth tests runners and miners
It was hot, damp and utterly dark, the kind of darkness that swallows sound. A line of headlamps bobbed through the tunnels of Boliden’s Garpenberg zinc mine more than a…