Obituary: Underground mining engineer Glenn O’Gorman, dies at 60
Glenn Robert O’Gorman, a hard rock underground mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the industry, died on Aug. 28 in Montreal. He was 60.
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John Felderhof speaks out at PDAC
“What happened to me could happen to anybody,” John Felderhof, a former geologist and senior vice-president at Bre-X Minerals, told a small group gathered in a seminar room at the recent Prospectors a…
Editorial: Osisko trio our Mining Persons Of The Year for 2009
The Northern Miner’s Mining Persons of the Year for 2009 are Osisko Mining’s president and CEO Sean Roosen, vice-president of corporate development John Burzynski, and executive vice-president and chi…
Golden Dory Follows Family Footsteps In Newfoundland
Golden Dory Resources’ (GDR-V) president and CEO, Kevin Keats, has been a prospector for as long as he can remember. When he was just a toddler growing up in Benton, Nfld., his father, who worked for …
Open Letter: From Felderhof With Love
— 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…
Felderhof acquitted
The former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof, has been acquitted of four charges of insider trading and four of misleading disclosure in connection with the 1997 Busang s…
Editorial: McEwen’s right, but does anyone still care?
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
In search of leadership, needle points north for De Beers
$982 million Capital cost of the Victor diamond project…
Nichromet’s Ricardo Valls rises to life’s challenges — and nickel’s
Three years after the Bre-X scandal and subsequent decline of the mining industry, geologist Ricardo Valls found himself standing at the edge of a subway platform….
Mongolia’s Aussie ambassador
Perth, Western Australia — In the aftermath of the Bre-X scandal, Canadian Armand Beaudoin, a fellow prospector working with Aussie Doug McGay in Indonesia, suggested McGay should break camp and head…
Ontario ADM John Gammon retiring
After serving under five Ontario premiers, three political parties and nine mines ministers, Assistant Deputy Mines Minister John Gammon is calling it quits and celebrating the occasion by throwing a…
Editorial: Felderhof — prodigal son?
Well, look who’s back in town! John Bernard Felderhof, former vice-chairman of Bre-X Minerals, was spotted in Toronto in mid-March, accompanied by his lawyer, Joseph Groia. The pair were walking into…