Newcomer takes over Natural Resources portfolio
A relative newcomer to federal politics has taken over the natural resources portfolio as John Efford was sworn in…
Regulatory Issues
AngloGold gets Ghanaian government support
The Ghanaian government has thrown its weight behind the planned US$1.7-billion merger between Ashanti Goldfields (…
Phelps Dodge sees light at Safford
Vancouver Some eight years after opening a district office in Safford, Arizona, the World’s second largest copper…
Manhattan dealt Tambo Grande blow (December 11, 2003)
Vancouver The long road to developing the large Tambo Grande massive sulphide property may have been dealt a fina…
Tahera, Kitikmeot reach agreement
Following a long series of negotiations, Tahera Corp. (TAH-T) and the Kitikmeot Inuit Association have reached an a…
Teck, EPA at loggerheads over Roosevelt Lake cleanup (November 27, 2003)
Talks have broken off between enforcement staff of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Teck…
Quebec court rejects Oka appeal
A Quebec court has reject an appeal by the Union of Agricultural Producers (UPA) Outaouais-Laurentides against an e…
Shahuindo suit heads to Lima (November 17, 2003)
Peru’s Supreme Court has ruled a lower court judge to be legally incompetent, and has voided a previous decision fa…
Kolwezi deal formalized
America Mineral Fields (AMZ-T) is another step closer to developing the Kolwezi cobalt-copper tailings project in t…
Editorial: Tales of the bubble
Last week, we examined some proposals to improve the quality and integrity of financial advice available to the public. While it has been suggested that the investing public will pay for good advice, …
Editorial: Cleaning house
In the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum’s new CIMVal Standards and Guidelines for Valuation of Mineral Properties we are seeing the results of an industry that did a lot of self-…