Colombia attracting mining’s heavy hitters
Marmato, Colombia — Efforts by Colombian authorities to attract international mining investment are bearing fruit as the ranks of foreign investors taking a serious look at the country swell. A year …
Regulatory Issues
Shahuindo dispute finished (October 16, 2006)
Sulliden Exploration (sue-t, exsdf-o) has assumed title to the Shahuindo mining concessions in Peru following a lengthy arbritration and court battle….
Editorial: Kimberley in America: three years on
More than three years into the international adoption of the Kimberley process for the tracking and certification of rough diamond trading, a new report by the United States Government Accountability…
Editorial: Kimberley in America — three years on
More than three years into the international adoption of the Kimberley process for the tracking and certification o…
McEwen moves to scuttle Goldcorp-Glamis merger
Vancouver — Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) founder and ex-chairman Robert McEwen has launched the opening salvo in a proxy fight opposing the company’s plan to merge with mid-tier producer Glamis Gold (GLG-T,…
EU okays Inco takeover
The European Commission’s competition regulator has cleared the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (RIO-N) US$18.4-billion …
Stornoway to Take Up Ashton, Contact Shares
Stornoway Diamond (SWY-T, SWYDF-O) has taken up the shares tendered under its bids for Ashton Mining of Canada (ACA-T, AMCFF-O) and Contact Diamond (CO-T, CONPF-O), but Ashton management still opposes…
Kensington Tailings on Hold
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has issued a temporary injunction halting construction activities on the tailings dam portion of Coeur d’Alene Mines’ (CDM-T, CDE-N) Kensington…
McEwen to battle Goldcorp-Glamis merger
Vancouver – Goldcorp’s (G-T, GG-N) founder and ex-chairman Robert McEwen has dropped the gloves and launched an ope…
Keys to painless POP offerings
It has been several months since the prompt offering procedure (the “POP system”) in National Instrument (NI) 44-101 was opened up to smaller reporting issuers. Many of these issuers have found the PO…
A peculiar paradox for Chile’s investors
Santiago, Chile — As copper prices boomed earlier this year, investment managers in the gleaming skyscrapers of uptown Santiago found themselves facing a paradox….
Bringing Chile’s copper unions into the modern age
Santiago, Chile — The union representing 2,052 workers at the Escondida copper mine in Chile’s Region II signed a new collective contract on Sept. 1, bringing an end to a 25-day strike and giving wor…