In a market, where majors are struggling to perform, there seems little hope that juniors will weather the storm, making strategies to survive a popular theme at this year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC)…
Imagine this: a small mining company in Denver hires a consultant in a small African country to buy mining rights to a promising gold acreage. The company feels lucky to have hired the consultant because he is well known and connected in the…
New merger notification rules could become a costly burden for companies operating in 19 countries in eastern and southern Africa, warns John Bodrug, a partner at Davies, Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.
Mining is an unpredictable business, but it’s still cyclical in nature. In good and bad times, the industry faces new, unique challenges, and nowhere is this more evident than in executive compensation.
VANCOUVER — The past year has been marked by significant operational and jurisdictional challenges for Toronto-based producer Centerra Gold (CG-T) at its flagship Kumtor gold mine 350 km southeast of Bishkek in the Kyrgyz Republic.
On Feb. 5, 2013, broad amendments to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) were tabled in the Canadian Senate through Bill S-14, which will effectively bring Canada’s anti-corruption regime more closely in-line with the…
VANCOUVER — Artisanal mining has long been a part of Peru, but in the past 30 years, increasing numbers of people have turned to the rocks of their native land for income. Hundreds of thousands of rural Peruvians now scratch out a living…
VANCOUVER — As its future hangs in the balance, Canadian base metals producer Inmet Mining (IMN-T) continued to increase its value via a global resource update on Feb. 11, which was highlighted by a 22% jump in proven and probable copper…
On Feb. 5, 2013, broad amendments to the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (CFPOA) were tabled in the Canadian Senate through Bill S-14, which will effectively bring Canada’s anti-corruption regime more closely in line with the…
Ever get that lost feeling when geologists start talking about the rocks at your favourite mining project?
On Dec. 7, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada heard an argument on the subject of random alcohol testing by employers in dangerous workplaces. The case arose from a union grievance and an arbitration challenging the policy of Irving Pulp &…
When Donald Hoy first met Ewan Downie back in the mid-1990s, the geologist saw something different about the then-contractor.
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