Glencore weighs ditching London as primary listing
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) is considering shifting its primary listing from London, likely to New York, or another venue where it can “get the right valuation” in a potential blow to…
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Canada fires back with 25% tariffs of its own on American goods
Canada responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s 25% tariff on Canadian goods with the same levy on $155 billion of American products. Ottawa is also considering several non-tariff…
Canadian mining optimistic in face of Trump tariff threat
Canada is on edge, but the mining industry appears quietly confident it will emerge largely unscathed from U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to put 25% tariffs on all goods from…
Saudis tap Aramco for lithium brine extraction
Saudi Arabia has announced a new joint venture between its state-run oil and mining companies — Aramco, the world’s largest in oil, and Ma’aden — marking another step in its…
Trudeau to resign ahead of vote this year likely to elect conservative Poilievre
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will resign, paving the way for a new Liberal Party leader to take on Pierre Poilievre, who is favoured to win an election…
Trump tariff plan would knock US-Canada-Mexico metals and mining
United States president-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to slap double-digit tariffs on America’s top trading partners will snarl metals supply chains and lower demand, analysts and industry leaders said. Trump said…
UK gov’t finds Glencore fell short of business guidelines in Chad
Case centres on a 2018 toxic spill at the Badila oilfield, equivalent in volume to 34 Olympic-sized swimming pools.
Could Trump’s deregulation quest speed permitting in Canada too?
U.S. president-elect Donald Trump made two picks for key posts in his administration last week that signal he’s serious about rolling back environmental regulations and speeding up permitting for oil…
How oil and gas will fare in the Trump era
Trump is back, and the threat of tariffs looms large over China’s economy. On Wednesday, base and precious metal prices took a dive. Resource markets are deeply concerned about Trump’s…
How resource ‘classification debt’ chips away at miners’ growth and investor trust
Over the past decade, resource misclassification has saddled the mining industry with a costly problem. It’s one Guy Desharnais, Osisko Gold Royalties’ (TSX: OR; NYSE: OR) vice-president for project evaluation,…
Video: Why one contrarian mining investor prefers Australia over North America
Australia offers true discovery potential whereas “every rock seems to be turned three times” in North America, Commodity Discovery Fund founder Willem Middelkoop said in an interview. The Netherlands-based investor…
Video: ‘Big bang’ in commodity demand set to lift miners, Prins says
Global miners are set to benefit from rising needs for “real assets,” Nomi Prins, a macroeconomist and author of the newsletter PrInsights Global, says in a new interview. Global geopolitical…