Turquoise Hill Resources’ (TSX: TRQ; NYSE: TRQ) second-quarter results were overshadowed by a tax dispute with the Mongolian government, among other concerns, relating to its Oyu Tolgoi gold–copper mine in the country’s South…
VANCOUVER — Glencore Xstrata (LSE: GLEN) will appoint a woman to its board by year-end, a move that will end its stance as the only British blue-chip company with an all-male board.
It’s been one year since Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC) took over operations at the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories, and president and CEO Bob Gannicott says the company’s transition…
Global production of rough diamonds in 2014 is expected to reach roughly 135 million carats valued at US$17.8 billion, an increase of 3% over last year. The world’s 50 largest…
In our last issue, I asked whether there had been a shift in sentiment toward the diamond sector, which survived 2013 in much better shape than the rest of the…
In yet another apparent setback for Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: MDM; NYSE-MKT: NAK) and its controversial Pebble copper-gold-molybdenum project in Alaska, Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is giving its 19.1% stake in the company to two local…
We are now more than two years into a mining industry downturn that has punished miners, developers and explorers of all commodities. But many of the Toronto-listed diamond stocks that…
After taking control of the Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories earlier this year, Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) is working to extend the life of Canada’s first…
He’s been in the business for 56 years. He was integral in developing Canada’s diamond sector. He has been named Prospector of the Year by the Prospectors and Developers Association…
Rio Tinto (RIO-N, RIO-L) announced in June that it will hang onto its diamond assets after all, concluding a strategic review of the business that the miner began in March…
Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) aluminum subsidiary Rio Tinto Alcan is closing its aluminum smelter in Shawinigan, Que., in two quick stages so that it can remove 100,000 tonnes per year of aluminum smelting capacity by the end of this…
The Canadian mining industry staggered and gasped to complete the first half of 2013, a little dehydrated and cramped, and trying to summon the strength to get through the rest of the year in competitive shape.
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