VANCOUVER — There’s likely not an exploration manager with a bigger technical team or budget than Rio Tinto’s (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) Stephen McIntosh, who serves as the mega miner’s global head of exploration and has…
VANCOUVER — When Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) president and CEO Chuck Jeannes talked about gold in a keynote speech at the Association for Mineral Exploration BC’s annual Roundup conference, people naturally perked up their…
When Tom Ogryzlo replaced John Greenslade as head of Baja Mining (TSXV: BAJ) in May 2012, the company and its then 70%-owned copper-cobalt-zinc Boleo project in Mexico were in freefall — reeling from hundreds of millions of dollars in…
Three former employees of SouthGobi Resources (TSX: SGQ) including a U.S. citizen are slated to spend the next five years behind bars after a Mongolian court found them guilty of tax evasion.
Alamos Gold (TSX:AGI; NY0SE:AGI) shares continue to slide on the back of disappointing 2014 production results from its Mulatos gold mine in Sonora, Mexico.
The final week of January was a mixed bag. On the bright side for resource investors, gold and oil prices climbed to US$1,283.10 per oz. and US$52.99 a barrel, respectively, while U.S. consumer spending also improved, rising 4.3% in the fourth…
Dominion Diamond’s (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) prefeasibility study for the Jay kimberlite pipe deposit shows it could add 11 years to the life of its Ekati diamond mine in the Northwest Territories’ Lac de Gras region.
In January the Ryerson University Finance Society held its annual “Battle on Bay” conference and case competition at the Ted Rogers School of Management in Toronto. This year’s theme was mining.
An independent investigation into the tailings pond spill at Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) Mount Polley gold-copper mine near Likely, B.C., found that a flaw in the dam’s design caused the breach last summer.
The Toronto stock market slipped in the wake of poor economic data and a weakening Canadian dollar. The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index declined 105.87 points to 14,673.48 as Statistics Canada said real gross domestic product in November…
I have produced to date over 2,500 sketches of mines that have been located across Canada from the 1880s to the present. These mines extracted a broad range of product: diamonds, gold, silver, nickel, uranium, etc.
The S&P TSX Venture Composite Index rallied late in the week to close relatively flat during the Jan. 26-30 trading sessions, as it lost around 0.2% before finishing at 676.81 points. Mining and energy stocks trended upward despite…
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