Miners and their investors endured another period of pain in the week ended Sept. 1, the 35th trading week of 2007, as the mining sector gasped its way through its third straight week of market-cap co…
While the broad decline in stock markets in the U.S. cast a pall over North American mining investors during the week ended Aug. 11, the 32nd trading week of 2007, outside of the spotlight a much more…
A little more than a decade after Bre-X Minerals’ Busang sample salting fiasco, the junior mining industry was hit with another serious case of alleged assay manipulation with news that Southwestern R…
We note the passing this week of the great American economist, libertarian and public thinker Milton Friedman, who died at the age 94 in San Francisco, of all places, where he was a senior research fe…
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
The lawsuit duel between the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation and junior explorer Platinex — detailed in our news story last week T.N.M., July 7-13/06) — shows the lengths to which competin…
It’s a problem that’s been talked about for decades but, like the weather, no one ever seems to be able to do anything about it: why does Canada have so many securities regulators when one will do?…
With all the hoopla these days over rising metals prices and Canada’s booming mineral-exploration scene, we think it’s a good time to pause and pay our respects to a federal program that helped this i…
The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) 74th annual convention, held in Toronto in early March, provided a striking display of both the renewed vitality of Canada’s junior mining…
The esoteric world of monetary history turned a page on Feb. 1, 2006, with the swearing in of Ben Bernanke as the new chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve, or “the F…
It’s been said that Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is not unlike a bean bag chair, taking the shape of whoever last sat on him….
As 2005 grinds to a close, few in the mining industry could say they were surprised by the business’ strong fundame…
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