Editorial: C-suite departures hit Barrick, Teck, Lundin
The sudden and unexpected departure in late July of Barrick Gold president Kelvin Dushnisky — and more tellingly, the lack of a named replacement and the unusual vacancy in Barrick’s…
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Editorial: Gren and Eira Thomas share secrets to success
Canadian diamond mining icons Grenville Thomas — co-discoverer of the Diavik mine in the Northwest Territories — and his daughter Eira Thomas were featured guests at The Northern Miner’s inaugural…
Editorial: New Ontario gov’t streamlines ministries, axes carbon tax
The swearing-in on June 29 of new Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his Progressive Conservative majority government promises somewhat more mining-friendly policies in the province that remains Canada’s mining powerhouse….
Editorial: New DRC mining code comes into force
After months of outcry from foreign mining companies active in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the new DRC mining code proposed in March was signed into law with…
Editorial: De Beers enters synthetic diamond jewellery market
In a milestone moment for traditional diamond miners, De Beers Group has launched a new company named “Lightbox Jewelry” that will exclusively produce and sell laboratory-grown diamond jewellery, using technology…
Editorial: Former Massey Energy CEO, ex-con Blankenship attempts comeback in US Senate
It’s hard to figure out what the lessons are here, but the audacity and sheer political spectacle can’t go unremarked: the disgraced former CEO of Massey Energy, Don Blankenship, is…
Editorial: Rusal sanctions sow market turmoil
The global aluminum markets have been in an uproar since April 6, when the U.S. government imposed tough sanctions on Russia’s oligarchs. Caught in the net are aluminum giant Rusal…
Editorial: Peter Munk receives our Lifetime Achievement Award
In this issue of The Northern Miner and at an event at our Canadian Mining Symposium at Canada House in London on April 24 and 25, we are awarding to…
Editorial: Glimmers of hope for uranium miners
It’s been an eventful past couple of weeks in the uranium subsector, even if the spot price for uranium oxide has shown little positive response. In the U.S., the Trump…
Editorial: New DRC tax rates chasten foreign miners
In the mining world there’s no better epitome of a high-reward, high-risk jurisdiction than the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), with its array of superb mineral deposits, but a…
Agnico Eagle’s Sean Boyd is TNM’s Mining Person of the Year
As we look back at the career so far of Sean Boyd — Agnico Eagle Mines’ vice-chairman and CEO, and The Northern Miner’s Mining Person of the Year for 2017…
Editorial: New environmental assessment rules proposed for Canada
On Feb. 8 Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna introduced the 341-page Bill C-69, which seeks to comprehensively alter the current federal legislation guiding the environmental review and…