Editorial: Top stories of 2016
For miners 2016 amounted to the fifth year of the industry downturn, albeit with a renewed sense of better days ahead with rallies for gold, silver, copper, zinc, iron ore…
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Editorial: Canadian government moves to quash thermal coal miners
In November the Canadian government announced sweeping plans to phase out coal-fired power generation across Canada by 2030. Coal miners and electricity consumers across Canada can only be left wondering…
Editorial: TNM switching to a biweekly print edition
As the new year gets underway, readers of The Northern Miner print edition will notice a momentous break from our shared past together: in 2017 we are switching from publishing…
Editorial: Silver’s Liberals bring ‘sunny ways’ to the Yukon
Voters in Canada’s Yukon Territory have embraced the “change narrative” that has come to broadly define the politics of the moment. Last year’s ousting of Stephen Harper’s long-standing Conservative government…
Editorial: Welcome back, copper
Metal price prognosticators came out almost as badly as the pollsters in the wake of the U.S. presidential election, with most metal analysts predicting a post-election rise in gold prices,…
The millennial mindset and diamonds: Editorial
Born between 1981 and 2000, the millennial generation will reach their highest earning potential in another 10 years. That makes them an important age group in terms of current and…
Editorial: What a Trump presidency means for US miners
Mining’s contribution to the recent U.S. presidential election was nicely captured in the interactions of the two leading candidates with coal miners in the Appalachians. In March 2016, Democratic Party…
Editorial: Federal gov’t to establish Canadian Infrastructure Bank
The federal government’s latest initiative comes right out of the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2015 election platform: “We will establish the Canadian Infrastructure Bank to provide low-cost financing for new…
Editorial: Canada’s mining industry still a powerhouse
To get a pulse on the health of Canada’s mining industry, it’s useful to browse through the newly released Mining Sector Performance Report 2006–2015, which is prepared by the Intergovernmental…
Editorial: Young Mining Professional Award to honour mining’s best under 40
At The Northern Miner, we’ve taken good care to honour the old lions and lionesses of the Canadian mining industry with our co-founding and ongoing sponsorship of the Canadian Mining…
Editorial: The Clintons, Morocco and OCP
The usually low-profile mining industry first popped up in the high-stakes U.S. 2016 presidential election campaign a couple of years ago, with the New York Times’ revelations of former U.S….
Editorial: Deutsche Bank to pay US$38M for silver price manipulation
The silver market saw a little bit of history being made on Oct. 17, with German megabank Deutsche Bank filing papers in Manhattan Federal Court agreeing to pay $38 million…