Editorial: Price drop catches gold investors off guard
As 2016 wore on, gold miners and investors were getting pretty comfortable assuming that spot gold prices would hold firmly above US$1,300 per oz. for the foreseeable future, and that…
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Editorial: Colombians reject peace deal, Uribe re-emerges as a force
On Oct. 2, Colombian voters in a national referendum narrowly defeated a peace agreement negotiated between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, throwing the…
Editorial: Gold miners find room to breathe
With gold prices holding steady for months above US$1,300 per oz., and years of painful cost-cutting and writedowns now firmly in the past, the mood of gold miners in attendance…
Editorial: Metallurgical coal prices go through the roof
While so much attention this year has focused on gold, it’s metallurgical coal that has suddenly become the unlikely star performer of 2016. Traders in metallurgical coal, also known as…
Editorial: Faulty design behind Samarco tailings disaster
A review panel tasked with determining the cause of the Samarco tailings disaster in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 10 months ago has released its report on the immediate causes of the…
Editorial: Texas to build its own gold depository
When the average person thinks about Texas, a few words and phrases quickly come to mind: old-school, wealthy, isolationist, entrepreneurial and open-carry. Happily we can roll all these elements into…
Editorial: LME shakes up gold world with gold and silver trading
Metal trading in the historic centre of London has had a pretty-clear cut dichotomy in recent years: base metals trading including futures are carried out on the giant London Metal…
Feds to review environmental permitting across Canada
Canada’s federal government has officially launched a major review of environmental permitting for resource projects, stating it wants to “restore confidence” in the country’s environmental and regulatory processes. The new…
Editorial: Gold gains appeal in UK as interest rates hit 322-year low
One of the features of the gold bull run from 2001 to 2011 was the divergence in enthusiasm for gold on either side of the Atlantic. Gold bugs taking in…
Editorial: Komatsu scooping up Joy Global for US$2.9B
Just in time to create even more excitement at the massive, once-every-four-years MINExpo International convention in Las Vegas in September, Tokyo-based manufacturing giant Komatsu has struck a friendly, blockbuster deal…
Editorial: OSC creates whistle-blower program
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has just launched a paid whistle-blower program — the first of its kind by a securities regulator in Canada. A whistle-blower under this program is…
Editorial: Young Mining Professionals’ new Toronto branch grows
Anyone who spends time in both of Canada’s biggest mining centres will quickly pick up on the differences in culture between the two mining communities. Vancouver is generally younger, more…