Letter to the editor: Being female never held me back
In response to the Letter to the Editor entitled “Daughters – Avoid mining or geology as a career” (T.N.M., June 15-21/15),
Opinion/Commentary
Commentary: Safety first for a new generation of Cree miners
“Working underground for me is like working in your basement for you.” That’s the first thing Marcelin Bruneau tells the 12 young Crees sitting in front of him. That gets their interest. “When I started mining in…
Letter to the editor: Women in mining a complex issue
Lesley Stokes’ commentary last week entitled “Gratitude for women pioneers” is a thoughtful insight and response to the letter published a week earlier, “Daughters: Avoid geology or mining as a career.”
Commentary: Gratitude for women pioneers
Sometimes when I practice gratitude in my life, I think back to when I was a little girl and imagine telling this little girl of all the incredible adventures that lay ahead.
Letter to the editor: Backbone to speak up
To the author of last week’s Letter to the Editor (“Daughters: Avoid mining or geology as a career”), I offer my congratulations. Someone has finally the backbone to speak up. I support your thinking. If I had any children, I…
Interview: BitGold co-founder Roy Sebag explains company’s philosophy
BitGold (TSXV: XAU), which offers a platform for savings and payments in gold, listed on the TSX Venture Exchange on May 13 at 90¢ per share, and since then the shares have traded as high as $8 apiece. The start-up shook up the markets…
Commentary: Indians’ view of gold – A barbarous relic for a barbarous present
Many people try to find a correlation between inflation and gold price, often using the U.S. dollar as their base currency. They ignore that the biggest gold consumers — in rural parts of India and China — are not driven by…
Commentary: Should we have quotas for women on boards in Canada?
It’s no secret that the mining industry is behind the curve when it comes to hiring women and appointing female board members. What will it take to get them onboard? Although the last couple of years have seen some increase in women…
Letter to the editor: Daughters – Avoid mining or geology as a career
As a woman geologist for the last 25 years, I am writing in response to the commentary “Gender diversity and ‘Women Who Rock’” (T.N.M., May 18–24, 2015). I know some of the women in the Women in Mining (WIM) group…
Analysts weigh in on BHP spinoff South32
In April BMO Capital Markets initiated coverage of BHP Billiton (LSE: BLT) spin-off South32, (LSE: S32; US-OTCBB: SOUHY)commenting that the shares of the newly created mining company “represent a more compelling investment than BHP…
EduMine’s Simon Houlding wins Vale medal
Growing up in Zimbabwe after World War II, completing an engineering degree at the University of Witswatersrand in Johannesburg, and working at Jones & Wagener, a specialist firm of consulting engineers and scientists based in South Africa,…
Letter to the editor: Fond memories
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