You can expect a salary of A$150,000 or more as a truck driver at a remote iron ore project in Australia. The country has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the economic boom in China, having grown continuously for more than two decades….
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The benchmark price for metallurgical coal has dropped to a multi-year low of US$119 per tonne, and Moody’s Investors Service doesn’t see much relief for met coal producers until the second half of 2016. In the meantime, it warns,…
In another sign of the growing political power of First Nations in Canada, Vancouver-based public relations firm PR Associates has unveiled the results of the first-ever survey of aboriginal Canadians living in rural and remote areas to gauge…
Foran Mining (TSXV: FOM) has touched a milestone at its flagship McIlvenna Bay project in east-central Saskatchewan, with the completion of a promising preliminary economic assessment (PEA) on the zinc-copper-gold-silver volcanogenic massive…
Glencore (LSE: GLEN) says it plans to shut down its coal operations in Australia for three weeks starting from mid-December due to slack demand and weak prices.
VANCOUVER — It’s been a wild year for Sean Roosen and his team at Osisko Gold Royalties (TSX: OR; US-OTC: OKSKF), but now that the dust has settled the company looks poised to become a major player in the royalty and…
Jeffrey Christian, managing director of the CPM Group, a New York-based research consulting firm, took time out to talk to The Northern Miner about the gold price and the state of the gold mining sector.
It will soon be mandatory for Canadian mining and oil and gas companies to report payments to foreign and domestic governments — including, eventually, First Nations governments in Canada.
Many of the miners — or muckers, as those men who loaded the ore cars were called — came to Canada from Europe after the First and Second World Wars in search of a more peaceful life where one could earn an honest dollar, without…
U.S. equities are up for the fourth straight week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 60.81 points to 17,634.74, while the S&P 500 Index rose 7.9 points to a record high of 2,039.82. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 56.01 points to…
Thompson Creek Metals (TSX: TCM; NYSE: TC) is improving its operations and balance sheet, despite ending the third quarter in the red.
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