Zonte pursues fractional claims over Gramalote in Colombia
VANCOUVER — It’s been a couple of years since Zonte Metals (TSXV: ZON) first spotted — and applied for — fractional claims over joint-venture partners’ AngloGold…
Articles by John Cumming
Editorial: Sharp commodity price rally surprises markets
Even if it’s only temporary, it always improves the mood of delegates when metal prices rally right before and during a mining convention. And that…
Letter to the editor: In-situ copper leaching is a proven technology
It was recently reported in the Financial Post that in-situ leaching of copper is an “unproven technology”. But after personally spending five years working at…
Editorial: Former Massey CEO Blankenship convicted of conspiracy
Former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship has been convicted by a federal jury in West Virginia of conspiracy to violate U.S. mine-safety laws in relation to the 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners at the firm’s Upper Big Branch…
Editorial: Great Bre-Xpectations of a payout dashed
Just how slow do the wheels of justice turn in Canada? It was only a week ago that there was a resolution of the class-action lawsuits stemming from the Bre-X Minerals gold fraud, which was exposed in March 1997, and vapourized $3 billion in…
TNM’s Mining Person of the Year: Garofalo a steady hand on the Hudbay tiller
In these times of economic and political turmoil, boring has become the new exciting.
Editorial: Is Barrick tired of gold?
We keep getting surprised by the latest developments in the fate of newbie copper miner Equinox Minerals.
Editorial: Coal gets respect
As if anyone needed more confirmation that coal has come back in a big way, the fourth week of January served up the biggest merger in U.S. coal mining history.
Thom Calandra settles fraud charges with SEC (January 24, 2005)
In early January, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission brought and settled civil fraud charges against Thom Calandra, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the web site www.cbs.marketwatch.com and edi…