Editorial: Alcoa hunkers down as aluminum slumps
As the first large mining company to release its financial results every quarter, Alcoa has always been a pacesetter among the majors.
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Commentary: Diversifying Canada’s energy markets and streamlining the regulatory process
Canada is on the edge of a historic choice: to diversify our energy markets away from our traditional trading partner in the U.S., or to continue with the status quo.
Goldcorp falls short of production targets, again
Before Goldcorp (G-T, GG-N) began commercial production at its expanded Red Lake gold mine on Jan. 1, 2001, the company was a 100,000-oz.-a-year mid-tier gold producer struggling to become a top senior gold miner. But by the end of the year,…
Odds ‘n’ sods: No country for old men – or maybe one
Please allow me to begin with a little trivia. When I started in this business the Prime Minister of Canada was Louis St. Laurent. Anybody out there remember him? Suffice it to say, most 70- to 80-year-olds are neither nimble nor quick, and I…
2011 Mining Person of the Year: Ross Beaty
Walter Gretzky famously advised his son Wayne to “skate where the puck’s going, not where it’s been.” In the mining industry today, there’s no better exemplar of someone living that kind of wisdom than entrepreneur Ross Beaty, our selection as…
Facts ‘n’ Figures: Miners still bullish on gold, says PwC
According to PwC’s annual Gold Price Report – which surveyed 41 mostly North American-listed mining companies representing 26.5 million oz. gold mined in 2011, and 37.75 million oz. to be mined in 2012 – 80% of respondents expect the gold price…
Editorial: A golden year – the top stories of 2011
With commodity prices strong, it was another highly dynamic year for miners and mineral explorers. Here’s our list of the year’s top mining stories:
How to make it as a gold miner in Africa
If you ask Mark Bristow what it takes to build a successful gold mining company in Africa, he’ll start by telling you what it doesn’t take.
Editorial: Gold megaprojects lurch forward
Mid-December was filled with substantial news about some of the world’s largest gold deposits.
Commentary: Hide from resource nationalism at your peril
Brian Menell, heir to the South Africa-based Anglovaal mining fortune and a speaker of the Mines and Money conference here in December, states the obvious when he says increased government intervention in the mining industry is not generally…
Exploration and discovery: Anglo’s perspective
There are only three ways a mining company can provide growth, contended Graham Brown, head of geosciences and exploration for Anglo American (AAL-L), during a presentation at the recent Mines and Money conference in London: You can discover,…
Virginia Mines a buy or hold near current levels: Cook, Casey
It is no easy task to find junior exploration companies these days with tangible assets and a steady share price able to withstand any mighty downdrafts that could accompany a wide-scale financial system collapse similar to the one seen in the…