Fourteen years ago Shawn Ryan and Cathy Wood were tromping around British Columbia, picking wild mushrooms. They loved the lifestyle, in large part because of its gold rush-style mentality: “You’d hav…
Glenn Robert O’Gorman, a hard rock underground mining engineer with more than 35 years of experience in the industry, died on Aug. 28 in Montreal. He was 60.
“What happened to me could happen to anybody,” John Felderhof, a former geologist and senior vice-president at Bre-X Minerals, told a small group gathered in a seminar room at the recent Prospectors a…
The Northern Miner’s Mining Persons of the Year for 2009 are Osisko Mining’s president and CEO Sean Roosen, vice-president of corporate development John Burzynski, and executive vice-president and chi…
Golden Dory Resources’ (GDR-V) president and CEO, Kevin Keats, has been a prospector for as long as he can remember. When he was just a toddler growing up in Benton, Nfld., his father, who worked for …
— The following is the full text of an open letter from John Felderhof, former vice-president of exploration with Bre-X Minerals, after his acquittal on four charges of illegal insider trading and fo…
The former vice-president of exploration at Bre-X Minerals, John Felderhof, has been acquitted of four charges of insider trading and four of misleading disclosure in connection with the 1997 Busang s…
While Rob McEwen and Ian Telfer are two of mining’s most successful CEOs, you couldn’t get more pronounced differences in personality and style, with McEwen, the obsessive maverick, embodying the clas…
$982 million Capital cost of the Victor diamond project…
Three years after the Bre-X scandal and subsequent decline of the mining industry, geologist Ricardo Valls found himself standing at the edge of a subway platform….
Perth, Western Australia — In the aftermath of the Bre-X scandal, Canadian Armand Beaudoin, a fellow prospector working with Aussie Doug McGay in Indonesia, suggested McGay should break camp and head…
After serving under five Ontario premiers, three political parties and nine mines ministers, Assistant Deputy Mines Minister John Gammon is calling it quits and celebrating the occasion by throwing a…
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