Editorial: Indonesia to ban nickel ore exports in 2020
Indonesia has confirmed it will ban exports of nickel ore from January 2020 — two years earlier than expected. The Southeast Asian nation is the…
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Editorial: Is the US–China trade war the new normal?
Stocks swooned last week after U.S. President Donald Trump declared in a tweet on Aug. 1 that he would slap a 10% tariff on a…
Editorial: Yukon’s geology remains under-explored
The annual tour of mining camps in the Yukon sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (75%) and the Government of Yukon (25%) never fails to…
Editorial: Reflections on working 23 years at the Miner
This is my final editorial for The Northern Miner, as I will soon depart to join gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines as a senior geologist…
Editorial: How to write as a business journalist
This is my second-last editorial for The Northern Miner, as I will soon depart to join gold miner Agnico Eagle Mines as a senior geologist…
Editorial: Global geopolitics sideswipe African uranium miners
The global uranium mining market in the 2010s took a hit from the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011 — which cut global uranium…
Editorial: Top gold mining CEOs Bristow, Letwin and Marrone weigh in on consolidation
With The Northern Miner’s Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., in May, attendees were treated to contrasting visions for the gold…
Editorial: Proposed US mining legislation follows strict party lines
The increased polarity and hardening of political stances in the U.S. — combined with the flip last election to Democratic Party control of the U.S….
Editorial: US Senator Murkowski introduces American Mineral Security Act
United States Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and three Senate colleagues on the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources took a bipartisan legislative step in…
Editorial: Copper prices remain moribund
A common feature of mining industry gatherings over the past couple of years is a general bullishness on copper’s future, with talk quickly turning to…
Editorial: Central banks are major gold buyers in 2019
With the gold market’s supply and demand numbers coming in for the first two to three months of 2019, one of the features of this…
Editorial: Palladium has its day in the sun
Already-strong palladium prices soared to new heights in March, with spot palladium prices topping US$1,600 for the first time on March 20, and hitting an…