Longtime mining industry executive W. R. “Bob” Dengler, an engineer who built Canadian startup Dynatec into one of the country’s biggest mine contractors and operators, has died. He was 84….
Industry legend George Buchanan Cross, who covered Canada’s junior mining sector for five decades through the authoritative George Cross News Letter, passed away on Nov. 18 at the age of…
First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM) has announced its chairman and co-founder Philip Pascall has died. The company says Pascall passed peacefully at his home in Perth, Western Australia, on Tuesday…
As enthusiasm for zero-emission technologies accelerates into the mainstream, Canada has lost one of its earliest and most ardent champions of critical minerals.Donald Stephen Bubar, founder and longtime president of…
The Howe Street investment community is grieving the loss of industry veteran Stuart ‘Tookie’ Angus. Angus, who leaves a deep mark after a 50-year career in the industry, peacefully passed…
Iain Fleming Downie, of Thunder Bay, Ont., passed away peacefully with his wife Anne and children Malcolm, Ewan and Andrea by his side on Aug. 5 at the age of 83. …
On Tuesday, February 8, our colleague and our friend Joe Crofts, passed on. He was surrounded by his family at the time. Joe had been fighting cancer valiantly since being…
The Quebec mineral exploration community marks the passing of Jean Descarreaux, who has been a monumental inspiration and mentor for generations of geologists and mineral exploration entrepreneurs in Quebec. He…
Robert Gannicott, the man who built Canada’s largest diamond mining company, Dominion Diamond (TSX: DDC; NYSE: DDC) and a pioneer of Canada’s diamond scene for 25 years, has died. Gannicott…
We mark the passing of legendary Bay Street mining entrepreneur J. Pat Sheridan on Jan. 10 in Toronto at age 81.
We bid a sad farewell this week to Dick Pearce, former owner of The Northern Miner, who died on Dec. 7 at age 93 (see his obituary as an attached pdf document, as it appears on Page 3 of our Dec. 15 issue). In this age…
Few individuals have lived lives large enough to be immediately associated with a particular commodity. Think oil and J.D. Rockefeller; steel and Andrew Carnegie; and diamonds and the Oppenheimer family. For silver, it’s the Hunt brothers…