May 7, 2015 Harper takeover rules boon for Canadian resource firms Energy and mining industries, hammered by a commodity slump, are poised to be the biggest beneficiaries of looser Canadian foreign-takeover rules.
May 6, 2015 Iron ore price blasts past $60 Steelmaking raw material now up 28.7% from decade lows hit last month.
May 6, 2015 South32 gets going after BHP investors strong support, sees M&A opportunities BHP Billiton shareholders have overwhelmingly voted in favour of the South32 demerger, a spin off that creates Australia’s third-largest mining company.
May 5, 2015 Mining revenue in British Columbia dropped 14% last year Miners in Canada’s most western province remain under pressure, as prices for some key commodities, mainly coal and copper, have continued to fall.
May 5, 2015 Fortune Minerals and POSCAN complete sale of Arctos coal licenses to BC Rail The AAJV partners maintain the exclusive right to purchase back the coal licenses at the same price for a 10-year option period. If both partners do not wish to exercise…
May 4, 2015 Outside money starts to pour into mining M&A Mick Davis hasn't spent a cent of his $6bn, but private money and non-mining players' share of M&A has already doubled in less than three years.
May 4, 2015 RioZim seeks partnerships for $2.1bn Zimbabwe power plant RioZim Ltd., which mines gold, diamonds and coal in Zimbabwe, wants to work with state-owned power utilities in South Africa and Namibia to build a 1,400-megawatt electricity plant near its…
May 4, 2015 Modi fails to get India’s coal trains running on time India's Prime Minster Narendra Modi's plans to shift the country's economy toward manufacturing and away from agriculture and services are being held up by a different kind of coal shortage.
May 4, 2015 NSW environmental watchdog bashed over BHP’s coal pollution case The 14-months long investigation ended on April 10, with BHP accepting the charge of “causing an offensive odour,” and the EPA releasing just a single tweet about it.
May 4, 2015 Goldman Sachs mulls selling Colombia’s coal mines The sale would put an end to Goldman’s rocky involvement in raw-materials production.
First Quantum to sell Spanish mine for $190M Global Panduro, an entity controlled by US private equity Resource Capital Funds, will acquire the past-producing Las Cruces copper mine. December 24, 2025 | 07:28 am
