April 8, 2015 Quebec mining fund ready to pull trigger on $1bn investments Quebec's $1 billion Capital Mines Hydrocarbures fund is close to buying equity stakes in mining projects outside iron ore worth as much as $200m a shot.
April 1, 2015 David Smith: Love and fear trade buying will drive metals, and these miners higher. . .this year! Despite their recent underperformance, David H. Smith, Senior Analyst with The Morgan Report, remains bullish on precious metals, especially silver and palladium, as the "love trade" heats up and the…
March 31, 2015 South Africa wants to settle mines’ black ownership in court The main point of contention is the fact that mining companies believe that once they reached a 26% black ownership, they effectively complied, no matter where the percentage is at…
March 31, 2015 S.Africa Marikana mining massacre report submitted President Jacob Zuma received on Tuesday the official report into the police killing of 34 South African miners in 2012, as rights groups demanded that its findings be quickly made…
March 25, 2015 Mining private equity: It’s Davis or bust? Until Mick Davis pulls the trigger on X2's $5.6 billion, wishful thinking and unhealthy skepticism will pervade talk around private equity and mining.
March 23, 2015 Zijin Mining buys 10% of Canada’s Ivanhoe Mines Zijn's main interest in Ivanhoe seems to be the Kamoa copper project.
March 19, 2015 INFOGRAPHIC: Space Exploration is Taking Off Up until recent years, the momentum associated with space exploration had more or less fizzled. While it would seem that rapid innovation is occurring in every other technology field worldwide,…
March 18, 2015 Why Goldman Sachs is wrong about commodity prices: Philip Richards In this interview with The Mining Report, Richards discusses his outlook for oil, gold, vanadium, zinc and nickel, and profiles companies with projects that will see the light of day…
March 17, 2015 Selectivity and patience: Resource investing today Spread your dollars amongst takeout candidates, major miners, and juniors with the best odds of outperforming when the markets start to move. Then wait.
March 17, 2015 Tommy Humphreys: An inside look: How mining titans like Giustra, Lundin, and Beaty are playing the downturn Since Tommy regularly spends time with the sharpest minds of the natural resource sector (Lundin, Gisutra, Casey, etc.), we know how valuable his perspective is.
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