October 3, 2013

Rick Mills: Greenland is the final frontier for lower-cost mining

Greenland's easy access to seaborne freight gives it a tremendous cost advantage over northern Canada.

September 24, 2013

Avalon Rare Metals lead mad surge in rare earth juniors

Explorer advancing what would be Canada's first rare earth mine is up 80% in three months.

September 18, 2013

Pro-or seizes market opportunity with platinum recycling technology

Every year, nearly 15 million North American cars expire—and recycling the platinum group metals within them is far cheaper than building a three-mile mine shaft in a faraway country.

September 18, 2013

Canada to boost support for mining, but faces challenges

The government is fine tuning details of an aggressive campaign to promote Canada’s mining sector abroad, and so redirect trade spending and foreign affairs to core economic interests.

September 18, 2013

Scrap your Wall Street career plans, study mining and agriculture instead: Jim Rogers

"The power is shifting again from financial centres to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities: raw materials and natural resources."

September 17, 2013

South Africa open to modifying controversial mining bill

Both companies and legal experts have criticized extensively some of the clauses, which it makes the law "unconstitutional."

September 15, 2013

Billionaire miner Robert Friedland sounds off

"We’re much closer to the bottom of this cycle than you imagine. This is not the end of the super-cycle."

September 5, 2013

Global mining deals down 74% and not much hope for 2014

PwC said the statistics reflected a shift by miners from buyers to sellers.

August 31, 2013

Peak Resources making progress in Tanzania

Produces third high purity rare earth compound.

August 31, 2013

Neil Adshead, Ph.D., says some mining stocks are ‘sitting ducks’

What can a Doctor in Economic Geology tell you about a mining project?