February 5, 2015

Ending an era, CME Group to shutter most futures pits

The world's largest futures market operator will shutter almost all of its open-outcry futures pits by July 2, ringing the closing bell on a once-raucous tradition that has been in…

February 4, 2015

What the Aden sisters are watching before jumping back into natural resources

Pamela and Mary Anne Aden see value in gold and silver and share their four favorite vehicles for gaining exposure to the upside in natural resources that is coming on…

February 4, 2015

Mongolian verdict sends chill through mining community

Banned from travel since 2012, three SouthGobi workers, a coal firm owned Vancouver's Turquoise Hill, are now going to jail for 5-6 years for tax evasion.

February 4, 2015

State of global economy among the Canadian mining industry’s top issues

The mining industry employed more than 380,000 people in 2013, accounting for one in every 47 jobs in Canada.

February 4, 2015

Meet the new CEO of mining’s first equity crowdfunding platform

In essence, we have to create things from scratch.

February 3, 2015

Lots of new fees for hardrock miners in BLM budget

"It will definitely put a lot of marginal producers out of business."

February 3, 2015

Roubini gives a talking to gold bugs, other ‘pseuds and hacks’

Dr Doom explains why the predictions of "Austrian economists, radical monetarists, gold bugs, and Bitcoin fanatics" have been so "spectacularly wrong".

February 3, 2015

Yukon Zinc in legal tussle with contractor

Embarrassment and financial harm.

February 2, 2015

Currency wars heat up as central banks race to cut rates

“The U.S. seems to be the only country right now that doesn’t mind having a strong currency.”

February 2, 2015

Contrarian Economist John Mauldin: How to position your portfolio to win in the currency wars

"I'm sure we'll lose a few banks here and there."