Aiming to be the Uber of mining
Today, at 34, Ball has that CEO job and a seat on the board, with Mullan as board chairman, and he’s busily implementing the innovative ideas that got him there.
Posts by Toronto Star Online:
Cree community looks on warily as De Beers scours North for diamonds
Diamond mines aren’t forever, and within four years the Victor Mine, De Beers’ first in Ontario, is expected to reach the end of its life.
After the gold rush
Under the golden light of the setting Saharan sun, two types of workers shuffle between concrete huts on their way home, still bathed in sweat from a day in the mines.
Burkina Faso: After the gold rush
Canada is tying foreign aid to overseas mining development. It’s touted as “win-win,” but in Burkina Faso there are already some losers.
Mongolia enjoys a new mining wealth but at what cost?
Massive Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine only tells part of the story of mining in Mongolia.
Keystone, Northern Gateway pipelines raise questions that need answers before approval
In hearings that began this week on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline to carry tar-sands oil from Athabasca to the B.C. coast, we have a rare opportunity to insist on the world’s most carefully planned energy megaprojects ever.
Mystery of the missing $2 million in gold bullion
The head of an insolvent mortgage company unloaded $2.2 million in gold and silver from his car at a Rexdale parking lot at night, according to his own testimony, and handed it to a man who has since disappeared.
Aboriginal groups stand against Canadian oil pipeline
A group of First Nations in British Columbia says it will do “whatever means necessary” to stop exports of crude oil from Alberta’s oilsands through their territories — including the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway oil pipeline.
U.S. mining giant looks to Asia to process Ring of Fire chromite
Cliffs Natural Resources, an Ohio-based mining giant, is preparing to extract what is estimated to be one of the world’s largest chromite […]
