The US Dollar Index is nearing 100 yet again, but has not broken through.

Low potash prices have made the prospect of developing the Kronau potash mine in Saskatchewan uneconomic.

The measures to address climate change include a carbon tax aimed at individual Albertans, phasing out coal-powered power plants, reducing methane emissions and placing a cap on emissions from the oilsands.

A terrorist attack on a hotel in Mali on Friday that left 14 dead has a Canadian mining connection. (Screenshot from BBC News report posted to Youtube.)

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"Prices must overshoot relative to marginal production costs in order to trigger mine closures on a sufficient scale."

Exports suspended for nearly two months over building of smelter.

Rio Tinto said Vale conspired to "steal" the Australian giant's massive Simandou concession in Guinea.

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