Double-digit unemployment for Australia’s minerals professionals
The gloomy figure includes geologists and mining engineers.
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Mostly shares-based deal will see Toronto-based Agnico Eagle acquire two highly prospective Mexican gold properties.
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Business leaders call for greater global support against Ebola outbreak
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Goldcorp: We have hit PEAK gold
CEO Chuck Jeannes says barring a major technological breakthrough global gold production probably peaked in 2013.
The ironies of shipping U.S. coal from B.C.
The latest battleground for U.S. President Barack Obama’s so-called war on coal isn’t even in the lower 48 states. It’s across the border in British Columbia.
UK’s 310-tonne gold reserves in limbo if Scotland becomes independent
A triumph of the "Yes Scotland" campaign would have to be followed by negotiations with London over a raft of assets.
