They have reached a preliminary $150 million commercial agreement over land rights near the $6.2 billion Cobre Panama copper project.

The survey systems are deployed in mining and other industrial operations worldwide.

Thanks to innovative filter technology with increased efficiency in air pollution control.

The province is the only one that taxes resource companies for fuel used on mine sites.

Developed in response to extensive industrial customer feedback for improved chemical metering, the Qdos 30 eliminates ancillary equipment, enhances productivity, and reduces chemical waste through more accurate, linear, and repeatable metering than typical solenoid or stepper driven diaphragm metering pumps.

Designed to suit all dosing, metering and transfer applications from 2.8 to 1,200 litre/hour across a broad range of applications, the new APEX pumps are now the first choice for processing plants the worldwide.

In order to make wise investment decisions, gold investors must coldly assess economic realities.

Suncor Energy and Canadian Natural Resources could be targets for activist investors, Barron said.

The new penalties would depend on company profits, which means large miners will pay higher fines than small companies.