February 16, 2016

Request for Proposal Issued for Mining Observatory Data Control Centre (MODCC)

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (February 16, 2016) – The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI), in partnership with SNOLAB, is pleased to […]

February 12, 2016

Argentina’s new government scraps mining taxes

President Mauricio Macri has revoked a 5% tax imposed by the previous administration on mining companies.

February 12, 2016

Potash prices to fall even further — Mosaic

It expects to sell the key crop nutrient for $200-230 a tonne in the current quarter, compared to an average price of $254 a tonne in the previous three-month period.

February 11, 2016

Glencore to sell gold and silver to Franco-Nevada in $500 million deal

Only a day after announcing the deal, Franco-Nevada increased the size of the financing by 45%, citing “strong demand.”

February 11, 2016

TransCanada posts $2.5bn loss in Q4 on Keystone XL charge

The net loss also included a number of other smaller items, partially offset by an increase in revenue to $2.85 billion from $2.62 billion.

February 11, 2016

Teck Resources logs $536M loss in Q4 on depressed commodities, asset charge

The loss includes a Cdn$598 million impairment charge on its Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta.

February 10, 2016

Centerra Gold 2015 year-end reserve and resource update

The Company has used a gold price of $1,200 per ounce as the basis for its reserve estimates.

February 10, 2016

Tahoe may go after Goldcorp’s assets in Ontario — report

Tahoe Resources' founder and executive chair Kevin McArthur said the operations present "nice synergies".

February 9, 2016

World’s second-largest diamond ever found named ‘Our Light’

Canada's Lucara Diamond had launched a a competition to name the rock earlier this year.

February 9, 2016

A crude correlation with Canada’s currency

Canada is the world’s fifth largest oil and gas producer and its energy export revenues are a significant part of the economy.