Resources & Agriculture

Discovery adds sparkle to ailing sector

The same day Vancouver-based miner Lucara made the biggest gemstone find in a century, another company announced it was floundering

Dec 14, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Barkerville drills up out of a hole

A year ago, the miner was deep in debt and headed for trouble; now it’s debt-free and has raised $39 million in equity and smelter royalties

Dec 14, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Teck toughened up for a lean 2016

Oversupply weighing down already soft coal and copper markets for diversified miner

Dec 14, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Nautilus Minerals—the world’s first seafloor miner—signs deal with Chinese company

Vancouver seafloor miner Nautilus Minerals has inked a copper sales deal with...

Dec 14, 2015 10:02 AM Read more >

Vancouver’s Goldcorp caught in Mexican gang war

Vancouver-based Goldcorp’s (TSX:G, NYSE:GG) Los Filos gold and silver mine in Mexico's Guerrero state, the same region where 43 students were kidnapped and massacred last year, is at the centre of a turf war between two criminal gangs.

Dec 11, 2015 8:05 AM Read more >

Turquoise Hill shares surge on Oyu Tolgoi guidance

Vancouver’s Turquoise Hill Resources saw its shares surge nearly...

Dec 10, 2015 7:47 AM Read more >

Teck to convert trucks to LNG at B.C. mine

Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) has partnered up with FortisBC to start using natural gas in a fleet of six trucks at its Fording River coal mine.

Dec 9, 2015 10:01 AM Read more >

Verasen $715 million tower gas plant near Fort St. John gets green light

Verasen Inc. has announced that the Cutbank Ridge Partnership has given the go-ahead for...

Dec 9, 2015 9:05 AM Read more >

B.C.-Alberta powerhouse proposal faces political short-circuit

Alberta wants more renewable power; B.C. has an abundance of it. So why can’t the two provinces form a regional clean-power block?

Dec 7, 2015 11:00 PM Read more >

Goldcorp CEO to leave Vancouver mining company in the spring

Chuck Jeannes says he’ll be ready to retire from the world’s largest gold-mining company following an annual general meeting in April 2016.

Dec 7, 2015 7:46 AM Read more >