Resources & Agriculture

Even as the tech and mining industries compete for the top spot in Business in Vancouver's list of fastest-growing companies, one sector is dominating them both in terms of sheer numbers

Junior exploration company, Nevsun Resources Ltd., founded in 1965 is Business in Vancouver's fastest-growing company in 2013

One of the fastest growing companies in B.C is about to become even bigger. Shareholders of Papillion Resources voted 99.5% in favour of merging with Vancouver-based B2Gold Corp. (TSX:BTO) on Monday (September 15).

Shares in Vancouver’s Turquoise Hill Resources (TSE:TRQ) gained sharply for a second day in a row after unconfirmed reports that Mongolian authorities have slashed the amount of tax claimed in a dispute over the Rio Tinto-subsidiary's Oyu Tolgoi mine

North American coal producers and shippers should expect a “U-shaped” recovering in the metallurgical coal market, not a V-shaped one.

Economic expansion in northeast British Columbia will be slow this year and next, according to a Central 1 Credit Union report issued September 10, with employment shrinking 4% this year. The economy in the region – which includes Fort St.

Vancouver’s Monument Mining (TSX-V:MMY) has entered into an agreement to purchase 100% of the Tuckanarra gold project in Western Australia from Phosphate Australia Limited.

The entire leadership team at Vancouver’s troubled Mercator Minerals has been picked clean.

Vast stretches of northern Europe’s wilderness will soon host more Canadian, British, Australian and other companies going ahead with several mining projects in Lapland, a region that covers Finland, Sweden, Norway and Russia.

But smaller Metro Vancouver roasters are avoiding global price spikes, for now