Resources & Agriculture

Vancouver-based Fortress Paper Ltd.’s stock price shot up more than 22% this morning, following the company’s announcement of a deal to sell its Dresden mill for $213 million.

The B.C. government is having second thoughts about area-based tenures – a move that could have implications for plans to rebuild a sawmill at Burns Lake.

Typically an alliance agreement is entered into by the parties to define the purpose governance of the alliance, to set forth the terms and conditions for ongoing funding of exploration and to specify the rights of the parties if results are favourable

The more alert and responsive a company is to developments in its market and the concerns of its shareholders, the better positioned it will be to deal with any activist investors

Arctos project will take advantage of need for high-quality coal

After another failed bid to carry out a hostile takeover of Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX:IMN), Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM) has “varied and extended” its offer to acquire shareholder shares.

While 2012 saw the return of mega-deal activity in Canada, B.C.'s mining sector didn't participate in the renewed merger and acquisition rush as much as was hoped.

Canada's forestry sector CEOs say the coming year will be "bumpy," but expect business to improve in the next three years thereafter, according to a new PwC report.

Public mining companies have become even more vulnerable due to recent amendments to provincial securities acts, which have simplified the process for filing class-action lawsuits

Small mining ventures need to adapt to a changing economic climate to thrive