Resources & Agriculture

Base and precious metals face a dim year as B.C.’s mining sector weathers low prices for gold, copper and steelmaking coal

Windows of opportunity opening for renewables, B.C. LNG in long term

The approval of BC Hydro’s plan to build a third dam on the Peace River has been welcomed by businesses and builders, but the north will also have to deal with its environmental and infrastructure repercussions

Vancouver-based miner Silver Wheaton (TSX:SLW) said January 5 it has agreed to give Barrick Gold Corp.

Vancouver’s Ivanhoe Energy Inc. says that the company’s working capital has been augmented by a further US$540,000 (approximately C$626,000) provided by founder Robert Friedland.

Vancouver’s First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) has began operations at its Zambian Sentinel copper mine, which will feed an US$850 million smelter despite the fact the government has announced it will push ahead with plans to more than triple royalties.

Encana Corporation is selling around 500 kilometres of pipeline and seven gas compression stations ahead of a major reinvestment in the Montney shale, the company announced December 29.

B.C.’s deputy premier expects a decision will be made about the Woodfibre LNG plant sometime in 2015.

Ecofiscal Commission includes environmentalist, oil and gas industry heavyweights as factions from both sides of the energy divide push for national carbon-pricing plan

Mining and metals companies across the world made fewer deals, but analysts such as EY and Grant Thornton International, believe a “near-perfect alignment of factors” will herald a new era in mining merger and acquisitions in 2015.