Resources & Agriculture

PMV's authority over the use of its lands backed by previous Supreme Court decision

The mining sector in Canada did not have a single initial public offering (IPO) on either of Canada’s two leading exchanges in the first quarter of 2013, according to the results of a PwC survey released this morning.

Oil and gas rights sales netted the B.C. government $115 million for the fiscal year just ending, which is about half of what they were in 2011 and 2012.

A Surrey company will be delivering sockeye salmon raised in closed containment pens to Vancouver supermarkets next week.

B.C. geoscientist says shale gas plays exhaust more quickly than industry claims

Companies hunting for wood are finding it in the north and southeast of the province

The federal budget released yesterday includes some positives for the mining industry, according to the Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC).

Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals (TSX:FM) has finally taken over Toronto’s Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX:IMN) after months of negotiations, having acquired the necessary 85.5% of outstanding shares, First Quantum announced this morning.

Vancouver-based Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSX-V:RML) has filed a US$3.03 billion claim against Venezuela at the World Bank’s International Centre of Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the company announced March 21.

Building a refinery on B.C.’s coast would be economically advantageous and should be considered seriously, according to a new Navigant Consulting report prepared for the Government of British Columbia.