Resources & Agriculture

Methanex Corp. (TSX:MX) on January 10 announced plans to idle its Chilean operations in March due to anticipated insufficient natural gas supply.

Vancouver-based Eldorado Gold Corp (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) this week announced it would spend $98.5 million on exploration in 2013, and posted 2012 production results that came in just shy of its mid-year guidance, reports MINING.com.

Vancouver-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd. (TSX:FM, LSE:FQM) is dipping deeper into its pockets in its second attempt to acquire Toronto-based Inmet Mining Corp. (TSX:IMN).

Progress Energy Canada Ltd. has selected TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP; NYSE:TRP) to design, build, own and operate a proposed $5 billion Prince Rupert natural gas pipeline.

Finning International Inc. (TSX:FTT) announced January 8 that CEO Mike Waites plans to retire this year and will stay on until the company finds a replacement.

Vancouver-based Rio Cristal Resources Corp. (TSX-V:RCZ) this morning retracted the disclosure it made early last year of mineral resources at its Bongara project in north central Peru.

Despite excitement over recent blue diamond discovery, the gem sector’s lacklustre returns have dampened investor interest

The Young Liberals of Canada in B.C. are calling on Liberal Party members to support a proposed policy for a national energy strategy at a party policy conference next week in Surrey.

Just two months after announcing the recovery of a 9.46-carat rare blue diamond from its Karowe mine in Botswana, Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp. (TSX:LUC) says it has found two additional blue diamonds.

The American millionaire who bought a ghost town north of Prince Rupert says his plans to turn the town of Kitsault into an energy hub could include a heavy oil pipeline terminal and refinery.