Resources & Agriculture

Months of unrest have decimated South African platinum output

A shareholder has this morning filed a court petition against Vancouver-based Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V:BGM), which has attracted market and regulator skepticism in recent months over an alleged massive gold discovery.

Industry welcomes UBC earth sciences expansion, new responsible mining institute

Experts weigh in on B.C. investment in skills training to support future mining boom

B.C. mining companies are looking to strike it big on the world’s biggest continent

Fifty years in the mining industry hasn’t seemed like work at all

Securities regulators are looking critically at scientific and technical disclosure generally, and the use of preliminary economic assessments and inclusion of inferred resources in economic analyses specifically

The most obvious advantage for the junior company in a joint venture is economic

Just three days after Petronas and Progress Energy Resources Corp. (TSX:PRQ) announced they were moving ahead with a $9 billion to $11 billion liquefied natural gas plant in Kitimat and promised to increase its output 60% if the federal government approved a previously rejected takeover of Progress by Petrona, Ottawa did just that.

The Haisla First Nation – a major player in B.C.’s nascent liquefied natural gas industry and Northern Gateway pipeline proposal – has quit the Coastal First Nations (CFN) alliance over a difference of opinion on the LNG industry.