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INFOGRAPHIC: When will the world’s resource cupboard be bare?

BBC charted the expected lifespans of various resources like silver, coal and forests.

Michael Allan McCrae | August 21, 2012 | 4:36 am

Philippine miners duck taxes by selling gold on the black market

Philippine gold production dropped by over half, but the reduction may have more to do with tax policy than actual output.

Michael Allan McCrae | August 20, 2012 | 9:57 pm

Turquoise Hill paid $61 million to departing Friedland and co

Severance packages for management, early vesting options and cancelling contracts with Friedland-owned companies for aircraft rental and other office services quickly added up.

Frik Els | August 20, 2012 | 9:51 pm

Franco-Nevada injects $1 billion into Inmet’s copper project

Canada’s Franco-Nevada has committed a whopping $1 billion to support the development costs of Inmet's massive Cobre Panama copper project in exchange for a future precious metals stream.

Cecilia Jamasmie | August 20, 2012 | 3:53 pm

Oyu Tolgoi start-up, costs under threat from Mongolia–China stand-off

Rio Tinto would have to build its own power plant and delay commercial production if the two nations cannot come to a deal during long-running power negotiations.

Frik Els | August 17, 2012 | 4:04 pm

‘Tantamount to selective reporting’: analyst on Barkerville Gold’s 43-101

The Northern Miner called Garth Kirkham, chairman of the best practices committee at the Geological Society of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM), who was not sparing in his opinion of the 43-101 that Barkerville Gold released on Monday night.

Michael Allan McCrae | August 16, 2012 | 4:56 am