Miners’ number one risk: governments taking over mines

While miners still struggle to find staff and gain access to infrastructure, the number one worry keeping up miners is seeing their project or mine nationalized, according to an Ernst & Young study.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 9, 2012 | 11:20 pm

China still growing says Alcoa

Despite concerns that China may be slowing—or worse—aluminum giant Alcoa still sees robust demand in China for its products and pegs growth at 11% this year.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 9, 2012 | 10:11 pm

Libor scandal grows, German regulator investigating Deutsche Bank

Reuters said that BaFin, a German regulator, is probing possible manipulation of Libor by Deutsche Bank. BaFin refused to confirm if the […]

Michael Allan McCrae | July 6, 2012 | 10:16 pm

Another clue China’s economy is going soft: Vancouver home sales hit a 10-year low

The National Post reports that June home sales hit a 10-year low.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 6, 2012 | 6:00 pm

What happened to the plane filled with 16,600 pounds of Barrick’s gold condensate?

The Globe and Mail looks at the mystery of a plane chartered by Barrick Gold that crashed into the Iskut River in 1996. The pilot perished and 16,600 pounds of gold condensate was lost. Condensate is not gold bars but still valuable. Barrick Gold has refused to speculate on the approximate value of the plane's cargo.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 11:51 pm

World’s biggest potash producer increases output in Q2

Urakali said potassium chloride production was 2.9 million tonnes in Q2, besting the 2011 quarter by 300,000 tonnes.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 9:05 pm

Booya! Jim Cramer gets on the gold bandwagon

Frenetic CNBC stock picker, Jim Cramer, told viewers he believes in gold, not currency.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 8:24 pm

Name this American president who made his fortune as a gold miner in Australia

Hard to believe, but an American president's road to the White House actually began in Perth, Australia, working as a young and saavy mining engineer.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 11:39 am

Fukushima disaster stemmed from ‘a multitude of errors and willful negligence’: parliamentary inquiry

A parliamentary inquiry released an unfliching report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, calling the disaster manmade, wholly forseeable and even laying blame at the feet of Japanese culture itself.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 11:28 am

Chalco gets 30-day extension to find $920 million for SouthGobi Resources

Aluminum Corporation of China Limited and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. agreed that the Chinese aluminum firm will get 30 days to buy Ivanhoe's stake in SouthGobi Resources.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 5:33 am

Two regulatory bodies say TSX acquisition good to go

The Maple Group's $3.8 billion deal to acquire the TMX Group (TSX:X), which runs the TSX, cleared a major hurdle today when the acquisition was signed off by Canada's Competition Bureau and the Ontario Securities Commission.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 5, 2012 | 4:45 am

Barrick Gold suffers legal reversal in Argentina

The Canadian Press is reporting that Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) was handed a setback by Argentina's supreme court, which brought back some glacier protection laws that the mining giant had until now sidestepped.

Michael Allan McCrae | July 4, 2012 | 6:02 am

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