Canada is the home of even more mining companies than London, though more mining finance is raised in London than on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Efforts to rein in Canadian companies overseas have made progress – but the latest attempt to pass legislation in...
The “mission” to cost environmental destruction, and include the loss of natural resources in government and business balance sheets, has reached a new stage. The final report of “The Economics of Ecoystems and Biodiversity” (TEEB) exercise,...
Russian companies and Russian entrepreneurs continue to increase their presence among mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. Now Severstal, the largest steelmaker in Russia, has made a bid approach for its first uranium asset in Spain, seeking to...
African Minerals said a planned $1,5-billion investment in its flagship iron-ore project in Sierra Leone had suffered a further delay with China’s Shandong Iron & Steel needing extra time to complete due diligence. See...
LSE-listed African Barrick Gold sees west Africa, as well as in the Nubian Shield in the north-east, as particularly prospective regions, CEO Greg Hawkins said in Toronto on Friday. The company has said it is looking across Africa at opportunities. See...
Mining and metals companies’ exposure to fraud and corruption is now higher as a result of cost cutting and expansion into new territories, says a new Ernst & Young report. An Ernst & Young report made public Tuesday asserts, “The global financial crisis...
