Commentary
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The next phase of COVID-19 communications: It’s time to listen
As Canadian mining companies rushed to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak to protect their workers and operations, many dusted off their crisis communications plans and realized they hadn’t accounted for a possible pandemic. And yet mining leaders across the country…
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Commentary: What previous pandemics tell us about gold
In early January 2020, gold prices were steadily escalating on the heels of strong investor confidence fueled by some of the largest mining M&A transactions in recent history, including Newmont’s merger with Goldcorp (US$10 billion), and Kirkland Lake Gold’s acquisition…
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Palladium and an Ontario mining success story
Robert Mason of Norton Rose Fulbright details the turnaround story of the Lac des Iles mine and what it could mean for other platinum projects in Ontario
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BC mining policy in 2020: Times have officially changed
The impact of mining regulatory reform in B.C.
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The transformation of work and learning in mining
The benefits of combining traditional and new learning technologies
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Don’t give up on the diamond industry just yet
If diamond miner equities are a proxy, the sentiment surrounding the diamond industry is now at historically low levels. Just in the last two years, a basket of diamond producer stocks was down 28.9% in 2018, following a decline of…
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Editorial: Gold, copper declines start to bite
The dog days of summer are upon us in North America, and this year for the mining industry the biggest dogs are gold and copper — the two leading precious and base metals, which have seen precipitous price drops in…
