Dumas Contracting Ltd. and JCHX Mining Managment Co., Ltd., a leading Chiinese mining contractor, have signed a Strategic Alliance agreement that covers supporting Chinese clients with projects in Dumas' core markets of Canada and Latin America.

I am delighted to begin a new "Corporate Social Responsibility and Mining" column for Canadian Mining Journal. Over the coming months, you can expect this column to explore some key issues in the rapidly evolving CSR landscape.

Tough economic times are translating into fewer long-term travel assignments and more short-term business travel for Canada's mining and metals companies, but what the majority of these companies aren't considering is what happens when business...

Mongolia is about as far from Vancouver as any other place on the planet, but that didn't stop Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. from believing that "an excellent opportunity" lay beneath its vast Gobi Desert, more than 8,200 kilometers away.

The global iron ore phenomenon in the context of the commodity super-cycle currently being experienced is a result of the continuous growth of a very large emerging market - China.

Canada is ranked among the world leaders in applying process technologies to manage the impact of mining activities on the environment and local communities. In fact, Canadian water treatment innovations for metal recovery and environmental...

Canada is the latest geographical area that has become of interest to China for outbound mining investment.

Doing your "homework" is essential to doing business with China. At least that's what Selwyn Resources Ltd. of Vancouver says was the key to it signing a  $100 million deal with China's Yunnan Chihong Zinc & Germanium Co. Ltd., for…

Chinese investors are known for focussing on positive results, and that's exactly what they did when they bought Yukon Zinc in 2008 and, together with the existing team, turned the Greenfield base metal Wolverine project from advanced...

The year was 1639. To the average European, most of North America was terra incognita-lands unexplored and unknown-but French colonists living near present day Saint John, N.B. had already found coal deposits and sent the continent's first...

What a year of two different halves. The first half of 2011 was the busiest half year of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the mining sector's history, but the summer saw the flurried pace of activity virtually grind to a…

When the development team for Mosaic's K3 potash project near Esterhazy, Saskatchewan was in the early phases of project planning, it's possible that they took the mantra "Go big or go home" seriously.