Diamond deal or no deal
Mountain Province Diamonds, which has a joint venture project with De Beers in Canada’s Northwest Territories has said that it’s called off talks with parties it received unsolicited interest from.
View ArticleDigging for Deals
The merger and acquisition machine kicked into force again in Canada at the end of August, with two interesting deals being announced in as many business days.
View ArticleGrade in China
There’s been a cloud of anxiety building over certain Chinese companies listed on North American exchanges, with allegations that some of them are overstating their finances.
View ArticleUnder attack again
The American author Mark Twain once said “Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.” And China-focused Silvercorp’s...
View ArticleBig guns hone in on Saskatchewan’s potash
Canada is well known as a potash producer, being the biggest source globally of the crop nutrient with a market share of about 33%.
View ArticleBacking down...for now
As commodity prices soared over the past two years and government debts ballooned as a result of the last recession, it was perhaps inevitable that resource nationalism would increase too.
View ArticleMiner came out swinging
Silvercorp Metals, the Vancouver-based miner that produces from mines in China came out swinging against the short sellers that anonymously accused it of fraud. Armed with a forensic report from KPMG,...
View ArticleUranium uncertainties
Nine months after the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami pummelled Japan, killing thousands and causing the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, the uranium market has yet to recover.
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