Private equity firms lost interest in the mining world last year, pumping 75% less money into the sector as they focused more on funding existing investments.
Investments dropped to $500-million from $2-billion a year earlier, according to a report by…
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Canadian resource companies are choosing to invest abroad at record levels, amid waning global interest in the nation’s energy and mining assets.
Statistics Canada reported Thursday that Canadian-based energy and mining companies invested a net C$15.5…
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Once the dominant global mining nation in mineral production, mining finance, mining services and supplies, Canada is falling behind other countries as its competitiveness continues to erode, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) has warned.
In its l…
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Marijuana companies have mesmerized retail investors, depriving the mining sector of the risk capital that’s typically been its “lifeblood". But two mega-deals and a dramatic hostile battle in the gold space may finally give moribund mining stocks …
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The Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) has launched a defense of foreign investment into the Australian resources sector, saying it has been critical to Australia’s unparalleled 27 years of continuous economic growth.
The organisation says that there…
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