Canada rejected Shandong Gold Mining's bid for indebted TMAC Resources (TMR.TO), the companies said, amid concerns about a Chinese state-owned entity operating in the country's sensitive Arctic region ...

The plunging price of oil over the past nine months has forced many if not most energy companies to cut back drastically on spending, especially on projects in Arctic waters, where exploration and ...

Canada’s Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd. has struggled to mine gold in the world’s Arctic region, in the north of Canada, Alaska, Russia and Scandinavia, the Wall Street Journal reports. But the mine has seen ...

Scott Borgerson has bad news for people who like bad news. While it looked as though Arctic warming might spark intense geopolitical conflict as recently as five years ago, countries in the region ...

A former commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan is urging the federal government to reject a takeover of an Arctic gold mine by a Chinese state-owned enterprise. Retired major-general David ...

In August 1896, a small group of prospectors made a remarkable discovery in the Canadian Arctic. Sparkling on the bottom of Bonanza Creek, just outside the then-tiny hamlet of Dawson City, lay a ...

Agnico Eagle Mines said on Wednesday it would invest more than $1.2 billion in building a gold mine in Canada's Arctic and expanding another, making it one of the few gold companies to be constructing ...

A struggling gold mine in Canada’s high Arctic is at the centre of debate on whether China should be allowed to buy it. The Chinese state-owned giant, Shandong Gold Mining had submitted a purchase ...

Around a third of the world's yet-to-be discovered gas resources and 13% of its undiscovered oil reserves may lie north of the Arctic Circle, a detailed geological survey has concluded. The research, ...

Tens of thousands descended on the area and grabbed all they could. When the resources tapped out, they moved on in search of their next big fortune, leaving behind a place that looked far different ...

In August 1896, a small group of prospectors made a remarkable discovery in the Canadian Arctic. Sparkling on the bottom of Bonanza Creek, just outside the then-tiny hamlet of Dawson City, lay a ...