Two days after a federal election left Canada fractured along regional lines, and divided on many issues including whether to build energy pipelines, Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. chief executive Sean Boyd said he plans to begin advocating more forcefully for resource development.
“You’re going to hear a lot more from Agnico going forward,” said Boyd. “We’re going to make a stronger case on the benefits of resource development, whether it’s in speeches, whether it’s media we do or advertising campaigns we do.
The Mount Polley Dam Failure in 2014 — one of the worst environmental failures in Canadian history, which released millions of cubic litres of waste from a copper and gold mine in northern British Columbia into a lake — as well as a similar disaster in Brazil earlier this year have stained the mining sector’s reputation, he acknowledged.
This May, the company opened Meliadine, an underground and open pit gold mine located on the western shores of Hudson Bay, near Rankin Inlet, in Nunavut, which it characterizes as its largest gold deposit. Even as it adjusted its guidance on Thursday, revising its capital expenditures up from a predicted US$750 million to US$790 million, analysts such as Citi’s Alexander Hacking target the price to rise an additional 18 per cent and believe it should trade at 2.5 times its net asset value.
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