It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost a full year since George Media launched The International Resource Journal. The May issue will be our anniversary edition, and we’re so excited about what’s going to be inside. We’ll take a look at the year in resource news, feature some very exclusive...

It’s been an oil-fuelled day for the British tabloids, as it emerges that Kyu-Sun Choi, head of the South Korean UI Energy Corporation, the firm which paid ex UK PM Tony Blair to do some consultancy work, was convicted of bribery in 2003. As is so often the case, the direct implications of this grand...

With all the craziness of PDAC last week, the IRJ team didn’t have a lot of sitting time to update our blog—but we’re back! And I have to say—things are looking up for the mining sector, there was definitely a positive buzz at the show. We’re still reeling from all the excitement… being...

With the way commodities performed last year around the world—who really wanted to attend a conference, or go to a mining show, in order to talk about making deals or forge new partnerships? Times have surely changed. Along with thousands of other eager attendees, I will be at the Prospectors and...

It’s fair to say that Argentina and the United Kingdom share a bit of back history when it comes to the Falkland Islands and renewed tensions over rightful sovereignty for these lands could have been easily enough predicted. The onslaught of appeal to international mediators is quite a spectacle. From...