Episode 26: Fun with geology and camp shenanigans

Matt and Lesley round-up the week in commodities and talk about major BHP Billiton's (NYSE: BHP; LON: BLT) historically terrible financial year. Lesley digs into her recent in-depth geological piece on Canada's East Coast, while Matt drills down into a conversation he had with lawyer Fred Pletcher on new hostile takeover rules in Canada, and the mergers-and-acquisitions climate. Bonus: Lesley brings a list of "funnest games played in camp" from her friends around the industry! Timeline: Macro Commodity Round-Up: 1m07s BHP's "worst ever" year: 2m48s Lesley talks geology on Canada's East Coast: 6m28s Legal insights from Borden Ladner Gervais' Fred Pletcher: 11m58s Lesley talks fun games to pass the time in mining camps: 16m10s The Yukon Minute: 20m19s Stories referenced in this episode: Interview: BLG’s Pletcher talks Dolly Varden and Canada’s new hostile takeover rules: http://www.northernminer.com/news/interview-blgs-pletcher-talks-hostile-takeover-regulations-canada/1003776588/ BHP CEO discusses historically poor year, future plans: http://www.northernminer.com/news/bhp-ceo-discusses-historically-poor-year-future-plans/1003776523/ The geology underlying the quest for minerals on Canada’s East Coast: http://www.northernminer.com/news/geology-underlying-quest-minerals-canadas-east-coast/1003776452/ Atac eyes road access to Tiger gold deposit in the Yukon: http://www.northernminer.com/news/atac-eyes-road-access-tiger-gold-deposit-yukon/1003773987/ Music Credit: Slow Burn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/