On July 22, 2013, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled in Choc v. Hudbay Minerals Inc. that three separate lawsuits brought by indigenous Guatemalans against Canadian mining company Hudbay Minerals and other defendants, can go forward in…
Any chance that Strateco Resources (TSX: RSC; US-OTC: SRSIF) had in advancing its Matoush uranium project in northern Quebec’s Otish Mountains after the provincial government temporarily banned uranium development in late March has been…
Talks between First Nations and the Ontario government regarding development in the remote Ring of Fire area are set to start soon, now that both sides have appointed lead negotiators.
Your recent articles on the New Prosperity project contain some significant errors concerning aboriginal rights and title and their potential effect on the federal review panel process.
VANCOUVER — It took nearly two years, but Vancouver-based junior Rye Patch Gold (RPM-V) has finally reached a legal settlement with U.S.-based silver producer Coeur Mining (CDM-T, CDE-N) over ownership of 400 unpatented mining claims that…
VANCOUVER — Shareholders and a Supreme Court judge stymied an attempt by 17% shareholder Dundee (DC-T) to install new management and block an asset sale at Formation Metals (FCO-T), after a disagreement over how the cobalt-focused company…
One of the surprises of the year that in some ways isn’t such a big shocker is Cliffs Natural Resources’ announcement this past week that it is suspending work at its $3.3-billion Black Thor chromite project in northern…
Kinross Gold’s abandonment of the Fruta del Norte gold project in the face of an obstinate Ecuadorian government is a sad end to what could have been a wonderful, mutually beneficially relationship between Canadian miners and their…
Just how slow do the wheels of justice turn in Canada? It was only a week ago that there was a resolution of the class-action lawsuits stemming from the Bre-X Minerals gold fraud, which was exposed in March 1997, and vapourized $3 billion in…
Another chapter closed in the HD Mining International saga, with HD celebrating a win in the federal courts against two B.C. unions who had tried to thwart the junior developer’s efforts to import Chinese workers to take a bulk…
Tahoe Resources (THO-T, TAHO-N) is voluntarily hiking its net smelter return royalty to 5% from the state-mandated 1%, as escalating protests and violence involving its Escobal silver project culminated in Guatemalan authorities imposing a…
Luciano Branco’s long and soul-destroying battle with insurance firms AIG and Zurich has finally reached some satisfaction in the courts, with a Saskatoon judge awarding the injured Portuguese-Canadian welder $450,000 in aggravated…
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