Update: Mongolia convicts SouthGobi trio of tax evasion
Three former employees of SouthGobi Resources (TSX: SGQ) including a U.S. citizen are slated to spend the next five years behind bars after a Mongolian court found them guilty of tax evasion.
Court Cases
Editorial: Mount Polley’s feet of clay
The eagerly anticipated final report by the Mount Polley Independent Expert Engineering and Review Panel on the cause of the Aug. 4, 2014, failure of the tailings dam at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley copper-gold mine in B.C. was delivered…
Commentary: The Peel watershed decision’s broader implications
This past December, the Yukon Supreme Court handed down an important aboriginal law ruling that has implications for future mining operations in the Yukon. In The First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun v. Yukon (Government of), 2014 YKSC 69, Yukon…
Rio Tinto’s legal battle with Quebec Innu intensifies
VANCOUVER — Mega-miner Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LSE: RIO) is staring down the barrel of a potentially costly legal battle with a pair of First Nation groups whose traditional Nitassinan territory covers a large part of northeastern Quebec…
TSX Venture on the decline, Jan. 5-9
The S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index lost ground during the trading sessions, as it dropped 2.8%, or 19.6 points, en route to a 687.21-point weekly close. On the economic front, the U.S. Federal Reserve stated it expects the drop in oil…
Commentary: It’s time to embrace Indigenous land stewardship
Plunging oil prices have cast a gloom over the Canadian economy and added uncertainty to pipeline battles and how to best work with Canada’s indigenous peoples on resource extraction projects of all kinds.
Editorial: Yukon government’s knuckles rapped by courts
The year 2014 closed out with yet another court decision regarding land use in a remote stretch of Canada, this time in northeastern Yukon’s vast Peel watershed.
Editorial: Friendly Manitoba, slow Manitoba
One of the hottest topics on the sidelines of the recent Manitoba Mining and Minerals Convention in Winnipeg was the provincial lawsuit launched by two prospectors against the Manitoba government for allegedly failing in its “duty to consult”…
Commentary: After Tsilhqot’in – Aboriginal issues for project proponents north of 60
Ever since the Tsilhqot’in decision was handed down by the Supreme Court of Canada in June, lawyers, journalists, economists and project proponents alike have been assessing the ruling’s impact on the development of natural resource…
Editorial: Some satisfaction for Gold Reserve and Kinross
“Never, never, never give up.” More often than not in mining, this proves to be great advice.
Chilean court suspends El Morro project, again
Goldcorp (TSX: G; NYSE: GG) and New Gold (TSX: NGD; NYSE-MKT: NGD) are having an unlucky streak at their El Morro gold-copper project in northern Chile, where local officials have temporarily suspended development for the third time in three…
Taseko to buy Curis
B.C. copper miner Taseko Mines (TSX: TKO; NYSE-MKT: TGB) has tabled a friendly, all-share bid for Vancouver-based junior copper developer Curis Resources (TSX: CUV; US-OTC: PCCRF) and its wholly owned Florence in situ copper project beside the…