BHP confident in reaching Mariana disaster settlement
Last week, Vale and BHP presented Brazilian authorities with a new offer to settle reparations.
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Adventus, Salazar granted key permit for Ecuador copper-gold mine
Adventus Mining (TSXV: ADZN) and Salazar Resources (TSXV: SRL) have scored a win in Ecuador after the country’s environment ministry granted the partners a water use permit for their Curipamba-El…
Vale, BHP ups reparations offer for Mariana disaster by US$2.4B
Vale said the new proposal totals $26.09 billion.
World Bank tribunal rules against Canada’s Montauk in dispute with Colombia
A World Bank tribunal has ruled in favour of Colombia in a feud with Canada’s Montauk Metals (TSXV: MTK). A mining ban imposed by the Gustavo Petro administration on the…
Slave-labour ruling lands Vale on ‘dirty list’
Vale said that its inclusion in the list is incorrect and that it will take the necessary steps for its immediate removal.
Democrats seek probe into foreign mining on public land
Democrats in the United States House of Representatives want to know how much the government knows about about foreign investment in mining on federally managed lands. Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), the…
Northvolt faces bomb scare at Quebec battery plant site
Northvolt, a private Swedish electric vehicle battery maker backed by Volkswagen, BMW and Volvo, said it found potential fire bombs under heavy machinery at a plant site under construction near…
Ottawa’s revised environmental rules won’t reduce permitting stage, lawyers say
The federal government’s proposed changes to environmental rules for resource projects could limit Ottawa’s oversight, but probably won’t shorten approval times, according to a law firm’s analysis. The proposed amendments…
Ecuador court issues setback for US$3B copper project
Licence has not been revoked, which means there’s still a chance for the Llurimagua project to become Ecuador’s next big copper mine.
AngloGold Ashanti project in Colombia hit by court-backed mining ban
AngloGold Ashanti’s (NYSE: AU) stalled La Colosa gold project in Colombia faces another setback after a local court upheld a mining ban. The 10th Administrative Court of Ibagué, the capital…
Orla Mining threatens arbitration in Panama
Canada’s Orla Mining (TSX: OLA; NYSE: ORLA) may take Panama to an arbitration court following the government’s rejection of a permit extension for the three mining concessions in the Cerro…
Glencore tussles with farmers in Australian court over carbon storage plan
Australian farmers are taking mining giant Glencore (LSE: GLEN) to federal court to block a carbon capture and storage plan they say will pollute an underground water reservoir a fifth…