Strategist, lawyer and author Bill Gallagher is an expert on Canada’s Indigenous People and their land rights, and how they relate to resource development in the country. Based in Waterloo,…
Acquiring unpatented mining claims on federal “public lands” in the United States is considerably different than acquiring tenures under the mining law in Canada or elsewhere in the world where…
Potential liabilities from the collapse of a tailings dam at Vale’s Feijao iron ore mine in Brazil that has left at least 99 people dead and another 250 people missing…
Here we go again. With memories still fresh of Vale and BHP’s deadly Samarco iron ore tailings disaster in Mariana, Brazil in November 2015 — which killed 19 people —…
Late last month the Tax Court of Canada ruled in favour of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) in the company’s decade-long dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency over tax reassessments for…
The Tax Court of Canada has ruled in favour of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) in the company’s decade-long dispute with the Canada Revenue Agency over tax reassessments for the…
On Dec. 20, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order under the year-old Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and related acts to block the property of 13 “malign…
First Nations have just won an important lawsuit at the Supreme Court of Canada on account that the Yukon government had tried to do an end-run on their land claim…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO; LON: RIO) and two of its former executives with fraud for inflating the value of coal assets…
A helicopter carrying supplies to Tahoe Resources’ (TSX: THO; NYSE: TAHO) silver mine in Guatemala was attacked by small-arms fire from the ground, and the pilot had to make an…
Long-simmering resource nationalism in Tanzania heated up this March with a sudden export ban on ore concentrates by Tanzanian President John Magufuli, who said that “based on the information that…
The months-long showdown between Barrick Gold’s 63.9%-owned subsidiary Acacia Mining and the Tanzanian government heated up in the last days of July, with Acacia reporting that one of its senior…
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