Pressure grows on Samarco, one year after tailings disaster
Legal and financial pressures are mounting on Samarco, one year after a tailings dam failure sent 60 million cubic metres of mine waste and sludge into Brazil’s Rio Doce river…
Environment
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 36: Koneline filmmaker Nettie Wild – full interview
This week we have staff writer Lesley Stokes’ full 25-minute conversation with filmmaker Nettie Wild about her award-winning “cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” KONELĪNE: our land beautiful. The Northern…
Miner Moments #5: Filmmaker Nettie Wild discusses KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
Staff writer Lesley Stokes sits down with filmmaker Nettie Wild for a chat about her award-winning “cinematic celebration of northwestern British Columbia,” KONELĪNE: our land beautiful. The Northern Miner is…
Win free tickets to the Vancouver showing of KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful
The Northern Miner is proud to be Co-Presenter of the Vancouver commercial premiere of the feature-length documentary, KONELĪNE: Our land beautiful, which won the “Best Canadian Feature Documentary” award at…
TNM Panel: Argentina a ‘playground for geologists’
Industry experts weighed in on Argentina’s Deseado Massif region, Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) recent spill at the Veladero gold mine, and the country’s nuclear capabilities during a panel…
OceanaGold, B2Gold scramble as Philippines gov’t may suspend 20 more mines
VANCOUVER — The sociopolitical situation in the Philippines is volatile for miners in the wake of a national mining audit by President Rodrigo Duterte’s newly elected administration. On Sept. 27, Environment…
Ross Beaty and Thomas Kaplan discuss Argentina, Macri
BEAVER CREEK, COLORADO — Founder and chairman of Pan American Silver (TSX: PAA; NASDAQ: PAAS) Ross Beaty recently met with Mauricio Macri, the president of Argentina, and discussed the prospects of the…
Editorial: Faulty design behind Samarco tailings disaster
A review panel tasked with determining the cause of the Samarco tailings disaster in Minas Gerais, Brazil, 10 months ago has released its report on the immediate causes of the…
Feds to review environmental permitting across Canada
Canada’s federal government has officially launched a major review of environmental permitting for resource projects, stating it wants to “restore confidence” in the country’s environmental and regulatory processes. The new…
Editorial: A fresh look at mining’s CSR success stories
Admittedly, our eyes tend to glaze over at the thought of reading a 74-page report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in mining, but a newly released one by the Columbia…
Oroplata picks up lithium brine project in Western Nevada Basin
Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting dresses like Steve Jobs and thinks like Elon Musk. The Beijing-based entrepreneur, who made his money initially in online video streaming and wireless telecoms, is confident…
Editorial: Miners sign on to Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition
The whole field of carbon taxes, cap-and-trade of carbon emissions, and other government initiatives to limit and tax industrial carbon emissions around the world is a complex and dispiriting grab…