Commentary: Unlocking the wealth of northern Ontario
Discovery of the massive “Ring of Fire,” a chromite-rich mineral deposit in a remote area of northern Ontario, is the first and perhaps easiest step in realizing the site’s potential.
Environment
Commentary: Traversing the Far North’s legal landscape
Mining companies investing for the first time in Canada’s Far North may find the experience unlike any other. This holds true not only for foreign corporations, but also for companies familiar with mining in Southern Canada.
Commentary: Eight reasons why Taseko’s New Prosperity will fail
Investors hoping to cash in on Taseko Mines’ second bid to develop the the New Prosperity copper-gold mine should think back a year. At that time, despite assurances from the company and its president that the original Prosperity mine proposal…
Letter to the editor: New Prosperity plan is environmentally sound: Taseko CEO
I read the editorial submission of Chief Marilyn Baptiste, of the Xeni Gwet’in band of the Tsilhqot’in National Government (TNG), on The Northern Miner’s website on Nov. 2. It purported to list eight reasons why Taseko Mines’s resubmitted…
Boss Power wins $30M settlement from BC Government
Vancouver – Boss Power (BPU-V) has made $30-million from a uranium prospect without drilling a single hole.
Enbridge touts pipeline demand as review continues
Vancouver – Building a nearly 1,200-km-long pipeline is inevitably challenging, but putting one through two provinces, the territory of dozens of first nations and long tracks of wilderness, only to emerge in a highly contentious port location…
Editorial: Bloomberg funds anti-coal bandwagon
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raised the ire of America’s coal miners and coal-dependent utilities in late July, with his US$50-million donation to the Sierra Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign.
New Horizons: Oilsands mine closure inspired by Mother Nature
Mine closure plans in Alberta’s oilsands are being made with a new advisor in mind: Mother Nature.
New Horizons: Oilsands mine closure inspired by Mother Nature
Mine closure plans in Alberta’s oilsands are being made with a new advisor in mind: Mother Nature.
Northwest Transmission Line gets environmental approvals
Vancouver – Mining projects in British Columbia’s northwest are another step closer to tapping into the provincial grid after the federal government gave the environmental go-ahead for the Northwest Transmission Line.
Commentary: Five perspectives on oilsands closure
Much of the discussion these days around oilsands extraction in Alberta has focused on what the area can and should look like after closure.
Commentary: Another view of doing business in the Congo
For the past six and a half years, our company, Banro (BAA-T, BAA-X), has been engaged in intensive mineral exploration in what many consider to be one of the less fashionable addresses on Earth: the Democratic Republic of the Congo…