Mountain Province, Kennady, find ray of sunshine in gloomy market
In a market that has brought juniors and miners of every commodity to their knees, Patrick Evans is president and CEO of not one, but two high-flying diamond juniors. “There…
Environment
Editorial: Prosperity’s temerity
I visited Taseko Mines’ Gibraltar mine north of Williams Lake, B.C., in 2008. The company bought the shuttered operation in 1998 and restarted it in 2004. Four expansions later, Gibraltar now employs 700 people, churns out 90 million lb….
Commentary: Canada helps developing countries with responsible resource extraction
Today, Canada’s private-sector investments account for almost half of global mining activities in developing countries, and represent about 12% of Canada’s foreign direct investment. As an extractives industry success story, Canada…
Commentary: After the aluminum rush – restoring the Amazon rainforest
Can the degraded land of the Amazon rainforest be salvaged by large scale landscape restoration? Is it really possible to rebuild ecological integrity and enhance the lives of local communities in a sustainable way?
Commentary: Seabed mining still lacks ground rules
As the natural resources available on land become less and our need for them grows, exploration activities move offshore.
Double Trouble for Taseko
VANCOUVER — So far, the holiday season has not been very merry for Taseko Mines (TKO-T, TGB-X), which is facing a potential strike at its operating mine and a new setback in the seemingly endless effort to permit its new mine.
Queensland lifts ban on uranium mining
It has taken 23 years, but the state government of Queensland has finally overturned a ban on uranium mining. The prohibition on uranium processing and waste storage, however, remains in place.
Commentary: Let’s not rush into carbon sequestration
Removing atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels is becoming a popular issue among environmentalists and government environmental agencies. But the issue needs more study of possible side effects.Anthropogenic global warming…
Commentary: Let’s not rush into carbon sequestration
Removing atmospheric carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels is becoming a popular issue among environmentalists and government environmental agencies. But the issue needs more study of possible side effects.
Commentary: Time for Canadian miners to import U.S. outreach tactics
There has been a significant paradigm shift in public activism in Canada and a growing hostility toward mining and dogmatic opposition by environmentalists and social action groups toward virtually all mining and energy projects. This new…
Feds propose sweeping changes to environmental review process
The Canadian government has outlined broad changes to the federal environmental assessment process as part of a wide-ranging omnibus budget bill.
Vale to spend $2B to cut sulphur dioxide emissions in Sudbury
Vale (VALE-N) has approved a $2-billion plan to reduce by 70% the sulphur dioxide emissions from its smelter in Sudbury, Ont.