Benjamin Franklin wrote that, in this life, nothing is certain but death and taxes. Well, if you are in the business of developing mineral or energy projects in America, there is one more certainty to add to the list: lawsuits!
The passage of a law that allows the use of chemicals including sodium cyanide in mineral processing lifts the prospects of advancing Pan American Silver’s (PAA-T, PAS-Q) Calcatreu gold project in Argentina’s Rio Negro province.
Tyndrum, a tiny village of around 160 people in Scotland’s Grampian Highlands, sits at the northern edge of the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park on the side of a highway.
The article about this office (“Canada’s new CSR Counsellor not feeling the love,” T.N.M., Nov. 28-Dec.4/11) misrepresents our review process in many material aspects. I can only imagine that Excellon Resources’ CEO was misinterpreted in his…
If Marketa Evans thought the mining industry would be her biggest critic, imagine the counsellor’s dismay at her efforts being called “toothless,” a “bogus public relations job” and a “cover for business as usual” by the very type of activists,…
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.
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.
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…
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…
Vancouver – Boss Power (BPU-V) has made $30-million from a uranium prospect without drilling a single hole.
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…
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.
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