Mining’s contribution to the recent U.S. presidential election was nicely captured in the interactions of the two leading candidates with coal miners in the Appalachians. In March 2016, Democratic Party…
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…
Rob McEwen, chairman and chief owner of McEwen Mining (TSX: MUX; NYSE: MUX), shared his thoughts with The Northern Miner about the election of Donald J. Trump as the forty-fifth…
The federal government’s latest initiative comes right out of the Liberal Party of Canada’s 2015 election platform: “We will establish the Canadian Infrastructure Bank to provide low-cost financing for new…
Productivity concerns, high costs and unmet landowner expectations are some of the problems foreign mining companies face in Chile — a country responsible for a third of the world’s copper…
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…
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…
When the average person thinks about Texas, a few words and phrases quickly come to mind: old-school, wealthy, isolationist, entrepreneurial and open-carry. Happily we can roll all these elements into…
We sat down in Vancouver with Fred Pletcher, chair of the National Mining Group at legal firm Borden Ladner Gervais, to discuss Canada’s new hostile takeover rules and a securities…
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…
It’s been a long road, with a few twists and turns, but Dundee Precious Metals (TSX: DPM) has finally received a construction permit to build an open-pit mine at its…
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…
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