Regulatory Issues

A look at compensation for mining execs, boards

The following is a summary of the Mining Industry 2012 Executive and Board Remuneration report, conducted Bedford Consulting Group and Global Governance Advisors. The report covers remuneration practices among more than 230 mining organizations…



The town hall in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., 175 km northeast of Prince George.

HD Mining bulk samples controversy in BC

HD Mining wants to develop an underground coal mine in northern B.C. The resource on its property is as good as it gets in the coal world — high-quality metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel — and there’s enough of…



A Colombian soldier shows examples of land mines and trip wires left behind by FARC guerillas at the Angostura gold project in northeast Colombia, shortly after the army had retaken the deposit and surrounding territory in 2003. Materials such as plastic and wood are used to thwart de-mining crews' metal detectors. Photo by John Cumming

Colombian rebels like gold

Income from gold mining has overtaken drug trafficking in some provinces for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), according to a new report from political risk firm Exclusive Analysis.


Colombian rebels like gold

Income from gold mining has overtaken drug trafficking in some provinces for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, according to a new report from political risk firm Exclusive Analysis.




Supporters of Astur Gold's Salave gold project at a November demonstration in the village of Tapia de Casariego in northwest Spain. The event was organized by a group called Trabajo Ya, Mina S (Yes to Work, Yes to the Mine). Source: Astur Gold

Astur gets positive EIS in Spain

Shares of Astur Gold (AST-V) jumped 50% to $1.08 on news that the Asturian government had issued a positive environmental impact statement (EIS) on its 100%-owned Salave gold project in Spain, which the junior describes as one of the largest…


Drillers at Tower Resources' JD gold-silver property, 300 km north of Smithers, British Columbia. Source: Tower Resources

BC mining sits under cloud of 2013 election

Denial and defiance came first. It seemed inconceivable for miners that a New Democratic Party government could take the reins following a B.C. election in May 2013. But as political tides swell in favour of NDP leader Adrian Dix — and a…


Canada's International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino.

UBC, SFU win $25M federal mining grant

Vancouver’s two biggest universities have been selected to spearhead the establishment of a “Canadian International Institute for Extractive Industries and Development”. The University of British Columbia (UBC) and Simon…


Editorial: DRC on the edge

As we go to press, rebel fighters from the M23 group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have pushed past Goma, the capital of North Kivu province, to the town of Sake, 20 km west, and claim they plan to march to Kinshasa, the…


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