In January, Islamic terrorists stormed a natural gas plant staffed by hundreds of Algerian workers and a number of foreign workers. The Algerian military intervened, bringing an end to the crisis, but in its aftermath workers from the U.S.,…
It’s the kind of incident long feared since the end of apartheid in South Africa: members of the South African Police Service opened fire on striking workers at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in North West province on Aug. 16,…
VANCOUVER — Police in South Africa opened fire on striking workers at Lonmin’s (LMI-L) Marikana platinum mine Thursday, killing 34 and injuring at least 78.
Vale (VALE-N) has approved a $2-billion plan to reduce by 70% the sulphur dioxide emissions from its smelter in Sudbury, Ont.
The month of January closed out with Vale having temporarily halted all underground mining at its five nickel mines in Sudbury, Ont., following the death of a miner at the Coleman mine on Jan. 29.
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…
Three contractor workers died and two security personnel were wounded at Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s (fcx-n) Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia’s Papua province on Oct. 14.
Two of the 33 Chilean miners have put on their fundraising hats to promote the upcoming National Folkloric Ballet of Chile (BAFONA) tour across Canada.
As we go to press, the worst mining disaster in the U.S. or Canada in more than two decades has just occurred at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch underground metallurgical coal mine in Montcoal, W. Va…
Paladin Energy (PDN-T, PDN-A) says worker unrest at its Kayelekera uranium project in Malawi hasn’t slowed construction and it expects commissioning by the end of April as scheduled.
— The following is an edited version of an editorial that appeared in the Oct. 21, 2008, edition of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. The footnotes have been removed, but are available in the…
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