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.
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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.
Commentary: The United States of Withdrawal
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!
New law clears cyanide use in Rio Negro, Argentina
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.
Scotgold’s Cononish ages nicely in the barrel
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.
Letter to the editor: Canada’s CSR review process misrepresented
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…
Commentary: Canada’s new CSR Counsellor not feeling the love
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,…
Commentary: Unlocking the wealth of northern Ontario
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.
Commentary: Traversing the Far North’s legal landscape
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.
Commentary: Eight reasons why Taseko’s New Prosperity will fail
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…
Letter to the editor: New Prosperity plan is environmentally sound: Taseko CEO
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…
Boss Power wins $30M settlement from BC Government
Vancouver – Boss Power (BPU-V) has made $30-million from a uranium prospect without drilling a single hole.