Why mine closure matters and why it gets ignored
If you want to clear a room of miners, there are few better ways than to raise the topic of mine closure. At least, that’s sort of what happened at…
Regulatory Issues
Letter to the editor: A better suggestion for parkland in northern Manitoba
The Manitoba Saskatchewan Prospectors and Developers Association (MSPDA) takes the strong view that while it agrees with Stephen Fletcher’s view that a creating a new national park on Manitoba’s Nickel…
First Quantum options Northern Dynasty’s Pebble
VANCOUVER — First Quantum Minerals (TSX: FM; US-OTC: FQVLF) is the latest large mining company to place a bet on Northern Dynasty Minerals’ (TSX: NDM; NYSE-AM: NAK) controversial, wholly owned Pebble…
MLA Steven Fletcher: Don’t create national park on Thompson Nickel Belt extension
The following is an edited transcript of Steven Fletcher — Independent Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Assiniboia and a Conservative Member of the Canadian Parliament from 2004–15…
Feds, Yukon gov’t team to fund improved roads to mines
The Yukon mining community got some good news on Sept. 2 with the announcement by the federal and Yukon governments that they would jointly fund a $360-million program dubbed the…
Commentary: One theory on the root of Acacia’s troubles in Tanzania
Long-simmering resource nationalism in Tanzania heated up this March with a sudden export ban on ore concentrates by Tanzanian President John Magufuli, who said that “based on the information that…
Editorial: Barrick’s Acacia, Tanzanian gov’t stay on collision course
The months-long showdown between Barrick Gold’s 63.9%-owned subsidiary Acacia Mining and the Tanzanian government heated up in the last days of July, with Acacia reporting that one of its senior…
The Northern Miner podcast – episode 68: The politics of BC mining ft. MABC’s Bryan Cox
In this episode, we talk B.C. politics and the provincial mining industry with Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) president and CEO Bryan Cox. Matt sits down to chat with…
Editorial: BC falls to NDP-Green coalition
British Columbia is famous in Canada for politics that are seemingly forever polarized between a freewheeling pro-business crowd and a coalition of left-leaning labour and environmental groups. And B.C. politics…
Barrick, Acacia at odds with gov’t in Tanzania
VANCOUVER — Barrick Gold’s (TSX: ABX; NYSE: ABX) senior management is preparing for negotiations over an evolving sociopolitical situation in Tanzania that could lower its gold production from the country. The…
Northern Dynasty, EPA settle dispute over Pebble
VANCOUVER — Northern Dynasty Minerals (TSX: NDM; NYSE-MKT: NAK) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have ended their longstanding dispute over the federal agency’s decision to block development of…
Editorial: Christy Clark targets US thermal coal in defense of BC lumber
Forget about blood diamonds, uranium and coltan, the most politically charged mined commodity these days in North America is coal, which has emerged as a political football in the B.C….