Mining organizations intervene as CBD sues BLM
Several mining organizations have banded together to fight a lawsuit that threatens to hinder future development in the California Desert Conservation Area, where mining already takes place.The Centre…
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Citizen involvement key to Ridgeway mine closure
Mining is an important economic engine in Canada, and that means that citizens living near mining camps are usually aware of a mine’s life cycle from exploration through closure. This is less true in …
Ontario invests millions to rehabilitate former mine sites
The Ontario government will spend $5 million this year to rehabilitate former mine sites and restore some of their productive use. The initiative is part a 4-year, $27-million program launched by the …
Partners to drill Clearwater
Partners Eastmain Resources (ER-T) and Soquem, which is owned by the Quebec government, intend to begin drilling this week on their jointly held Clearwater gold property in northwestern Quebec.A progr…
Approvals in place for Nugget gold project
Local authorities have approved an application by Toronto-based gold explorer Nugget Resources (NUG-V) to start underground work at its Hill End property in central New South Wales.Australia’s federal…
Biological water treatment a success
Homestake Canada, a unit of Homestake Mining (HM-N), has developed a unique, 3-stage process to treat tailings water. The process has been used successfully at the company’s Nickel Plate gold mine, a …
Eldorado transplants environmental know-how to Mexico, Brazil and Turkey
Through careful reclamation procedures at its two open-pit heap-leach gold mines in Mexico, Eldorado has continued to demonstrate high environmental standards.In October 1998, the Vancouver-based comp…
Cheviot coal mine still in ‘limbo of procedural hearings’
The proposed Cheviot coal mine, near Hinton, Alta., is still on hold pending the findings of a panel report from a second set of environment-related hearings held this past spring. The report is expec…
New mine propels Antofagasta
Higher copper prices and the commissioning of the Los Pelambres mine in Chile have transformed London-based Antofagasta (ANFGF-O) into a low-cost producer.Los Pelambres, which entered production late …
BC policies hurt investment
Over the past 25 years, Teck has developed, or participated in developing, more than a dozen mines in Canada, including five in British Columbia. However, the company’s next four mining operations und…
Billiton joins Copper Ridge at Howard’s Pass
On the heels of its friendly takeover offer for Rio Algom (ROM-T), London-based Billiton has signed a letter of intent with Copper Ridge Explorations (KRX-V) to participate in the evaluation an…
Cominco earns rep as stalwart
Environmental stewardship and mining are often portrayed as being mutually exclusive, though Cominco (CLT-) is demonstrating that nothing could be farther from the truth.Since 1995, the Canadian miner…