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CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: MAC leads sustainability push
The rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been spectacular. The mining industry has embraced it, none m…
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SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Suncor, Fort McKay launch business incubator
ALBERTA – Calgary’s Suncor Energy and the Fort McKay First Nation have launched the Fort McKay Business Incubator (…
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ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVAL: La Ronge gold project gets nod
SASKATCHEWAN – Golden Band Resources of Saskatoon has received environmental approval from the province’s Ministry …
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SUSTAINABILITY: Raglan mine supports caribou research
QUEBEC – The Raglan nickel-copper mine belonging to Toronto’s Xstrata Nickel has pledged $350,000 over the next fiv…
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CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: Celebration set for historic Toburn gold mine
The first gold mine in Kirkland Lake, ON, is reopening this summer, not as a producer but as a monument to the earl…
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CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: Federal court strikes down pollution reporting exemption for miners
Late in April 2009, the Federal Court of Canada released a decision that will force mineral producers to report lev…
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CYANIDE MANAGEMENT: Petaquilla signs accord
WASHINGTON, DC – Petaquilla Minerals of Vancouver has become the latest company to sign the International Cyanide M…
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAM: Syncrude beefs up protection of waterfowl
ALBERTA – Following the drowning of 1,600 birds in the Aurora settling basin last year, Syncrude has made changes t…
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HOT TOPIC: What is the cost of CSR?
Done right, corporate social responsibility will produce a win-win outcome, but it doesn’t come cheap. The most com…
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CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: Feds create CSR office
The Canadian government is catching up to what we in the mineral industry have known for more than a decade: corpor…
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ENVIRONMENTAL APPROVAL: Province okays Mt. Milligan
BRITISH COLUMBIA – Vancouver-based Terrane Metals has received provincial environmental approval for its Mt. Millig…
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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: Province wants more information from Labrador iron project
LABRADOR – Labrador Iron Mines Holdings of Toronto has received word from the Department of Environment and Conserv…
