Aboriginal Issues
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GOLD: Agreement with Long Lake #58 First Nation for Greenstone project
ONTARIO – Premier Gold Mines of Thunder Bay, Ont., and 50% partner Centerra Gold of Toronto have signed an agreement with the Long Lake #58 First Nation covering the development and operation of the Greenstone gold mine 275 km northeast…
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PARTNERSHIP: Cementation, Missanabie Cree ink deal
ONTARIO – Cementation Canada and the Missanabie Cree First Nation have signed an agreement to create Missanabie Cementation Inc. The deal was announced in Timmins during the recent Mining Expo. Missanabie Cementation will be majority owned by the First Nation.…
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GOLD: Goldcorp signs Borden IBA with three First Nations
ONTARIO – Vancouver-based Goldcorp has reached a milestone for its Borden all-electric underground gold mine near Chapleau with the signing of an impact benefit agreement with three First Nations – Brunswick House, Chapleau Cree and Chapleau Ojibwe. Goldcorp now has…
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GOLD: Golden Predator and Yukon Mint unveil first coin
TORONTO – Golden Predator Mining of Vancouver and its wholly owned subsidiary Yukon Mint have unveiled their first .9999 gold coin at a company event in this city on May 30, 2018. The 2018 Kaska ‘Keda’ (Dene for ‘Moose’) gold…
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Federal government needs to honour its obligations to First Nations
On May 3 and 4, chiefs, leadership, and Indigenous organizations met with federal officials at a joint gathering in Toronto to discuss five key areas: a new fiscal relationship; reliable infrastructure; improved health outcomes; quality education; and, most importantly, bringing…
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ROYALTIES: Queen’s Park to share mining, forestry revenue with Indigenous communities
TORONTO – Calling the agreements the first of their kind, the Ontario government has come through with its long-awaited plan for sharing mining and forestry revenues with First Nations. Queen’s Park announced on May 3 that it had signed agreements…
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GOLD: Goldcorp reaches agreement with local community for Coffee work
YUKON – Vancouver-based Goldcorp and the local Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in (TH) community have reached an agreement that represents a critical milestone in ongoing work at the Coffee gold property 130 km south of Dawson City. A signing ceremony took place on…
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Juniors find themselves at the forefront of CSR
Establishing positive community relations has never been more important. Are juniors up to the task?
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Reconciliation means federal government must follow through on spending promises
Chief of the Ontario First Nations’ reaction to the recent federal budget.
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Q&A with Ontario’s Mines Minister Michael Gravelle
Minister talks Ring of Fire and Mining Act
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True reconciliation requires a fair share of resources
How true reconciliation between Indigenous people and the resource industry will be achieved.
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SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: Building Indigenous relationships
TORONTO – Anyone wishing to build meaningful relationships with Indigenous peoples for the advancement of mineral projects should read the new paper by lead author Hon. Frank Iacobucci, former justice of the Supreme Court of Canada and senior counsel at…
