Sustainability
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POWER: BC Hydro to buy Teck’s share of Waneta Dam
BRITISH COLUMBIA – BC Hydro has exercised its right of first offer to buy out Teck Resources’ two-thirds interest in the Waneta hydroelectric dam in Trail. Hydro has agreed to pay $1.2 billion, matching an earlier offer from Fortis Inc.…
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Corporate Human Rights Benchmark a useful indicator for miners and stakeholders
How extractive companies measure up under the Corporate Human Rights Benchmark.
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GOLD: Detour Gold becomes signatory to Cyanide Code
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Toronto-based Detour Gold Corp. has become a signatory to the International Cyanide Management Code for the manufacture, transport and use of cyanide in the production of gold, announced the International Cyanide Management Institute on July 25, 2017.…
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CSR: Engineers Without Borders Canada launches local procurement reporting mechanism
TORONTO – Purchasing of goods and services in mining host countries represents the single largest potential economic impact for most mines, according to Engineers Without Borders Canada, and toward that gold it – along with the German international development agency GIZ – …
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Gold: Key authorization issued for KSM’s tailings facility
Seabridge Gold announced today that the federal government has issued a regulatory amendment to Schedule 2 of the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) under the Fisheries Act for Seabridge’s KSM Project located in northwestern British Columbia. The amendment authorizes certain…
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Lithium: Northern Ontario Heritage Fund invests in Avalon
Ontario is diversifying the Northern economy and helping create good new jobs for people in the North by supporting innovation at a mining company near Kenora. The province is supporting Avalon Advanced Materials as it develops an innovative new process…
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Tailings: FLSmidth, Goldcorp partner on EcoTails
FLSmidth will be working with Goldcorp to develop EcoTails, a new system to dramatically improve tailings and waste rock disposal while economically processing mine waste and increasing water recovery and reuse by as much as 90–95%. Together with the world’s…
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The sustainable power of Reconciliation
Ontario First Nations live almost exclusively on the most vulnerable lands in the Far North, while 90% of the province’s population live on just 13% of the land in the south. Our Peoples – from the Great Lakes to James…
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COPPER-GOLD: Northern Dynasty announces Pebble advisory committee
ALASKA – Vancouver’s Northern Dynasty Minerals has named an advisory committee to assist it was work goes forward at the Pebble copper-gold project 380 km from Anchorage. The company announced that it and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had reached…
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SUSTAINABILITY: MAC selects Dominion Diamond, Vale for successful TSM efforts
OTTAWA – The Mining Association of Canada has awarded two Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) Excellence awards this year – one to the Ekati diamond mine belonging to Dominion Diamond Corp. and another to the Voisey’s Bay nickel-cobalt mine of Vale…
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Early stakeholder engagement equals exploration success
The importance of investing in community relations early on in exploration.
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Legal trends highlight human rights risks for miners operating abroad
Highlights of the mounting human rights risks for Canadian miners operating abroad.
