HOT TOPIC: Human rights protection
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Canadian Mining Journal Staff
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CANADIAN PERSPECTIVE: Bill introduced to tighten rules on transnational resource companies
In February 2009, the Hon. John McKay introduced a private bill, C-300, "An Act Respecting Corporate Accountab...
MINING PEOPLE IN THE NEWS: Emerick, Hana Mining, Inter-Citic, Noront and Rodina
Emerick Resources of Vancouver has named Ralph Rushton its new president and CEO. He spent a summer at the com...
HOSTILE BID: Noront eyes Freewest to consolidate Ring of Fire holdings
TORONTO — Noront Resources has launched a takeover bid for Freewest Resources of Montreal, a move that w...
SAFETY: Smart hat monitors heavy equipment operators
QUEENSLAND, Australia — Researchers at the CRCMining centre have developed a "smart" baseball cap that m...
MINERAL PROCESSING: Outotec to supply copper plant for Pueblo Viejo mine
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — Finnish supplier Outotec will supply a copper recovery plant based on its sulphide ...
GOLD MINING: Yamana’s Gualcamayo mine reaches commercial production
ARGENTINA — Toronto-based Yamana Gold celebrated the first quarter of commercial production from the Gua...
GOLD-COPPER MINING: Boddington is in business
WESTERN AUSTRALIA — The first gold has been poured and the initial copper concentrate shipment made at t...
IRON ORE MINING: ArcelorMittal sets prices for Quebec pellets and concentrate
MONTREAL — ArcelorMittal Mines Canada has set lower prices with its European customers for the iron ore ...
COPPER MINING: Gibraltar production hampered by unstable pit wall
BRITISH COLUMBIA — Lower grade and metal recoveries reduced output from the Gibraltar mine near Williams...
GOLD MINING: Claude notes 80% boost in ounces
SASKATCHEWAN — Claude Resources of Saskatoon says that Q3 production from its Seabee gold mine 125 km no...
GOLD MINING: Sleeping Giant no longer slumbering
QUEBEC — North American Palladium (NAP) of Toronto has poured the first gold at its reopened Sleeping Gi...
Federal regulators solicit input on Quebec lithium mine
Federal assessors invited Indigenous communities and the public to review environmental impacts from a proposed 21-year lithium mining operation in northern Quebec […]