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Northern Quebec lithium project divides Cree, as extraction of green energy source threatens ecosystem
Thomas Jolly poses on the shore of Champion Lake, Nemaska, James Bay region in northern Quebec on October 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Stéphane Blais
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Missing radioactive capsule found in Australia
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Yamana Gold team in pursuit of a ‘big whale’ with launch of private capital mining venture
Yamana Gold Inc. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Peter Marrone speaks during the annual general meeting of shareholders in Toronto May 4, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Cassese (CANADA - Tags: BUSINESS)
british columbia
B.C. First Nation says unique deal gives it veto power over proposed coal mine
The coal mining town of Sparwood, B.C., is shown on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. A British Columbia First Nation is celebrating a deal with a coal mining company that it says gives them veto power over a proposed development on its land.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
alberta
Alberta investigates family’s lead-contaminated water well near gravel mine
Jody Young and her family are having to use bottled water after their well became so contaminated by lead it's no longer drinkable, near Red Deer, Alta., Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from supporters of slain Mexican activist who opposed Canadian mining company
Mariano Abarca is shown in this still image taken from video Aug., 2009 in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal from family and supporters of Abarca, a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company's mining project. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dominique Jarry-Shore
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Will the mining industry really follow Ottawa’s lead on critical minerals?
Heather Exner-Pirot
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RCMP searches Ivanhoe Mines Vancouver office in hunt for documents on Swiss bank account transfers
Ivanhoe is developing the huge Kamoa-Kakula copper project in Congo. Credit: Ivanhoe Mines
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Canada, other G7 nations launch sustainable mining alliance at COP15 nature meeting
Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson stands during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Get tough with Canada over cross-border mining contaminants, Indigenous groups tell U.S.
A coal mining operation in Sparwood, B.C., is shown on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. Indigenous communities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border are trying to build an alliance with Congress and the Biden administration in hopes of pressuring Ottawa into a bipartisan effort to confront toxic transborder mining runoff. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Ottawa turns down Baffinland’s iron ore expansion plans in Nunavut
The Mary River mine sits about 150 kilometres south of Pond Inlet, Nunavut. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Baffinland Iron Mines Corp.
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Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
The Rogers Communications tower at One Mount Pleasant in Toronto on March 15, 2021
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Bitcoin miners get stuck in a bear pit
Representations of virtual currency Bitcoin are placed on U.S. Dollar banknotes in this illustration taken May 26, 2020.
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Trevali CEO resigns after embattled miner entered into creditor protection last month
Trevali Mining Corp. logo is seen in this undated photo. Trevali Mining Corp. says its president and chief executive, as well as its chief operating officer, have both resigned.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Trevali Mining Corp. *MANDATORY CREDIT*
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Global mining companies searching for ESG-friendly commodities look at mid-tier Canadian producers as acquisition targets
Andrew Willis
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Tuesday’s analyst upgrades and downgrades
A Couche Tard convenience store is shown in Montreal, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012.
international business
Secret data, tiny islands and a quest for raw materials beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean
**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before 3:01 a.m. ET Monday, Aug. 29, 2022. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** The Maersk Launcher, a ship chartered by the Metals Company, carries seabed samples from the remote Clarion-Clipperton Zone of the Pacific Ocean, about 1,500 miles southwest of San Diego, on June 7, 2021. Mining in parts of the Pacific Ocean was meant to benefit poor countries, but an international agency gave a Canadian company access to prized seabed sites with metals crucial to the green energy revolution. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times)
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Ottawa signs agreements with Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen on materials for electric vehicles
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau greets German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Montreal on Monday, August 22, 2022. The federal government is poised to sign agreements to work with Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz on supplying raw materials for batteries in electric vehicles.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson
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Nova Scotia approves bid to raise tailings dam at Touquoy gold mine
The owners of the Touquoy gold mine in Nova Scotia say they have received approval from the provincial Environment Department to raise the height of the wall of its existing tailings waste pond. Excavators work at Atlantic Gold Corporation's Touquoy open pit gold mine in Moose River Gold Mines, N.S., on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan
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Canadian financier Ned Goodman founded an array of Canadian money managers and mining companies
Wednesday, June 1/2005- Ned Goodman of Dundee Corp in Toronto, Ont. June 1/2005. Photo by Kevin Van Paassen/The Globe and Mail June 1/2005
international business
Glencore shareholders get $4.5-billion windfall as coal prices soar
FILE PHOTO: The edge of Glencore's Mount Owen coal mine and adjacent rehabilitated land are pictured in Ravensworth, Australia, June 21, 2022. Picture taken June 21, 2022. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Loren Elliott/File Photo
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Western mining boom puts salmon species at risk, study warns
PonderingTheTulsequahAirstrip.JPG Photo Credit: Chris Sergeant, Flathead Lake Biological Station Taken September 2021 Jon Moore (Simon Fraser University professor; left) and Mark Connor (Taku River Tlingit First Nation fisheries coordinator; right) stand on the banks of the Tulsequah River, approximately 90 km south by air from Atlin, BC. The river flows by the past producing Tulsequah Chief and New Polaris Mines.
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Hecla Mining signs all-stock deal for Alexco Resource
FILE - This 1998 file photo shows the now-defunct Zortman-Landusky mine in the Little Rocky Mountains. Hecla Mining President Phillips S. Baker, Jr., the head of an Idaho mining company, said Friday, March 30, 2018, Montana officials appear to be trying to delay two mines proposed beneath a wilderness area, designating him a "bad actor" because of past pollution. (Larry Mayer/Billings Gazette via AP, File)
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Brazil’s Vale moves closer to developing nickel sulfate operation in Canada
FILE PHOTO: A worker poses with a handful of nickel ore at the nickel mining factory of PT Vale Tbk, near Sorowako, Indonesia, January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Yusuf Ahmad/File Photo
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Commodities in ‘perfect storm’ says ERG, as crisis starts super cycle
FILE PHOTO: Birds fly past Eurasian Resources Group's Aksu Power Plant on the outskirts of the town of Aksu, northeastern Kazakhstan, February 22, 2018. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov/File Photo
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Dividend payouts hit first-quarter record, but outlook rocky
A worker from BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, is pictured inside a copper cathodes plant in Antofagasta, Chile March 31, 2008.
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Caterpillar eyes energy transition as growth driver for mining business
FILE PHOTO: Caterpillar Inc. equipment is on display for sale at a retail site in San Diego, California, U.S., March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo/File Photo
energy and resources
Nunavut review board recommends against iron ore mine expansion on Baffin Island
A helicopter passes over excavation equipment at the Mary River exploration camp, the site of a proposed iron mine on northern Baffin Island, in this Aug.17, 2006. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Vinne Karetak
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Mining is key to the energy transition, but it’s still unloved
Sheets of copper cathode are pictured at BHP Billiton's Escondida, the world's biggest copper mine, in Antofagasta, northern Chile March 31, 2008.
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Elon Musk’s tweets fuel mining industry’s hopes of a buyout by Tesla
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks at an event in Hawthorne, California April 30, 2015.
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Canadian miners cheer Ottawa’s critical minerals budget plan
FILE PHOTO: Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland gets standing ovation, as she delivers the 2022-23 budget in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, April 7, 2022. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo
world
Eight killed as coal mine shaft in Serbia collapses
Rescuers work to try and determine how many miners are trapped inside a collapsed shaft at a coal mine, after an accident that killed at least eight miners, according to RTS state television, in Sokobanja, southern Serbia, April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Antonio Bronic
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Bitcoin miners want to recast themselves as eco-friendly
An employee works at the data centre of BitRiver company providing services for cryptocurrency mining in the city of Bratsk in Irkutsk Region, Russia March 2, 2021.
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Struggling Nevada precious metals company lands cash infusion from AMC and mining financier Eric Sprott
An AMC theatre is pictured in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., June 2, 2021. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
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Monday’s small-cap stocks to watch
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Top Alberta court denies appeal of regulator’s refusal to approve coal mine
The Calgary Courts Centre in Calgary, Alta., Monday, March 11, 2019. Alberta’s highest court has upheld the first-degree murder convictions of a Calgary man, Emanuel Kahsai, in the stabbing deaths of his mother and a woman she for caring for. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh