It was another week of major developments in the fast-moving story of Imperial Metals and the massive, 15-million-tonne tailings and waste-water breach at its Mount Polley copper–gold mine in central B.C.’s Cariboo region.
Mining in Latin America has had an outstanding period of growth in the last two decades, but is now facing many challenges. These challenges vary from country to country, as well as region to region within each country.
On June 26, 2014, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized for the first time a First Nation’s aboriginal title over an area outside a reserve in Tsilhqot’in Nation vs. British Columbia.
After two years of careful groundwork, Toronto-based junior Claim Post Resources (TSXV: CPS; US-OTC: CLMPF) is well on its way to becoming a provider of premium white silica sand proppant to the oil and gas industry in the U.S. and Canada.
The Grassy Narrows decision from the Supreme Court of Canada on July 11 places a heavy legal burden on provincial governments when they seek to exploit Indigenous lands covered by the historical treaties of Canada. The challenge now is for…
VANCOUVER — In the two weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark granting of aboriginal title over a broad swath of land in central B.C. to the Tsilhqot’in Nation, several new court cases and a re-energized battle…
The recent decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in Tsilhqot’in v. B.C. has received a great deal of attention and has caused people to ask some important questions. Nowhere has this been more so than in the mining sector. We will…
The Supreme Court of Canada’s Tsilhqot’in decision will have a ripple effect across Canada and could deter resource investment in the country, according to Neal Smitheman, a partner at law firm Fasken Martineau.
VANCOUVER — A landmark ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada has granted aboriginal title to a 1,750 sq. km swath of land in central B.C. to the Tsilhqot’in First Nation, the first time aboriginal title has been declared in the…
VANCOUVER — Avanti Mining (TSXV: AVT; US-OTC: AVNMF) has been quietly going about its business over the past three years, and now the company has a clear path towards restarting production at the historic Kitsault molybdenum mine, 140 km…
VANCOUVER — When Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin sat down to write the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision recognizing the Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s aboriginal title to 1,750 sq. km of land in central B.C., she was…
As everyone involved in natural resource extraction in B.C. is now well aware, the June 26 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada declaring that the small Tsilhqot’in First Nation holds aboriginal title over 1,750 sq. km in central B.C….
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