I wish to point out one error which somehow crept into “Felderhof’s new life after Bre-X” (TNM, Dec. 31/12–Jan. 6/13). This concerns the comment in brackets: “using gravity concentrate and not alluvial gold,…
On Dec. 7, 2012, the Supreme Court of Canada heard argument on the subject of random alcohol testing by employers in dangerous workplaces. The case arose from a union grievance and arbitration challenging the policy of Irving Pulp & Paper…
John Felderhof looks much thinner than when we first met at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada convention in 2010.
Early in 2012, the Law Society of Upper Canada convicted Toronto securities lawyer Joe Groia of “incivility” during his defense of John Felderhof against quasi-criminal charges laid by the Ontario Securities Commission of insider…
Vancouver – HD Mining wants to develop an underground coal mine in northern British Columbia. The resource on its property is as good as it gets in the coal world – high-quality metallurgical coal, the kind used to make steel – and…
Mine workers at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) (AGPPY-O) are going back to work, putting to rest a series of wildcat strikes that all but crippled South Africa’s platinum-mining industry.
Mexican media reports that landholders from the community of Benito Juarez have voted to expel MAG Silver (MAG-T, MVG-X) from its Cinco de Mayo polymetallic property in Chihuahua State, Mexico, and ban mining in the area for 100 years, sent…
Gold miner Centamin (CEE-T, CEY-L) has run into legal problems at its flagship Sukari operation near the Red Sea in southeastern Egypt.
Mine workers at Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) are going back to work, putting to rest a series of wildcat strikes that all but crippled the South Africa’s platinum mining industry.
Members of the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission (ONTC), a crown agency in charge of maintaining transportation and communications in Northern Ontario, voted unanimously in favour of a proposal by the General Chairperson’s…
It’s the kind of incident long feared since the end of apartheid in South Africa: members of the South African Police Service opened fire on striking workers at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in North West province on Aug. 16,…
Another sad chapter in Africa’s modern history has come to a close. The former Liberian President Charles Taylor was convicted by the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague of aiding and abetting war crimes in…
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