The months-long showdown between Barrick Gold’s 63.9%-owned subsidiary Acacia Mining and the Tanzanian government heated up in the last days of July, with Acacia reporting that one of its senior…
In a hastily convened February conference call, CEO Tim Gitzel of Cameco (TSX: CCO; NYSE: CCJ) vowed he would “vigorously pursue remedies to recover value for our shareholders and other…
Eco Oro Minerals (TSX: EOM) claims the Colombian government has eviscerated its US$250-million investment in the country and is filing for international arbitration. The Vancouver-based junior has been developing its…
Legal and financial pressures are mounting on Samarco, one year after a tailings dam failure sent 60 million cubic metres of mine waste and sludge into Brazil’s Rio Doce river…
Barrick Gold (TSX: ABX: NYSE: ABX) has rehired one of its former executives and a seasoned mine builder to evaluate options for a more modest, scalable starter project that could…
We sat down in Vancouver with Fred Pletcher, chair of the National Mining Group at legal firm Borden Ladner Gervais, to discuss Canada’s new hostile takeover rules and a securities…
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has just launched a paid whistle-blower program — the first of its kind by a securities regulator in Canada. A whistle-blower under this program is…
A long-simmering legal case revolving around the duty to consult in Ontario’s Mining Act has been resolved, with plaintiff Northern Superior Resources having its action against the province of Ontario…
Centerra Gold’s (TSX: CG) subsidiary has been fined US$98 million for environmental damages at the Kumtor gold mine, and faces another US$225 million in environmental fines, all of which the…
Brazil’s political and economic turmoil has grabbed headlines around the world, the culmination of years of top-level judicial investigations and countrywide street protests against corruption in politics. On May 12,…
Elections do have consequences, and in the Yukon Territory, the Liberal Party of Canada’s victory in the federal elections last October has brought on the federal government’s decision in April…
Former high-ranking Quebec politician Nathalie Normandeau was arrested by the province’s anti-corruption squad in mid-March — the first former natural resources minister in Canada to face arrest in recent memory….
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