Saturday
,
15 Nov 2008
The world's biggest steel company has said it will invest $1.5 billion in one of the poorest countries on earth. It may struggle to manage local expectations.
Tuesday
,
21 Oct 2008
Efforts in recent years to control illegal mining on the Bangka-Belitung islands off Sumatra have reverberated thousands of miles away by spooking world markets for tin.
Monday
,
29 Sep 2008
Canada may ban exports of raw bitumen to countries which do not meet Canada's processing emission standards if the country's Conservative Government is re-elected in the country's forthcoming poll.
Friday
,
19 Sep 2008
The French nuclear company’s huge uranium mines in Niger have recently been caught between a local insurgency and an increasingly assertive host government – a familiar pattern for other resource projects across the world.
Friday
,
12 Sep 2008
Ecuador’s mines ministry hopes to foster “a responsible and honest mining industry that promotes a sustainability concept, in order to support and develop a strong industry that not only respects the environment, but contributes to social improvement.”
Tuesday
,
09 Sep 2008
The world’s oldest and deepest lake is said to be under threat from Russia’s Kholodninskoye zinc deposit that stands in the lake’s watershed.
Monday
,
01 Sep 2008
Five national associations, including the National Mining Association and the American Petroleum Institute, have sued the U.S. Department of Interior, seeking equal treatment for Alaskan operations under new ESA polar bear protection rules.
Thursday
,
28 Aug 2008
In one of the most expensive ballot fights in Alaska history, Alaskan voters agreed with miners and state regulators that Alaska mines would suffer serious harm if a clean water initiative--aimed at stopping the controversial Pebble copper-gold project--was enacted.
Wednesday
,
27 Aug 2008
A state clean water initiative, originally aimed at the Pebble project, which opponents had feared could eventually impact all major Alaskan mining operations, was apparently going down to defeat early Wednesday morning.
Monday
,
25 Aug 2008
A long, expensive fight over the future of the Pebble copper-gold project is being placed before Alaska voters on this Tuesday's primary ballot. No matter what the outcome, litigation is anticipated.
Tuesday
,
12 Aug 2008
In a new series on risky resource projects the authors ask what BHP Billiton can do to avoid social and environmental controversy on a remote Indonesian island should a nickel development there move ahead.
Monday
,
28 Jul 2008
The Department of Interior Inspector General has released a tough abandoned mine lands audit report painting a bleak picture of environmental and safety hazards still festering at sites in California, Nevada and Arizona.
Monday
,
21 Jul 2008
Seventeen regional boards regulating mining, oil and gas, and other natural resource development in the Northwest Territories is too much bureaucracy for most companies considering investment in the area.
Sunday
,
20 Jul 2008
The International Council on Mining & Metals is publishing a special report on planning for eventual mine closure in a sustainable manner.
Thursday
,
17 Jul 2008
As Rio Tinto predicts the Oyu Tolgoi agreement will be approved by the Mongolian State Great Kural (Parliament) and the Central Government this year, the World Bank is spending millions to prepare Mongolia to better regulate and tax mining.
Wednesday
,
16 Jul 2008
International mining’s effort to adhere to a voluntary cyanide management code is gaining recognition from environmental NGOs, and the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart, which has launched the Love, Earth Jewelry line.
Tuesday
,
15 Jul 2008
A hefty chunk of “globally significant carbon sink” made up of Canada’s Far North Boreal Forest will be off-limits to mining under new land use and mining law reforms proposed by the Ontario Government.
Monday
,
14 Jul 2008
In a protest Sunday, which may continue today, environmental groups blocked Australia’s key coal export terminal to protest against impact of burning coal on climate change
Wednesday
,
02 Jul 2008
The town of Leadville hit another benchmark Tuesday in its campaign to eventually be fully removed from Superfund designation as a $38.9 million settlement to remediate the California Gulch Superfund site was announced.
Monday
,
30 Jun 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court announcement to grant the State of Alaska and Coeur Alaska’s petitions for a writ of certiorari to review the reversal of the Kensington gold project permit is almost like winning a judicial lottery.
Tuesday
,
24 Jun 2008
W.R. Grace has lost its appeal to the Supreme Court of criminal charges stemming from asbestos contamination from 1963 to 1990 at its former Libby, Montana mine.
Tuesday
,
17 Jun 2008
Nigerian environmental experts have called on the government to reintroduce coal mining in a move aimed at solving the country's current power crunch and salvaging its disappearing forests.
Tuesday
,
17 Jun 2008
MiningWatch’s efforts to force Imperial Metals Red Chris copper-gold project to undergo comprehensive environmental assessment, along with an extensive public participation project, were rejected by the Federal Court of Appeals.
Wednesday
,
11 Jun 2008
The lengthy battle over the proposed Rock Creek copper and silver mine took a new turn Monday as environmental NGOs filed for an injunction to block all ground disturbance activities at the site, claiming it will harm the endangered bull trout.
