March 7, 2023 Rio Tinto keeps working to build Indigenous support for Resolution mine Resolution is key to the mining giant's future as the project would produce more than 40 billion pounds of copper.
March 6, 2023 Ontario OKs Ring of Fire road review plan by First Nations The area’s most advanced project is Ring of Fire Metals’ Eagle’s Nest nickel project.
February 1, 2023 Brazil’s miners want Europe to help fight Amazon gold havoc Brazil’s formal mining sector wants importing nations to require and enforce origin control.
January 30, 2023 Brazil miner lobby seeks end to illegal mining that caused Yanomami tragedy Ibram, which represents multinational and large domestic mining firms operating in Brazil, is asking the new government to take steps to break a network that launders illegal gold.
January 21, 2023 Brazil’s Lula pledges to eliminate illegal mining, help Yanomami President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said illegal mining will be eliminated in Brazil.
August 14, 2022 Australia-based think-tank aims to broker enterprise relationships between miners, Aboriginals The Ian Kowalick Aboriginal Enterprise Institute aims to broker enterprise relationships and facilitate capacity building to assist remote communities.
June 24, 2022 Indigenous Ecuadorians fight back as metal mining eats into Amazon More than 60% of ancestral Shuar territory, spread over 568,000 acres, is covered by mining concessions.
June 7, 2022 Skeena welcomes historic consent agreement between BC, Tahltan governments Skeena's proposed Eskay Creek gold-silver project, which is located in Tahltan territory, will be the first mining project to have permits authorized by an indigenous government.
February 16, 2022 Glencore’s zinc mine expansion met by Indigenous backlash Australian government judged it failed to adequately consult with Aboriginal custodians over the protection of a sacred site.
February 15, 2022 Generation Mining, Metis sign agreement for Marathon palladium-copper project Last month, the company signed a memorandum of agreement with the Biigtigong Nishnaabeg First Nation covering the Marathon project.
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