February 23, 2024 Consultation starts in Guatemala over future of Pan American Silver’s Escobal mine Operations were halted in 2017 when a claim brought by a human rights group alleged local Indigenous people’s right of consultation were violated in advance of granting the mining license.
February 21, 2024 British Columbia halts proposed Land Act amendments Over 650 stakeholders, representing tens of thousands in the province, discussed the proposed amendments.
February 13, 2024 Teck’s Red Dog mine in Alaska earns Zinc Mark for ESG Red Dog is one of the world’s largest zinc mines, located about 170 km north of the Arctic Circle in northwest Alaska.
February 8, 2024 Global Reporting Initiative launches sustainability standard for mining at Indaba While European Union sustainability reporting standards will soon come into effect, there is, as of yet, no sector standard for mining.
February 1, 2024 British Columbia’s Nisga’a Nation plans Indigenous-majority owned royalty company Vega Mining will acquire from the Nisga’a the rights to five existing annual benefit payment entitlements with projects in the Golden Triangle, in exchange for common shares in Vega’s capital.
January 31, 2024 Alaska Tribes seek rights in British Columbia to protect Unuk River watershed from gold mining Eskay Creek is one of at least six proposed and operating mines dotting the Taku, Stikine, and Unuk Rivers upstream of the US-Canada border.
January 31, 2024 AME Roundup conference confronts industry’s thorniest issues head-on British Columbia’s free-entry staking system was one of the contentious issues discussed at a panel on the future of mineral exploration.
January 30, 2024 British Columbia Land Act amendments could grant Indigenous control over mining leases The amendment is in accordance with 2019 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act.
January 26, 2024 Chiefs of Ontario ask provincial government for year-long moratorium on mine claims staking The move follows and exponential rise in the number of mining claims being staked over the past year on First Nations territories.
January 25, 2024 Brazil judge orders Vale, BHP and Samarco to pay $9.7 billion in damages The Samarco Fundão dam burst in November 2015 — it was Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.
US Commerce Dept gives initial backing to Sibanye’s call for tariffs on Russian palladium Trade data indicates that global flows have already begun to reroute since the company filed its petition. February 13, 2026 | 07:40 am
