Mining News

Halifax - One man dead in a poor Mayan village in Guatemala. Why should it matter to us? Well it did matter to me, as I watched the images of last night's screening of Defensora at the Dalhousie Law School in Halifax.

The Russian potash giant Uralkali pulled out of its agreement with BPC Belaruskali its cartel partner. Uralkali complained that its partner in Belarus had been operating outside of their agreement.

HudBay Minerals Inc. is in a legal battle with northern Manitoba First Nation over two Idle No More rallies that were held this past winter.

Antofagasta - The old Baquedano railway complex, located 90 kilometers northeast of the city of Antofagasta in the arid Atacama Desert in northern Chile, was the converging point of Chile’s North-South railway line and the East-West Antofagasta-Bolivia Railway.

An initiative aiming to relaunch legal mining in eastern Congo after an export suspension of conflict minerals will produce its first refined tin by the end of March 2013.

I recently attended the 7th annual FanFest, a cultural festival organized in the Romanian village Rosia Montana by the Save Rosia Montana Campaign between the 15th and 19th of August, 2012.

A company known as Planetary Resources, which is being backed by multiple billionaires including James Cameron, is hoping to find asteroids in space and mine them for materials which are running low on earth.

A Canadian biotechnology company has expressed an aim to cultivate medical marijuana in a former copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The company has been growing other types of plants in the mine for more than a decade.

Toronto - Dozens gathered across the street from the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where one of the world's largest mining conventions is being held, in protest of God's Lake Resources "desecrating sacred burials" on Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug homeland.

Last year, a group of miners in Chile were trapped underground for 69 days before being rescued; they spent the first 17 alone feared dead, and fearing they would never see daylight again.