Canada softens enviro rules, Australia eases miner listings, India finds platinum elements

Canada has unveiled a plan to streamline the environmental approval process; The Australian Security Exchange (ASX) is taking steps to making listing easier; and the Geological Survey of India (GSI) reports that it has discovered platinum group...

Canada unveils plan to streamline environmental reviews

Canada on Tuesday unveiled a plan to streamline the review process for significant economic projects, such as pipelines and mines, in a bid to contend with other resource-rich countries. Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said demand from...

Flaherty's Budget leaves mining industry mostly smiling

Canada Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Thursday announced another year’s extension to the 15% tax credit for investing in mineral exploration, much to the delight of the industry. Also pleasing to resource developers, in a Budget that placed...

Canadian uranium ownership policy to remain for now: Oliver

Foreign-owned uranium companies hoping to build uranium mines in Canada, including diversified giant Rio Tinto and Australia’s Paladin Energy might be disappointed that the federal government still has no plans to change a policy that restricts...

Xstrata’s Philippine affiliate appeals Tampakan decision

The operator of the $5.9-billion Tampakan project in the southern Philippines said on Wednesday it had appealed a government decision not to grant environmental clearance for now on what could be Southeast Asia's biggest undeveloped copper-gold...

Kenya grants first-ever gold mining lease

Kenya is set to join the league of gold-producing nations following the granting of the first mining lease to UK company Goldplat.

ITH hires construction manager for Alaska project

Vancouver-based International Tower Hill Mines (ITH) has appointed Thomas Irwin as construction manager for its Livengood gold project, near Fairbanks, Alaska. Irwin was previously the commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources and...

Malawi open for mining investments – Minister

The government of Malawi was looking to reposition the country from an agricultural hub to an emerging mining economy, Natural Resources Minister Grain Malunga said on Thursday. Speaking at the second day of Paydirt’s Africa Downunder...

Canada launches mine waste management studies in Quebec

The Canadian government will spend C$600 000 on two detailed studies at mining sites in the city of Thetford Mines, in Quebec, to look at potential waste management strategies, Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis announced on Friday....

19 mining firms commit to poverty reduction, Gold Fields to cut another 50 MW of power, more disposals this year by Anglo American

Nineteen mining companies, one of them China linked, last week agreed to use their combined influence to reduce poverty and foster development. Read on page 17 of this edition of Mining Weekly of all the large concerns being members of the...

University of Toronto to host Canadian mining innovation centre

The federal government of Canada and the government of Ontario will each provide C$5,5-million in funding for a new Innovation Centre for the Canadian Mining Industry, to be build at the St George campus of the University of Toronto. The project...

Canada puts more muscle behind geomapping, mining innovation

The Canadian government is increasing its spending on mining research and development, and will accelerate a geomapping programme aimed at discovering new deposits in unexplored areas of the vast nation. After receiving positive early results,...