April 28, 2023

Brazil’s Mura people report threats amid pressure to approve Amazon potash mine

Their ancestral land overlaps with an area where a Canadian company wants to build a potash mine.

April 25, 2023

EXPLAINER: Why are high gold prices bad for the Amazon rainforest?

The hunt for gold has attracted wildcat prospectors who have destroyed forests.

April 11, 2023

Ecuador mining opposition holding up $1 billion of investments

Ecuador has abundant mineral reserves but has lagged behind regional neighbors such as Peru and Chile in large-scale mining development.

April 3, 2023

British Columbia First Nation challenges province’s Mineral Tenure Act in court

The Act permits anyone with a free miner certificate to acquire mineral claims online through an automated system in First Nations’ territories, without their consultation or consent.

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.