Resources & Agriculture

Vancouver-based Rusoro Mining Ltd. (TSX-V:RML) has filed a US$3.03 billion claim against Venezuela at the World Bank’s International Centre of Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), the company announced March 21.

Building a refinery on B.C.’s coast would be economically advantageous and should be considered seriously, according to a new Navigant Consulting report prepared for the Government of British Columbia.

Lakeland Mills sawmill in Prince George will be rebuilt, the owner of the mill announced today.

The B.C. government granted Avanti Kitsault Mine Ltd. conditional environmental approval on March 19 for its desired open-pit molybdenum mine project, located at the head of Alice Arm, approximately 140 kilometres north of Prince Rupert.

Alamos Gold Inc. (TSX:AGI) has dropped its hostile takeover offer for Vancouver’s Aurizon Mines Ltd. (TSX:ARZ), Alamos announced March 20.

Experts fear one of the world’s most confined airsheds won’t be able to handle emissions from smelter, LNG, increased tanker traffic and oil refinery

Hampton Affiliates still committed to rebuilding Burns Lake sawmill, but the Portland-based company is 'disappointed' by the deferral of the contentious forestry bill

Growers of two new apple varieties created at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre in Summerland are getting government grants to promote the species.

Despite the global mining buzz created following the death of the country's president, Vancouver keeps mum about “significant potential” in newly attractive, mineral-rich Venezuela

Vancouver-based Avanti Mining Inc. (TSX-V:AVT) is pushing back after the Nisga’a Lisims Government launched a dispute-resolution process with the provincial government over an environmental assessment – a move that could impede Avanti’s planned restart of its Kitsault molybdenum mine.