Resources & Agriculture

Canadian miners are upping their sustainability practices, according to the Mining Association of Canada (MAC)’s eighth annual Towards Sustainable Mining Progress Report, released this morning.

After years in R, Crailar Technologies has landed the backing it needs to launch commercial sales of an environmentally friendly alternative to cotton

First Nation demands impact studies and alternatives to use of huge volumes of water

Months of unrest have decimated South African platinum output

A shareholder has this morning filed a court petition against Vancouver-based Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V:BGM), which has attracted market and regulator skepticism in recent months over an alleged massive gold discovery.

Industry welcomes UBC earth sciences expansion, new responsible mining institute

Experts weigh in on B.C. investment in skills training to support future mining boom

B.C. mining companies are looking to strike it big on the world’s biggest continent

Fifty years in the mining industry hasn’t seemed like work at all

Securities regulators are looking critically at scientific and technical disclosure generally, and the use of preliminary economic assessments and inclusion of inferred resources in economic analyses specifically