Agnico Eagle expands stake in First Nordic to 13%
First Nordic is finalizing its acquisition of the Oijärvi gold project in Finland.
The Vancouver Sun reports the Liverpool Plains were long considered off-limits to mining, their rich black soils ranking among Australia’s best farming land. Until China came to town.
Now a small group of farmers who have refused to sell out to China’s Shenhua Watermark Coal are locked in a battle playing out across the nation – mining boom versus the future of food.