The Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Nation had called for a pause to all mining and an independent investigation after the landslide at the facility where cyanide is used to extract gold.
British Columbia's formal recognition of the Haida Nation's Aboriginal title over a group of islands near the Alaskan panhandle is a reconciliation milestone. But it’s raising legal and economic questions.
BC's interim measures place restrictions on mineral claim registrations and mining activities in Gitxaała Nation and Ehattesaht First Nation territories, while the province works to modernize the Act.