Rio Tinto Canada inspires Transition to focus on Saskatchewan project

A look at Canada's third-largest mining province.

Picketers have blocked access to operations, damaged machinery and ruined mining facilities.

Explorers face a wide range of risks.

It seems unlikely that Canada's Northern Dynasty could go it alone on the massive copper-gold mine.

A group of 707 Chileans is seeking compensation for health problems allegedly caused by Boliden's toxic waste dumped near their homes in the eighties.

The news comes only nine months after Albanese was removed as CEO of the second-biggest miner and left the group with a $14billion charge.

Partner in the open-pit gold and copper project, Northern Dynasty Minerals, was quick to clarify it will still go ahead with it.

About 40,000 hectares of Amazonic forest, not 18,000 as the government thought, has been destroyed by illegal mining in Peru.

"We’re much closer to the bottom of this cycle than you imagine. This is not the end of the super-cycle."