VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - April 3, 2012) - Harvest Gold Corporation (TSX VENTURE:HVG) (the "Company") reports that the sulphide mineralization intersected in drill holes completed this winter drill season on the CUD property, Rice Lake Gold Belt, Manitoba were absent of significant gold mineralization or other metals of economic interest.
Ian Ashby, BHP Billiton's Iron Ore President, is stepping aside after 25 years with the world's biggest miner.
Canadian exploration companies feel their industry association doesn’t hear them, Neal Smitheman, a lawyer who represents junior mining companies in disputes with First Nations, told CBC.
AVEVA (LSE: AVV), will sponsor and exhibit at the upcoming Fiatech Annual Technology Conference and Showcase being held April 2-4 at Doral in Miami, Florida. As part of AVEVA’s participation in the event, William Muldoon, Executive Vice-President, North America at AVEVA will join the ARC Advisory Group workshop as a panel member to discuss ‘Project Management Workflow Improvements’ being held on April 2 10am-12pm.
The World Gold Council unveiled today the long-awaited “exposure draft” of the so-called conflict-free gold standard, which aims to crack down on gold tainted by conflict and human rights violations, such as the ongoing supply coming from the rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Organizations, no matter their size, simply can’t afford to ignore occupational health and safety (OH&S) risks as an integral part of their business management. When it comes to complying with OH&S legislation, the biggest risk of all for an organization is to do nothing.
Labrador Iron Mines Holdings Limited (TSX: LIM) is pleased to announce that it has received environmental approval and project release from the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador for its Houston iron ore mining project in Western Labrador.
U.S.-based Enterprise Products Partners LP (NYSE:EPD) and Canadian Enbridge Inc. (NYSE/TSX:ENB) are shaping up as the main competitors for TransCanada Corp’s Keystone XL, as the two companies announced they will build new pipelines that will move as much as 850,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Canada to refineries along the Gulf Coast by mid-2014.
The Canadian Association Against Impunity (CAAI), which represents several human rights groups and non-governmental organizations, filed today a last-minute plea at the Supreme Court against Canadian miner Anvil Mining Limited (TSX:AVM), on behalf of the victims of a 2004 massacre in Congo.
Governments of all levels have been criticized by the slow pace of regulatory approval for mine and exploration permitting. Now First Nations groups, according to an editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press, are levelling the same criticism against the Manitoba government.