Etiket: mining
Mining industry: BHP files unsolicited offer to buy Anglo American
Australian mining giant BHP wants to buy British rival Anglo American for $38.8 billion, in what would be one of the industry’s biggest mergers in years and create the world’s…
Mining industry | BHP wants to buy Anglo American for 38.8 billion US dollars
(London) Australian mining giant BHP wants to buy its British rival Anglo American for $38.8 billion, which would represent one of the sector’s biggest mergers in years and create the…
QS proposes changes to the Mining Act
Québec solidaire (QS) is putting forward four measures to improve the Mining Act. Quebecers have the right to demand better practices, argued QS spokesperson for natural resources, Alejandra Zaga Mendez,…
Search for mining resources, carbon storage… The government wants to simplify procedures
The government must present its mining law reform project in the coming days. It will shorten the procedures for searching for new deposits and will open the way to carbon…
Sayona Mining, lithium producer in Quebec, plummets on the stock market
The stock of Sayona Mining, an Australian company behind several lithium mining projects in Quebec, lost nearly 30% of its value on Thursday. This fall comes after the company’s main…
To put an end to “free mining”
Today, the Mitchikanibikok Inik First Nation is applying to the Superior Court of Montreal to ensure that the Quebec Mining Act finally respects its ancestral rights when granting mining claims.…
Mining industry: more than 14,000 positions to be filled by 2028
This text is part of the special section Professions and careers The mining sector is booming in Quebec, notably with the development of the battery sector; 14,358 jobs will need…
Southern Quebec | Concerns of municipal residents regarding mining claims
When Ellen Rice-Hogan discovered that someone had purchased a mining title on her Outaouais farm, she was in shock. Posted at 6:31 a.m. Jacob Serebrin The Canadian Press There is…
“The mining rush in the 21st century”: the lie of the energy transition
The energy transition as promoted by companies, institutions and governments around the world relies on the extraction of an abysmal quantity of metals. It is this paradox that the journalist…
Battery sector | The price of lithium weighs down the mining industry
Electric vehicles are fueling demand for lithium, but its extraction is no guarantee of profit when prices are plummeting. The Quebec sector has just received its first warning with the…
Norway | Green light from Parliament for seabed mining prospecting
(Oslo) The Norwegian Parliament gave the green light on Tuesday to the opening of part of the country’s seabed to mining prospecting, despite warnings from experts around its uncertain impact…
Boom in mining exploration permits in 2023 in Quebec
The rush for mining exploration permits continued in 2023 in Quebec, with the addition of more than 83,000 new “mining claims”. The multiplication of these rights granted to industry affects…
More than 14,000 paying jobs available by 2028 in the mining sector
A real race against time is underway in Quebec to fill 14,000 paying jobs by 2028 in the mining sector. “We’ll have to eat crusts. We have work to do.…
Coal mining in China | Trolley derailment leaves 12 dead and 13 injured
(Beijing) An accident in a coal mine in Heilongjiang province, in northeastern China, left 12 dead and 13 injured, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. Posted at 8:17 a.m. The…
Panama’s Supreme Court blocks Canadian mining project
Panama’s Supreme Court on Tuesday declared the awarding of a 20-year concession to a Canadian copper mine unconstitutional. The awarding of the concession had sparked weeks of protests by environmentalists…
UK supports moratorium on underwater mining
Welcome World Environment The exploitation of metals present in the deep ocean, which some consider necessary to fight climate change and move away from all-oil, poses a risk of irreversible…
Mining exploration for the battery sector at a peak in Quebec in 2022
Mining exploration for graphite, lithium and rare earth deposits reached a peak in Quebec in 2022, according to a report from the Institut de la tourisme du Québec. While spending…
Kazakhstan | Pain after the worst mining accident in the country’s history
Sorry, your browser does not support videos (Karaganda) “There are so many funerals, I can’t attend them all.” In front of the Karaganda mosque, Arman Kassimov, a miner, mourns in…
UK supports moratorium on underwater mining
Welcome World Environment The exploitation of metals present in the deep ocean, which some consider necessary to fight climate change and move away from all-oil, poses a risk of irreversible…
UK supports moratorium on underwater mining
Welcome World Environment The exploitation of metals present in the deep ocean, which some consider necessary to fight climate change and move away from all-oil, poses a risk of irreversible…