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UN experts call on Sweden to halt mining project on Indigenous Sami land

Mathiew Leiser, Eye on the Arctic
Posted: Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 20:18 — Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2022 at 10:54
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Two United Nations human rights experts urged the Swedish government on Thursday not to issue a license for an iron

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Bolstered by battery boom, British mining company to dig nine new open pits in Russian Arctic

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 20, 2021 at 11:59
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Eurasian Mining Plc teams up with state company Rosgeo for the development of a new far northern ‘global center’ for

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Canada Featured • Zone 2 General News RCI Society Society (Canada) 

‘Consultation utterly failed’: Na-Cho Nyäk Dun sues Yukon for approving mineral exploration

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 11:31
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The Yukon government breached its duty to consult the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun by unilaterally approving a mineral

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Mining company never paid up for environmental damage in Canada’s Northwest Territories

Richard Gleeson, CBC News
Posted: Thursday, March 11, 2021 at 11:37
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A company that was ordered to pay three of the biggest financial penalties ever imposed by a Northwest Territories court

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Business Business (Canada) Canada General RCI 

157.4 carat diamond unearthed at Arctic diamond mine in Canada

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 12:00 — Last Updated: Thursday, December 17, 2020 at 15:41
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A Canadian mining company says it has unearthed a “157.4 carat gem of exceptional quality” at a diamond mine in

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Business Business (Russia) Russia 

Russian company VostokCoal abandons major coal mining project in Arctic tundra

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 at 17:53
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Vostok Coal is giving up its great Arctic project. The buyer of the vast coal reserves of the Taymyr Peninsula

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Northwestern Canadian First Nation asks N.W.T. to speak out against northern Alberta mine

Anna Desmarais, CBC News
Posted: Monday, January 20, 2020 at 14:20
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The chief of Smith’s Landing First Nation near Fort Smith, , is calling on the territorial government to speak out

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Environment Environment (Norway) Norway 

Norway greenlights copper mine with tailings to be dumped in Arctic fjord

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 2, 2019 at 10:36
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Protests from the indigenous Sami people, local fishermen and environmental groups were turned down by the government. “Allowing this to happen

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Canada General News Politics Politics (Canada) 

Canada announces $2M for research into carbon neutral mining in the Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 09:33 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 at 16:12
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The Canadian government is investing millions in a Northwest Territories-based research project that has the potential to make some mining

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Finland General News Politics Politics (Finland) 

Citizens’ initiative to reform mining law heads to Finnish Parliament

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 15, 2019 at 14:53 — Last Updated: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 at 13:23
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A citizen’s initiative to reform Finland’s mining law has received 50,000 signatures, meaning that the proposal now qualifies for consideration

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Business Business (Russia) General News Russia 

Russian miners dig deeper into vast Kola nickel reserve

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, December 31, 2018 at 11:59
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The resources of the Zhdanovskoye field remain huge in Northwestern Russia, but mining company Kola MMC needs to go increasingly

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Yukon Zinc granted creditor protection after mine closure

CBC News
Posted: Friday, March 20, 2015 at 14:00
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Yukon Conservation Society concerned about $3 million environmental security owed by Wolverine Mine Yukon Zinc has been granted creditor protection

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