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Business (Canada) Canada Environment (Canada) 

Deninu K’ue chief questions timing of Avalon mine announcement in Canada’s N.W.T.

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:34
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The chief of the Deninu K’ue First Nation in Fort Resolution, Northwest Territories is questioning Avalon Rare Metals’ plans to

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Business (Canada) Canada 

De Beers Canada eyes expansion to mine project near Attawapiskat

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 15, 2013 at 10:33
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De Beers Canada is looking into the possibility of extending its current Victor Mine project on northern Ontario’s James Bay

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Recent tests on N.W.T.’s Kennady Diamonds project are yielding some exciting results for the small exploration company. (From CBC.ca)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Promising diamond find in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 9, 2013 at 11:30
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Recent tests on the Kennady Diamonds project in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) are yielding some exciting results for the small

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(Pekka Kenttälä / Sveriges Radio)
Business Sweden 

Sweden: Northland shareholders approve rescue package

Radio Sweden
Posted: Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 14:14
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Northland Resources shareholders have voted in favour of a $300 million rescue package to secure the future of the mining

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Avalon croit que le projet Nechalacho pourrait créer 300 emplois. (CBC)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Proposed mine in Canada’s N.W.T. needs $1.6B to operate

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 29, 2013 at 11:48
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The fate of a proposed rare earth minerals mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories (N.W.T.) is now in the hands of

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The Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board recommended De Beers’s Gahcho Kue Diamond Project proceed, but with a number of conditions. (CBC.ca)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Board approves 4th diamond mine in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 22, 2013 at 09:25
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A review board in Canada’s Northwest Territories has approved the regions proposed fourth diamond mine in a report released Friday.

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Alexco Resource Corp. began commercial production at its Bellekeno silver-lead-zinc mine 330 km north of Whitehorse in January 2011. It announced Wednesday it would be closing the mine this winter because of low silver prices. (CBC)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Yukon, Canada silver mine to shut down for winter

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, July 18, 2013 at 10:18
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Alexco Resource Corp. will close its Bellekeno mine in Canada’s northwestern Yukon territory this winter because of low silver prices.

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Two men work at the fuel storage site at the proposed Kiggavik uranium mine, near Baker Lake. (The Canadian Press)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Hunters call for uranium referendum in Nunavut, Canada

CBC News
Posted: Monday, July 15, 2013 at 09:50
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The chair of the Baker Lake Hunters and Trappers Organization in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut said it’s time

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Bill Enge, with the North Slave Métis Alliance, said the financial benefits from the IBA will help them fight court battles with the federal government. (CBC)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Canada’s North Slave Métis sign on to mine project

CBC News
Posted: Friday, July 12, 2013 at 09:48
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The North Slave Métis Alliance is now the first aboriginal group to sign an Impact Benefit Agreement for the Gahcho

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Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Nunavut mine in care of federal clean-up program

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 15:08
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The abandoned Jericho diamond mine in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is now in the care of the federal

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The Laiva mine has been loss-making since it opened. (Yle)
Business Finland 

Gold mine for sale in northwest Finland

Yle News
Posted: Monday, July 8, 2013 at 10:23
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A mine in the north-western town of Raahe, Finland is up for sale, after its parent company Nordic Mines announced

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The activists who blocked work in Kallak. (Tor Lundberg Tuorda / Privat / Radio Sweden)
Business Sweden 

Police remove iron ore mine protesters in Sweden’s Arctic

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 at 09:30
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Four activists stopped preparations for the exploration of iron ore from a prospective mine in Sweden’s Far North on Monday.

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There are 237,000 tonnes of toxic arsenic trioxide dust stored in massive chambers below Giant Mine. (CBC)
Business Business (Canada) Canada 

Conditional OK for Yellowknife mine cleanup in Canada’s Northwest Territories

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, June 20, 2013 at 15:16
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A northern review board has given its conditional stamp of approval to a federal cleanup plan for an abandoned gold

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Demonstration against the quarry plan in June 2013. (Lasse Ahnell / SR Gotland)
Environment Environment (Sweden) Sweden 

Sweden’s Supreme Court blocks Gotland quarry

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 at 11:08
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The Swedish Supreme Court has blocked a contested plan for a limestone quarry in Bunge on the island of Gotland

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(Pekka Kenttälä / Sveriges Radio)
Business Sweden 

Sweden’s Northland mine financing deal approved

Radio Sweden
Posted: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 09:41
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The Northland mine in Pajala, northern Sweden, will live on, after bondholders voted in favour of a rescue package Tuesday.

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