mining

Canadian metals and minerals are critical for the U.S. clean energy, defence and microchip sectors, but provide little if any leverage in trade negotiations with a tariff-focused Trump administration.

Natasha Kumari cleans up after mining companies. This 31-year-old from Burnaby, British Columbia, is vice president of marketing and operations for Tersa Earth, which uses nature-based solutions to clean the water in mining tailings ponds and reuse the minerals. 

Risks — and possibly rewards — lie ahead for Canada’s mining sector as the protectionist president-elect returns to the White House, say industry leaders.

​​A group of Indigenous communities in Alaska are calling for a stop to a “reckless” mining plan across the Canadian border that they say will threaten their water, food supply and way of life. 

A Swiss-based mining company with a sketchy foreign business record that won approval to take over Teck Resources’ B.C. coal mines has MPs from multiple parties and environmental groups up in arms.

How do we balance the needs of an energy transition with the harsh realities of mining critical minerals? 

A groundbreaking, global survey of more than 700 reporters and editors from 102 countries shows that nearly 40 per cent have faced threats for their work, while more than one in ten have been confronted with physical violence.

The two companies will each receive $5 million from the federal government to help finance the development of new technologies designed to recover valuable nickel, cobalt, copper and other minerals from the “black mass” of shredded flat batteries.

The pollution from B.C. mining operations respects no borders and is having a spillover into Alaskan Indigenous land, threatening their way of life and sovereign rights.

Ontario's mining industry risks a shortfall of over 3,500 skilled green-collar workers by 2040, unless it jump-starts education and training for the new generation of technicians needed as Canada's critical minerals-hungry electric vehicle sector gears up this decade

Landmark memorandum of understanding for Canada's first battery nickel processing facility between Wyloo and Sudbury brings First Nations to table '"from the outset" to forge a "missing piece" in the continent's EV supply chain.

Canada is positioning itself as a global destination for critical mineral extraction. Are we willing to destroy caribou herds and trample on Indigenous rights to do it?

Earth Day is normally a day to reflect on our planet’s beauty, but not for a new project at the University of British Columbia.

Hop Hopkins, the new executive director of WildEarth Guardians, explains how the two movements are connected.

“The Manitoba government is paying a company to bulldoze a provincial park and bulldoze boreal caribou habitat,” said Eric Reder, director of The Wilderness Committee’s Manitoba field office.