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Uranium mine lawsuit costs BC $30M

CBC.ca He had no backing to make that statement and it cost the people of British Columbia 30 million bucks to cover up his incompetence.” The 2008 amendments to the Mineral Tenure Act issued by Krueger created a ban on uranium exploration and mining in BC … Click for more

Mining generates $8.9-billion boost to B.C. economy

Vancouver Sun By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun October 26, 2011 Michael Cinnamond, leader of business consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers’ BC mining practice, talks about the reasons why the province’s mining sector is optimistic that it is poised for a growth phase … Click for more

BC native band’s Beijing trade office doing booming business

Globe and Mail British Columbia’s native communities have often been, at best, reactive to Chinese investment in energy and mining projects. But that is starting to change. The Kaska Dena Council in Northern BC is in the final stages of a deal with a Chinese company … Click for more

Mining Industry Officials Will Gather in Smithers for “Rock Talk”

CJFW … there are 26 mining projects looking for various stages of permitting and environmental approvals in BC and a good two thirds of those are in Northern BC, so you have a huge pipeline of properties coming on stream, we hope, within the next while. Click for more

BC’s mining sector pleased Northwest Transmission Line approved

Business in Vancouver BC’s mining sector is applauding the provincial government’s decision this week to approve BC Hydro’s Northwest Transmission Line project. Wednesday, the provincial government approved the project (see “Northwest transmission line approved ” – issue … Click for more

Silvercorp Intercepts 2.51 Metres of 22.4 Ounces Per Tonne Silver, 12.96% Lead …

DigitalJournal.com (press release) … Silvercorp is in preparation of applying for a Small Mine Permit for the Silvertip high grade silver-lead-zinc mine project in northern British Columbia … Click for more

Canada to capitalise on Australia’s super-tax

Financial Times The harmonised tax is expected to save BC’s mining industry about C$55m ($54m) a year by allowing tax credits on a wider range of inputs, according to Randy … Click for more

British Columbia Recovery Among Strongest in Canada-BMO

MarketWatch (press release) "Higher commodity prices will also keep investment activity in the mining, oil & gas sectors humming. Exports should also firm as global demand recovers. … Click for more

World Resource Investment Conference

Recently, we attended the World Resource Investment Conference, sponsored by Cambridge House International Inc., Canada’s largest producer of Resource Investment Conferences. As a worldwide conference, this show featured exploration and mining companies from USA, Europe, Australia, South America, Asia and Africa and from right here in British Columbia. Here though, the objective was to mine [...]

Major Drill Campaign Commences at Kwanika Project

Vancouver, B.C., June 17, 2010: Serengeti Resources Inc. (SIR: TSX-V; 34S: FSE) today announced the commencement of its 10,000 meter major drill campaign at the Kwanika copper-gold project in the Quesnel Trough of north-central British Columbia. Click for more

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