Mercury Treaty Falls Short of Tough Measures and 'Indigenous Peoples'

Gale Courey Toensing
January 24, 2013
A new and legally binding international treaty to reduce harmful emissions of mercury was adopted by more than 140 states at the 5 th International Negotiating Committee session at...
Peter d'Errico

Gold Mining Doesn't Glitter

People have mined gold for centuries. Archeological evidence points to gold mining at least 7,000 years ago. Stories of Aztec gold drove 16th century Spaniards to invade the continent, where they found products of a rich mining and smelting history....

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November 18, 2012

11-Year-Old Son of Tribal Chieftain and Anti-Mining Activist Gunned Down in Philippines

ICTMN Staff
September 06, 2012
It started out as a normal morning for Jordan Manda, but it turned out to be his last...

Tsilhqot'in Vow to 'Stand Ground' Against New Prosperity Mine at Taseko AGM

David P. Ball
June 07, 2012
Behind doors closed even to media, Taseko Mines Ltd...

Tsilhqot'in Acquiesce to Test Drilling, Still Determined to Stop New Prosperity Mine

ICTMN Staff
March 02, 2012
As the Canadian government’s environmental assessment of the controversial New Prosperity Mine proposal gets under way, the Tsilhqot’in (Chilcotin), whose territory would be decima...

Shoshone Farmer, Raymond Yowell, Set to Take on the Bureau of Land Management

Thomas Mills
February 19, 2012
In the past 80 years Raymond Yowell’s ancestral homeland has had more than 900 nuclear bomb tests, 50 million ounces of gold extracted from its depths, and now, his cattle rounded ...

Stay Tuned: 10 Big Aboriginal Stories for 2012

ICTMN Staff
January 04, 2012
Canada's aboriginals face a multitude of issues in 2012, as always. Some of these have been grabbing headlines for quite some time, others more recently...

Prosperity Mine Rearing Its Ugly Head, Again

ICTMN Staff
September 04, 2011
Taseko Mines Ltd.’s second attempt to build a mine that the Tsilhqot’in call the worst mine ever proposed is going to go about as far as the first one did, the First Nation’s gover...

AFN Backs Tsilhqot’in Against Worst Mine Ever

ICTMN Staff
July 18, 2011
The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) will back the Tsilhqot'in in their fight against “a bid to revive one of the worst mining proposals in BC history,” the First Nation said in a s...

Peru Awajun Tribe Retains Alleged Miners

Renzo Pipoli
April 19, 2011
Members of the Awajun Tribe, living in the northern Peruvian border with Ecuador were retaining as of Tuesday morning as many as eight people still unidentified who were caught cam...

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