Guatemalan Mayan Community Seeks International Help for Protection

Rick Kearns
March 26, 2013
The Maya Q’eqchi Agua Caliente community of Guatemala, some of whose members have been killed, threatened and tortured while trying to defend their territory from a mining company,...

Navajo Generating Station Lease Extension Hits Political Snag

Anne Minard
March 07, 2013
The lease extension for the Navajo Generating Station has hit a political snag, following a ruling in the Navajo Nation Council that they were illegally excluded from negotiations...

U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal Roundup for February

Carol Berry
March 05, 2013
The following is a listing of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal cases that were decided on during the month of February. Eighth Circuit Court, St...

Arizona Tribes and Environmental Groups Oppose HR 287 for Mining in the Tonto National Forest

Anne Minard
February 26, 2013
Environmentalists and tribal activists are crying foul on a mining proposal on sacred land in Arizona that’s been resurrected for the eighth year in Congress...
Tom Kanatakeniate Cook

Nebraska Mining Coverage Misrepresented by Media

Media coverage of Crow Butte Resources' uranium mining near Crawford, Nebraska, has been remarkably incomplete. In deference to the multimillion-dollar operation, coverage has focused on all the positives generated for the state, company, workers, contractors and regional economy....

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January 13, 2013

Bristol Bay Tribes' Fight to Fend off Pebble Mine Highlighted in National Geographic

ICTMN Staff
November 19, 2012
National Geographic ’s In Focus feature this week scrutinizes Bristol Bay and the proposals by a two-conglomerate outfit calling itself the Pebble Partnership to dig a two-mile-wid...

Keweenaw Bay Indians' Fight Against Michigan Mine Detailed in Series

ICTMN Staff
November 11, 2012
As Kennecott Eagle Minerals lurches toward completing its plan to begin mining copper and nickel from tribal lands in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula beginning in 2014, the fight...

Inuit Group Seeks Funding on Wall Street to Mine Nunavut for Metals, Minerals

ICTMN Staff
September 27, 2012
Charlie Evalik (nunatsiaqonline.ca) An Inuit group from Canada's Nunavut territory comes to Wall Street today to pitch investors for financing for start-up mining and exploration p...

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...

Alaska Requests Superfund Status for Abandoned, Mercury-Oozing Red Devil Mine

ICTMN Staff
August 23, 2012
Alaska officials are asking the U.S...

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