Early engagement with aboriginal leaders and communities is the single most important step companies can take when considering projects and development activities within aboriginal traditional territories.[...]
Some of the most famous prospectors in Timmins, indeed in all of Canada, were honoured this week at the Gala Mining Dinner hosted by the Porcupine Miners Memorial Committee to help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Timmins.
For many, the idea of prospecting goes hand in hand with the gold rushes in the early 1900s. Colourless men in britches panning the rivers outside of Dawson City, wearing wide brimmed hats keeping the sun off of their sweat stained backs.[...]
Scott Jobin-Bevans, immediate past-president of the Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC), candidly assesses the political, environmental and technical challenges facing foreign companies exploring for gold and other minerals on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola.
Greater China Capital Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire an Option to Earn a 50% Interest in the Hebecourt Project from Northern Skye Resources Ltd.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 25, 2012) - Patrick Moore, Greenpeace co-founder and author of Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: the Making of a Sensible Environmentalist , will give the keynote address on May 18, 2012, at the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's (PDAC) Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW) in Sudbury, Ontario.