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Mining CEO salaries survey results (www.timminstimes.com)Average annual base pay for Canadian CEOs this year rose to $484,000 compared to $443,000 in 2007. However, the average Canada-wide bonus paid to CEOs declined from 79% in 2008 to 61% of the annual base pay in 2009.
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Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association (www.samssa.ca)Sudbury Area Mining Supply and Service Association (SAMSSA) brings together a number of highly experienced private sector mining supply and service companies that are prepared to assist clients in domestic and international markets.
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Sudbury Vale Inco Union Staff Blogging from Brazil (www.fairdealnow.ca)I’ve landed in this beautiful land of sunshine, gorgeous vegetation and strong welcoming people.I’m here along with Rick on a mission to build close ties, strong support and renewed solidarity with fellow workers in Brazil.
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El Salvador: Violence Against Anti-Mining Protesters (mostlywater.org)A wave of violence targeted at anti-mining protesters has ripped through Cabañas in north-eastern El Salvador, and Pacific Rim Mining Corporation, the mid-size Canadian company which has lost millions in its effort to exploit the area’s ample gold deposits has remained curiously silent on the attacks.
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Nickel, Neoliberalism, and Nationalism (scottneigh.blogspot.com)The following is an article called "Nickel, Neoliberalism, and Nationalism" written by yours truly on the current strike against Inco by workers in Sudbury and other locations across Canada.
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Vale Inco — a risky strike; a disaster, an opportunity (www.northernlife.ca)So, is the United Steelworkers Local 6500 strike against Vale Inco in Sudbury sheer stupidity from a union unable to read the tea leaves of economic reality, the strength of its foe or the relative prosperity of the agreement it has on the table?
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Inco’s Sudbury Nickel Mines were Critical During World War Two (www.republicofmining.com)In 1941 the Allied governments asked the company to increase production. International Nickel complied by committing $35 million to expand nickel output by 50 million pounds above 1940 production levels,
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Timmins nickel mine reopens (www.thesudburystar.com)Liberty Mines Inc. announced Wednesday its McWatters Mine is going back into production. The mine had been in care and maintenance mode since October.Gary Nash, Liberty Mines' president and chief executive officer, said that with the strikes at Vale Inco operations in Sudbury and Voisey's Bay and the closure of 40 other nickel mines around the world, the price of nickel is back to a point where nickel mining is viable.
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Sudbury Vale Strike Video (greensudbury.blogspot.com)The longest piece of media coverage to date yet of the Canadian workers fight against concessions at Vale Inco, one of the largest nickel mines in the world!
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Flin Flon's pot mine goes up in smoke (www.theglobeandmail.com)For nine years, the hardscrabble mining town more than 700 kilometres northwest of Winnipeg has been home to Canada's biggest legal grow op – the ganja mine, as it was known.
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Fire scorches site of INCO's N.L. nickel processor (ca.news.yahoo.com)
Mining giant Vale Inco began construction of the Long Harbour nickel processing facility despite the downturn in the world economy and lower nickel prices.The plant is expected begin production in 2013 and will produce 50,000 tonnes of nickel annually.Company officials say the plant will employ about 450 workers. The project will require 1,600 workers during its peak construction phase.
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Jadugoda The Black Magic- Uranium mining in India (intercontinentalcry.org)This 10-minute documentary, based on the 2007 study, Black Magic of Uranium at Jadugoda, conducted by the Indian Doctors for Peace and Development (IDPD Patna chapter), explores the harsh realities of indigenous peoples living near the Jadugoda mine, mill and tailings dam in the mineral-rich Singhbum district of Jharkhand, India.
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Hatch draws global mine engineering work to Sudbury (www.thesudburystar.com)In spite of recent slowdowns in local mining activity, Hatch’s Centre of Excellence for Underground Mining in Sudbury continues to develop and draw new mine engineering work to the city from around the world.
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MiningWatch Canada Responds to Ontario's Proposals for a Modernized Mining Act (www.miningwatch.ca)Since the current process began last year, MiningWatch Canada has taken a keen interest in “modernizing” the Ontario Mining Act. We have been actively engaging with other NGOs and First Nations across the province to analyse the current mining regime and to develop solutions to the problems we have observed.photo by: zakwitnij
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This is slag dumping on the night shift at Vale Inco, Copper Cliff (greensudbury.blogspot.com)Kev Rayner of Sudbury recently won the GoCanadianRockies Alberta Tourist Ambassador program with this video of slag dumping at Vale INCO.
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Xstrata indefinitely closes Montcalm Mine (www.timminspress.com)Xstrata Nickel’s Sudbury Operations today announced the indefinite suspension of mining operations at its Montcalm Mine in Timmins after a geotechnical review showed structural damage to the mine.
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Canada's Uranium Mining (www.greenmuze.com)The story begins with the history of uranium in Canada, from its initial discovery to the rapid development of mines that placed Canada as the prominent world leader in uranium production.
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Canada's Barrick Gold Mine Opposed in Australia (savelakecowal.org)Twenty Eight people were arrested at the Barrick Gold Mine at Lake Cowal on Sunday. Protestors walked onto the open pit mine on Sunday morning closing it down. They were authorised to enter the mine site by Wiradjuri Tradtional Owners of Lake Cowal and its surrounds
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Events - Timmins Northern Mines and Exploration Expo May 21-23 (www.canadianminingexpo.com)Mining companies from across the entire planet will converge on Timmins May 22-23 for the Northern Mines and Exploration Expo '09.
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Mexican Police Attack Community at Canadian-owned Fortuna’s Trinidad Silver Mine (intercontinentalcry.org)On the morning of May 6, 2009, a mass of federal and state police troopers brought a violent end to a community blockade near Canadian-owned Fortuna’s Trinidad Silver Mine in the municipality of San Jose Progreso, Oaxaca, Mexico.
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New mining act highlights (www.thesudburystar.com)"Ontario's new collaborative approach to developing legislation and public policy is certainly innovative," said John Beaucage, grand council chief of the 42- member First Nations of the Anishinabek Nation, in a news release."It is respectful to the recognition of First Nations' rights and indicative of Ontario's commitment to working with First Nations on a government-to-government basis." photo by: kevin dooley
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Celebrating mining traditions (www.northernlife.ca)The Polish community of Sudbury crowded into the Polish Combatant’s Association Hall on Saturday evening for a colourful tribute to miners of the past, present and future, from both Poland and Ontario.
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EVENT: The Question of Sustainability An Examination of the Canadian Mining Industry (underminingsustainability.wordpress.com)a one day conference in on Sunday, April 26 focusing on the Canadian mining industry in the context of economic, ecological, and cultural sustainability speakers from Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, Chile, the Congo and Peru, as well as many First Nations speakers and academics from Canada.
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74.Green Mines, Green Energy (www.theajmonline.com.au)
A new research initiative is exploring a novel way to simultaneously remediate these tailings and reduce greenhouse gases.
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Cobalt area proposed site for bioleach plant (www.northernnews.ca)BacTech Mining is planning on building and operating a bioleach demonstration plant which is capable of treating 200,000 tonnes per annum of mine tailings taken from the Cobalt and Gowganda areas. photo by: anndouglas
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