Three Latin American states are the envy of most other country in terms of the potential value of the major minerals that lie beneath their soil – particularly copper, iron ore and gold. Among developing …
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Royalty debates revisit Latin American states
Canadian court strikes out Ecuadorian lawsuit against Canadian mining company and Toronto Stock Exchange
An Ontario court struck out a lawsuit brought in Ontario by three Ecuadorian campesinos against a Canadian mining company and its directors, whose security forces they say assaulted them in Ecuador for opposing an open …
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Avatar in Ecuador
If there were ever a place that came close to the magical world of Pandora in James Cameron’s new film Avatar, it would probably be the Amazon. There may not be butterflies that look like …
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Legal cases which may act as helpful examples
There is no direct London connection to the cases considered below, although Copper Mesa Mining Corporation, formerly Ascendant Copper, did in the past have an agreement with Rio Tinto which may have seen the London …
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Canadian mining firms face abuse allegations
Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations…In Ottawa…a House of Commons committee…will continue debating a Liberal private member’s bill designed to put controls on …
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Copper-bottomed market changes
London Calling on a copper conundrum which probably isn’t
We may be forgiven for failing to understand the forces which, over the past half year of the collapse of debt “securitisation”, have stimulated an increase …
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