Gold

Joint news release with CAFOD, the Canadian Boreal Initiative, Earthworks, Great Basin Resource Watch, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, and the Western Shoshone Defense Project: A mining and jewelry industry trade association -- the Responsible Jewellery Council -- launched its certification scheme this week. The RJC is comprised of mining and jewelry companies -- the very entities the certification scheme would govern. Unfortunately, RJC's system primarily serves to illustrate the need for independent, third-party monitoring.

Terrane Metals Corp. is proposing an open pit gold-copper mine in central BC near the town of Fort St. James and within the traditional territories of the McLeod Lake Indian Band and the Nak'azdli Nation. The two nations are not in agreement over the project proceeding with the Nak'azdli whose members kayho (traditional hunting, trapping and gathering area) will be affected directly, opposing the project.

The forum on "Mining, Environment, and Peace" was convoked by SINTRAMINERCOL (the union of workers of Minercol, Colombia's state mining company) on May 3-4, 2001, in Bogota. PDF and PowerPoint files. In Spanish only.

Report from the Workshop held in Ottawa, April 14-16, 2000. Prepared by MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Consortium for International Social Development (CCISD).