Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper retaliates against local official and scientist challenging its proposed Vizcachitas project.

Vancouver-based Los Andes Copper, developer of the proposed Vizcachitas copper-molybdenum mine in Chile’s Valparaíso region, has launched an aggressive campaign targeting the municipality of Putaendo’s mayor, Mauricio Quiroz, and local biologist Arón Cádiz-Véliz. The company is pressing legal and media challenges against them for opposing the mine and leading scientific efforts to protect the area.

MiningWatch Canada expresses our solidarity and support for the parliamentary petition to the government of South Africa presented by Mining Affected Communities United in Action (MACUA) on mining accountability, capital flight, and community abandonment, and for the relief requested therein.

(Cuenca) The Federation of Indigenous and Peasant Organizations of Azuay (FOA) denounces the criminalization of six water defenders after communities and organizations carried out a cleanup minga in the Kimsakocha páramo in September 2025. During the cleanup, hoses, iron, plastic, geomembranes, toilets, and other waste abandoned by the Canadian company Dundee Precious Metals (DPM) was collected at the headwaters of the Irquis and Tarqui rivers.

Henry Lazenby, Mining.com

Toronto-based DPM Metals (TSX, ASX: DPM) faces renewed pressure to abandon its stalled $600 million Loma Larga gold-copper project in Ecuador.

Ottawa-Cuenca — Toronto-based mining company DPM Metals Inc. is once again under fire for its environmental track record and relationship with local communities in Ecuador. Yesterday, 106 organizations and 48 university professors, lawyers, Indigenous leaders, and human rights activists sent an open letter to the company urging it to permanently shut down its Loma Larga project in southeastern Ecuador and comply with the law.

Lauren Krugel, Nono Shen, Jack Farrell, Bill Graveland, Wolfgang Depner, The Energy Mix

With a buzzing electrical substation in Terrace, B.C., as his backdrop, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced two new British Columbia additions to the federal government’s list of nation-building ventures that will be considered for fast-tracking.

(Traditional territory of the Wabanaki Peoples/Fredericton) The proposed Sisson Mine is far from a “nation-building project.” Instead, this shortsighted project risks leaving New Brunswick with a massive industrial scar, major financial risks and long-lasting harm to our rivers and communities.

This project would create one of the world’s largest open-pit tungsten and molybdenum mines in the upper Nashwaak River watershed, on Wabanaki territory. It includes a huge open pit and a tailings waste site so large it would cover all of downtown Fredericton.

‘Now the real work begins,’ says Taykwa Tagamou Chief Bruce Archibald

Author: Nicole Stoffman

A vote of confidence from the federal government is expected to speed up permitting and financing for Canada Nickel’s Crawford Nickel Project, a proposed new open pit nickel mine and mill 42 km north of Timmins.

When fully ramped up, the $5 billion dollar project will produce just under 50,000 tonnes of nickel annually, which would make it the Western world’s largest nickel sulphide operation.

Abdul Martin Sarfraz, The National Observer

The federal government’s decision to place Ontario’s Crawford Nickel Project on its new list of “nation-building” projects is raising concerns from experts who say Ottawa is moving ahead while serious financial, market and environmental risks remain unresolved.